Detected on 2026-08-18 by diffing xAI's live pricing page against the previous day's snapshot. No press release, no announcement - just the page itself.
Type of change: pricing structure changed
A published rate: $0.05 -> $0.04 (-20%)
What changed
Now on the page
Usage-based pricing from $2/M tokensfrom $0.04 / imgfrom $0.05 / imgfrom $0.05 / secfrom $0.08 / secper million input tokens andper million output tokens.
Gone from the page
$0.05 / img$0.05 / sec$0.07 / img$0.07 / secAll prices are per million tokens or as stated.
Context from the dataset
- xAI has been tracked daily since 2026-08-15
- This is the first change recorded for xAI
-
2 companies in
llm-apihave changed pricing in the last 30 days - Currently tracking 132 AI/SaaS pricing pages daily
Alternatives in the same category
Lowest published plan price from the tracked dataset, cheapest first.
| Tool | Lowest plan | Line on their pricing page |
|---|---|---|
| Cohere | $5 | $5.00 |
| Google AI | $5 | $5.00 |
| Mistral AI | $5.99 | Verified students can get Mistral Pro for $5.99 / month (normally $14. |
| Firecrawl | $16 | $16 |
| Perplexity | $17 | $17 |
Lowest plan = the smallest recurring plan figure currently on each pricing page; metered rates, add-ons and enterprise contract figures are excluded. Plans differ in what they include - check the linked page before switching.
Method
Every pricing page in the tracked set is fetched once a day. Only price-bearing lines are extracted, normalized and hashed, so layout changes and A/B copy tests do not register as pricing changes. When the hash moves, the diff above is what moved.
Source: https://x.ai/api
Disclosure: some links in this post may be affiliate links. Pricing data is collected automatically and is not influenced by any partnership.
