How Much Does Grok Bot Cost? Is There a Free Plan? (2026)

Is Grok Bot free?

No. Grok Bot has no free plan, and the free version of Grok doesn't include it. You also can't buy Grok Bot on its own: it only comes bundled with a paid SpaceXAI subscription, either a SuperGrok plan or a Cursor plan.

The good news is that the entry price just fell off a cliff. When SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot as a beta on August 11, 2026, you needed SuperGrok Heavy ($300 a month), Cursor Ultra ($200 a month) or Cursor Teams Premium ($120 per seat). On August 26, 2026, SpaceXAI opened it to all SuperGrok ($30) and Cursor Pro ($20) subscribers. That's a 10x drop in the cheapest way in, in about two weeks.

So today the cheapest route is Cursor Pro at $20 a month, or $240 a year. If you'd rather have it inside the Grok app, SuperGrok at $30 a month is the next step up. Why Cursor? SpaceX bought Cursor's parent company Anysphere in June 2026, so Cursor and Grok now sit under the same roof.

There's a one-time free trial for individuals. SpaceXAI hasn't published how long it lasts, and it doesn't change the bigger answer: once it's used, there's no ongoing free tier. Quick refresher on what you're paying for: each Bot is a named AI teammate, powered by Grok 4.6, running on its own persistent cloud computer with a browser and terminal. It signs into your apps with your real logins and keeps working after you close your laptop.

Which plans include Grok Bot, and what does each cost?

Seven plans include Grok Bot, from $20 to $300 a month, and one team plan gets only a taste. Here's the full list as of late September 2026, cheapest first.

Notice what the table can't tell you: how much Bot work each plan buys. Every eligible plan comes with a weekly usage allowance, but SpaceXAI hasn't published the numbers, and it hasn't said how much bigger the allowance is on a $300 plan than on a $20 one. You're comparing price tags, not quantities.

Two details trip people up. First, Grok Bot usage is separate from your normal Grok chat or Cursor editor quota. Running Bots won't eat the coding requests you pay Cursor for, but a generous chat allowance doesn't give you extra Bot time either. Second, Cursor Teams Standard ($40 per seat) doesn't include a regular Bot allowance. Teams Standard users get only the trial or pay-as-you-go on-demand usage.

Which one should a non-developer pick? Cursor is a code editor, so Cursor Pro is the cheapest ticket but you're buying a coding tool to get the Bot. SuperGrok is SpaceXAI's Grok subscription, so for $10 more you also get the regular Grok chat assistant. If you'll never open a code editor, $30 SuperGrok is usually the saner choice. If you already pay for Cursor, you may have Grok Bot already.

What's the catch? Allowances, on-demand billing and no spend cap

The catch is that the monthly price isn't the maximum you can pay. Your plan covers a weekly Bot allowance of unpublished size. Eligible accounts can add on-demand usage on top, billed by model and token cost, and as of late September there's no Grok Bot-specific spend cap to stop the meter.

That matters more for an agent than for a chatbot. A chat reply costs a few tokens. A Bot that spends the night researching sales leads, reading every page it loads, retrying the step that failed and writing up notes, burns tokens the whole time. Routines make it easier still: a scheduled run that fires every hour quietly repeats that cost 24 times a day, every day, whether or not you're watching.

None of this makes Grok Bot a scam. Token billing is a fair way to price expensive compute. But it's hard to budget if you're a normal person, because nobody can tell you in advance how many tokens "reconcile this week's receipts" will take. Until SpaceXAI publishes allowance numbers or ships a spend cap, treat your first month as an experiment and watch the bill closely.

Here's the practical version. Don't add on-demand usage until you've seen a full week of your normal pattern. Start with one Bot and one routine, not five. Set a weekly calendar reminder to check your usage page. And turn on approval requirements for anything that spends money, since you can require approval before a Bot makes a purchase or transfers funds.

Is there a Grok Bot free trial?

Yes, but only once. SpaceXAI offers a one-time free trial for individuals. It hasn't published how long the trial lasts or how much usage it includes, so check what your account shows before you plan a big test around it.

Make the trial count. Pick one repetitive job you already do every week, like pulling expense receipts out of your email into a spreadsheet, which is one of the examples SpaceXAI itself gives. Run it end to end, check every output, and note how long you'd have spent doing it yourself. That number is what tells you whether $20 or $30 a month is cheap or expensive for you.

