Run your AI employees on Grok
Bring your xAI key and Coordinator's agents run on Grok — with validation strict enough to respect xAI's per-endpoint key permissions, billed by xAI directly to you at zero markup.
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.
A Grok-powered employee, not a chatbot
An agent here holds roles exactly like a person does, and its ceiling is its roles' ceiling: whatever someone with those roles could do in Coordinator, you can hand over. Grok decides how well the work gets done — not how far it reaches.
Good delegation ends in a draft invoice, not a chat log.
- Read a forwarded vendor PDF into a draft bill, validated before it touches the books
- Watch receivables aging and draft the chase
- Answer P&L and client-profitability questions from the live ledger
- Create, file and update activities across your pipelines and boards
- Work a queue — claim the next item, do it, hand off
- Run the check-in round-up and keep stages honest
- Log time as it works
- Sweep unbilled hours into a draft invoice
- Keep the time ledger clean enough to bill from
- Triage form submissions into records and the right pipeline
- Keep client records current as work happens
- Find anything — records, contacts, history — on request
- Prep today's meetings from the calendar
- Tend booking-link intake and meeting polls
- Keep resources and rooms straight
- Draft replies, follow-ups and summaries inside your team's threads
- Announce what needs announcing
- Turn a meeting thread into the follow-up tasks
Hold the Owner role. Message outside your organization before you deliberately climb the outbound ladder. Appear human in the audit trail — agent work is labeled agent work, always. Keep going after you hit pause. Everything else opens closed and is yours to grant, role by role.
What Grok itself brings
Any provider on this site can power the delegation above. These are the reasons to pick Grok in particular.
Grok models your agents can use
Prices and lineup verified September 2, 2026. In the product, the picker is fetched live from xAI on your own key — it never goes stale, and a custom model id always works if it validates.
$1.25/$2.50 per million tokens with a million-token context — the value pick, and where xAI's retired slugs now silently land
$2/$6 (tiered above 200K input), 500K context — the current top of the line
$1/$2 — xAI's coding-agent model, in public beta
the picker fetches what your key exposes; custom model ids save if they validate — useful given xAI retired eight legacy models in May 2026
Media through Coordinator's pipeline: images. The authority on current rates is xAI's pricing page.
Grok's API, as its users describe it
Recurring themes from public developer forums and reviews — the likes and the complaints — and how each plays out when the provider runs inside your own workspace.
- Raw price-performance and context: Grok 4.3 runs $1.25/$2.50 per million tokens with a million-token context window, and the flagship 4.6 holds $2/$6 — aggressive numbers for what they buy.
- First-party real-time X data is a genuinely unique capability no other API ships.
- Generous trial economics: signup credits, plus a monthly credits program for teams that explicitly opt into sharing their API traffic.
Documentation and platform polish rate below OpenAI and Anthropic in most developer reviews, and reliability gripes (stalls, abrupt rate limiting) recur.
Here: This is exactly why Coordinator validates xAI keys twice — models list, then a live chat ping — so a key that can't actually run agents fails at connect, not mid-workflow.
Churn risk is structural right now: the SpaceX acquisition (February 2026), a planned endpoint migration, and old model slugs auto-redirecting to newer models.
Here: The xAI connection accepts a base-URL override, so an endpoint move is a settings field — and the live model list plus custom-id field absorb slug redirects without a redeploy.
The monthly free-credits program is an explicit data-sharing opt-in — your API requests go to xAI in exchange.
Here: Same posture as our Meta contributor-tier note: an explicit trade is better than a quiet one, but read the terms before routing client documents through a data-sharing program. Paid standard traffic carries xAI's no-training-without-permission policy with 30-day encrypted retention.
How Coordinator treats your xAI key
The section above is xAI's report card. This one is ours — the plumbing decisions that make handing an agent your API key boring instead of brave.
Your key is encrypted like every credential in Coordinator, and after connecting, nothing ever displays more than its last four characters.
Connecting is a live round-trip to xAI — a key that doesn't actually work can't be saved, so failures happen in settings, not mid-task.
Zero markup, no metering, no shared key anywhere in the system. Every agent turn bills your own account at the vendor's own prices.
xAI keys carry per-endpoint permissions chosen at creation — 'the key is valid' and 'the key may call chat' are different facts. Coordinator checks both (models list, then a live ping), so a key that can't actually run agents fails in settings, not mid-workflow.
From no key to a working agent in a few minutes
Create a key at console.x.ai → API Keys, and tick the chat-completions endpoint when you create it.
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Sign in at console.x.ai. This is the xAI developer console — an X Premium or Grok consumer subscription is separate and does not include API credit.
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Choose the team the spend should bill to (there is a team switcher at the top; a personal team is created for you).
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Open API Keys and choose Create API key.
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When the console asks which endpoints the key may call, enable chat completions and models. This is the step people miss.
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Copy the key — it starts with xai- and is shown once.
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Under Billing, add a payment method or buy credits. A key on an unfunded team authenticates and then fails on every call.
Key verified — a live call to xAI confirmed it before anything was stored. Only the last four characters are kept visible.
Settings → AI: pick xAI (Grok), paste the key. A live call to xAI verifies it before anything is stored.
Fetched live from your key — never a stale list. Custom model ids work too.
Choose a default model from your key's live catalogue — or set one per agent later.
Billed per token on your own xAI account. Grok 4 Fast is the cheap tier and reads a one-page bill for a fraction of a US cent; Grok 4 costs meaningfully more per document. Check the models/pricing page for current rates.
Images only — a PDF bill will not extract on Grok. And if the connect test reports a permissions error on a key you just made, it is almost always the endpoint ACL in step 4 rather than the key itself.
Grok's chat path takes images, and xAI documents no native PDF input (verified September 2026). In Coordinator, PDF-heavy extraction belongs with the native-PDF providers — Claude, Gemini or OpenAI.
xAI bills your account directly. No markup, no shared key.
Grok + Coordinator, asked directly
xAI keys have per-endpoint permissions. Coordinator lists models and then pings chat on your key, so a key without chat access fails at connect rather than silently mid-agent-run.
Any chat model your key exposes — the picker fetches the live list, and custom ids save if they validate.
No. Coordinator is free; xAI bills your key directly.
Swap the brain, keep the team
Your agents aren't built out of Grok — they're built out of roles, permissions and workflows. The model behind an agent is a setting: change it in a minute and the team, the history and the fences all stay put. Every provider we support gets the same treatment, and the same honest page:
Put Grok on the payroll
Coordinator is free — the only bill is the one xAI already sends you.
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.