xAI with OpenAI JavaScript SDK - Helicone OSS LLM Observability

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This integration is used to log usage with the xAI API.

How to Integrate#

Create an account and generate an API key

Log into Helicone or create an account. Once you have an account, you can generate an API key here.

Set up your Helicone API key in your .env file

HELICONE_API_KEY=<your-helicone-api-key>XAI_API_KEY=<your-xai-api-key>

Modify the base URL path

OpenAI SDK

import OpenAI from "openai";const openai = new OpenAI({  apiKey: process.env.XAI_API_KEY,  baseURL: "https://x.helicone.ai/v1",  defaultHeaders: {    "Helicone-Auth": `Bearer ${process.env.HELICONE_API_KEY}`  }});const response = await openai.chat.completions.create({  model: "grok-4-latest",  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello, how are you?" }],  max_tokens: 1024,  temperature: 0.7});console.log(response);

Verify your requests in Helicone

With the above setup, any calls to xAI will automatically be logged and monitored by Helicone. Review them in your Helicone dashboard.

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