Grok Bot Is Open to Eight SuperGrok and Cursor Tiers, but Has No Published Price
- What happened
- xAI's announcement page lists eight SuperGrok and Cursor tiers with Grok Bot access, not the three premium plans our directory entry described, and names desktop and iOS as the clients.
- Why it matters
- The access-price gate in our entry was wrong: xAI publishes no price for Grok Bot and meters its usage separately, so it is easy to reach and hard to budget. Verdict stays conditional.
- What to do
- Check your SuperGrok or Cursor plan against the eight tiers, then measure the separate usage meter on a low-stakes task before committing a real workflow.
Verdict: Grok Bot stays conditional, but for a different reason. Our entry previously said it was gated behind expensive subscriptions; xAI's page says otherwise. It is cheap to reach and impossible to budget: xAI lists eight paid tiers with access, publishes no price for Grok Bot itself, and meters its usage separately from the plan you already pay for.
What happened
Our directory entry previously said Grok Bot was gated behind $120-300/mo subscriptions. xAI's own announcement page, dated August 11, 2026 and re-checked by us on October 3, 2026, does not support that, and we have corrected the entry.
The page states Grok Bot "is in beta" and is available "for SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, and SuperGrok Heavy; Cursor Pro, Pro+, and Ultra; and Cursor Teams Standard and Premium subscribers on desktop and iOS".
| Our entry previously said | xAI's page says | |
|---|---|---|
| Tiers with access | 3 (top plans only) | 8, including entry-level plans on both product lines |
| Grok Bot price | Gated behind $120-300/mo plans | None published |
| Usage billing | Not stated | Separate from your Grok and Cursor plans |
On billing, the page is explicit: "Grok Bot comes with its own usage, separate from your Grok and Cursor plans, so anything you hand off to a Bot won't count against your existing usage." Enterprise users get waitlist access rather than immediate availability.
Why it matters
The obvious read is that Grok Bot is now cheap. The accurate read is that the cost of running it cannot be known from anything xAI has published.
- What our entry used to say: a premium subscription with a published price, so you could bound the cost.
- What the page says: the door is cheaper and the room behind it is unpriced. The page gives no rate for Grok Bot usage, and that usage sits outside the plan you already pay for.
- Risk unchanged: Bots "share a computer of their own in the cloud" and "can sign in and work across apps, tools, and websites". An agent holding live credentials to your inbox, billing and repositories, on a meter nobody has published, is harder to model than a fixed-price subscription, not easier.
We record that as a condition, not a downgrade. The rating stays conditional; only the stated condition changes.
What changes for you
- Check your plan. If you pay for any of the eight named SuperGrok or Cursor tiers, you can likely turn Grok Bot on today.
- Keep it away from anything financial or production-critical. The credential threat model is still undocumented.
- Measure before you commit. Run a low-stakes task and watch what the separate usage meter does. With no published rate, measurement is the only estimate available.
FAQ
Which plans include Grok Bot? SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus and SuperGrok Heavy; Cursor Pro, Pro+ and Ultra; and Cursor Teams Standard and Premium, per xAI's announcement page.
Does using Grok Bot eat into my SuperGrok or Cursor usage? No. xAI says Grok Bot has its own usage, separate from your Grok and Cursor plans. It publishes no price for that usage.
Is there an Android or web app? The page names desktop and iOS only.
Our full standing verdict is on the Grok Bot entry.
Rating holds, but the stated condition was factually wrong. The standing summary said Grok Bot was 'gated behind $120-300/mo subscriptions'; xAI's announcement page lists eight tiers including entry level, publishes no price for Grok Bot, and meters its usage separately from the Grok and Cursor plans. The condition changes from an access-price gate to an unforecastable running cost.
What to do
- 1 Check whether your existing SuperGrok or Cursor plan is one of the eight named tiers.
- 2 Keep Grok Bot away from financial and production-critical systems until xAI publishes a security architecture.
- 3 Run a low-stakes task first and observe the separate usage meter, since there is no published rate to forecast from.
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