xAI (Grok)

What Plutus imports

• Daily spend by model and request type (Grok chat, image, and tool usage)

Connecting

Method: Management API Key

xAI has two separate API keys: an inference key your application uses against api.x.ai, and a Management API key that can read billing but can’t spend credit. You need the second one.

1. In the xAI Console, open Users and confirm your account has the “Management Keys” read permission. An admin has to grant this if you don’t already have it.
2. Go to Settings → Management Keys, create a new key, and copy it. It’s only shown once.
3. On the same Settings page, copy your Team ID.
4. In Plutus, paste the Management API key and Team ID into the connection form and save.

Plutus posts to xAI’s Management API historical-usage endpoint once a day and records daily spend per model. xAI bills per team, so pick the Team ID for whichever team’s spend you want tracked — Plutus stores one xAI connection per account, so if you run multiple teams, only one can be connected at a time.

Notes

xAI meters, bills and invoices per team, and its billing endpoint is team-scoped, so this connection tracks exactly one team. Its Management API publishes no “list my teams” endpoint to enumerate the rest from, and Plutus stores one connection per cost source per account — so multi-team xAI orgs currently get the spend of the single team configured here, not the whole org.