What breaks when xAI goes down?

xAI is an upstream dependency for 7 AI tools we track. When it has an outage, these can degrade or fail — and 1 have no fallback at all.

Blast radius
7
tools affected · 1 with no fallback
xAI status now
Operational
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Tools that depend on xAI

Ranked by how hard they break. Every relationship is sourced — click a badge to verify.

What to use instead right now

Operational tools that don't depend on xAI (so a xAIoutage won't take them with it):

ClaudeGeminiCursorBoltPerplexityWWindsurfLLovableGGitHub CopilotPPoeMidjourneyElevenLabsRunway

Dependencies are curated and sourced (evidence shown per row). Impact and "no fallback" reflect public model/provider documentation, not a confirmed real-time outage of each product. AIDownCheck is independent and not affiliated with xAI. See the full xAI dependency profile →