Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite ranks #17, ahead of Veo 3.1, at about a third of the price

AIArtificial Analysis reports that Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite comes closest to the frontier in Architecture & Real Estate, Consumer, and Productivity & Knowledge Work use cases. It sits furthest from the frontier in Live-Action Film and Frontier use cases. Against Grok Imagine Video 1.5, Lite matches it in Social Media & Creator Content and trails it on the other nine use cases.

AIAmong 12 models on AA-Video-T2V-Silent v2.0, Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite is the only one that is both fastest and highest quality, with no model beating it on both measures. It generates a 10-second 1080p clip in a median of 60.5 seconds. Kling 3.0 1080p (Pro) scores slightly higher but takes 94 seconds for a 5-second clip, while Vidu Q3 Turbo is 9 seconds faster on a 5-second 720p clip yet scores well below it.

AIArtificial Analysis reports that Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite comes closest to the frontier on AA-Video-T2V v2.0 in Multi-Scene & Narrative, Lighting & Materials, and Text Rendering. It is furthest behind in Dialogue & Lip Sync and Human Anatomy. Compared with Grok Imagine Video 1.5, Lite matches it in Physics and trails on the other nine capabilities, by the least in Multi-Scene & Narrative.

AIGrok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite ranks #17 on AA-Video-T2V v2.0, two places above Google's Veo 3.1. At 1080p with audio, it costs $0.14 per second versus $0.40 per second for Veo 3.1. Compared with Grok Imagine Video 1.5, Lite is 44% cheaper at 1080p but ranks six places lower.

AISpaceXAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite ranks #17 on both AA-Video-T2V v2.0 leaderboards, ahead of Google's Veo 3.1 at about a third of its price. It is the fastest model at its quality level in Artificial Analysis benchmarks, with a median of 60.5 seconds for a 10-second 1080p clip, and it costs $0.14 per second at 1080p, 56% of Grok Imagine Video 1.5's $0.25 per second.