Grok Imagine 1.5 Lite lands on Venice at $0.04 per clip

AI video just got a budget option. Grok Imagine 1.5 Lite, a pared-down version of xAI’s video generation model, is now live on Venice.ai at $0.04 per clip. That is less than half the $0.09 entry price of the flagship model. For anyone generating video in bulk, that gap adds up quickly. What Venice is actually selling The Lite model produces clips up to 15 seconds long. It supports resolutions up to 1080p and includes native audio, so sound arrives with the picture rather than being added in a separate step. Venice offers it within a private tier of video models. Pricing works per generation and scales with resolution and duration. The flagship Grok Imagine 1.5 sits at the other end of the scale. It starts at $0.09 per clip for 480p output. Higher-resolution 15-second clips can run as high as $4.35 on Venice. Venice’s main pitch is privacy. The platform says it uses zero-retention processing, meaning prompts are not stored or used to train models. How the Grok Imagine 1.5 family got here The Grok Imagine 1.5 series was first previewed in May 2026. It became generally available in June 2026, and iterations have continued since. The upgrades over earlier Grok Imagine versions focus on...