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Cloud Changelog
xAI API changelog
58 announcements since January 2026 · 12 GA · 2 previews · 1 price change · 3 deprecations
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October 20264
Deprecated; upgrade to grok-voice-3.0 or grok-voice-latest at the same priceDeprecation
Adds Speech to Speech at the same price; grok-voice-latest alias now points to itGA
Reaches end of life on October 2, 2026; requests route to grok-voice-transcribe-2.0 at same priceDeprecation
Guidelines array on text API requests sets handling of nsfw, violence and profanity content
September 20264
New speech-to-text model grok-voice-transcribe-2.0 is the default, 1.0 still selectableGA
Request field attributes policy violations to individual end users rather than the API key
Retired November 2, 2026; requests served by grok-imagine-image-2.0 at low quality, at a lower priceDeprecation
Frontier model with 500k context, priced $2 input and $6 output per 1M tokens below 200kGA
August 20263
July 20265
June 20262
May 20267
Coding model trained for agentic coding workflows, in early accessPreview
Runs Responses API over one long-lived WebSocket for lower latency on tool-heavy agentsGA
Clone a voice from a short audio clip for Text-to-Speech and Speech to Speech APIs
Interactive TUI, headless script use, and Agent Client Protocol support for building appsPreview
Grok can search for images via enable_image_search; responses can embed returned images as Markdown
Shrinks long conversations into shorter context for reuse in follow-up requestsGA