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---
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title: "xAI"
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description: "xAI API conversion guide - OpenAI-compatible format, Grok models, vision support, reasoning, and parameter handling"
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icon: "x"
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---
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## Overview
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xAI is an **OpenAI-compatible provider** powering the Grok family of models. Bifrost delegates to the OpenAI implementation with standard parameter filtering. Key features:
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- **Full OpenAI compatibility** - Chat, text completion, and responses
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- **Vision support** - Image URLs and base64 encoding for multimodal models
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- **Streaming support** - Server-Sent Events with delta-based updates
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- **Reasoning support** - Extended thinking for Grok reasoning models
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- **Tool calling** - Complete function definition and execution
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- **Parameter filtering** - Removes unsupported OpenAI-specific fields
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### Supported Operations
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| Operation | Non-Streaming | Streaming | Endpoint |
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|-----------|---------------|-----------|----------|
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| Chat Completions | ✅ | ✅ | `/v1/chat/completions` |
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| Responses API | ✅ | ✅ | `/v1/responses` |
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| Text Completions | ✅ | ✅ | `/v1/completions` |
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| Image Generation | ✅ | - | `/v1/images/generations` |
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| List Models | ✅ | - | `/v1/models` |
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| Embeddings | ❌ | ❌ | - |
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| Speech (TTS) | ❌ | ❌ | - |
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| Transcriptions (STT) | ❌ | ❌ | - |
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| Files | ❌ | ❌ | - |
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| Batch | ❌ | ❌ | - |
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<Note>
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**Unsupported Operations** (❌): Embeddings, Speech, Transcriptions, Files, and Batch are not supported by the upstream xAI API. These return `UnsupportedOperationError`.
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</Note>
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---
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# 1. Chat Completions
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## Request Parameters
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xAI supports all standard OpenAI chat completion parameters. For full parameter reference and behavior, see [OpenAI Chat Completions](/providers/supported-providers/openai#1-chat-completions).
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### Filtered Parameters
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Removed for xAI compatibility:
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- `prompt_cache_key` - Not supported
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- `verbosity` - Anthropic-specific
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- `store` - Not supported
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- `service_tier` - Not supported
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### Reasoning Support
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xAI's `grok-3-mini` model supports extended reasoning via the standard `reasoning_effort` field:
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```json
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{
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"model": "xai/grok-3-mini",
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"messages": [...],
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"reasoning_effort": "high"
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}
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```
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<Warning>
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**Model-Specific Feature**: The `reasoning_effort` parameter is only supported by `grok-3-mini`. Other Grok-3 and Grok-4 models will return an error if this parameter is specified.
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</Warning>
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Bifrost converts from the internal `Reasoning` structure to xAI's `reasoning_effort` string format.
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### Vision Support
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xAI vision models support both image URLs and base64-encoded images:
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```json
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{
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"model": "xai/grok-2-vision-1212",
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"messages": [{
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"role": "user",
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"content": [
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{"type": "text", "text": "What is in this image?"},
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{"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "https://..."}}
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]
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}]
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}
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```
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**Supported Image Formats:**
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- ✅ Image URLs
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- ✅ Base64-encoded images
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- ✅ Multiple images per message
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xAI supports all standard OpenAI message types, tools, responses, and streaming formats. For details on message handling, tool conversion, responses, and streaming, refer to [OpenAI Chat Completions](/providers/supported-providers/openai#1-chat-completions).
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---
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# 2. Responses API
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xAI's Responses API is forwarded directly to `/v1/responses`:
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```
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ResponsesRequest → /v1/responses → ResponsesResponse
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```
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Same parameter support and message handling as Chat Completions. Full streaming support available.
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---
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# 3. Text Completions
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xAI supports legacy text completion format:
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| Parameter | Mapping |
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|-----------|---------|
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| `prompt` | Direct pass-through |
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| `max_tokens` | max_tokens |
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| `temperature`, `top_p` | Direct pass-through |
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| `stop` | Stop sequences |
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| `frequency_penalty`, `presence_penalty` | Penalty parameters |
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Streaming support available via `stream: true`.
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# 4. Image Generation
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xAI's image generation uses the OpenAI-compatible format.
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**Request Conversion**
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xAI uses the same conversion as OpenAI (see [OpenAI Image Generation](/providers/supported-providers/openai#7-image-generation)):
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- **Model & Prompt**: `bifrostReq.Model` → `req.Model`, `bifrostReq.Prompt` → `req.Prompt`
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- **Parameters**: All fields from `bifrostReq` (`ImageGenerationParameters`) are embedded directly into the request struct via struct embedding
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- **Endpoint**: `/v1/images/generations`
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<Note>
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**Note** : `quality`, `size` and `style` parameters are not supported by xAI's API at the moment.
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</Note>
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**Response Conversion**
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Responses are unmarshaled directly into `BifrostImageGenerationResponse`.
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**Streaming**: Image generation streaming is not supported by xAI.
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---
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# 5. List Models
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Lists available xAI models with their capabilities and context lengths.
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## Unsupported Features
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| Feature | Reason |
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|---------|--------|
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| Embedding | Not offered by xAI API |
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| Speech/TTS | Not offered by xAI API |
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| Transcription/STT | Not offered by xAI API |
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| Batch Operations | Not offered by xAI API |
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| File Management | Not offered by xAI API |
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