Our take
xAI is a US-based proprietary model provider with a strong verified compliance posture and a focused catalogue of Grok variants. It offers SOC 2 attestation, zero data retention, and a commitment not to train on prompts.
Use this for compliance-sensitive workloads that need SOC 2 and zero data retention. Pick it when throughput matters most: one Grok variant delivers the highest measured throughput in our sample. Skip it if you need a confirmed EU-region endpoint, if you rely on published benchmark scores for model selection, or if you want a broad choice of third-party models.
- Strongest compliance posture in sample: SOC 2, no prompt training, and zero-retention option — all three verified rather than claimed.
- Highest measured throughput: 323.5 tps for Grok 4 20 Multi-Agent.
- All 19 offers priced at or below the mid-range ceiling for proprietary models; entry tier is well under half that ceiling.
- EU-region endpoint is unverified in our data.
- Sparse and inconsistent throughput data: only 7 of 12 sample offers measured, with gaps even for the same model at different price tiers.
- No benchmark scores disclosed and a narrow proprietary catalogue of only Grok variants.
Point your tools here
We have not recorded what a router needs for xAI yet — no base URL and no docs link on file. That is our gap, not a sign xAI has no API; its own documentation is the place to look until we close it.
Privacy & data handling
These answers cover requests sent to xAI through OpenRouter, as OpenRouter records them, last read 58 min ago. For xAI's own API we hold no answer: check its terms. SOC 2 and the data processing agreement below are hand-checked, not part of that sync.
We have not dated this attestation or linked the report yet.
Prompt retention: 30 days.