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Grok Imagine Image 2.0
Released Aug 7, 2026
xAI's second-generation image model, built around editing, that powers Quality Mode in Grok Imagine and is available in the API.
- Price per image
- $0.040
- Max resolution
- —
- AA arena Elo
- 1155
- LMArena Elo
- 1294
- Capabilities
- text to image, editing, inpainting, text rendering, reference images
- Licence
- Proprietary
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths
- Multi-reference editing with up to five input images
- Region editing (magic wand), segmentation and background removal in the Grok app
- xAI says it plans typography and layout so small text comes out sharp
- Flat $0.04 per image
Weaknesses
- API resolution limited to "1k" and "2k" tiers
- API quality levels are only low and medium (no high)
Both leaderboards credit the creator as "SpaceXAI", mapped here to the existing xai company id. LMArena has two entries: "grok-imagine-image-2.0 (20260801)" at 1294 (used here, rank 8) and "grok-imagine-image-2.0 (canvas)" at 1334 (Preliminary, rank 4). Inpainting refers to the magic-wand region edit in the Grok app. The API docs mention no mask parameter. Resolution is given only as "1k"/"2k" with no pixel dimensions, so maxResolution is null. grok-imagine-image-quality is retired 2026-11-02 and its requests are routed to this model at low quality.
Links
API model strings
- xai
grok-imagine-image-2.0