🪦 Dead
xAI Grok Imagine Image Quality
Model deprecation · Model Upgrade · shut down November 2, 2026
- Born
- Died
- Lifespan
- 6m
- Cause of death
- Model Upgrade
- Killed by
- xAI
- Type
- Model
The Grok Imagine API's Quality Mode launched for enterprise developers on May 6, 2026, and xAI retired the grok-imagine-image-quality model 180 days later, on November 2, after 60 days' notice. Nothing visibly broke: the slug still resolves, but every request is now served by grok-imagine-image-2.0 at its 'low' quality setting, billed $0.01 per image less, and only the model field in the response shows the swap. Apps that called grok-imagine-image-pro were already redirected to this model in May, so their images have now been forwarded twice.