Remember what you'll need to handle yourself during the test. Bots sign into your accounts the way a person would, so you step in to enter passwords, passkeys, two-factor codes and CAPTCHAs. Grok Bot also requires cloud data storage and isn't compatible with Cursor's Legacy Privacy Mode, so if your Cursor account uses that mode, you'll have to change it before a Bot can run.

Grok Bot works on the desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux, on iOS and, since September 2, 2026, on Android. You message your Bot from the phone or desktop app. There's no WhatsApp or SMS channel, so a trial means living in one more app.

How does Grok Bot's price compare with OpenAI dots and Meta Muse?

Grok Bot is now tied with Meta Muse for the cheapest paid ticket among the big cloud agents, but it isn't the cheapest to try. Meta Muse has a free tier (with a payment card on file). Grok Bot starts at $20. OpenAI dots, launched today (September 29, 2026), start at $100 a month.

OpenAI's dots are included only with ChatGPT Pro (from $100 a month) and Business Premium. Free, Go and Plus don't get one, and OpenAI says more dots, extra speed and more workload will cost extra later, at prices it hasn't shared. Our OpenAI dots price breakdown has the full plan list.

Meta Muse is free to start, then $20 a month for Power (about 500 million tokens a week) or $100 for Maximum (about 3 billion). Muse at least publishes its token allowances, which Grok Bot doesn't. But Muse is only available in the US and Canada, while SpaceXAI hasn't published regional restrictions for Grok Bot.

The pattern across all three: everyone meters agents differently, and none of the meters are easy to read. If you're choosing on price alone, Grok Bot via Cursor Pro or Muse Power at $20 are the cheapest paid tickets. If you're choosing on predictability, none of them is great yet.

Is Grok Bot worth the money for you?

Grok Bot is worth it if you have real, repetitive computer work that runs across several web apps and you're willing to supervise it. It's hard to justify if what you actually need is to stop forgetting things.

It earns its $20–$30 when a Bot replaces hours, not minutes. Think overnight sales research, pulling receipts out of email, updating a CRM from form submissions, or triaging bugs in GitHub and Jira. You connect accounts such as Google Workspace, Slack, Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot or Microsoft 365, give the Bot a job, and let it grind while you sleep. Several Bots can run at once and share what they know.

It's overkill when your week is mostly small follow-through: calling the accountant back, chasing an unpaid invoice, reminding the team group to send timesheets, reading the contract a supplier just sent. Paying for a cloud computer with a terminal to handle that is like hiring a full operations team to water one plant. You'll also be doing it from a desktop-first app, when your clients and suppliers are messaging you in WhatsApp.

One fair test: write down the three jobs you most want gone this month. If they live in browser tabs and spreadsheets, try the Grok Bot trial. If they live in chats and your own memory, keep reading. Our Grok Bot review covers the strengths and weak spots in more depth.

What if you just need reminders and follow-ups in WhatsApp?

Then you don't need a cloud computer. You need an assistant in the chat you already have open all day. That's what Agent Sonic is: a personal AI assistant that lives entirely inside WhatsApp. No app to install, no dashboard, no desktop setup. You save it as a contact and message it.

It handles the admin that quietly eats a small business owner's week. Send "Remind me to call the accountant every Monday at 9" and you get a recurring nudge in WhatsApp. Send "Message Priya and ask if the signed quote went out, then tell me what she says" and Sonic reaches out and reports her answer back. Add it to your team group and say "Every Thursday at 4pm, remind everyone to send timesheets" and you stop being the office nag.

It reads documents too. Forward an invoice PDF and ask "Does this total match the quote?", or drop in a contract and ask "What's the notice period?". It keeps to-dos, notes and a persistent memory of what you tell it, searches the web live, creates and edits images, takes voice notes in and out, and works with Google Calendar, Sheets and Docs. "Put Tuesday's site visit at 11 on my calendar" is one message.

Be clear about the trade. Sonic doesn't make purchases, doesn't run a cloud computer for hours of autonomous research or coding, and doesn't have 4,000 integrations. If your bottleneck is repetitive work across a stack of web apps, Grok Bot is the stronger tool and $20 is a fair price to find out. If your bottleneck is follow-through, Sonic fits better, and it works wherever WhatsApp works.

To try it, get access at tryagentsonic.com/contact and start with a single message.

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