· Updated · 7 min read · Omkar Satpute and Milind Soni
Grok Bot pricing in 2026: what it really costs
Grok Bot has no free plan. New customers get it from The X Subscription's $30 Premium plan up, with usage from a weekly pool and extra usage paid for.
Grok Bot has no free plan. Since October 12, 2026 new customers get it with The X Subscription's Premium plan ($30 a month), Super ($100) or Ultra ($200); existing SuperGrok and paid Cursor plans keep it. Its usage comes from a weekly pool shared with Grok and Cursor, which xAI sizes only as a multiple of the Plus plan. Past the pool you pay for extra usage with prepaid credit. It is still in beta. Checked November 8, 2026.
The plans that include Grok Bot
New customers start on The X Subscription, which bundles Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X Premium. The prices and usage below are from xAI's pricing page. Grok Bot is not sold on its own, and team seats cost the same per seat.
| Plan | Price | Grok Bot | Weekly usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Not included | Limited |
| Plus | $8 / month | Not included | Base |
| Premium | $30 / month ($300 / year) | Included | 4x Plus |
| Super | $100 / month ($1,000 / year) | Included | 15x Plus |
| Ultra | $200 / month ($2,000 / year) | Included | 50x Plus |
If you were already paying before October 12, nothing changes unless you switch: paid Cursor plans (Pro, Pro+, Ultra) and Cursor Teams still include Grok Bot, and an individual SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, SuperGrok Heavy or X Premium+ subscription can be linked to it. Cursor's Grok Bot plans page is the place to check your own plan. Moving to The X Subscription is permanent, and from then on Grok Bot draws on its shared weekly pool.
How the price changed
Grok Bot's plans have changed several times since the beta opened. If you read a pricing article from August or September, check it against these dates.
- August 11, 2026: Grok Bot enters beta (xAI).
- August 26, 2026: Included with all SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and Cursor Teams plans, with its own usage, separate from Grok and Cursor (xAI).
- September 3, 2026: Grok Bot for Enterprise: access, network and audit controls, and two weeks free for Grok and Cursor Enterprise customers (xAI).
- October 7, 2026: Elon Musk says Grok Bot will use the best back-end model for each task, including Claude Opus 5.5 (TNW).
- October 12, 2026: The X Subscription launches. Premium ($30) and up include Grok Bot, and its usage now comes from a weekly pool shared with Grok and Cursor. New customers start here; existing subscribers can keep their plans (xAI).
- November 1, 2026: Users report weekly allowances running out days early. Musk replies on X that "the cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue"; no new limits are published (TNW).
What the price does not tell you
The monthly number is the easy part. Five things decide what Grok Bot actually costs you.
- Allowances are relative. xAI sizes the weekly pools only as multiples of the Plus plan (4x on Premium, 15x on Super, 50x on Ultra), not in tokens or tasks, and Grok Bot shares the pool with your Grok and Cursor use. You find out how far it goes by using it.
- People run out. In early November 2026 users reported weekly allowances running out days early, and Elon Musk wrote that "the cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue", as TNW reported. xAI has not published new limits. Routines, up to 50 per bot, run on a schedule while you sleep and draw on the same allowance; check them before you set many.
- Extra usage is prepaid. On The X Subscription, usage past the pool is paid from credit you top up, at API list prices, with Auto Top-up and a monthly limit you can set; on an older Cursor plan it is on-demand usage billed through Cursor. A cap does not stop a task already running, so it can go slightly over. Grok Bot picks the model for each task, xAI's or a third party's, and you cannot choose one.
- One shared cloud computer. Every bot on your account uses the same cloud computer. xAI's docs say not to use separate bots as a security boundary. When that computer got stuck, every bot on the account failed at once, as Cursor staff explained.
- It is beta. The plans, the allowances and the models behind Grok Bot have all changed since launch, so they may change again.
Is Grok Bot free?
No. The X Subscription's Free and Plus plans don't include it. Some accounts see a trial: a usage credit with a 7-day window that never turns into a paid plan. After that, Grok Bot comes with Premium ($30 a month) and up.
The bring-your-own-subscription alternative
Grok Bot's pricing model is: pay for a plan, share its weekly pool with Grok Bot, top up with prepaid credit. MausBot's model is: the app is free, and each bot runs on the claude, codex, or grok CLI already installed on your machine, with the login you already have. There is no second quota because there is no second account. You pay Anthropic, OpenAI, or xAI exactly what you pay them today.
A worked example. Say you are already on Claude Max or a ChatGPT plan with the Codex CLI signed in. Install MausBot, sign in with those CLIs, and create four bots: one on Claude for writing, one on Codex for code, two more for whatever you like. Extra cost: $0. Your usage counts against the plan you already have, which you can see in the provider's own app. If you pay for SuperGrok, the grok CLI works the same way, so a Grok bot in MausBot draws on the plan you would have bought anyway, without a separate Grok Bot allowance.
The other differences are not about money. Every shell command and file edit in MausBot lands as an Allow / Deny card before it runs. Each bot gets its own computer, yours or a cloud desktop, instead of one shared machine. Transcripts and keys stay in ~/.openmausbot. The code is Apache 2.0 on GitHub.
And what Grok Bot has that MausBot does not, so you can weigh it honestly: Teach a task by recording it once (still rolling out), a marketplace of ready-made bots, and bots that keep working from your phone with no laptop involved, because everything already lives in xAI's cloud. MausBot only keeps working with the laptop closed for bots on a cloud computer. If those three are the job, Grok Bot is the better tool today. We compared the two line by line in Grok Bot vs MausBot.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Grok Bot free?
- No. The X Subscription's Free and Plus plans don't include it; Premium ($30 a month), Super ($100) and Ultra ($200) do. Some accounts see a trial: a usage credit with a 7-day window that never turns into a paid plan.
- How much is Grok Bot per month?
- For a new customer, $30 a month at the least: it comes with The X Subscription's Premium plan, and with Super ($100) and Ultra ($200), whose weekly pools are 15 and 50 times Plus against Premium's 4. Grok Bot has no price of its own. Usage past the pool is paid for with prepaid credit.
- Does Grok Bot come with SuperGrok?
- If you already have SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus or SuperGrok Heavy, yes: you can keep it and link it to Grok Bot. New customers buy The X Subscription instead, where Premium and above include Grok Bot.
- Does Grok Bot come with Cursor Pro?
- Existing paid Cursor plans (Pro, Pro+ and Ultra) and Cursor Teams still include it, with weekly usage that grows from Pro to Ultra. New customers start on The X Subscription, where Premium and above include it.
- Is there a Grok Bot free trial?
- Some accounts see a Start Trial option: a usage credit with a 7-day window, measured in agent steps and tokens. It never turns into a paid plan, and once used up or cancelled it cannot be claimed again. A trial started through the App Store is an Apple subscription that renews unless you cancel it.
- Did Grok Bot's usage limits change in November 2026?
- xAI has not published new limits. In early November users reported their weekly allowance running out days early, and Elon Musk wrote on X that "the cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue", as TNW reported. The usage view in your account shows your own pool.
Get started
Download MausBot for macOS, Windows, or Ubuntu, sign in with the CLIs you already have, and make your first bot. No card, no trial clock, no second quota. The pricing page has the MausBot Cloud plans; the app itself is free. If you are weighing the two products rather than the two bills, start with the open-source alternative to Grok Bot.