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  "provider": "xai",
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  "name": "Grok 2 Image",
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  "description": "The Aurora-based image generator that xAI ran before the Imagine line, priced per image rather than per token and capped at four images a request. It is no longer served and its docs page is gone. xAI announced the shutdown by email and in-product rather than in the documentation, so there is no citable first-party date left.",
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      "recommended": false,
      "note": "The Imagine line is the direct successor, but xAI's public docs no longer carry the notice that said so.",
      "external": false
    }
  ],
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    {
      "url": "https://docs.x.ai/developers/models",
      "title": "xAI models and pricing (no longer lists this model)",
      "accessed": "2026-08-03"
    }
  ],
  "last_verified": "2026-08-03",
  "computed_status": "retired",
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}