safari developer console network tab post function for Grok rate-limit

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safari developer console network tab post function for Grok rate-limit

I'm trying to use Grok, but I seem to be hitting up on their rate limits even though I have a basic plan. I'm trying to troubleshoot this and Grok says that I can check on the rate limits via the Safari Developer tools network tab. when I enable this, I don't see where I can post a simple "Hi" message.

Here's the instructions from Grok:

To check rate-limits using Safari Dev Tools:

Open Safari and go to grok.com or x.com.
Open Dev Tools: Press Option+Command+I.
Go to the Network tab.
Send a simple Grok message, e.g., type "Hi" in the chat and submit.
In the Network tab, filter for rate-limits or look for a request like /api/rate-limits.
Click it to view the response. Check remainingQueries for your remaining usage.

This applies to your account across all conversations, with limits typically resetting every 2 hours.

could someone expand upon this? I can find the network tab, but there's so much going on, everything is so small, it's not clear where I should click to bring up some sort of 'message' box. aka: how do I send Grok a simple "Hi" message? Once I can do that where will I see the response. Sounds like I will see some kind of JSON repsonce.

Thanks,

-jon

MacBook Pro (M1, 2020)

Posted on Jul 24, 2025 12:42 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 24, 2025 01:10 PM in response to jon51

Please don’t confuse Grok or other statistical corpora-based next-word-guessing apps with a reference source.

These tools guess the next word. Literal probabilities. There is no intelligence here.

Such text-guessing tools will happily construct utter rubbish, and some are intentionally configured to be obsequious.

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jon51 Author

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Jul 24, 2025 05:12 PM in response to MrHoffman

They might use statistical probabilities to generate or understand a sentence, but they do a pretty good job at searching the internet for answers. To be sure, Grok has saved me quite a bit of trouble even if I don't get past this impasse.

I was hoping someone could elaborate on a simple way to interact with the app for troubleshooting.

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Answer 3

Jul 24, 2025 05:26 PM in response to jon51

jon51 wrote:

They might use statistical probabilities to generate or understand a sentence, but they do a pretty good job at searching the internet for answers.

Yes, and too often wrong answers that involve overloading the target servers with crawlers.

But not to worry, as many servers are increasingly being filled with AI slop, as the AI ouroboros continues.

To be sure, Grok has saved me quite a bit of trouble even if I don't get past this impasse.

I was hoping someone could elaborate on a simple way to interact with the app for troubleshooting.

Ask X support. Their app, their billing, their issue.

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John Galt

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Jul 24, 2025 05:37 PM in response to jon51

I may be able to help after all. I made three queries to Grok and encountered the rate limit it alluded to.

The developer console showed the following:

Pictures help. Each query resulted in another rate-limits entry, until I reached its limit of 3. After that, all inquiries were ignored. The next entry (below it, not shown) revealed "remainingQueries": 0 and a new entry for "waitTimeSeconds": 7059, presumably the number of seconds that need to elapse before making another query.

Does that help?

Edit to add: Refreshing the page did not reset the counters. Clearing history did.

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Answer 5

John Galt

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Jul 24, 2025 12:58 PM in response to jon51

You're not wrong. Grok is. It makes no sense. Accept the fact these AI-things are fallible.

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