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On grok.com/imagine, Quality Mode is the Image 2.0 still pass. Speed is the other still setting. They are not the image-to-video tool on /grok-imagine-2-0.
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Quality Mode is xAI's still-image pass for instruction following, typography, and layout. This page covers Grok Imagine Quality Mode vs Speed — and how to make stills on imaginegrok.org without an X account.
imaginegrok.org is independent and is not affiliated with xAI or X. Stills on this site go through /grok-imagine — they do not run the official grok-imagine-image-2.0 API and there is no Quality/Speed toggle here. This page is the still-image companion to /grok-imagine-2-0 (which stays the image-to-video workspace): what Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Quality Mode is, how it differs from Speed, and the editing tools named in xAI's August 7, 2026 post.
The generator below is this site's still desk on /grok-imagine — text or image in, one still out, 2 credits. It is not grok-imagine-image-2.0 and it has no quality switch.
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On grok.com/imagine, Quality Mode is the Image 2.0 still pass. Speed is the other still setting. They are not the image-to-video tool on /grok-imagine-2-0.
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Quality Mode is built for instruction following and small text. Describe subject, layout, and light in one prose block instead of a tag pile.
The Image 2.0 edit tools target the area you point at and leave the rest of the frame alone — useful when the still is already right except for one sleeve or one label.
When you want a still without an X account, use the workspace on this page (it is /grok-imagine). Animate winners on /grok-image-to-video or /grok-imagine-2-0.
Capabilities tuned for the keyword intent of this page — not a generic feature dump.
Grok Imagine quality mode is the Image 2.0 still pass aimed at type, layout, and precise edits. Speed is the other still setting in the Imagine UI. The August 7 post does not publish a model slug, resolution, or price for Speed, and it does not map Speed to the API quality value low. When people say grok imagine quality mode they mean this still pass — not image-to-video.
Grok Imagine Quality Mode is the setting xAI describes for dense layout and readable small text — poster lines, product labels, UI mock copy — where a Speed draft would smear the type.
Point at a region and rewrite just that area. The rest of the picture stays. This is how you fix one hand or one headline without regenerating the whole still.
Up to five input images on an edit. Combine a product shot, a palette, and a wardrobe reference in one pass instead of three sequential gens.
Pick a new aspect ratio and Smart Resize fills the frame. Ratios shown in the August 7 post include 1:2, 9:16, 2:3, 3:4, 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, and 2:1.
Export any subject with a transparent background. Details in the dedicated section below — the step-by-step cutout guide now lives at /grok-imagine-background-removal.
Use Grok Imagine quality mode when the still has to hold type, a logo, or a tight layout. Grok imagine quality mode is the Image 2.0 still pass. Use Speed when you are burning through composition ideas. Do not assume Speed is a free draft button — xAI has not said that.
On grok.com/imagine, start in Quality Mode. On this site, the workspace below is /grok-imagine: one still, 2 credits, no quality toggle and no grok-imagine-image-2.0 call.
Fix regions first (wand + segmentation), then Smart Resize to the placement ratio. Resizing before the edit is clean is how you inherit the same flaw in nine crops.
Background removal is the last still step before you drop the cutout into a layout, a thumbnail, or an image-to-video frame on /grok-image-to-video.
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 is stills. Motion is a different product: /grok-imagine-2-0 on this site is the image-to-video workspace. Keep the two workflows on purpose.
Posters, packaging comps, and landing heroes where a smeared label kills the draft. Quality Mode is the still pass xAI points at this job.
Background removal plus Smart Resize covers PDP cutouts and marketplace ratios without a second tool.
You lock a Quality-style still, then send it to image-to-video. This page and /grok-imagine-2-0 are the two halves of that pipeline.
imaginegrok.org stills run on /grok-imagine with credits. You do not need X Premium or SuperGrok to follow the Quality Mode workflow here.
Source: https://x.ai/news/grok-imagine-image-2 (published August 7, 2026). That post says Imagine Image 2.0 is generally available as the new Quality Mode for stills on grok.com/imagine and in the iOS and Android Grok apps. Quality Mode is the still model aimed at instruction following, typography, and layout. The post says it keeps what you put in across later generations and edits — useful when you are iterating on one poster instead of starting over. Speed is the other still-image setting beside Quality in the Imagine UI. The August 7 post names Quality Mode and does not publish a model slug, resolution, price, or purpose for Speed. Speed is the still setting that was already there before Image 2.0. The post does not say to use Speed as a draft button, and it does not map Speed to the API value quality: "low". On the developer API, grok-imagine-image-2.0 accepts quality low, medium, or auto (https://docs.x.ai/developers/model-capabilities/images/generation). When quality is omitted, the default is auto, which currently serves low for a new image and medium for an edit. You are billed at the quality that was served. That parameter exists only on grok-imagine-image-2.0. It is a request field, not a label xAI printed on the Speed/Quality switch. Do not assume the consumer Speed button is the API quality value low. imaginegrok.org does not offer Quality or Speed. Stills here are on /grok-imagine: one still costs 2 credits, with no quality toggle, and the request is not grok-imagine-image-2.0. This site is independent and is not affiliated with xAI.
The August 7 Image 2.0 post names background removal that exports any subject with a transparent background. That is the transparent PNG path searchers mean when they ask for a cutout: subject isolated, alpha channel, no baked-in backdrop. Typical order of operations on a finished still: 1. Generate or edit until the subject itself is right (pose, product angles, face). 2. Run region edit if only one area is still wrong — do not regenerate the whole frame for a sleeve. 3. Remove the background and export a transparent PNG. 4. Drop the cutout into a layout, a thumbnail, or an image-to-video upload. Smart Resize is the companion when the cutout still needs a final ratio. Resize after the subject is locked so the fill does not invent a new elbow while it stretches the canvas. Ratios shown in the post include 1:2, 9:16, 2:3, 3:4, 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, and 2:1. On imaginegrok.org the still desk is /grok-imagine. This page does not run grok-imagine-image-2.0 and does not claim an official background-removal API. If you need motion after the cutout, upload the still on /grok-image-to-video or open the /grok-imagine-2-0 workspace.
This page is documentation for Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Quality Mode plus a still generator that is not the official API. What lives on grok.com/imagine (xAI): - The Quality / Speed still switch and Image 2.0 itself - Region edit, segmentation, multi-reference edits (up to 5 inputs), Smart Resize, and background removal as described in https://x.ai/news/grok-imagine-image-2 - The grok-imagine-image-2.0 developer API, including the quality parameter What lives on imaginegrok.org: - Stills on /grok-imagine (also mounted on this page) — 2 credits, no quality toggle, not grok-imagine-image-2.0 - Image-to-video on /grok-imagine-2-0 and /grok-image-to-video - Extend, upscale, and Music chips on the video side Cross-link: /grok-imagine-2-0 is the image-to-video page (Grok Imagine 2.0 I2V). This page is the still / Quality Mode explainer. They are different products and they link to each other on purpose.