THE TICKER · XAI · CHECKED DAILY · LAST CHANGE 2026-11-05
GROK API PRICING
Full marks for publishing its prices, and the dearest cached read on the board.
xAI is the odd case on this board. It scored 25 out of 25 on our Cost Transparency Index in September 2026 and only reached the price board in November, when rewriting our Cursor teardown showed Grok 4.7 sitting inside Cursor's plans. At $2.00 in / $6.00 out its output multiple is 3x, below the 5x Claude bills on every model. The line to watch is the cached read: $0.50, a quarter of input, the highest share on this board. Grok 4.5 sells at the same list price and reads cache at $0.30, so moving up to 4.7 raises only the line a list-price comparison skips. Past 200K prompt tokens xAI says every token in the request bills at the higher rate, $4.00 / $12.00, and the cached read doubles with it. We carry Grok 4.7 only for now. xAI's table also lists Grok 4.3 at $1.25 / $2.50 and Grok Build 0.1 at $1.00 / $2.00, so this page is not the whole lineup.
THE GROK LINEUP
USD PER MILLION TOKENS · 2026-11-10| Model | Input / MTok | Output / MTok | Multiple | Cached read | Cache write |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grok 4.7 Cached reads cost $0.50/MTok, a quarter of input. Past 200K prompt tokens xAI bills every token in the request at the higher rate: $4/$12, cached $1. Also one of the models inside Cursor's plans. | $2.00 | $6.00 | 3.0x | $0.500 | — |
Source: docs.x.ai/developers/pricing · last confirmed against the daily source on 2026-11-10 · effective public price, promos included.
ONE JOB ACROSS THE XAI LINEUP
Estimates, not invoices.
XAI CHANGELOG
Grok 4.7 joins the board at $2.00 in / $6.00 out per MTok. Cached reads are $0.50, a quarter of input, the highest share we track. Past 200K prompt tokens the whole request bills at double.