What is Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite good for in game development?

Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite is xAI's low-cost video model. It turns a prompt or an image into a clip at 480p, 720p or 1080p for a fraction of the full model's price. Typical game uses: cheap first passes of an animation idea; short looping clips for menus and store pages; comparing many prompts before a final render.

How much does Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite cost in Summer?

In Summer Studio: Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite (text to video): 3 credits / second; Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite (image to video): 3 credits / second. It is charged from your Summer credits.

What can Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite generate, and how long are the clips?

In Summer, Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite supports text to video and image to video. Generated clips run 5, 6, 8, 10, and 15 seconds, in 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 3:2, and 2:3 aspect ratios at 480p, 720p, and 1080p.

Can I use Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite from Claude Code, Cursor or Codex?

Yes. Connect the Summer MCP server to Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or another MCP client, then ask your agent to generate with summer_generate_video with model: "grok-video-1.5-lite". Setup instructions are at summerengine.com/mcp.

Where do Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite results go?

Every generation is saved to your Summer asset library. From there you can download it or bring it into a Summer Engine project.

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Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite

Low-cost Grok video clips for drafts.

video/grok-video-1.5-lite

Try it in Studio Use with your agent or API

A small fox knight in a red scarf runs across a sunny meadow in a stylized 3D platformer, the camera follows from the side, bright cartoon colors.

Price: 3 credits / second
Typical time: about 28 s
Makes: Text to video, Image to video
Clip length: 5 to 15 s

Best for

Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite is xAI's low-cost video model. It turns a prompt or an image into a clip at 480p, 720p or 1080p for a fraction of the full model's price.

Cheap first passes of an animation idea.
Short looping clips for menus and store pages.
Comparing many prompts before a final render.

Put it together

Where Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite fits in a game, with the models it works well with. Your agent runs every step.

A cutscene
A key frame of your own art, brought to life, with its sound and score.
A talking character
A portrait that speaks its lines in its own voice.
A store trailer
Shots for your store page, cut to music with impacts on the beats.

Price

Mode	Model	Price
Text to video	Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite	3 credits / second
Image to video	Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite	3 credits / second

Paid from your Summer credits.

Use it from code or your agent

Sign in once with summer login. Your agent or your code then runs it with your paid credits.

npx -y summer-engine@latest login
npx -y summer-engine@latest api run video/grok-video-1.5-lite \
  --input '{"prompt":"a dragon circling a castle at dawn","duration":5}' \
  --download .

video/grok-video-1.5-lite: $0.03 per second of video. Paid from your Summer credits.

Inputs

What input takes for video/grok-video-1.5-lite. Send only what you need; Summer fills in tested defaults.

promptstringup to 4000 characters
What happens in the clip. Needed without imageUrl.
imageUrlstringup to 2048 characters
A public image URL to animate (image to video).
endImageUrlstringup to 2048 characters
With imageUrl: the last frame. The same image as imageUrl makes a seamless loop. Models with an end frame: Seedance, Kling 3, Wan, Vidu, LTX 2.5, Luma, MiniMax.
referenceImageUrlsarray of string1 to 10 items
Reference to video: public images of the characters, props or style to keep (with a reference model, e.g. kling-4-ref). Motion transfer: the character to move.
videoUrlstringup to 2048 characters
An input clip (public URL, at most 20 s): restyle or reframe it, move a character with its motion, or add sound to it (e.g. kling-video-to-audio). Billed on the clip's length.
durationintegerDefault 5 · 1 to 20
Seconds; the model renders its nearest supported length.
aspectRatioenumDefault 16:9
- 16:9
- 9:16
- 1:1
- 4:3
- 3:4
- 21:9
- 3:2
- 2:3
- auto
negativePromptstringup to 1000 characters
What the clip must not show.
resolutionenum
Only a quality the model offers; leave out for its default.
- 720p
- 1080p
- 4k
- 480p
- 768p
- 2k
- 768P
- 1080P
- 480P

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Questions

What is Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite good for in game development?: Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite is xAI's low-cost video model. It turns a prompt or an image into a clip at 480p, 720p or 1080p for a fraction of the full model's price. Typical game uses: cheap first passes of an animation idea; short looping clips for menus and store pages; comparing many prompts before a final render.
How much does Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite cost in Summer?: In Summer Studio: Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite (text to video): 3 credits / second; Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite (image to video): 3 credits / second. It is charged from your Summer credits.
What can Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite generate, and how long are the clips?: In Summer, Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite supports text to video and image to video. Generated clips run 5, 6, 8, 10, and 15 seconds, in 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 3:2, and 2:3 aspect ratios at 480p, 720p, and 1080p.
Can I use Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite from Claude Code, Cursor or Codex?: Yes. Connect the Summer MCP server to Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or another MCP client, then ask your agent to generate with summer_generate_video with model: "grok-video-1.5-lite". Setup instructions are at summerengine.com/mcp.
Where do Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite results go?: Every generation is saved to your Summer asset library. From there you can download it or bring it into a Summer Engine project.