--- title: "xAI API grok-imagine-image-quality retired, redirected to grok-imagine-image-2.0: 2026-11-02 | Harbyn" description: "xAI API grok-imagine-image-quality retired, redirected to grok-imagine-image-2.0, effective Nov 2, 2026; replacement: grok-imagine-image-2.0." canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/xai/2026-09-02-grok-imagine-image-quality-retirement" last-updated: 2026-09-29 --- # xAI API grok-imagine-image-quality retired, redirected to grok-imagine-image-2.0 Markdown version of . Retirement - xAI API. medium severity. Announced. Upcoming. Effective November 2, 2026, the grok-imagine-image-quality model slug is retired. Requests to it on /v1/images/generations and /v1/images/edits are then served by grok-imagine-image-2.0 with quality low and billed at that rate; grok-imagine-image-pro, which already redirects to it, follows. Switch to grok-imagine-image-2.0 explicitly to choose the quality you pay for. 8 days left: the deadline is Nov 2, 2026. ## Facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | [xAI API](https://harbyn.com/vendors/xai.md) | | Kind | Retirement | | Severity | medium | | Status | Announced | | Announced | Sep 2, 2026 | | Effective | Nov 2, 2026 | | Added to Harbyn | Sep 29, 2026 | | Lead time | 34 days of warning | | Model IDs | `grok-imagine-image-quality`, `grok-imagine-image-pro` | | Replacement | `grok-imagine-image-2.0` | | Vendor page | | | Review | Reviewed by a person, extracted by a model | ## Find it in your code ```sh npx harbyn scan ``` The scanner reads your repository on your machine and reports every file and line that uses the identifiers above, with the replacement. Nothing leaves your machine. ## Sources Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot. - (deprecations, fetched 2026-09-29 02:31 UTC, sha256 `cd01bc28f9557582b107772127719983c927e3c1c7dc9baafdeae32d624e538a`) ## Related changes ### More from xAI API - [grok-voice-transcribe-1.0 retired, routed to grok-voice-transcribe-2.0](https://harbyn.com/changes/xai/2026-10-02-grok-voice-transcribe-1-0-reaches-end-of-life.md) (Retirement, effective Oct 2, 2026) - [Grok Voice 2.0 deprecated](https://harbyn.com/changes/xai/2026-10-14-grok-voice-2-0-deprecated.md) (Deprecation, announced Oct 14, 2026) ### Changes at other vendors - [OpenRouter: arcee-ai/trinity-large-thinking expire 2026-10-26](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-23-arcee-ai-trinity-large-thinking-expires-2026-10-26.md) (effective Oct 26, 2026) - [Google Cloud Run and Functions: Node.js 20 runtime decommission](https://harbyn.com/changes/google-cloud/2026-10-08-node-js-20-runtime-decommission.md) (effective Oct 30, 2026) - [Mistral AI: Z.ai GLM 5.2 (zai-glm-5-2) retires on Mistral on October 31, 2026](https://harbyn.com/changes/mistral/2026-09-29-z-ai-glm-5-2-deprecated-and-scheduled-for-retirement.md) (effective Oct 31, 2026) - [Fireworks AI: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 retires from Serverless Training November 2](https://harbyn.com/changes/fireworks/2026-10-18-upcoming-serverless-training-deprecation-deepseek-v4-flash-0731.md) (effective Nov 2, 2026) [All upcoming deadlines](https://harbyn.com/deadlines.md)