Vidu Q4 Preview vs Grok Imagine Video: Model yang Memimpin Arena pada Januari Kini Menempati Peringkat Kesembilan

Three numbers describe this matchup, and none of them are a spec sheet. On the Artificial Analysis image-to-video board, Vidu Q4 Preview sits third at 1,179 with 5,543 votes behind it. Gr​ok Imagine Video 1.5 sits ninth at 1,098. The January 2026 build of Gr​ok Imagine Video, still listed and still callable under its own name, sits fourteenth at 1,072 — and the two Gr​ok entries are priced at $8.40 and $4.20 per minute respectively, which means the newer one costs exactly twice as much for twenty-six more Elo.

Vidu Q4 Preview is one build, released 7 October 2026 by Shengshu Technology as a first public preview ahead of the full Q4 model, in two modes: Image-to-Video and Reference-to-Video. Gr​ok Imagine Video is a family with at least three entries across two boards. The comparison is really about what happens to a leaderboard position over nine months, and the Vidu release is the thing that arrived to make the point.

Dua build dari model yang sama, terpaut dua puluh enam Elo

Artificial Analysis, dibaca 8 Oktober 2026, audio tetap disertakan, papan peringkat image-to-video (AA-Video-I2V v1.0):

• Vidu Q4 Preview — ke-3, 1.179 ±10, 5.543 sampel, Okt 2026, $7,20/menit

• Gr​ok Imagine Video 1.5 — 9th, 1,098 ±8, 5,267 samples, May 2026, $8.40/min

• grok-imagine-video — ke-14, 1.072 ±7, 14.371 sampel, Jan 2026, $4,20/menit

Dan pada teks-ke-video (AA-Video-T2V v2.0), papan terpisah dengan skala tersendiri:

• Gr​ok Imagine Video 1.5 — 11th, 1,045 ±9, 4,056 samples, May 2026, $15.00/min

• Gr​ok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite — 17th-18th, 993 ±10, 5,715 samples, Aug 2026, $8.40/min

• Vidu Q4 Preview — tidak ada

Two things jump out of the first block. The January build of Gr​ok Imagine Video carries the most votes of any model in this comparison — 14,371, nearly three times Vidu Q4 Preview's 5,543 and nearly three times the 1.5 build's. When a model launched as the arena leader in January, that is what the sample count looks like in October: the community voted on it extensively, and then stopped. The score is stable and well-measured and no longer near the top.

The second thing is the price inversion. Gr​ok Imagine Video 1.5 is twice the per-minute rate of its January predecessor and twenty-six Elo ahead of it. Twenty-six Elo is just outside the two intervals combined — ±8 and ±7 — so the improvement is probably real, but it is the kind of margin that comes from a generational refresh rather than a new architecture, and it is being sold at double. Meanwhile Vidu Q4 Preview is eighty-one Elo above the 1.5 build and priced below it, at $7.20 against $8.40. That is a fresher model beating an older one on both axes, which is what is supposed to happen and rarely does this cleanly.

The third oddity sits between the boards. The same Gr​ok Imagine Video 1.5 that is $8.40 per minute on image-to-video is $15.00 per minute on text-to-video, where it also scores lower by the other board's scale. If you are planning a Gr​ok workload, the input modality you choose changes the rate by roughly eighty per cent.

Apa yang sebenarnya diberikan Grok Imagine Video kepada Anda

Ini bukan model yang buruk dan tulisan ini tidak akan berpura-pura sebaliknya. Dua hal yang bisa dilakukannya yang tidak bisa dilakukan Vidu Q4 Preview:

It takes text prompts. Vidu Q4 Preview's product page lists exactly two modes — Image-to-Video and Reference-to-Video — and its API documents /ent/v2/img2video and /ent/v2/reference2video and nothing else. There is no text-to-video endpoint. Gr​ok Imagine Video 1.5 and its Lite sibling both appear on the text-to-video board, so if your pipeline starts from a written prompt, one of these two models is available to you and the other simply is not.

It has a cheap tier. On the image-to-video board the January build is $4.20 per minute against Vidu Q4 Preview's $7.20 on that same board; the Lite tier's $8.40 sits on text-to-video, a separate board with its own scale. If you are generating high volume and can accept a fifth-place-tier score, the low end of the Gr​ok family is the cheapest thing in this article — the January build at $4.20 carries 1,072 Elo, which is 107 below Vidu Q4 Preview but also $3.00 per minute cheaper.

