In August, Elon Musk’s xAI promised to make Grok, the company’s flagship generative AI model powering a number of features on X, available via an API. Now, that API has arrived — albeit a bit barren at the moment.
The xAI only has one model available, “grok-beta,” priced at $5 per million input tokens (~750,000 words) or $15 per million output tokens. (Tokens are subdivided bits of raw data (like the syllables “fan,” “tas,” and “tic” in the word “fantastic”) It’s unclear which Grok model this might be; Grok-2 is the latest available on X.