Read the official plan card
On https://x.ai/pricing the Free plan is $0 with Limited AI usage. The card lists limited chat and agent requests. It does not promise a number of Imagine images or videos.
Official free Imagine access in October 2026 is limited and account-specific. This page separates xAI's published plans from imaginegrok.org's starter credits.
imaginegrok.org is an independent generator and is not affiliated with xAI or X. It does not share a quota with grok.com. The short answer for the official product: the free plan exists, image generation is marked Limited, and xAI does not publish a fixed free image or video count.
On imaginegrok.org, an eligible new account starts with 2 credits — one still, or one 5-second 480p video. This is not xAI's free tier.
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On https://x.ai/pricing the Free plan is $0 with Limited AI usage. The card lists limited chat and agent requests. It does not promise a number of Imagine images or videos.
The same page marks Image generation (Imagine) as Limited on Free. Video is not listed on the Free card. Premium is the tier whose feature line says “Make stunning AI images & videos.”
Sign in at grok.com/imagine and submit one safe image prompt, then one safe video prompt. An upgrade prompt means that account is not in a generating free cohort today.
Eligible new imaginegrok.org accounts receive 2 starter credits once. That balance is not a daily xAI allowance and it does not reset overnight.
Capabilities tuned for the keyword intent of this page — not a generic feature dump.
xAI still lists a $0 plan. Imagine images are Limited on that plan. There is no published “N images a day” figure on the pricing page.
During 2026, free generation on X and on grok.com has been restricted, removed, and partly restored for some accounts. A page that states one permanent number is already out of date.
Plus includes Chat, Voice, Imagine, and Build in one weekly allowance. Grok Bot is only on Premium, Super, and Ultra, and on those tiers it spends the same pool. Higher tiers multiply the pool. They do not add a separate unlimited Imagine meter.
New self-serve customers buy The X Subscription. xAI’s docs say existing SuperGrok, Cursor, and X Premium plans continue, and switching is optional.
imaginegrok.org gives eligible signups 2 credits. Failed renders are not charged. More volume is a one-time credit pack, not SuperGrok.
Remaining official usage is shown in Grok settings. imaginegrok.org only shows the credits on this account.
In grok.com or the Grok app, open Settings and the Usage view. Paid plans show a remaining percentage, a breakdown by product, and the weekly reset. xAI’s pricing FAQ says the allowance refreshes weekly so one heavy day does not wipe out the month, and that you can buy top-ups or wait.
Use the account you intend to keep. Leave the first try on a plain image prompt. If a paywall appears before anything renders, that login is in the paywalled free cohort. If an image renders, try one short, safe video prompt and stop. Do not burn the attempt on a borderline prompt.
xAI has not documented a spare-account reset. Reports through September 2026 described limits that followed the network as well as the login. Creating extra accounts is not a quota method, and this site does not recommend it.
A September 7, 2026 write-up (https://www.roborhythms.com/is-grok-imagine-free/) described some free accounts getting about one short video and a couple of images a day, and other accounts getting nothing after September 5. Treat that as a dated observation, not the October plan sheet.
When grok.com asks you to upgrade, the limit explainer is /grok-video-limit and the keep-creating path is /grok-imagine-alternative. Both are separate from this status page.
You want the current Free, Plus, Premium, Super, and Ultra names instead of an outdated SuperGrok-only table.
The same login generated last month and now sees an upgrade prompt. The cohort changed; the pricing page will not show your personal counter.
You want to know whether 2 starter credits on imaginegrok.org cover a still or a short video before you buy a pack.
You would rather check Usage once than maintain spare accounts that do not restore a spent allowance.
Prices below are the list prices on https://x.ai/pricing and https://docs.x.ai/x-subscription/pricing (docs last updated October 11, 2026). Taxes are extra. Third-party models in Cursor are billed separately. Free — $0. Limited AI usage. The plan card lists limited chat requests and limited agent requests. The comparison grid marks Image generation (Imagine) as Limited. Video generation is not on the Free card. Plus — $8/month, or $80/year. Shared AI usage pool (the “base” that other tiers multiply). The card includes Grok Chat, Voice, Imagine, and Build, plus Grok API access and Cursor, and X Premium-style extras when you connect X. It does not say video. Premium — $30/month, or $300/year. 4× more usage than Plus. This is the tier that says “Make stunning AI images & videos,” and it adds Grok Bot. xAI describes Premium as the benefits that SuperGrok, Cursor Pro, and X Premium+ used to sell separately. Super — $100/month, or $1,000/year. 15× Plus, with priority model access at peak times. Ultra — $200/month, or $2,000/year. 50× Plus. Existing SuperGrok, Cursor, and X Premium subscriptions keep running until you change or cancel them. New self-serve customers are pointed at The X Subscription. Docs: switching is optional. The paid pool is shared. Chat, Imagine, and Voice spend it on every paid tier. Grok Bot is not on Plus; on Premium, Super, and Ultra it spends the same pool. Grok model usage in Cursor spends it too. xAI does not print an image count for any tier. When the pool is gone, paid Imagine pauses until the weekly reset unless you buy a top-up. The remaining bar and reset time are in Settings → Usage.
