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: 2026-05-14

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
Find Grok's status page →

Most vendors publish a status page at status.[domain] or on Statuspage.io. Google-search to find the current URL.

Known issues we've tracked

PRODUCT (2026-05-14, TODAY): 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
Real-time X data can surface misinformation from viral posts without adequate fact-checking
2026-02•Reddit r/artificial
Free tier rate limits are aggressive -- many users report hitting caps within a few queries
2026-03•X/Twitter user reports
Grok 4.20's 4-agent system (Grok, Harper, Benjamin, Lucas) can take 30+ seconds for complex queries as agents debate internally. Grok 4.20 Beta 2 (landed ~2026-04-07) improved instruction-following, reduced hallucinations, better LaTeX and image search -- partially addresses the slowness and reliability complaints from early 4.20 feedback
2026-04•Reddit r/grok, IBTimes

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 -- Opus 4.7 (launched April 16, 2026) with 1M-token context, high-res vision, new xhigh reasoning level, and the most natural conversational style. Note: 2026-04-04 policy excluded third-party agent harnesses (OpenClaw etc.) from Pro/Max flat-rate, and 2026-04-16 Enterprise pricing dropped bundled tokens

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Gemini (Google)

8.3

Google's LLM with deep Google Workspace integration, 2M token context window, and native code execution

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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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