xAI pricing details and 25 free alternatives in AI / ML. Catalogue date August 2026.
not_a_free_offer Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. How we use this.
A verdict here is not a fixed property of the vendor. A one-off pricing event demotes a vendor while its recorded date falls in the last 180 days and then lapses on its own, with nothing about the vendor having changed; a standing condition — a free tier withdrawn and not restored, a product retired — does not lapse with time. This one rests on a standing condition, so it does not lapse.
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.
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… xAI warrants caution — on 2024-12-31: 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 Monitor for further changes.
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-4.6 and grok-4.5 cost the same as grok-4.7, and grok-4.20 (0309 reasoning, non-reasoning and multi-agent) the same as grok-4.3. Grok 4.1 Fast was retired on 2026-05-15; its model names now route to grok-4.3 at grok-4.3 rates. Image generation: grok-imagine-image $0.02 per image; grok-imagine-image-2.0 from $0.04 per 1K image at low quality. grok-imagine-image-quality ($0.05 per 1K image) is retired on 2026-11-02, when its requests are served by grok-imagine-image-2.0 at low quality.
We read that on 2026-10-06 from https://docs.x.ai/developers/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names xAI as "xai" and states "$2.00" and "$6.00" and "$1.00" and "$1.25". A source check reads the cited page for the service's name and a price; the limits above are from our own record.
How xAI compares against every one of the 25 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
| Service | Free Tier | Stability |
|---|---|---|
| xAI | Pay-as-you-go | not_a_free_offer |
| Lumenfall.ai | Free | stable |
| Hugging Face | Free | stable |
| OpenRouter | Free | stable |
| SiliconFlow | Free | unrated |
| Maxim AI | Free | stable |
| Mistral AI | Free | caution |
| Keywords AI | Free | stable |
| LLM7.io | Free | caution |
| Cohere | Free | stable |
| Portkey | Free | unrated |
| Ollama Cloud | Free | caution |
| Groq | Free | caution |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | Free | caution |
| Google Gemini API | Free (Reduced) | stable |
| Zhipu AI | Free | source unconfirmed |
| NVIDIA NIM | Free | source unconfirmed |
| Baseten | Basic (Free Credits) | unrated |
| Fireworks AI | Free Credits | unrated |
| Cerebras | Trial | risky |
| Anthropic API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| Together AI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| MiniMax | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| DeepSeek API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated — change unconfirmed |
| GitHub Models | Retired | source unconfirmed |
| OpenAI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
Left out of this list: Pinecone (shares no subtype with this product), Qdrant (shares no subtype with this product), Deepgram (shares no subtype with this product), Kaggle (shares no subtype with this product), Roboflow (shares no subtype with this product), Scale AI (shares no subtype with this product), AssemblyAI (shares no subtype with this product), Replicate (shares no subtype with this product), Weights & Biases (shares no subtype with this product), Comet ML (shares no subtype with this product), Clarifai (we have not classified this record), Neptune.ai (we have not classified this record), Labelbox (shares no subtype with this product), Google Colab (shares no subtype with this product), Composio (shares no subtype with this product), DeepAR (none of this category's subtypes apply), OCR.Space (shares no subtype with this product), Parseur (shares no subtype with this product), Reducto (shares no subtype with this product), Tavily AI (shares no subtype with this product), paperspace (shares no subtype with this product), Arize AX (shares no subtype with this product), Audio Enhancer (none of this category's subtypes apply), Braintrust (shares no subtype with this product), Clair (none of this category's subtypes apply), Langfuse (shares no subtype with this product), LangSmith (shares no subtype with this product), Langtrace (we have not classified this record), LangWatch (shares no subtype with this product), Mediaworkbench.ai (none of this category's subtypes apply), Othor AI (none of this category's subtypes apply), Pollinations.AI (shares no subtype with this product), ReportGPT (none of this category's subtypes apply), Zenable (none of this category's subtypes apply), Exa (shares no subtype with this product), GPU-Bridge (we have not classified this record), Google Vertex AI Agent Engine (we have not classified this record), Google Vector Search 2.0 (shares no subtype with this product), Google Gemini Embedding 2 (shares no subtype with this product), Alibaba Cloud Qwen Code (none of this category's subtypes apply), E2B (shares no subtype with this product), Modal (shares no subtype with this product), ElevenLabs (we have not classified this record), Stability AI (we have not classified this record), Daytona (shares no subtype with this product), Blaxel (shares no subtype with this product), Novita Sandbox (shares no subtype with this product), Runloop (shares no subtype with this product), Mem0 (we have not classified this record), Zep (we have not classified this record), Letta (we have not classified this record), Supermemory (we have not classified this record), Cognee (we have not classified this record), Serper (shares no subtype with this product), Linkup (shares no subtype with this product), Parallel (shares no subtype with this product), Jina AI (shares no subtype with this product), You.com (shares no subtype with this product). Each is still listed in AI / ML, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.
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