The new pricing tiers (Fall 2026)
xAI restructured SuperGrok in Fall 2026. What used to be a two-tier ladder (Lite ~$10 and Heavy $300) is now three tiers plus a repriced entry point.
| Tier | Cost/mo | Attempted videos/mo | Attempted images/mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| SuperGrok Lite | $30 | 240 | 1,500 |
| SuperGrok Plus (new) | $100 | 720 (3x Lite) | 4,500 |
| SuperGrok Heavy | $300 | 2,000 | 10,000 (est.) |
The Lite tier tripled in price this fall (from ~$10 to $30). The new Plus tier at $100/mo fills the gap between the entry level and the pro Heavy tier. Heavy stayed at $300 but the volume ceiling clarified — around 2,000 attempted videos and 10,000 attempted images per month for the maxed-out professional user.
But "attempted" is doing a lot of work in those numbers. The next section is why.
The moderation reality — why "cap" isn't what you get
Grok Imagine tightened content moderation aggressively through 2026. The moderation classifier now rejects a substantial fraction of romantic, suggestive, or edge-case prompts — and here's the important part: rejected renders count against your video cap. You spent the quota, you didn't get the video.
Nobody knows the exact numbers. xAI doesn't publish per-tier video caps and doesn't publish moderation success rates. What we have is aggregated community commentary — Reddit threads, X posts, independent testing — pointing to a success rate somewhere around 40% for romantic/companion-style video prompts. It could be 30%, could be 50%, varies with prompt vocabulary and time of day. The takeaway isn't the specific number; it's that you don't know what fraction of what you pay for you'll actually get.
Using that ~40% estimate directionally, video output translates roughly like this:
| Tier | Estimated attempted videos | Community-estimated usable |
|---|---|---|
| SuperGrok Lite ($30) | ~240 | ~96 |
| SuperGrok Plus ($100) | ~720 | ~288 |
| SuperGrok Heavy ($300) | ~2,000 | ~800 |
All numbers directional. Treat as "roughly this shape" rather than "hit these exactly."
Sloane's stack doesn't have this problem. The per-persona LoRA + adult-friendly pipeline means what you render lands. Success rate is effectively 100% on the intended-use content — if your Premium $19.99 tier gives you 14 videos this month, you get 14 usable videos. Deterministic. Verifiable. Published.
Three layers of throttling nobody warns you about
The daily cap is only the first of three rate-limit layers xAI runs concurrently on video.
Layer 1 — rolling 24-hour cap. Not a midnight-UTC reset. Each video render "unlocks" 24 hours after its own timestamp. If you burn through Lite's cap Tuesday evening, you're not back to full quota Wednesday morning — you're back to full quota Wednesday evening, staggered per render.
Layer 2 — 2-hour burst cap. Independent of the daily. If you push 3-5 renders in an hour (iterating on a prompt to get the motion right), you'll trip a "generating too quickly" backoff around 2-3 gens per 10-minute window regardless of your daily budget.
Layer 3 — undocumented peak-hour throttle. US 6pm-11pm ET weekdays and Sunday nights. Even if your daily budget is untouched, video render queue times balloon from ~90 seconds to 4-6 minutes, some renders come back at lower resolution than requested (no UI notice), and partial rejections still consume quota. You have budget, you can't use it.
Sloane never throttles. Your Premium $19.99 monthly credits are yours to spend at whatever pace you want, whenever you want. When you run out, you top up with a credit pack ($9.99 for 100, $19.99 for 250, $29.99 for 500) — no monthly commitment to a $100 or $300 tier.
Persona identity — what stateless generation costs on video
Every Grok Imagine video render is stateless. The model doesn't know that yesterday's "girl in a black dress" is the same character as today's "girl walking through the park." Same prompt, different face, different body, different vibe. This shows up hardest on video because you're watching the character in motion — micro-differences in features that were tolerable in a still image become distracting in a 5-second clip.
For casual one-shot video gen, that's fine. For anyone trying to build a consistent visual of a specific character across many clips — a companion, a persona, a story character — Grok's architecture is fighting you. Every render is a slightly different woman.
