# Grok Imagine Image Quality Edit - Core.Today AI API

> Dedicated edit endpoint for xAI's Grok Imagine Image Quality - the highest-fidelity editing tier in the family for polished, detail-preserving edits.

- **Provider**: xAI
- **Model ID**: xai/grok-imagine-image-quality/edit
- **Category**: Image Generation
- **Credits**: 140 per image
- **Speed**: Medium
- **Quality**: Ultra

## Features
- Highest-fidelity editing in the Grok Imagine family
- Detail-preserving retouches and restorations
- Up to 10 edited variants per request (billed per image)
- 1k / 2k output resolution tiers (2k billed higher)

## Use Cases
- Final-quality retouching of hero images
- Photo restoration and detail enhancement
- High-end product image editing

## 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 describing the edit.
- **image**: string - Source image URL to edit. Supports jpg, jpeg, png (max 20MiB).

### Optional
- **n**: integer (default: 1) - Number of edited variants to generate (1-10). Billed per image.
- **aspect_ratio**: string (default: auto) - Aspect ratio of the output 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

### Restoration
Restore and enhance a photo without changing composition
```json
{
  "model": "xai/grok-imagine-image-quality/edit",
  "input": {
    "prompt": "Restore this photo and enhance fine detail, keep composition",
    "image": "https://example.com/old-photo.jpg"
  }
}
```

## 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
- Use this tier when edit fidelity matters more than speed or cost
- Upstream is limited to 5 requests/second - batch with n instead of parallel calls
- For cheaper iteration, start with xai/grok-imagine-image/edit