Elon Musk's xAI has 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-time recharge activity for developers; by binding a billing address and bank card and recharging $5, they can receive a free usage credit of $150 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 free credit. Interested friends can follow the steps to proceed.
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, which I believe everyone understands. 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 still need to bind an email. The email needs to be from a well-known provider; most personal domain emails won't work, as our domain email from LeiXueNet didn't work either.
3. Fill in 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 note that when filling in the billing entity, do not enter an address from Europe; otherwise, you will not 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”, selecting bank card, and copying the card information provided by WildCard accordingly to save it.
5. Recharge $5
Go to Billing - Credits - Prepaid credits, find the Purchase credits button to recharge, and just recharge $5. 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 Free Credit
Just successfully recharging does not grant free credits; you also need to go to the “Credits” page, click the “Share data” button to join data sharing, and confirm to complete the claim for the $150 monthly free usage credit.
Alright, the tutorial for obtaining $150 free API credits from xAI ends here. Only teams that spend at least $5 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.