Is Grok Down?

Quickest ways to check the current status of grok.x.ai plus recent known issues and working alternatives if it's out.

Last editorial review: 2026-06-09

How to check right now

Step 1 -- Load the site
Open grok.x.ai→

The simplest check. If it loads and you can log in, the tool is up for you.

Step 2 -- Crowdsourced reports
DownDetector: Grok→

User-reported outages aggregated across regions. Good signal for partial or regional outages.

Step 3 -- Live social
Search X for “Grokdown” →

Live tweets from other users. Fastest signal for a fresh outage -- often beats status pages by 10-20 minutes.

Step 4 -- Official status page
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Known issues we've tracked

JUNE CLUSTER (2026-06, all vendor-primary on x.ai/news): **Grok Imagine 1.5 Preview** (6/3) -- image-to-video generation up to 720p, available as an API preview. **Composer 2.5** (6/1) -- xAI's 'fast, SOTA model for long-running tasks,' now selectable in the Grok Build /models menu for SuperGrok and X Premium+ subscribers (NOT related to Cursor's Composer line despite the name). **Grok Build 0.1 on the API** (5/29) -- the coding-agent model behind Grok Build became directly callable via the xAI API: 256K context, always-on reasoning, text + image input. Grok Build itself ('Introducing Grok Build,' 5/25) is in early beta for ALL SuperGrok and X Premium+ subscribers -- broader than the original Heavy-tier-only gate. Also: Grok voice now powers Vapi (6/3) and Gopuff's 'Go' shopping agent (6/9). NOTE: 'Grok 5' / 'V9-Medium mid-June' claims remain aggregator-only with zero vendor signal -- not real until x.ai posts it
2026-06-03•xAI news (x.ai/news/grok-imagine-1-5, x.ai/news/composer-2-5, x.ai/news/grok-build-0-1, x.ai/news/grok-build-cli), x.ai/build/changelog
PRODUCT (2026-05-18): xAI shipped **Grok Skills** -- a persistent-memory Skills layer on Grok 4.3. Skills are user-defined named capabilities Grok carries across sessions on web / iOS / Android (recipe collection, code-review checklist, study-habits coach, etc.). Each Skill is a stored prompt + behavioral pattern Grok consults when invoked by name. Per-user storage; not shared across accounts. Differentiates Grok from ChatGPT Memory (passive recall) toward configurable named tools. Pairs with the 5/14 Grok Build CLI ship -- Skills are the consumer-facing persistent-state layer, Build CLI is the developer-facing one. Material in the 'agent goes where you go' competitive narrative alongside Codex on mobile (5/14) + Cursor Jira integration (5/19) + Devin Windows VMs (5/21).
2026-05-18•xAI news (x.ai/news), xAI release notes (docs.x.ai/developers/release-notes)
MODEL LINEUP CONSOLIDATION (2026-05-15, went live 12:00 PT): xAI auto-redirected **8 deprecated model slugs** to grok-4.3 (or grok-imagine-image-quality for the image model). Affected slugs: grok-4-1-fast-reasoning, grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning, grok-4-fast-reasoning, grok-4-fast-non-reasoning, grok-4-0709, grok-code-fast-1, grok-3, grok-imagine-image-pro. All requests now silently bill at grok-4.3 rates ($1.25 input / $2.50 output per 1M tokens). Anyone with these slugs pinned in production or referenced inside a Copilot/Cursor/Codex multi-model selector now pays the new rate without any code change. Migration path: explicitly switch to grok-4.3 in your model selector and audit token-spend after 5/15 since the new rate may differ from what each deprecated slug was previously billed at. The grok-code-fast-1 slug retirement is the same event that took the model off GitHub Copilot's Chat/inline/agent surfaces on 5/15
2026-05-15•xAI docs (docs.x.ai/developers/migration/may-15-retirement)
PRODUCT (2026-05-14): xAI launched **Grok Build CLI** in early beta -- an agentic terminal-native CLI for coding, app development, and workflow automation. Spawns up to **8 concurrent agents** in parallel. Powered by Grok 4.3 beta with a 16-agent Heavy architecture and **2M token context window**. Vendor-primary launch posts at x.ai/news/grok-build-cli and x.ai/cli, plus Musk's public invitation to wider beta testers on X. **Access gate**: launched first to SuperGrok Heavy tier ($299/mo, intro offer $99/mo for 6 months) -- not yet available to standard Premium / SuperGrok subscribers. Positions Grok as a direct competitor to Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Cursor CLI for terminal-first agentic coding workflows. The 8-agent parallelism + 2M context is the differentiating feature -- single longest context window of any production coding CLI as of today
2026-05-14•xAI news (x.ai/news/grok-build-cli), xAI product page (x.ai/cli), Musk on X
xAI joined SpaceX on 2026-02-02 -- SpaceX acquired xAI. Procurement, billing, and compliance workflows now route through SpaceX's vendor pipeline. For regulated industries (healthcare, finance, US government) this may require re-qualifying xAI as a vendor even if Grok itself was previously approved
2026-02•xAI announcement (x.ai/news/xai-joins-spacex), SpaceX updates
Grok Speech (STT + TTS) APIs launched 2026-04-17 as separate products from the chatbot -- see /tools/grok-voice on this site. Built on the same stack Grok Voice uses. Not included in Premium/SuperGrok consumer tiers; billed separately at $0.10/hr STT batch and $4.20/1M char TTS
2026-04•xAI Grok STT/TTS announcement

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

What to use if Grok is down

Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.

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Muse Spark (Meta)

8.8

Meta's first model from its Superintelligence Lab -- natively multimodal with Contemplating mode for multi-agent reasoning

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Claude (Anthropic)

8.5

Anthropic's flagship LLM family -- Claude Fable 5 (launched June 9, 2026) is the first publicly available Mythos-class model: $10/$50 per 1M, included on Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise through June 22, hard safety fallback to Opus 4.8 on cyber/bio/chem requests (<5% of sessions). Opus 4.8 (May 28) remains the $5/$25 workhorse with 1M-token context, effort control, and cheap fast mode

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Gemini (Google)

8.3

Google's LLM with deep Google Workspace integration, 2M token context window, and native code execution -- Gemini 3.5 Flash GA 2026-05-19 (I/O 2026), Gemini 3.5 Pro rolling out June 2026, Gemini Spark agent + Managed Agents public preview in the Gemini API

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MiMo (Xiaomi)

8.3

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5 family launched 2026-04-22 -- Pro (1T total / 42B active MoE, 1M context, native vision+audio reasoning), Multimodal base, TTS (3 sub-models: base, VoiceDesign, VoiceClone), and ASR (open-source, English + Chinese + major dialects). Full voice pipeline for the agent era. Extra-charge 1M-context tier removed at launch

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Hunyuan 3 (Tencent Hy3)

8.1

Tencent's Hy3 Preview launched 2026-04-23 -- 295B total / 21B active MoE, 256K context, open-sourced on HuggingFace under tencent/Hy3-preview. Cheapest frontier-class API at ~1.2 RMB per million input tokens. Integrated into Yuanbao, WeChat, QQ

About Grok

Tier B (7.5/10). xAI's irreverent chatbot with a direct line to X/Twitter -- real-time data meets unfiltered personality. Grok 4.3 production launched 2026-05-02 with Custom Voices cloning + Imagine Agent Mode + ~40% API price cut to $1.25/$2.50 per 1M tokens

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