How much does xAI Grok cost?
Usage price from
$2/minute
- Free plan
- Yes
- Usage price
- $2/minute
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
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In your favor
- Free plan. Free Console account with a Playground to test Grok models; API usage itself is billed per token
- Notice before price changes. Reasonable notice; new price applies at next renewal
How you buy and get started
Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Get your API key, Create a free Console account, Contact Sales, Try for free
- Sign up
- Self-serve sign-up at console.x.ai, create an API key in about a minute "Create a free account at [console.x.ai](https://console.x.ai?campaign=api-landing&utm_source=website&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=api-landing), open “API Keys”, and create a ke"
- Setup
- About a minute to first request "Create an account, generate a key, and ship your first Grok request in about a minute."
- When sales steps in
- Enterprise controls (SSO, audit logging, invoicing, data residency, custom rate limits) via sales "Start self-serve in the Console, or [contact sales](/contact-sales) for enterprise onboarding."
- Support
- Dedicated onboarding support and dedicated support path for enterprise "Hands-on onboarding and a dedicated support path for your team."
What xAI Grok does
SpaceXSI offers Grok models through one API billed per token, with a free Playground in the Console and a sales-led enterprise tier adding SSO, audit logging, data residency and invoicing. The flagship grok-4.7 has a 500k context window and costs $2.00 input and $6.00 output per 1M tokens.
- Good for
- Developers and companies building AI products on text, code, voice, image and video models, and enterprises needing SSO, SOC 2, HIPAA eligibility, data residency and zero data retention.
- Channels
- API, Web (grok.com), iOS app, Android app, Grok on X, Grok Bot, Grok Build CLI, Cloud marketplaces
- Main product
- Grok API (grok-4.7 and the Grok Imagine and Grok Voice model families)
- Also includes
- Access to all Grok models, Free Playground on console.x.ai, Live web and X search, Files and collections, Imagine API for image and video, Voice API (speech-to-speech, text-to-speech, speech-to-text)
- Connects to
- Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, Oracle OCI Generative AI, Google Vertex Model Garden, Amazon Bedrock, GitHub Copilot, Databricks, Splunk, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, SentinelOne, Datadog
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Not stated
- Public API access
Set your base URL to `https://api.x.ai/v1` and call grok-4.7.
- Long context window
Context window 500k
- Fine-tuning supportNot stated
- Tool and function callingNot stated
- Image and audio input
Text, Image, Audio → Video
- SOC 2 compliance
Audited controls for security, availability, and confidentiality.
- Zero data retention option
Team admins can enable ZDR in the Console so API prompts and outputs are not persisted.
- VPC or on-prem deploymentNot stated
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Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | available | "A BAA is available for healthcare applications that handle protected health information."pricing |
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type II | "SOC 2 Type II"pricing |
| GDPR | Not stated | |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | SAML SSO on enterprise API | "SAML SSO, role-based access, and audit logging for your team."pricing |
| Trust center | Not stated |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| grok-4.7 API (text input)/ 1M input tokens | $2per minute | – | – | – | "grok-4.7, the latest flagship, costs $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output" |
| grok-4.7 API (output)/ 1M output tokens | $6per minute | – | – | – | "grok-4.7, the latest flagship, costs $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output" |
| Voice API Speech to Speech/ min | $0.08per minute | – | – | – | "Speech to Speech$0.08 / min" |
| Voice API Text to Speech/ 1M characters | $15per minute | – | – | – | "Text to Speech$15.00 / 1M characters" |
| Voice API Speech to Text (REST)/ hr | $0.10per minute | – | – | – | "Speech to Text$0.10 / hr (REST), $0.20 / hr (Streaming)" |
| Voice API Speech to Text (Streaming)/ hr | $0.20per minute | – | – | – | "Speech to Text$0.10 / hr (REST), $0.20 / hr (Streaming)" |
| grok-imagine-image-2.0/ img | $0.04per minute | – | – | – | "1K / 2K : from $0.04 / img" |
| grok-imagine-video-1.5/ sec | $0.08per minute | – | – | – | "480p / 720p / 1080p : from $0.08 / sec" |
| grok-imagine-video-1.5-lite/ sec | $0.02per minute | – | – | – | "480p / 720p / 1080p : from $0.02 / sec" |
| Enterprise API | Quote | – | – | – | "Custom rate limits and hands-on support for your team." |
Free plan: Free Console account with a Playground to test Grok models; API usage itself is billed per token
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Not stated
- Contract
- Not stated
- Refunds
- Paid subscription payments are non-refundable except where required by law "You can cancel your paid subscription at any time; however, payments already made are non-refundable, except where required by law."
- Auto renew
- Paid subscriptions auto-charge on each renewal until cancelled "For paid subscriptions, we will automatically charge your payment method on each periodic renewal until you cancel."
- Price change notice
- Reasonable notice; new price applies at next renewal "if prices increase, we will provide you with reasonable notice, and the new price will apply at your next renewal, allowing you to cancel your subscription if you disagree with the"
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- SpaceX Super Intelligence LLC
- Address
- 800 W Cesar Chavez St., Austin, TX 78701, USA
- Online since
- Dec 16, 2017 Domain registration date
- Ships updates
- 38 in the last 12 months Last on Oct 27, 2026, from their changelog
- Customers
- "300M+ queries processed daily" their claim
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Questions
Is xAI Grok free?
Yes. Free Console account with a Playground to test Grok models; API usage itself is billed per token
Is xAI Grok HIPAA compliant?
xAI Grok says a HIPAA BAA is available.