promptstringrequired
Text description of the desired image.
Grok Imagine Image Quality Text to Image
xai/grok-imagine-image/qualityGrok Imagine Image Quality by xAI - generate stunning images from text prompts with state-of-the-art AI. Supports multiple aspect ratios, styles, and high-resolution output for creative and commercial use.
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Playground
Input
Text description of the desired image.
Additional Settings More
Customize your input with more control.
The aspect ratio of the generated image. Allowed values: 21:9, 16:9, 3:2, 4:3, 5:4, 1:1, 4:5, 3:4, 2:3, 9:16.
Resolution of the generated image. `1k` for standard resolution, `2k` for high resolution. Allowed values: 1k, 2k.
ResultExample
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Examples
Select an example to load its inputs and result into the playground.
- Open result ↗
Input
{ "prompt": "Abstract human silhouette, golden particles ready to burst outward representing joy, data visualization style, emotional expression through particles, artistic scientific" }
Human preference
Arena
Elo ratings from blind side-by-side votes, compared with other image and video models.
Rankings sourced from Artificial Analysis Arena
- Leaderboard
- Text to Image
- Rank
- #20 of 106
- Elo
- 1049 ±9
- Gap to #1
- −173
Text-to-image arena: people pick the better of two images generated from the same prompt, without seeing the model names.
- #15Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)1107±10
- #16Seedream 5.0 Pro1100±11
- #17Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro1095±12
- #18Qwen-Image-3.01070±12
- #19Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro1056±12
- #20grok-imagine-image-quality1049±9
- #21FLUX 3 Image Klein1043±12
- #22Qwen-Image-2.11042±12
- #23Fibo 2.01039±12
- #24Krea 2 Large1034±9
Grok Imagine Image Quality Text to Image
Grok Imagine Image (Quality) generates detailed images at 1K or 2K.
Fields
| Field | Type | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
prompt | string, required | — | Up to 8,000 characters. |
aspect_ratio | 21:9 / 16:9 / 3:2 / 4:3 / 5:4 / 1:1 / 4:5 / 3:4 / 2:3 / 9:16 | — | Output shape. |
resolution | 1k / 2k | 1k | Sets the per-image rate. |
Billing
$0.05 per image at 1K and $0.07 at 2K.
| Request | 1k | 2k |
|---|---|---|
| One image | $0.05 | $0.07 |
Failed runs are not charged.
Prompting
- Quote any text that must appear.
Limits
- One output image per request.
Also on SandBase
Other Grok Imagine Image endpoints: xai/grok-imagine-image/quality/edit, xai/grok-imagine-image/edit, xai/grok-imagine-image/2.0/text-to-image, xai/grok-imagine-image/2.0/edit.
Start building
Send your first request
Submit this model through the SandBase Unified Run API.
# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
-X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
"model": "xai/grok-imagine-image/quality",
"prompt": "Abstract human silhouette, golden particles ready to burst outward representing joy, data visualization style, emotional expression through particles, artistic scientific",
"resolution": "1k"
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
run_id=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .id)
for attempt in $(seq 1 120); do
status=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .status)
case "$status" in completed|failed|timeout) break ;; esac
sleep 2
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
"https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run/$run_id")
done
status=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .status)
[ "$status" = completed ] || { echo "Generation ended: $status" >&2; exit 1; }
printf '%s\n' "$result"2. Authentication
Create a SandBase API key and set it in your server environment. All requests use Bearer authentication.
export SANDBASE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"Keep the key on your server. Do not expose it in browser code or commit it to a repository.
3. Queue
Submit a request
POST to /v1/run with this model ID and its inputs. The request example above includes submission and polling.
Fetch request status and result
Use the returned run ID to poll until the status is completed, failed or timeout. Read output only after completed.
curl "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run/$RUN_ID" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY"4. Files
Hosted files
Pass a publicly accessible file URL in the model’s image, video or audio field. Supported formats and limits are shown beside each Playground input.
Uploading images
Use the upload or replace control on supported image fields in the Playground. Video URL fields accept a hosted driving video; they do not imply video-upload support.
5. Schema
Input
resolutionstring
Resolution of the generated image. `1k` for standard resolution, `2k` for high resolution.
Default: "1k"
Possible values: "1k", "2k"
aspect_ratiostring
The aspect ratio of the generated image.
Possible values: "21:9", "16:9", "3:2", "4:3", "5:4", "1:1", "4:5", "3:4", "2:3", "9:16"
{
"model": "xai/grok-imagine-image/quality",
"prompt": "Abstract human silhouette, golden particles ready to burst outward representing joy, data visualization style, emotional expression through particles, artistic scientific",
"resolution": "1k"
}Output
A completed run exposes its result in output. The following is the model’s saved example, not a new generation.
[
{
"source": "xAI schema mirror",
"source_url": "https://docs.x.ai/",
"url": "https://static.sandbase.ai/examples/0edf6293-3714-4701-8c2c-9d55a809e900/output/d0dd0f46-291a-4e76-ac82-efcb81be4216.jpg"
}
]