NLP Cloud8.6/10
See alternativesUpdated September 28, 2026 · DeployCue Editorial Team
NLP Cloud vs xAI
Compare NLP Cloud and xAI using recorded catalog facts and pricing.
| Fact | NLP Cloud | xAI |
|---|---|---|
| Published offerings | 0 | 2 |
What sets them apart
| Fact | NLP Cloud | xAI |
|---|---|---|
| Input price from | $0.50 to $1.80Lower | $1 to $4 |
| Output price from | $0.50 to $1.80Lower | $2 to $12 |
| Models offered | GPT OSS 120B, LLaMA 3.1 405B, Fine tuned LLaMA 3.3 70B, ChatDolphin, Dolphin Yi 34B, Dolphin Mixtral 8x7B, Yi 34B, Mixtral 8x7B, OpenAI Whisper Large, NLLB 200 3.3B, Bart Large CNN, Bart Large MNLI Yahoo Answers, XLM Roberta Large XNLI, T5 Base EN Generate Headline, DistilBERT Base Uncased Finetuned SST 2, DistilBERT Base Uncased Emotion, Paraphrase Multilingual MPNet Base V2, Microsoft SpeechT5, SpaCy large models (15 languages), Ginza (Japanese), Python LangDetect | Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6, Grok 4.5, Grok 4.3, Grok 4.20 0309 reasoning, Grok 4.20 0309 non reasoning, Grok build 0.1, Grok 4.20 multi agent 0309, Grok imagine image, Grok imagine image 2.0, Grok imagine image quality, Grok imagine video, Grok imagine video 1.5, Grok voice think fast 2.0 |
| Largest context window | 16,384 | 1,000,000Higher |
| Free credits | USD 15 free credit automatically on the pay-as-you-go plan, plus a free plan with limited throughput | Not confirmed |
| OpenAI-compatible API | Not confirmed | Yes |
| Compliance certifications | HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA | Not confirmed |
Key differences
- Input price from is lower at NLP Cloud: $0.50 to $1.80 vs $1 to $4.
- Output price from is lower at NLP Cloud: $0.50 to $1.80 vs $2 to $12.
- Models offered: only NLP Cloud offers GPT OSS 120B, LLaMA 3.1 405B, Fine tuned LLaMA 3.3 70B.
- Models offered: only xAI offers Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6, Grok 4.5.
- Largest context window is higher at xAI: 1,000,000 vs 16,384.
Score breakdown
| Area | NLP Cloud | xAI |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | 8.50HigherInput and output both run $0.50 to $1.80, above the €0.08 median for the group. | 8.20Input fees of $1 to $4 and output fees of $2 to $12 sit well above the field, and the cost mark is 1. |
| Offer | 8.60Task-focused catalogue, certificates covering HIPAA, GDPR and CCPA, and automatic free credit on pay-as-you-go. | 9.10Higher |
| Trust | 8.80 | Not confirmed |
Cost in a real example
10M input and 2M output tokens, cheapest model
NLP Cloud
$6 to $21.60
10 × $0.50 to $1.80 + 2 × $0.50 to $1.80
xAI
$14 to $64
10 × $1 to $4 + 2 × $2 to $12
NLP Cloud costs $8 less.
Worked out from the stated prices and rates; your own total depends on how you use it.
Area by area
NLP Cloud
- Cost8.5
- Offer8.6
xAI
- Cost8.2
- Offer9.1
- NLP Cloud edges xAI on cost, 8.5 to 8.2.
- XAI edges NLP Cloud on offer, 9.1 to 8.6.
Every fact side by side
| Fact | NLP Cloud | xAI |
|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Alpine Connection LLC | Not confirmed |
| Headquarters | United States | Not confirmed |
| Founded | 2020 | Not confirmed |
Not confirmed for one of the two: Support channels.
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