Grok image retirement makes explicit quality important for editing

xAI’s migration guide, dated September 2, takes effect November 2: grok‑imagine‑image‑quality requests keep working, served by grok‑imagine‑image‑2.0 at low quality. The older grok‑imagine‑image 1.0 is unaffected.

Selecting the replacement without quality uses auto: currently low for generation, medium for editing, billed at the quality served. Specify low to retain the redirect’s tier when intended. Check both configurations: changing only the model can change editing’s quality and billed tier. The response’s model identifies the serving model, not selected quality or output fitness.

Conceptual defaults: alias retained versus model‑only rename with quality omitted. Graphic: OpenTools Team.