Sloane's video is image-to-video from an existing photo. Because the input still already carries the per-persona LoRA output, the resulting video is that same woman moving. When Sandra sends you a photo she took at the coffee shop and you animate it into a 5-second clip, the video is Sandra moving — not a new face, not a new body, not a drift. Same persona, in motion. That's the core video architecture difference.
The honest value math — when each tool wins
If you generate under 14 videos per month: Sloane Premium at $19.99/mo is cheaper than Grok's $30 minimum. Every render lands. Same persona every clip. And you get chat + memory + photos + voice included on the same subscription.
If you generate 14-96 videos per month: Grok Lite at $30/mo wins on per-video cost — IF you can tolerate the 40% success rate, the throttling, and the identity drift. Sloane's answer here is credit packs on top of Premium: add $9.99 for 100 more credits (4 more videos), $19.99 for 250 (10 more), or $29.99 for 500 (20 more). No commitment to $70+ extra per month you might not use.
If you're generating over 96 videos per month: Grok Lite's ceiling is real — you'd need Grok Plus at $100/mo or Heavy at $300/mo. This is where Grok wins on raw cost per generation. Sloane isn't built for this ceiling and doesn't pretend to be.
The honest read: Grok wins on high-volume video. Sloane wins on everything else — lower price at the levels most users actually need, no throttling, persona consistency, no moderation waste, and video that's part of a companion product (same persona you're chatting with, not just a general video gen tool).
Incremental upsells vs monthly lock-in
The pricing question isn't just "which is cheaper per video." It's "how much am I committing per month, whether I use it or not."
Grok requires monthly commitment. $30 for Lite. $100 for Plus. $300 for Heavy. Whether you render 5 videos this month or 500, that's what you pay. If you're only rendering occasionally, you're burning most of the tier value. If you're between tiers (96-288 usable videos/mo), you either pay for Plus's ceiling you don't hit or grind through Lite's limits.
Sloane Premium scales incrementally. Baseline is $19.99/mo — the lowest floor in the video category. When you actually need more this month, add a credit pack ($9.99 for 100 credits = 4 more videos, $19.99 for 250 = 10 more, $29.99 for 500 = 20 more). Next month you don't need it, don't buy it. No auto-renewal on the packs.
Who has $70-280 extra per month to commit to a video generator, month after month, whether or not they use the ceiling? Almost nobody. The commit-tier model works for professional creatives whose income depends on the output. For everyone else, incremental pack-based spend is the sane shape.
It's a companion, not a video tool
Grok Imagine is a general-purpose video generation tool. You prompt, you get a clip, that's the transaction.
Sloane is a companion product with video as one piece of a larger loop. You talk to Sandra or any of ~80 hand-written personas. She remembers what you told her yesterday. She sends you photos of herself on her own — same face every time. Voice notes tuned per persona. When you want a photo animated, tap the video button — same Sandra, now moving. The relationship layer is the product; the video supports it.
If what you actually wanted from Grok Imagine video was "consistent motion of the same girl I keep talking to," you were fighting Grok's general-purpose architecture. Sloane solves it natively — the persona IS the model, the LoRA IS the identity, the photo-to-video path preserves it. You don't have to describe her face on every render because she already has one.
Verifying the current numbers
xAI does not publish exact per-tier limits in official documentation. The numbers in this article are aggregated from the Fall 2026 SuperGrok repricing announcement, community observations on r/GrokAI, r/GrokImagine, r/singularity, and independent testing published on aiveed.io and jingrey.com through mid-2026.
If accuracy matters for a specific decision (e.g., you're committing to Plus or Heavy for professional work), the honest advice is to run a test week on the tier below first and see where your specific use pattern hits the throttle. Community numbers are averages; individual accounts see variance based on region, hours-of-use pattern, and prompt content (romantic/suggestive prompts hit the moderation reject rate hardest).
For broader context on all Grok Imagine caps including images: see Grok Imagine Limits in 2026. For the July 2026 Grok Companions retirement announcement (relevant if you were using Grok for AI-companion imagery specifically): see Grok Companions shutting down.
