xAI woos developers with $25/month worth of API credits, support for OpenAI, Anthropic SDKs

We’ve known it for some time, but now it’s certain: the generative AI race is as much a contest for developers as it is for end-users.

Case-in-point: today, Elon Musk’s xAI, the spinoff startup of the social network X that uses its data to train new large language models (LLMs) such as the Grok family, today announced its application programming interface (API) is now open to the public and with it comes $25 free per month in API credits through the end of the year.

Given it’s already November, that’s just 2 months worth of free credits, or $50 total.

Musk previously announced the xAI API was open in beta three weeks ago to the date, but apparently uptake was not enough for his liking, hence the added incentive of free dev credits.

Is $25 per month with 2 months remaining really that much of ...