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title: "xAI API API changes, deprecations and deadlines | Harbyn"
description: "xAI API: 1 upcoming deadline and 10 recorded changes as of 2026-10-25, each with its source."
canonical: "https://harbyn.com/vendors/xai"
last-updated: 2026-10-25
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# xAI API: API changes and deadlines

Markdown version of <https://harbyn.com/vendors/xai>.

AI models and APIs. 1 upcoming deadline, 10 recorded changes. Every entry cites the xAI API page we read it from.

## What we read

The xAI API pages and feeds our ingestion visits, politely and on a schedule.

- **Changelog**: <https://docs.x.ai/developers/release-notes>
- **Deprecations**: <https://docs.x.ai/developers/models>
- **Changelog**: <https://api.github.com/advisories?affects=xai-sdk&per_page=20&sort=published&direction=desc>

## What the scanner looks for

How `harbyn scan` recognises xAI API in a repository, on your machine. Nothing leaves it.

- **Packages**: `pypi xai-sdk`
- **API hosts**: `api.x.ai`
- **Model IDs starting with**: `grok-`

## Upcoming deadlines

| Deadline | Change | Use instead | Details | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nov 2, 2026 | grok-imagine-image-quality retired, redirected to grok-imagine-image-2.0 | `grok-imagine-image-2.0` | <https://harbyn.com/changes/xai/2026-09-02-grok-imagine-image-quality-retirement.md> | <https://docs.x.ai/developers/models> |

## Change history

Newest first, by the date xAI API announced it. This is the archive: past changes are not warnings, and changes we recorded after they took effect are marked as such.

### October 2026

- Oct 14, 2026, Deprecation: [Grok Voice 2.0 deprecated](https://harbyn.com/changes/xai/2026-10-14-grok-voice-2-0-deprecated.md)
- Oct 14, 2026, Feature: [Grok Voice 3.0 is available](https://docs.x.ai/developers/release-notes)
- Oct 2, 2026, Retirement: [grok-voice-transcribe-1.0 retired, routed to grok-voice-transcribe-2.0](https://harbyn.com/changes/xai/2026-10-02-grok-voice-transcribe-1-0-reaches-end-of-life.md) (effective Oct 2, 2026)

### September 2026

- Sep 25, 2026, Feature: [safety\_identifier request field](https://docs.x.ai/developers/release-notes)
- Sep 21, 2026, Feature: [Grok 4.7](https://docs.x.ai/developers/release-notes)
- Sep 21, 2026, Feature: [Grok 4.7 available](https://docs.x.ai/developers/release-notes)
- Sep 17, 2026, Feature: [Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 available](https://docs.x.ai/developers/release-notes)

### May 2026

- May 1, 2026, Feature: [Custom voice cloning](https://docs.x.ai/developers/release-notes)

### April 2026

- Apr 15, 2026, Feature: [Speech to Text API generally available](https://docs.x.ai/developers/release-notes)