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Complete Guide to Using Grok Imagine

xAI's fast text-to-image generation with a standard mode and a higher-accuracy quality mode.

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Overview

Grok Imagine Text-to-Image is xAI's image generation model, built for speed and creative range. It turns text prompts into images across five aspect ratios, with two output modes: a fast standard mode for high-volume exploration and a quality mode that prioritizes accuracy and detail.

The standard mode is one of the most affordable ways to generate images on the platform, making it ideal for brainstorming, thumbnailing, and rapid iteration. Switching to the quality mode trades a little speed for noticeably better prompt adherence and finer detail — the right choice when an image graduates from draft to deliverable.

Prompts up to 5000 characters give plenty of room for layered scene descriptions, and the model pairs naturally with Grok Imagine's image-to-image and video models for full xAI-based pipelines.

Capabilities

  • Fast, affordable standard-mode generation
  • Quality mode with higher accuracy and detail
  • Five aspect ratios from square to widescreen and tall
  • Long prompts (up to 5000 characters) for layered descriptions

Use Cases

1

High-volume ideation and moodboarding on the standard mode

2

Final renders on the quality mode

3

Social content across square, story, and widescreen formats

4

Base images for Grok Imagine image-to-image or video pipelines

Input Parameters

prompt
textarearequired

The text prompt describing the desired image (max 5000 chars).

Describe the scene in layers: subject, environment, lighting, mood. Up to 5000 characters — specificity pays off, especially in quality mode.

aspect_ratio
select

Width-to-height ratio of the generated image.

1:1 for social posts, 16:9 for widescreen scenes, 9:16 for stories, 2:3/3:2 for portrait and landscape prints.

Options
2:33:21:116:99:16
Default: 1:1
Quality
select

Output quality mode.

1K (standard) for fast, low-cost drafts. 2K (quality) for higher accuracy and detail on final images.

Options
1K2K
Default: false
NSFW Filter
toggle

Enable NSFW content filtering.

Default: false

Tips & Best Practices

Draft on standard, finish on quality
Use the full prompt budget
Chain into video

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