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Grok Imagine
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by xAI
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RANKED #1 OF 30 VIDEO · OVERALL #16 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 7.0 · 5,295 VOICES ·
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A fast image generator for creating detailed art, pictures, and clean text.
HAPPY9.4
969 mentions
SAD5.6
264 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 5,117 voices in this window
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. xAI hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
Grok Imagine is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS5.9
LTX 2.5LightricksPick for ultra fast, lightweight open video generation you can run completely locally.⚡ FAST🪶 RUNS ON LESS🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE3.3k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS5.6
HunyuanVideo 1.5TencentPick for high quality cinematic text and image to video generation on local GPUs.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE🪶 RUNS ON LESS44 VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.6LTX 2.3LightricksPick for swift daily video generation and rapid iteration on modest hardware.⚡ FAST🪶 RUNS ON LESS🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE1.2k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users love Grok Imagine for its quick results and high-detail picture quality that feels worth the price. However, many are frustrated by strict moderation filters and frequent outages.
2443 POSTS · 2852 COMMENTS · REDDIT · BLUESKY · X · DEV FORUMS · GITHUB · LEMMY · HACKER NEWS · DEV.TO · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- People feel it is worth the money (6 mentions)
- Stable and dependable (5 mentions)
- Results look great (5 mentions)
- Answers come back fast (5 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (7 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
6 thumbs up · 4 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
3 thumbs up · 7 thumbs down
- Working when you need itMOSTLY POSITIVE
5 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- How results lookPEOPLE LOVE THIS
5 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
- SpeedPEOPLE LOVE THIS
5 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM X >
“Grok Imagine is expensive.”
- FROM X >
“@elonmusk Grok Imagine is worth the money except for the inane moderation filter.”
- FROM BLUESKY >
“Less censored than Grok Imagine ✅ Seedance 2.0 priority access.”
- FROM X >
“Blown away by the improvement in text and detail quality between Grok Imagine 1.0 and 2.0 Safe to say Grok closed the ga.”
- FROM X >
“See, I would love to work with Grok Imagine on web but it uses up my limit so quickly I just...I do not know.”
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
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Seedance 2.5> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2025-11-26 · 3371 UPVOTESI Love how Unhinged Grok is
I Love how Unhinged Grok is
- REDDIT · 2025-08-04 · 1034 UPVOTESJust got access to Grok Imagine and I wondered what the “Spicy” option did when making a video…
Just got access to Grok Imagine and I wondered what the “Spicy” option did when making a video…
- X · 2026-08-15 · 982 UPVOTESMost of you are overpaying for AI subscriptions from Claude and ChatGPT and have no idea how cracked SuperGrok Heavy ($3
Most of you are overpaying for AI subscriptions from Claude and ChatGPT and have no idea how cracked SuperGrok Heavy ($3
- REDDIT · 2025-06-05 · 555 UPVOTESWho did it best? Simple svg prompt, one-shot
Who did it best? Simple svg prompt, one-shot
- REDDIT · 2026-08-14 · 501 UPVOTESQwen 3.8 27b is here
Qwen 3.8 27b is here
- REDDIT · 2025-06-05 · 465 UPVOTESElon Musk shared my photos without credit, claiming they were made by Grok…
Elon Musk shared my photos without credit, claiming they were made by Grok…
- REDDIT · 2026-06-25 · 353 UPVOTESHalf of Grok's traffic is NSFW
Half of Grok's traffic is NSFW
- REDDIT · 2026-04-30 · 318 UPVOTESLocal AI News You Missed - April 2026
Local AI News You Missed - April 2026
- REDDIT · 2026-07-07 · 314 UPVOTESnvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B-BF16 · Hugging Face
nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B-BF16 · Hugging Face
- REDDIT · 2026-01-13 · 277 UPVOTESThe Guardian: How Elon Musk’s Grok generated 6,000 non-consensual nude images per hour.
The Guardian: How Elon Musk’s Grok generated 6,000 non-consensual nude images per hour.
- REDDIT · 2026-03-24 · 274 UPVOTESI'm impressed that the Grok meltdown isn't posted here like the GPT 4o was.
I'm impressed that the Grok meltdown isn't posted here like the GPT 4o was.
- DEV FORUMS · 2026-01-12 · 0 UPVOTESThe Official ImageGen, 4o and Dall-E Megathread
The Official ImageGen, 4o and Dall-E Megathread