xAI provides the Grok series of AI models through its API, offering text generation and multimodal capabilities.
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Compare xAI alternatives against 6 nearby API providers using 77 LMSpeed signals across shared model coverage, pricing, benchmark speed, uptime, and free-model availability.
| Provider | Why compare | Models | Free | Avg price | Speed | 30d uptime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| xAI xai xAI provides the Grok series of AI models through its API, offering text generation and multimodal capabilities. | Current provider baseline | 3 | 0 | N/A | 122 tok/s | 0.6% |
| 共绩算力（算了么 API） api-suanli-cn Gongji Compute (共绩算力) provides pay-as-you-go, standard API access to mainstream LLMs and elastic GPU computing for AI applications. |
| 6 | 5 | N/A | 36 tok/s | 79.7% |
mistral-ai-api Mistral AI API provides access to frontier AI models including Mistral Large, Medium, Small, and Codestral for chat, code, and embeddings. |
| 4 | 0 | N/A | 132 tok/s | 99.7% |
glm-bigmodel-relay A third-party API relay providing access to GLM/ChatGLM models through OpenAI-compatible endpoints. |
| 113 | 0 | $0.704/M | 52 tok/s | 99.6% |
dashscope Alibaba Cloud DashScope provides AI model APIs including Qwen LLMs, vision, audio, and embedding models. |
| 56 | 0 | N/A | 73 tok/s | 90.6% |
volcengine-ark Volcengine Ark is ByteDance's enterprise AI platform, offering Doubao series models and third-party LLMs via OpenAI-compatible API. |
| 32 | 0 | N/A | 40 tok/s | 99.6% |
baidu-qianfan Baidu Qianfan is Baidu Intelligent Clouds enterprise AI platform, providing access to ERNIE series models and other LLM capabilities through developer APIs. |
| 26 | 0 | N/A | 81 tok/s | 72.1% |
