Elon Musk's xAI officially launched the Grok3 large model, and ordinary users need to subscribe to X Premium + to use this model. However, it seems that there is a first recharge activity for developers; by binding a billing address and bank card and recharging 5 dollars, they can receive a free usage quota of 150 dollars every month in the future. (But there is actually a cost; the data that needs to be interacted with xAI will be shared, in short, the usage data will be shared with xAI, essentially trading privacy for free credits. So if you are very concerned about privacy, it's best to stop here. Of course, you can also use this account as a backup to handle data without privacy.)
Without further ado, below Zifan will simply share the specific steps and tutorial for using WildCard to bind and recharge xAI to obtain the 150 dollars free quota. Interested friends can follow the steps to operate.
1. Prepare WildCard
First, I think using WildCard (formerly WildCard) for recharging is the safest and most convenient way, and it also avoids the security risks of binding domestic credit cards. I believe everyone understands this. WildCard official website: https://zhangzifan.com/go/wildcard
2. Register an account
First, go to the xAI official website https://x.ai to create an account. You can choose to log in with Twitter/X, but after logging in, you also need to bind an email. The email needs to be a well-known one; most personal domain emails won't work, as our domain email from LeiXue Network didn't work either.
3. Fill in the billing address
After completing the xAI account registration, go to the developer platform (console.x.ai), and through “billing/payment”, first fill in the “Payment settings”, which is the billing address. You just need to copy and fill in the billing address provided by WildCard accordingly.
It is important to remind you not to fill in a European address when entering the billing entity; otherwise, you won't receive the bonus credits.
Unsupported countries and regions: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, United Kingdom
4. Add payment method
Next, continue on the current page “billing/payment” and fill in the payment method by clicking “Add method”. Choose bank card and copy the card information provided by WildCard accordingly to save it.
5. Recharge 5 dollars
Go to Billing - Credits - Prepaid credits, find the Purchase credits button to recharge, and recharge 5 dollars. The amount will be automatically deducted from the bound WildCard or bank card, and it will be credited in less than a minute.
6. Claim 150 dollars free quota
Just successfully recharging does not grant the free quota; you also need to go to the “Credits” page, click the “Share data” button to join data sharing, and confirm to complete the claim of the 150 dollars monthly free usage quota.
Alright, the tutorial for obtaining 150 dollars free API quota from xAI ends here. Only teams that spend at least 5 dollars are eligible to participate in this program. Additionally, only team administrators can enable data sharing. It is also important to note that once the team chooses to join data sharing, they will not be able to opt out.