xAI pricing details and 25 free alternatives in AI / ML. Not verified — the page we cite for this offer does not name it.

xAI Pricing 2026

not_a_free_offer Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. How we use this.

Subtypes in AI / ML: llm_api — the vendor runs language or multimodal models on its own infrastructure and sells calls to them by model name; you send a prompt and receive a completion. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://docs.x.ai/developers/models, where it says: “Compare all current Grok models: capabilities, context windows, and per-token API pricing” How we use this.

Limits, pricing history, and 25 alternatives. Catalogue date August 2026. Last updated 2026-09-27.

Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. Grok API, pay as you go: sign up at console.x.ai, then load it with credits… The page we cite for this offer does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-09-05, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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Tier
Pay-as-you-go
Category
Pricing Page
Catalogue date
2026-08-14
Last read
2026-08-14
The day we last read the vendor's page. We hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. We tried again on 2026-09-05 and did not read the page, so that attempt confirmed nothing.

Free Tier Details

Grok API, pay as you go: sign up at console.x.ai, then load it with credits. grok-4.7 $2.00/$6.00 (per 1M tokens, under 200k prompt tokens). grok-4.3 $1.25/$2.50 (under 200k prompt tokens). grok-build-0.1 $1.00/$2.00 (under 200k prompt tokens). Grok 4.1 Fast was retired on 2026-05-15; its model names now route to grok-4.3 at grok-4.3 rates.

Pricing Change History (3 recorded)

corrected effective 2026-09-27 low impact
Data correction - xAI's $25 monthly API credit ended on 2024-12-31, when its public beta closed, not on 2026-04-13, the day we typed the record. It stays in force: no xAI page has offered free API credits since, so our 2026-09-05 withdrawal of that record was wrong. Source ↗
Before: Recorded 2026-04-13 as free_tier_removed dated 2026-04-13, with no source, and withdrawn on 2026-09-05
After: free_tier_removed dated 2024-12-31 from xAI's beta announcement, in force
Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-27). Grok 4.6 now costs $2.00/M input tokens and $6.00/M output tokens. The difference this record reports was our own out-of-date listing text, not a change xAI made on 2026-09-02. Its previous state is our catalogue description: xAI's free credits had ended in 2024 and 2025, and Grok 4.1 Fast was retired on 2026-05-15. Source ↗
Before: Sign-up gives $25 in free API credits. Additional $150/month via data sharing program (opt-in, requires $5 minimum spend first). Access to Grok models including Grok 4.1 series. Starting at $0.20/M input tokens, $0.50/M output tokens for Grok 4.1 Fast.
After: Grok 4.6: Input $2.00 / 1M tokens, Output $6.00 / 1M tokens
removed effective 2024-12-31 low impact
xAI's $25 a month of free API credits was a public beta offer that ran until the end of 2024. No xAI page has offered free API credits since; API usage is billed per token. Source ↗
Before: "We will run a public beta program until the end of 2024 during which everyone will get $25 of free API credits per month." (xAI announcement, 2024-11-04)
After: "API usage is billed per token rather than free, but the Playground comes with every Console account, so you can test the latest Grok models before adding billing." (x.ai/api, read 2026-09-27)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is xAI free?
Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. We cannot confirm that today. The page we cite for xAI does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-09-05. Grok API, pay as you go: sign up at console.x.ai, then load it with credits. grok-4.7 $2.00/$6.00 (per 1M tokens, under 200k prompt tokens). grok-4.3 $1.25/$2.50 (under 200k prompt tokens). grok-build... We have not confirmed these terms against the source we cite, so treat them as unverified.
Is xAI's free tier reliable?
We cannot say. The page we cite for xAI does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-09-05. Nothing we have read describes these terms, so we are not publishing a stability judgement for this vendor until that is fixed.
Is xAI's free tier good for production?
Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. There is no free tier here to run in production.
What changed in xAI's pricing?
xAI has had 1 recorded pricing change. Most recently: xAI's $25 a month of free API credits was a public beta offer that ran until the end of 2024. No xAI page has offered free API credits since; API usage is billed per token. Source: https://x.ai/news/api (2024-12-31).
What are the best free alternatives to xAI?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 25 free alternatives to xAI in AI / ML, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 12 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 7 are demoted with the reason named, 6 are listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
What category is xAI in?
xAI is categorized under AI / ML on AgentDeals. We list 25 other AI / ML services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.

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