Apa yang Vidu Q4 Preview berikan kepada Anda

Sisi Vidu dalam hal ini adalah model generasi yang lebih kuat pada sumbu yang sama, dan anggaran referensi yang jauh lebih besar.

• Resolution — Vidu Q4 Preview up to 4K at 10-bit colour (2K and 4K) vs Gr​ok Imagine Video not documented at 4K on these boards

• Clip length — Vidu Q4 Preview 3-16s for Image-to-Video and 1-16s for Reference-to-Video vs Gr​ok Imagine Video not published to the same detail

• Reference inputs — Vidu Q4 Preview up to 15 reference images and up to 3 reference audio clips vs not published to that level for Gr​ok Imagine Video

• Default audio — endpoint image-to-video Vidu Q4 Preview membawa parameter audio yang default-nya true, jadi suara ikut datang bersama gambar kecuali Anda menonaktifkannya

• Teks-ke-video — tidak ada, dan itulah satu-satunya baris dalam daftar ini yang bergerak ke arah sebaliknya

Every Vidu figure above is the vendor's own and should be read as such. The one number in this article that is independently measured is the Elo, and on that Vidu Q4 Preview is eighty-one points clear of Gr​ok Imagine Video 1.5 with a thousand fewer votes. Eighty-one Elo is roughly five times the combined interval width. It is a real gap today and it is dated October 2026, which means it is a gap about a different moment than the Gr​ok scores sit in.

Apakah build pratinjau merupakan lawan yang adil?

Cara Shengshu membingkai ini terbilang sangat langsung: Vidu Q4 Preview dirilis lebih awal daripada model Q4 lengkap agar para kreator dapat menggunakannya dalam proyek nyata dan membantu membentuk rilis final. Harganya disebut sebagai promosi. Harga final, resolusi yang didukung, ketersediaan fitur, dan ketentuan penggunaan dapat berbeda menurut paket dan wilayah. Dokumentasi API memuat alias yang salah ketik, viduq4-previerw, berada di samping yang benar viduq4-preview, yang merupakan jenis detail yang biasanya dibereskan oleh produk yang sudah dirilis dan biasanya tidak dilakukan oleh versi pratinjau.

Jadi, Elo delapan puluh satu itu diperoleh oleh build yang menurut vendornya sendiri belum final, pada harga yang menurut vendornya sendiri bersifat promosi. Kedua catatan itu menguntungkan Vidu — modelnya kemungkinan akan membaik dan harganya kemungkinan akan naik — tetapi keduanya juga berarti tidak satu pun dari angka tersebut merupakan komitmen. Siapa pun yang menyusun anggaran dari halaman ini harus merencanakan agar tarifnya berubah pada rilis Q4, dan harus membaca ulang papan peringkat alih-alih peringkatnya saat mereka melakukannya.

If the preview build turning over every few weeks is the problem, that is exactly the case automatic failover exists for: one OpenAI-compatible endpoint across 200-plus models, with provider list prices passed through and no markup added, so a promotional rate ending is a line item change rather than a renegotiation, and a route going unavailable falls through instead of failing the request. Being straight about coverage — Vidu Q4 Preview is not an OrcaRouter route, and neither is Gr​ok Imagine Video. The video models we do serve, including MiniMax H3, sit on that same key and endpoint as the text models.

Jawaban yang sempit

If you want the best image-to-video output and your input is a frame, Vidu Q4 Preview is eighty-one Elo ahead of Gr​ok Imagine Video's current build at a lower measured rate, and there is no strong argument for the Gr​ok side beyond price floor. If you want the cheapest thing that scores respectably, Gr​ok Imagine Video's January build at $4.20 with 1,072 Elo behind 14,371 votes is a well-measured, well-voted, deliberately cheap option and Vidu has nothing at that price point. If your input is a sentence, the Gr​ok family is the only one of the two families in the room.

What would change it: the full Vidu Q4 release, which could add modes or narrow the price gap; and AA-Video-I2V v2.0, announced as coming with a new taxonomy and a fresh vote pool, which would reset every number on this page rather than adjust it. Until either lands, the position worth remembering is the one the sample counts tell you — Vidu's 5,543 votes are one day old, Gr​ok's January build's 14,371 are nine months old, and a leaderboard is a photograph, not a standing.