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Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite API Pricing Per Second

Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite costs $0.0146–$0.1021 per second of generated video, by resolution. That's 27% below the official price. Billed by the second, with nothing added per request.

Per second from
$0.0146
480p
At 720p
$0.0219/s
official $0.03/s
Per minute from
$0.88
480p
Below official
up to 27%
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Per second

Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite price per second by resolution

Our price with the official list price struck through, and what a minute of output costs.

Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite price per second
ResolutionPer secondPer minute
480p
$0.0146$0.02−27%
With a monthly plan: Pro $0.0139Max $0.0133
$0.88
720p
$0.0219$0.03−27%
With a monthly plan: Pro $0.0209Max $0.0199
$1.32
1080p
$0.1021$0.14−27%
With a monthly plan: Pro $0.0973Max $0.0925
$6.13

Monthly plans lower prices on most models (shown under each price); you can still pay as you go. Pro $499/month · Max $4,999/month.

  • Official price: xAI API list price for grok-imagine-video-1.5-lite ($0.02 / s at 480p, $0.03 at 720p, $0.14 at 1080p; $0.01 per input image). Verified October 18, 2026; our prices are live.

Generating at volume? The Pro and Max monthly plans lower the price on most models while they're active, and teams with larger volumes can talk to us about volume pricing.

Calculator

What Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite costs for your volume

Pick a resolution and clip length and a monthly volume. Every figure is a live quote, so per-clip billing is exact.

Resolution
Tries per keeper

Per month · 100 generations

7.30

$10.00 at the official price

Per clip
0.073
Per kept clip
0.073
Saved per month
$2.70
Saved per year
$32.40

Live prices · failed generations are free

Per clip

From per second to per clip

Every common clip length at 480p, 720p and 1080p.

Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite cost per clip length
Clip length480p720p1080p
1 s$0.015$0.022$0.11
5 s$0.073$0.11$0.52
8 s$0.12$0.18$0.82
10 s$0.15$0.22$1.03
12 s$0.18$0.27$1.23
15 s$0.22$0.33$1.54

Billing

How Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite seconds are billed

Full details in the billing docs.

  • Unit. One second of generated video. A request for 1–15 s is billed for exactly that many seconds at its resolution's rate.
  • Audio. Included in the per-second price.
  • Tasks. Text to video and image to video share the same per-second rates.
  • No request fee. Nothing is added per request: a clip costs its seconds times the rate.
  • Failed = free. Failed generations, and jobs cancelled while queued, are refunded in full.
  • Price first. POST /v1/quote/xai/grok-imagine-video-1.5-lite/text-to-video returns the exact price of any request, free.

Compare

Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite per second vs other video APIs

Every video model we offer at 720p, cheapest first — each at its lowest silent price for that resolution. Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite is number 1 of 22.

video models ranked by price per second at 720p
#ModelTierAudioPer secondOfficial
1Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite
xAI
720pAudio included$0.0219/s$0.03/s
2LTX-2.5
Lightricks
720pAudio included$0.0285/s$0.09/s
3PixVerse V6
PixVerse
720pSilent$0.0368/s$0.04/s
4Veo 3.1 Lite
Google
720p—$0.0375/s$0.05/s
5Vidu Q3 Turbo
Shengshu
720pAudio included$0.0412/s$0.06/s
6Seedance 2.0 Mini
ByteDance
720pAudio included$0.0627/s$0.0756/s
7Grok Imagine Video 1.5
xAI
720pAudio included$0.0675/s$0.14/s
8Vidu Q4
Shengshu
720pAudio included$0.0699/s$0.095/s
9Veo 3.1 Fast
Google
720pSilent$0.0736/s$0.08/s
10Vidu Q3 Pro
Shengshu
720pAudio included$0.0748/s$0.10/s

Price per second is one input; quality, speed and features differ. Models that include audio are compared with it.

FAQ

Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite price per second questions

480p: $0.0146/s; 720p: $0.0219/s; 1080p: $0.1021/s. The official list price is $0.02/s to $0.14/s.

You pay for the seconds of video you ask for: any whole number of seconds from 1 to 15, times the per-second rate of the resolution. There is no per-request fee on top, and failed generations are refunded.

No. Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite generates synchronized audio at no extra cost, so the per-second price is the same with sound.

Yes. Text to video and image to video are billed at the same per-second rates, from $0.0146/s.

At 480p, a minute of output is $0.88 and an hour $52.52; at 1080p, $6.13 a minute. Clips are generated 15 seconds at most at a time, so a minute is several requests — whole projects are priced on Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite API cost.

At 720p, Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite is $0.0219/s, the lowest of 22 video models we offer at that resolution. Compare quality and features too: the table lists each model's tier, and Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite alternatives weighs them up.

For AI agents and LLMs: llms.txt has this model's live prices, the price comparison and the API reference in Markdown.

Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite is developed by xAI. CheaperGen provides API access and does not own the model. Trademarks belong to their respective owners.