The X Subscription tiers and imaginegrok.org credits answer the same shopper’s question — is Grok Imagine free, and what does it cost when it is not? — from two different ledgers. This grid puts both sides in one place: what Grok Imagine free access includes on each official tier, and what credits buy here. The sections above and below carry the long answers; this grid is the quick answer to “is Grok Imagine free?” | Tier | Price | Usage | Imagine / video notes | | Free | $0 | Limited usage | Imagine marked Limited; video not on the Free card; includes standard X | | Plus | $8/mo or $80/yr | Base usage | Chat, Voice, Imagine, and Build in the shared weekly pool; no Grok Bot | | Premium | $30/mo or $300/yr | 4× Plus | The tier whose line says “Make stunning AI images & videos”; adds Grok Bot | | Super | $100/mo or $1,000/yr | 15× Plus | Priority model access at peak times; Grok Bot included | | Ultra | $200/mo or $2,000/yr | 50× Plus | Largest share of the weekly pool; Grok Bot included | | imaginegrok.org starter credits | $0, once | 2 credits for eligible accounts | One still (2 credits) or one 5 s 480p clip; not a daily allowance | | imaginegrok.org one-time packs | $5–$50, one-time | 14–480 credits | Still = 2 credits; 5 s 480p clip = 2 credits, double at 720p; first purchase adds 2 bonus; not a subscription | Read it straight: on the official side, “is Grok Imagine free?” resolves to “limited on Free, paid above it,” and no tier prints an image or video count. Paid individual plans include X Premium benefits when you connect your X account; the Free tier includes standard X. Grok Bot is on Premium, Super, and Ultra only — not Plus — and it draws from the same shared weekly pool as Imagine. When the pool empties, top-ups buy Additional Usage credits. Team seats exist on Premium ($30), Super ($100), and Ultra ($200) per seat; Plus is not available for teams. Existing Cursor, SuperGrok, and X Premium plans continue unless you change or cancel them — switching is optional, and when you switch, eligible plans are cancelled with a prorated refund. Is Grok Imagine free here? Partly: eligible accounts get 2 starter credits once, enough for a still (2 credits) or a 5 s 480p clip, so the first output costs nothing. After that, one-time packs run $5 for 14 credits up to $50 for 480, and the first one-time purchase adds 2 bonus credits. The two ledgers are separate — spending credits here never touches your xAI weekly pool — and imaginegrok.org is independent, not affiliated with xAI or X. The Grok Imagine free question has one answer per ledger: the official Grok Imagine free tier moves with xAI’s cohorts, and this site’s credit prices are printed. For the history of the official free dial, read the section below.
xAI has used free Imagine as a dial, not as a fixed product line. In January 2026, image generation on X was limited to paying subscribers after a wave of non-consensual imagery. Reporting at the time found the standalone Grok app still generating for some people. Around March 19, 2026, free generation on grok.com and the apps was widely reported as off. On August 21, 2026, some free accounts started generating again. By September 5–7, 2026, people in the same forum threads reported opposite results: one account still produced a short 480p clip, another account got an upgrade prompt on every submit. A September guide also claimed a second account on the same network inherited the block. xAI has not confirmed an IP-level counter in its docs, so this page does not treat that as policy — only as a reason not to plan on spare logins. Google snippets that say free access “ended in March 2026” describe one chapter of that year. The October pricing page still has a Free plan and still marks Imagine images Limited. Video on Free is not a published entitlement. If your account generates a clip today, that is your cohort, not a quota you can quote to someone else.
These numbers are the site’s own billing rules, not xAI’s. Eligible new accounts receive 2 starter credits (config signupCredits.amount). The grant is once per qualifying inbox. It is not refilled each day. Addresses outside the mainstream-domain allowlist receive 0. Any address with a plus-alias receives 0. Gmail and Googlemail addresses with two or more dots in the local part receive 0, which also denies some real first.middle.last inboxes. Yahoo, Ymail, and Rocketmail addresses whose local part ends in a dash plus 1–4 digits receive 0. Visits attributed to ChatGPT are also denied the free grant. Banned addresses receive 0. What 2 credits pay for on this generator: - One still image (text-to-image or image-to-image) costs 2 credits. - Video uses the grok-imagine-video-1.5 rates in the playground: 2 credits per 5 seconds at 480p, and double that at 720p. The default length is 5 seconds at 480p, so the starter grant covers one of those clips. - A 15-second 480p video costs 6 credits (3 × the default clip). The pricing page counts packs in default 5s clips and states the same rule as “each video ≈ 2 credits.” - Extend is 3 credits for 6 seconds and 4 credits for 10 seconds. Upscale to HD is 4 credits. - Failed renders are not charged. One-time packs currently listed: $5 for 14 credits, $9.99 for 36 credits (the featured pack), $19.99 for 96, $29.99 for 180, and $50 for 480. The first one-time purchase adds 2 bonus credits. Packs are not a subscription. There is no SuperGrok checkout on this site. You do not need an X account. Commercial use follows the Terms, including likeness and disclosure rules. For the full pack table, use /pricing.