Grok Imagine Video 1.5
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 is xAI's image-to-video generation model. It animates a starting image and generates synchronized audio in a single pass, available through Vercel AI Gateway.
import { experimental_generateVideo as generateVideo } from 'ai';
const result = await generateVideo({ model: 'xai/grok-imagine-video-1.5', prompt: 'A serene mountain lake at sunrise.'});About Grok Imagine Video 1.5
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 is xAI's image-to-video model, released June 22, 2026 and available through AI Gateway. You provide a starting image and describe the motion you want. Grok Imagine Video 1.5 animates the scene and generates synchronized audio, including sound effects, ambience, and speech, in the same pass. Compared with the earlier Grok Imagine Video model, the 1.5 generation improves audio quality, prompt following, and photorealism. Face accuracy and character consistency hold across longer sequences, with better lighting and physical realism. Expanded reference image support gives more control over visual style and subject. Grok Imagine Video 1.5 debuted at the top of crowd-sourced image-to-video arena rankings.
Integration runs through the AI SDK's generateVideo function, imported as experimental_generateVideo from AI SDK 6 or later. Pass a prompt object with an image and a text motion description. You control duration, aspect ratio, and resolution through parameters, with output available at 480p, 720p, and 1080p. Billing is per second of generated video, with rates by resolution shown on this page.
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 pairs well with grok-imagine-image: generate a still with generateImage, then animate that frame in the same flow. You can also try Grok Imagine Video 1.5 in the AI Gateway playground at https://ai-sdk.dev/playground/xai:grok-imagine-video-1.5. If you built against the preview, grok-imagine-video-1.5-preview remains in the catalog, and Grok Imagine Video 1.5 is the variant to target for production.