How do I know if Grok is having an outage?

Prismix monitors Grok every 5 minutes. Visit prismix.dev/service/xai-grok to see real-time status, recent incidents, and uptime trends. You can also call the public API: https://prismix.dev/api/v1/statuses and check the xai-grok entry.

Can I get notified when Grok goes down?

Yes. Sign in at prismix.dev (free, email OTP or GitHub), star Grok, and you will receive an email alert within minutes of any status change. No credit card required.

What should I do if Grok is not working?

First confirm it is a platform-wide issue by checking prismix.dev/service/xai-grok. If it shows an active outage, the provider is aware and working on a fix. If Prismix shows Operational but you still have issues, the problem may be account-specific, regional, or a local network issue.

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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.

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Updated every 5 minutes. Click the badge or visit prismix.dev/service/xai for the full incident history.

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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:

1

Sign in

Go to prismix.dev/sign-in — enter your email and a 6-digit OTP code, or sign in with GitHub.
2

Star xAI

On prismix.dev/status or prismix.dev/service/xai, click the ☆ star icon.
3

Alerts are live

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.