Vidu Q4 Preview vs Grok Imagine Video: O Modelo Que Liderou a Arena em Janeiro Agora Está em Nono

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.

Duas versões do mesmo modelo, separadas por vinte e seis pontos de Elo

Artificial Analysis, consultado em 8 de outubro de 2026, áudio mantido, ranking de imagem para vídeo (AA-Video-I2V v1.0):

• Vidu Q4 Preview — 3º, 1.179 ±10, 5.543 amostras, out. 2026, $7,20/min

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

• grok-imagine-video — 14º, 1.072 ±7, 14.371 amostras, jan. de 2026, US$ 4,20/min

E em texto para vídeo (AA-Video-T2V v2.0), um ranking separado com a sua própria escala:

• 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 — não presente

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.

O que o Grok Imagine Video realmente oferece a você

Não é um modelo ruim, e este artigo não vai fingir o contrário. Duas coisas que ele faz que o Vidu Q4 Preview não faz:

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.

O que o Vidu Q4 Preview oferece a você

O lado do Vidu nisto é um modelo de geração mais forte no eixo que partilham, e um orçamento de referências muito maior.

• 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

• Padrão de áudio — o endpoint de imagem para vídeo do Vidu Q4 Preview inclui um parâmetro audio que tem como padrão true, então o som chega junto com a imagem, a menos que você o desative

• Texto para vídeo — ausente, e essa é a única linha desta lista que vai no sentido contrário

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.

Uma build de pré-visualização é um oponente justo?

A abordagem da Shengshu é incomumente direta: o Vidu Q4 Preview foi lançado antes do modelo Q4 completo para que os criadores pudessem usá-lo em projetos reais e ajudar a moldar o lançamento final. Os preços são descritos como promocionais. Os preços finais, as resoluções compatíveis, a disponibilidade de recursos e os termos de uso podem variar conforme o plano e a região. A documentação da API contém um alias digitado incorretamente, viduq4-previerw, ao lado do correto viduq4-preview, que é o tipo de detalhe que um produto lançado normalmente corrige e um preview normalmente não corrige.

Então, os oitenta e um pontos de Elo foram obtidos por uma build que o próprio fornecedor diz não ser final, a um preço que o próprio fornecedor diz ser promocional. Ambas essas ressalvas favorecem a Vidu — é provável que o modelo melhore e que o preço suba —, mas também significam que nenhum dos dois números é um compromisso. Quem estiver a fazer orçamentos com base nesta página deve planear que o preço mude no lançamento do Q4 e deve reler a tabela, e não a posição, quando isso acontecer.

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.

A resposta estreita

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.