xAI's newest image model, built for images you can put into real work — designed typography, layouts that hold together, and the same subject carried across generations. Run it here at 1K or 2K with up to five reference images, from a browser.
Headlines, credits and small print planned like a designer would set them.
Feed it the character, the product and the palette in one generation.
Generated with Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on this site on 2026-08-16, unretouched. A gig poster where every credit line reads, a product shot with an embossed label, and one character drawn three times without drifting. Nothing was typeset or retouched afterwards.
xAI's image model, released on 2026-08-07 as the Quality Mode inside Grok. It was built around following instructions closely — planning typography and layout, and holding what you feed it across generations and edits.
xAI states the design goal plainly in its announcement: make images you can use in real work. That shows up in three places. It follows instructions down to the details rather than treating them as mood. It plans typography and layout the way a designer would, so a dense multi-part visual holds together and small text comes out sharp instead of dissolving into letter-shaped noise.
And it preserves what you put in — the same character, the same product, the same palette — across a run of generations, which is what turns a single lucky image into a set you can ship.
The company reports it ranking second in the world on both the text-to-image and image-editing Arena leaderboards as of its launch day, where xAI's entries are listed under SpaceXAI. On Kavel it runs from the browser at 1K or 2K, in five aspect ratios, with up to five reference images in a single generation and up to four images per run.
Credits are shared with every other model here, so trying it costs nothing extra beyond the run itself.
Creative engine
Prompt in, 1K or 2K out, with optional reference images. The credit estimate updates before you generate.
The first generation is rarely the final asset, so the model is trained to change what you name and keep the rest.
Up to five input images per generation, which removes a round of manual compositing.
Pick it when the picture has a job to do and a second version is coming.
Posters, packaging, ads, thumbnails, UI mockups — anything where a misspelt headline makes the whole render useless.
A character across locations, a product across formats, an icon family. Consistency across generations is what it was trained for.
A face, a garment and a setting can go in together rather than being composited by hand afterwards.
What the model accepts here, and what each control does.
Start from a prompt, or upload something you already have and describe the change you want made to it.
16:9, 1:1, 2:3, 3:2 and 9:16 — the frame is decided before generation rather than cropped afterwards.
1K for drafts and feeds, 2K when the result is going to print or needs to survive a crop.
Four variations of one prompt in a single run, which is the cheapest way to find the composition you want.
Measured against the live API this model runs on here, on 2026-08-16.
Four habits that decide whether you get a picture or something you can actually ship.
Put the exact headline, the exact date line and the exact small print in the prompt, in quotation marks. Guessed wording is the one thing it cannot get right for you.
Say where the headline sits, what goes underneath it and what fills the footer. Layout instructions are what this model was built to follow.
Upload the character, the product or the palette rather than describing them. Five slots is enough to pin down a whole look in one pass.
Once a composition works, re-run it with a single clause changed. Holding the rest steady is exactly what it is good at, and the comparison stays readable.
Mostly work with a deadline attached.
Where the credit block, the date and the venue all have to be readable at the size it prints.
One bottle, one lighting setup, and a label that stays legible across every crop the listing needs.
Game sprites, mascots and icon families that have to look like they came from one hand.
Five ratios cover the feed formats, so the same idea is generated to fit rather than cropped until the text falls off.
One credit pool covers Nano Banana images and Seedance and Veo video. The cost shows before every run, and failed jobs are not charged. Use a subscription for ongoing work, or a one-time pack when you just need to top up.
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Use one balance across every supported image and video model — eleven of them today, listed below — and check the credit cost before each request.
Video models
Image models
Model credit guide
You're only charged for successful generations. The exact estimate in the generator varies by model, length, resolution, audio, and number of images.
| Type | Model | Credit cost |
|---|---|---|
| Video | Seedance 2.5 | The long-take tier, priced per second: 5s 480p ≈ 211 credits, 5s 720p ≈ 473. A full 30s take runs ≈ 1,260 at 480p and ≈ 2,835 at 720p. Supplying a reference clip lowers the per-second rate. |
| Video | Seedance 2.0 | 5s 720p image-to-video ≈ 188 credits; text-to-video ≈ 308 credits. Scales with resolution and length. |
| Video | Seedance 2 Fast | Faster and lower cost. 5s 720p text-to-video ≈ 248 credits. |
| Video | Seedance 2 Mini | The cheapest Seedance tier. 5s 720p ≈ 154 credits, 5s 480p ≈ 72 credits. |
| Video | Seedance 1.5 Pro | Audio doubles the rate. 5s 720p ≈ 27 credits silent, ≈ 53 with audio; 1080p ≈ 57 and ≈ 113. |
| Video | Veo 3.1 | Billed per video, not per second (Lite tier). About 45 credits at 720p and 53 at 1080p. |
| Video | Kling 3.0 | Audio raises the rate. 5s 720p ≈ 105 credits silent, ≈ 150 with audio; 1080p ≈ 135 and ≈ 203. |
| Video | MiniMax H3 | Fixed 2K, no resolution ladder. Priced per second — a 5s clip ≈ 158 credits. |
| Image | Nano Banana 2 | Generate or edit from text and images. About 8 credits per 1K image, 12 at 2K, 18 at 4K. |
| Image | Nano Banana Pro | Consistent run times across generations. About 12 credits per 1K or 2K image, 21 at 4K. |
| Image | Nano Banana 2 Lite | Faster, simpler variant. A flat 8 credits per image at every resolution. Start here to test. |
| Image | GPT Image 2 | The lowest-cost image model here. About 3 credits per 1K image, 6 at 2K, 12 at 4K. |
| Image | Seedream 5.0 Lite | Flat pricing — about 8 credits per image whether you generate or edit. |
Common questions about generating with this model online.
You can start in the generator on this page, and every new account gets a credit balance to spend on it. Credits are shared across every model on Kavel, so nothing is locked to one of them.
Yes — Image 2.0 is the model xAI shipped on 2026-08-07 as the Quality Mode in its own apps. What differs here is the surface around it: a browser generator with the aspect ratio, resolution and reference slots exposed as controls, and one credit balance across every model on the site.
Five in a single generation. That is enough to pin a character, a garment, a prop and a palette at once, which is the case where compositing by hand used to be the only route.
The three examples on this page are the honest answer: a gig poster with four credit lines, a date line and a street address, all generated here on 2026-08-16, none of it typeset afterwards. Write the exact wording into your prompt and it renders that wording.
18 credits at 1K and 24 at 2K. The aspect ratio does not change either number, and a batch of four costs four runs.
Yes. Upload a source image in the generator and describe the change. Editing was treated as a first-class capability in this generation rather than as an afterthought bolted onto a text-to-image model.
xAI reports it second in the world on both the text-to-image and image-editing Arena leaderboards as of its launch day, with OpenAI's GPT Image 2 first in both. Both models run here, so you can put the same prompt through each and judge for your own use case rather than take either company's word for it.
Write the exact words, name the layout, bring your references, and get back an asset rather than a mood board.
Run your first prompt in the box above without an account.
