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Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite turns a prompt or a still image into 1080p, 15-second clips with native audio — from $0.04 per clip on Venice.
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Why Use the Grok Imagine 1.5 Lite Tier
The budget tier of xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 family — cheap, sound-complete clips that run privately on Venice.
- Lite Tier of the Grok Imagine Video 1.5 FamilyThe budget tier of xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 family, live on Venice since September 30, 2026 — 480p to 1080p, 1–15 seconds, audio in the same pass.
- Two Variants for Both WorkflowsThe family ships a text-to-video variant and an image-to-video variant, and on Venice both are reachable permissionlessly through the app or the Venice API.
- Private, Zero-Retention RunningVenice keeps it in the private tier — your prompts and uploaded stills are never warehoused, profiled or trained on, and there is no per-identity generation history; you settle per clip instead of carrying a SuperGrok subscription.
How to Use Grok Imagine 1.5 Lite
Three steps from a written idea or a single still image to a finished clip on Venice.
Grok Imagine 1.5 Lite Features
Native audio, a full resolution ladder, per-second durations and zero-retention running — what the Lite tier of the Grok Imagine Video 1.5 family actually delivers.
Native Synchronized Audio
Effects, room tone and spoken lines render together with the picture and land on the beat — you never bolt audio on in a second pass or chase sync by hand.
Full Resolution Ladder, Per-Second Control
480p, 720p and 1080p pair with any duration from 1 to 15 seconds in one-second steps — unusual granularity at this price point.
Cheapest Entry Into the 1.5 Family
From $0.04 per clip on Venice, so drafts and social-length iterations stay inexpensive while cost scales with resolution and duration.
Better Motion Coherence and Physics
Per xAI's release notes, the 1.5 generation shows fewer warps and more believable weight and momentum across a clip than its predecessor.
Cinematography-Aware Prompting
The family reads explicit camera language — push-in, pan, handheld, crane — and accepts prompts up to 4,096 characters with subject and action front-loaded.
Zero-Retention Private Tier
Prompts and source stills are not warehoused, profiled or reused for training, and no generation log is bound to your identity — unlike xAI's first-party apps, which keep a library.
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite — FAQ
Common questions about pricing, audio, image-to-video and private running on Venice.
What does a clip cost at each resolution and duration?
You pay per clip and the price scales with resolution and duration — $0.04 for a 480p 1-second clip, $0.05 for 720p 1s and $0.18 for 1080p 1s, up to 15 seconds. No subscription is required, and new Venice accounts include a free daily allowance plus 500 welcome credits.
Does it generate sound, and how do I control it?
Yes. Audio is built into the render rather than added later, so effects, ambience and spoken lines hit on the beat and speech comes through clearer and better timed than in the previous generation. Write the sounds you want straight into your prompt.
Can it animate an existing still image?
Yes — that is the image-to-video variant, which animates a still into motion at 480p/720p/1080p for 1–15 seconds with audio. A separate text-to-video variant builds a clip from a written prompt alone.
How does the Lite tier differ from flagship Grok Imagine Video 1.5?
Both run privately on Venice with 1080p, 15-second clips and native audio. Lite is the cheaper tier for volume work and drafts; the flagship adds multi-reference control (up to seven image references) and voice references for holding a character's face and voice across scenes.
Is it open source, and can I self-host or fine-tune it?
It is proprietary to xAI with no published weights, so it cannot be self-hosted, fine-tuned or audited. You can try it on Venice with welcome credits before paying per clip; Wan 2.7 Enhanced is the closest open alternative with native audio.
How are my prompts and source images handled on Venice?
Venice treats every prompt and uploaded still as private-tier material: nothing is kept on the servers, nothing is profiled, and nothing is routed into a training pipeline. No generation history is linked back to you, whereas xAI's first-party apps file your outputs into an account-based library.
Run Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite Privately
Nothing you type is logged and nothing you upload trains a model — start on Venice with 500 welcome credits and render your first sound-complete clip before paying per clip.