Overview

Provider Type

API

API Endpoint


                                                        https://api.x.ai/v1

Free Tier Highlights

Varies (low for free tier)

Quick Start Guide

1

Visit https://console.x.ai/

2

Sign up with X (Twitter) or email

3

Navigate to API Keys

4

Create a new API key

5

Use with OpenAI Python SDK (change base_url)

Available Models

Model Name	ID	Context	Capabilities
Grok-2 Free	`grok-2-latest`	128 000	Reasoning
Grok-2 Mini Free	`grok-2-mini`	128 000	-
Grok-2 Vision Free	`grok-2-vision-latest`	32 000	Vision Multimodal

Integration Examples

Ready-to-use code snippets for your applications.

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main.py

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_XAI_API_KEY",
    base_url="https://api.x.ai/v1"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="grok-2-latest",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing simply"}
    ]
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

index.js

import OpenAI from 'openai';

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: 'YOUR_XAI_API_KEY',
  baseURL: 'https://api.x.ai/v1'
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: 'grok-2-latest',
  messages: [
    { role: 'user', content: 'Explain quantum computing simply' }
  ]
});

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

terminal

curl https://api.x.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_XAI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "grok-2-latest",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Explain quantum computing simply"
      }
    ]
  }'

example.php

<?php
$apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY';
$url = "https://api.x.ai/v1/models/grok-2-latest:generateContent?key=$apiKey";

$data = [
    "contents" => [
        ["parts" => [["text" => "Explain quantum mechanics"]]]
    ]
];

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Content-Type: application/json']);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $response;
?>

main.go

package main

import (
    "context"
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "github.com/google/generative-ai-go/genai"
    "google.golang.org/api/option"
)

func main() {
    ctx := context.Background()
    client, err := genai.NewClient(ctx, option.WithAPIKey("YOUR_API_KEY"))
    if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) }
    defer client.Close()

    model := client.GenerativeModel("grok-2-latest")
    resp, err := model.GenerateContent(ctx, genai.Text("Explain quantum mechanics"))
    if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) }
    
    // ...
}

main.py

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_XAI_API_KEY",
    base_url="https://api.x.ai/v1"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="grok-2-latest",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing simply"}
    ]
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

index.js

import OpenAI from 'openai';

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: 'YOUR_XAI_API_KEY',
  baseURL: 'https://api.x.ai/v1'
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: 'grok-2-latest',
  messages: [
    { role: 'user', content: 'Explain quantum computing simply' }
  ]
});

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

terminal

curl https://api.x.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_XAI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "grok-2-latest",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Explain quantum computing simply"
      }
    ]
  }'

example.php

<?php
$apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY';
$url = "https://api.x.ai/v1/models/grok-2-mini:generateContent?key=$apiKey";

$data = [
    "contents" => [
        ["parts" => [["text" => "Explain quantum mechanics"]]]
    ]
];

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Content-Type: application/json']);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $response;
?>

main.go

package main

import (
    "context"
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "github.com/google/generative-ai-go/genai"
    "google.golang.org/api/option"
)

func main() {
    ctx := context.Background()
    client, err := genai.NewClient(ctx, option.WithAPIKey("YOUR_API_KEY"))
    if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) }
    defer client.Close()

    model := client.GenerativeModel("grok-2-mini")
    resp, err := model.GenerateContent(ctx, genai.Text("Explain quantum mechanics"))
    if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) }
    
    // ...
}

main.py

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_XAI_API_KEY",
    base_url="https://api.x.ai/v1"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="grok-2-latest",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing simply"}
    ]
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

index.js

import OpenAI from 'openai';

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: 'YOUR_XAI_API_KEY',
  baseURL: 'https://api.x.ai/v1'
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: 'grok-2-latest',
  messages: [
    { role: 'user', content: 'Explain quantum computing simply' }
  ]
});

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

terminal

curl https://api.x.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_XAI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "grok-2-latest",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Explain quantum computing simply"
      }
    ]
  }'

example.php

<?php
$apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY';
$url = "https://api.x.ai/v1/models/grok-2-vision-latest:generateContent?key=$apiKey";

$data = [
    "contents" => [
        ["parts" => [["text" => "Explain quantum mechanics"]]]
    ]
];

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Content-Type: application/json']);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $response;
?>

main.go

package main

import (
    "context"
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "github.com/google/generative-ai-go/genai"
    "google.golang.org/api/option"
)

func main() {
    ctx := context.Background()
    client, err := genai.NewClient(ctx, option.WithAPIKey("YOUR_API_KEY"))
    if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) }
    defer client.Close()

    model := client.GenerativeModel("grok-2-vision-latest")
    resp, err := model.GenerateContent(ctx, genai.Text("Explain quantum mechanics"))
    if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) }
    
    // ...
}

Free Tier Pricing & Limits

Rate Limit

Requests per minute

Varies (low for free tier)

Daily Quota

Requests per day

Credit-based

Token Limit

Tokens per minute

$25/month free credits (renewing)

Monthly Quota

Per month limit

$25 free credits (resets monthly)

Free Credits

Renewing monthly

$25/month

Use Cases

General-purpose AI assistant

Real-time news and event analysis

Code generation and debugging

Image understanding tasks

Alternative to GPT-4 for free

Limitations & Considerations

$25/month credit cap (generous but finite)

Lower rate limits on free tier

Vision models have smaller context

Newer platform, fewer community resources

May require X account for signup

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