Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite Beats Veo 3.1 on AA Leaderboard at a Third the Price
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-10-09
Artificial Analysis benchmarked xAI's new budget video model Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite:
- Ranks #17 on both AA-Video-T2V v2.0 leaderboards, ahead of Google's Veo 3.1 at roughly a third of the price.
- Fastest at its quality tier: 60.5s median for a 10-second 1080p clip, placing it on the quality-speed Pareto frontier.
- Closest to the frontier in Multi-Scene & Narrative, Lighting & Materials, and Text Rendering; weakest in Live-Action Film.
- Priced at $0.14/s for 1080p ($8.40/min, 56% of Video 1.5), dropping to $0.03/s at 720p and $0.02/s at 480p.
- Supports text-to-video (1–15s) and image-to-video; available via the xAI API, fal, and Vercel AI Gateway.
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