Is Grok Down?
Check live xAI Grok status — Grok API, grok.com chat, and X (Twitter) integration. See recent incidents and set up free email alerts.
xAI Grok — live status
Updated every 5 minutes. Click the badge or visit prismix.dev/service/xai for the full incident history.
Quick check: is Grok down right now?
The fastest ways to check xAI Grok availability:
- Prismix: prismix.dev/service/xai — live status + 30-day uptime + incidents.
- xAI status page:
status.x.ai— official xAI status page. - API call:
curl https://prismix.dev/api/v1/statuses | jq '.services[] | select(.id=="xai")'
Step 1 — Set up free email alerts for xAI
Get emailed the moment xAI Grok status changes. 2-minute setup, free, no credit card:
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Sign in
Go to prismix.dev/sign-in — enter your email and a 6-digit OTP code, or sign in with GitHub.
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Star xAI
On prismix.dev/status or prismix.dev/service/xai, click the ☆ star icon.
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You'll get an email within minutes of any status change — degraded, outage, or recovery.
Step 2 — Monitor xAI API programmatically
curl
{`curl https://prismix.dev/api/v1/statuses | jq '.services[] | select(.id=="xai")'`} JavaScript / Node.js
{`const resp = await fetch("https://prismix.dev/api/v1/statuses");
const { services } = await resp.json();
const xai = services.find(s => s.id === "xai");
if (xai?.indicator !== "none") {
console.warn(\`⚠️ xAI is \${xai.indicator}: \${xai.description}\`);
process.exit(1); // fail CI if Grok API is down
}`} Common causes of "Grok not working"
If Prismix shows xAI as "Operational" but your requests are failing:
- Wrong API base URL — xAI uses
https://api.x.ai/v1(not api.xai.com). The path follows the OpenAI-compatible pattern so you can swap the base URL in existing OpenAI SDK code. - Model name mismatch — Valid models are
grok-3,grok-3-mini,grok-2-vision-1212. Stale model IDs return 404. - API key issues (401) — Keys are generated at console.x.ai. The key prefix starts with
xai-. Passing an OpenAI key here will 401 immediately. - Rate limits (429) — xAI applies per-minute and per-day rate limits depending on your tier. Check your usage at console.x.ai/usage.
- X (Twitter) Grok vs API Grok — The in-app Grok on X (Twitter) and grok.com is a separate surface from the API. X.com Grok outages don't necessarily affect the API, and vice versa.
- Context length exceeded — grok-3 supports 131,072 context tokens. Exceeding it returns a 400 error, not a graceful truncation.
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