What xAI changed
thecontinuitylayer.com/changes/xai4 changes to xAI's AI products caught so far: prices, limits, models and data policies, each dated with the published source that confirms it. Latest 3 November 2026.
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- MinorFound by users
The Grok product page no longer mentions memory across chats; it lists reasoning, coding, image generation and document analysis. xAI's consumer FAQ, the Grok help FAQ and the user guide do not mention memory either, so the Scorecard's docs grade for Grok on remembering across a new chat moved from yes to no.
Found on the Scorecard re-check. xAI's Grok page, read 3 November 2026; on 22 October 2026 it listed memory across chats. xAI has not announced a change. Checked on 3 November 2026.
- MinorAnnounced
xAI retired the grok-imagine-image-quality API model on 2 November 2026, after a 60-day notice that began on 2 September. Requests to it, and to grok-imagine-image-pro (redirected to it in May), are now served by grok-imagine-image-2.0 at the low quality setting, which costs $0.01 per image less at every resolution: $0.04 per 1K image and $0.06 per 2K image, plus $0.01 per input image on edits. The old names keep resolving, so no code change is needed; grok-imagine-image (1.0) is not affected.
Confirmed by provider. xAI's migration guide for the retirement and its API release notes entry for 2 November 2026, read 4 November 2026. Checked on 4 November 2026.
- MajorFound by users
Weekly usage limits on Grok Bot on X were cut. Over the weekend of 31 October and 1 November 2026 users reported allowances showing as fully used without overnight use, some going from 50% to 100%, and on 1 November Elon Musk replied that it was not a glitch: "The cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue." No new limit figures or affected plans have been published.
Confirmed by the owner. Elon Musk's reply on X of 1 November 2026, quoted in TechCrunch's report of 2 November 2026; the X post could not be opened from here. Checked on 4 November 2026.
- NotableAnnounced
xAI retired eight API models at noon Pacific: 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 and grok-imagine-image-pro. Requests to the old names were redirected to grok-4.3 (or grok-build-0.1 and grok-imagine-image-quality) and billed at grok-4.3 prices of $1.25 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, which xAI warned could raise costs for anyone who did not switch explicitly.
Confirmed by provider. xAI's "May 15 retirement" migration guide on docs.x.ai.
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