Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite beats Veo 3.1 on video leaderboard at a third of the price
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-10-09
Artificial Analysis benchmarked Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite, the new low-cost tier of xAI's Grok Imagine video family:
- Generates 1-15s text-to-video at 480p/720p/1080p, plus image-to-video support
- Ranks #17 on AA-Video-T2V v2.0, two places above Google's Veo 3.1
- Costs $0.14/sec for 1080p with audio vs. $0.40/sec for Veo 3.1 — roughly a third of the price
- 44% cheaper than Grok Imagine Video 1.5 at 1080p, ranking six places lower
- Sits on the quality-speed Pareto frontier: median 60.5s for a 10s 1080p clip; among 12 speed-benchmarked models, none is both faster and higher quality (Kling 3.0 Pro scores slightly higher but takes 94s for 5 seconds)
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