An image generated by Grok

Created using Grok's Imagine Image 2.0. Prompt: 2020s Japanese anime style. Black background. Art style featuring very fine lines. Light transparency effects. Techniques like additive layer blending are used to give the illustration a sense of translucency. Long white hair, blue eyes. A young woman in a black-and-white Gothic dress. Posed looking up at the sky while sitting on the ground. The character is illuminated by a soft light. Light particle effects. [Notes] I hadn't previously considered using Grok to create illustrations, so I made this as a test. I had assumed it was mainly for simple video generation or AI coding. I usually generate illustrations on PIXAI, so I don't have much use for Grok. Since it's cheap during discount campaigns, it might be worth considering for short anime or movie clips. However, Seedance is superior for video expression. At the regular price, it's a bit questionable; if paying $30/month, I think ChatGPT is better if your focus is primarily on images. As for video, it's debatable whether it's better than Gemini Omni. It inevitably falls short when compared to services specializing in video generation. If including website and app development, a high-end setup would be ChatGPT (images, web) + Dreamina (video) + Suno (music). If you want to keep video generation costs down: Grok (images, video, web) + Suno. If you want the absolute lowest cost: Google AI Plus or Pro plans (AI Agent: Gemini; Web: Antigravity 2.0; Images: Nanobanana; Video: Gemini Omni, Veo; Music: GoogleFlowMusic/lylia3). That’s how I see it. There are countless generative AI services—Stable Diffusion, Niji Journey, Kling, Vidu, HappyHorse, WanAI, etc.—so it really comes down to personal preference. Local solutions like ComfyUI are also becoming a somewhat realistic way to keep costs down (e.g., MiniMax H3 + Qwen-Image, Qwen-Image-Edit). PIXAI has also added "Studio" features, making anime production possible there as well. PIXAI is well-suited for the mass production of illustration assets.