# Grok Imagine Image Quality - Core.Today AI API

> xAI's highest-fidelity Grok Imagine image model, served over the direct xAI API. Best output quality in the Grok Imagine family for detailed, polished renders.

- **Provider**: xAI
- **Model ID**: xai/grok-imagine-image-quality
- **Category**: Image Generation
- **Credits**: 120 per image
- **Speed**: Medium
- **Quality**: Ultra

## Features
- Highest output quality in the Grok Imagine family
- Up to 10 images per request (billed per image)
- 14 aspect ratio presets plus auto
- 1k / 2k output resolution tiers (2k billed higher)

## Use Cases
- Hero images and key visuals where fidelity matters most
- Product photography style renders
- Final-quality art after iterating on cheaper tiers

## API Endpoint

Base URL: https://api.core.today/v1
Create Prediction: POST /predictions
Get Status: GET /predictions/{job_id}

## Authentication
Header: X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY

## Input Parameters

### Required
- **prompt**: string - Text prompt for image generation.

### Optional
- **n**: integer (default: 1) - Number of images to generate (1-10). Billed per image.
- **aspect_ratio**: string (default: auto) - Aspect ratio of the generated image.
  Options: auto, 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4, 3:2, 2:3, 2:1, 1:2, 19.5:9, 9:19.5, 20:9, 9:20
- **resolution**: string - Output resolution tier. 2k is billed at a higher rate; omitted defaults to 1k.
  Options: 1k, 2k

## Examples

### Product Shot
Ultra-detailed studio product photograph
```json
{
  "model": "xai/grok-imagine-image-quality",
  "input": {
    "prompt": "An ultra-detailed studio photograph of a vintage mechanical watch on dark velvet, macro lens, dramatic side lighting",
    "aspect_ratio": "3:2",
    "resolution": "2k"
  }
}
```

## Response Format
```json
{
  "job_id": "abc123",
  "status": "pending | processing | completed | failed",
  "result": "URL or data (when completed)"
}
```

## Usage Flow
1. POST /predictions with model and input -> receive job_id
2. GET /predictions/{job_id} -> poll until status is completed or failed
3. Result contains output URL(s)

## Tips
- Iterate on grok-imagine-image (cheaper) first, then re-run the winning prompt here
- For editing an existing image, use xai/grok-imagine-image-quality/edit
- Upstream is limited to 5 requests/second for this model - batch with n instead of parallel calls