Overview
Grok-1.5 Vision was xAI's first model with image understanding capabilities. While superseded by Grok-2 Vision, it remains available for basic vision tasks at budget pricing.
Context Window
16K tokens
Modality
Text + Vision
Pricing
$2-4 / 1M tokens
Access
API
✅Strengths
- ✓Budget-friendly vision capabilities
- ✓Basic image understanding
- ✓Real-time X knowledge
- ✓Faster than newer models
⚠️Weaknesses
- ✗Outdated architecture
- ✗Limited vision accuracy
- ✗Small context window
- ✗Being phased out
Best Use Cases
🖼️ Basic OCR
Text extraction
📊 Simple Charts
Basic graphs
💬 Lightweight Chat
Casual conversation
📰 News Monitoring
Trend tracking