xAI alternatives

LLM APIs · 9 alternatives · xAI iScore 44 (#10/10)

Every LLM APIs provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers xAI's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from xAI's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.

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Google Gemini APIFree tier: Yes vs No61#1/10
BasetenEntry paid plan: $0 per month on the Basic plan — pay as you go, with dedicated deployments, model APIs an…59#2/10
Novita AIEntry paid plan: No plan fee — credit is prepaid, and a manual top-up must be greater than $10.57#3/10
DeepInfraEntry paid plan: No minimum spend and no seat fees - billing is pay-per-token usage only, with no charge f…57#4/10
OpenAIPricing model: Per million tokens, with a second rate above the short-context threshold — long-context i…56#5/10
Together AIEntry paid plan: No plan fee, but the platform is fully prepaid: access requires a minimum $5 credit purch…56#6/10
Fireworks AIPricing model: Three products on one bill. Serverless inference is per token, per model. Fine-tuning is…51#7/10
DeepSeekEntry paid plan: No entry plan — DeepSeek publishes one unified pricing standard for the API and states th…48#8/10
AnthropicPricing model: Per million tokens, priced separately for input and output and per model, with multiplier…45#9/10

Where xAI stands against these 9

xAI's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.

Free tier: No. 2 of the 7 alternatives that document it have one: Google Gemini API, Novita AI.
Regions: Two API endpoints: the global api.x.ai, which may route requests between regions and guarantees no processing…Joint 2nd highest of the 4 that document it. Highest: OpenAI — Ten data-residency regions: US, Europe (EEA + Switzerland), Australia, Canada, Japan, India, Singapore, South…
Input price, top model: $2.00 per million input tokens for grok-4.7 below 200k prompt tokens; $4.00 once a prompt reaches 200k…Joint 4th cheapest of the 9 that document it. Cheapest: Google Gemini API — $0.75 per million input tokens for Gemini 3.8 Flash through 31 December 2026, then $1.50.
Output price, top model: $6.00 per million output tokens for grok-4.7 below 200k prompt tokens; $12.00 at long contextJoint 4th cheapest of the 9 that document it. Cheapest: DeepInfra — $2.60 per million output tokens for DeepSeek-V4-Pro.
Input price, cheapest model: $1.25 per million input tokens for grok-4.3 below 200k prompt tokens (output $2.50), the cheapest generally…9th cheapest of the 9 that document it. Cheapest: DeepInfra — $0.06 per million input tokens for DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, with cached input at $0.015 and output at $0.18.
Context window: 500,000 tokens on grok-4.7; 1M on grok-4.3 and the grok-4.20 models, 256k on grok-build-0.110th highest of the 10 that document it. Highest: OpenAI — 1,050,000 tokens on gpt-6-astra.

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