Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite hits the speed-quality frontier at a third of Veo 3.1's price
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-10-09
Artificial Analysis' AA-Video-T2V-Silent v2.0 benchmark (12 models) shows Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite sitting on the quality-speed frontier: no model is both faster and higher quality, generating a 10-second 1080p clip in a median of 60.5 seconds. For comparison, Kling 3.0 1080p (Pro) scores slightly higher but takes 94 seconds for a 5-second clip; Vidu Q3 Turbo is 9 seconds faster on a 5-second 720p clip but scores well below it.
On pricing, at 1080p with audio, Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite costs $0.14 per second versus $0.40 per second for Google's Veo 3.1 — about a third of the price. On AA-Video-T2V v2.0, Lite ranks #17, two places above Veo 3.1, while ranking six places below the full Grok Imagine Video 1.5, which costs 44% more at 1080p.
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