Grok Bot Pricing, Free Trial and How to Use It

US search interest in Grok Bot has held up since its August launch, and the searches keep circling the same three questions: what does it cost, can I try it for free, and how do I actually start. SpaceXAI’s own pages answer them in pieces, spread across the product page, five announcements and the Grok Bot section of Cursor’s help center. This guide puts the answers in one place.

What Grok Bot Is

Grok Bot is not a chatbot. It is a separate app where you create Bots, AI teammates that each get a name, a job description and a memory. You message a Bot the way you would text a colleague, and it carries the job to the end, coming back only when something needs your approval.

What makes it different from an assistant in a chat window:

• A computer of its own. Bots run on a persistent cloud machine with a desktop, file system, terminal and browser. They can work on websites that have no API or MCP server, and the work keeps going after you close the app.
• Many Bots at once. Set up one for outbound sales, one for your inbox, one for bug triage, and run them in parallel. Bots can message each other and share context in threads.
• Learning by watching. Ask a Bot to follow along while you do a job once. It saves the steps as a routine, takes your corrections and runs it on its own next time.

One common mix-up: Grok Bot is not the Grok app, and not the @grok account that replies to posts on X. Cursor’s FAQ says it plainly: they are two different apps, and a limit in the Grok app has nothing to do with Grok Bot. Grok Bot signs in with a Cursor account, and that is where its usage is metered.

Grok Bot Pricing

Grok Bot does not have its own subscription. It comes with the plans below, and it has its own usage pool, so work you hand to a Bot does not eat into your normal Cursor or Grok limits.

So the cheapest way to use Grok Bot every week is Cursor Pro at $20 a month. SpaceXAI does not publish how much work a week’s allowance covers; the help center only ranks the tiers against each other.

A few rules that trip people up:

• Plans do not stack. Linking SuperGrok Plus while you are on Cursor Pro+ adds nothing. For more usage, upgrade the Cursor plan (Pro+ to Ultra) or turn on on-demand.
• On-demand is billed through Cursor. Once weekly usage runs out, extra work continues only if on-demand is enabled, and it counts toward an On-demand monthly limit you can cap in Settings or at cursor.com/dashboard. The cap does not stop a Bot mid-run, so a running job can go slightly past it.
• A SuperGrok link is permanent. You cannot unlink it or move it to another Cursor account, so sign in with the right account before linking.
• Enterprise customers on Grok or Cursor Enterprise go through their account team.

Is Grok Bot Free? How the Trial Works

Partly. A free Cursor account gets a Grok Bot trial. The catch is in how it is measured:

• The trial is a usage credit, with a 7-day window on top.
• The credit drains by agent steps and tokens, not by the number of messages you send. One long job can use all of it, and used credit is not restored.
• It never converts into a paid plan. On a free account you can end it with Cancel Trial on the plan screen, which also forfeits whatever credit is left.

Cursor’s own advice for stretching it: start with small, tightly scoped tasks, and check the plan screen before running anything big. If you subscribe in the iOS app instead, note that an App Store intro offer is a different thing: Apple runs it, and it becomes a paid subscription unless you cancel. Android has no in-app trial.

How to Use Grok Bot: First Bot in 10 Minutes

1. Download the app. Desktop builds for Windows, macOS and Linux are on x.ai/bot and in cursor.com/dashboard/bot. The phone app is on the App Store and Google Play.
2. Sign in with Cursor. Choose Sign in and finish in your browser. If your access comes from SuperGrok or X Premium+, pick Link Grok Account on the Get Started screen before signing in; the option is not in Settings afterwards.
3. Meet your first Bot. After a short intro the app creates a Bot called Grok Bot and opens its chat. To add more, use New → Create new Bot.
4. Give it a role. Click the Bot’s name, open Bot settings and fill in a short Name, a Label for its main job, and a Description of the work, the sources it should use and when it should ask for approval.
5. Connect tools. Use the Connect card in chat or Plugins in the sidebar for Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Notion and the rest. For a site without a plugin, open the Bot’s computer and sign in yourself; the Bot does not see the password you type.
6. Start small. Cursor suggests a first task with a clear result that does not change an external service, such as: “Summarize this document in five bullets. List every date, decision, and open question in a separate section. Do not change the source file.”

Set up a routine

You do not build routines in a menu, you ask for them: “Every weekday at 9:00 AM, summarize new support tickets in this chat.” The Bot creates the routine itself. Besides schedules, routines can fire on a Slack message, a GitHub, Linear, Sentry or PagerDuty event, an incoming email or a webhook.

Two things to know. A new routine waits for its next scheduled time instead of running immediately, so use Test to try it now, and remember a test does real work with your connected plugins. And routines are the fastest way to burn your allowance: Cursor warns that an hourly schedule or a trigger on a busy Slack channel can use a week of usage in a day.

Run several Bots together

The setup SpaceXAI describes most often is a chief of staff Bot on top with a specialist for each lane. Put them in a group chat and they pass work between themselves, assign ownership and pull you in only for judgment calls. In the Grok Bot 101 guide, a Bot that watches Facebook Marketplace for espresso machines asks the chief of staff Bot whenever it needs a decision.

On September 28, Team Bots took this to the team level: you give one Bot the files, plugins, credentials and memory a role needs, then share it. Each person’s conversations with it stay private, and every Team Bot has its own Slack handle.

What People Use Grok Bot For

From SpaceXAI’s announcements, the jobs Bots are doing today:

• Sales prospecting: research accounts overnight, draft email and LinkedIn outreach in each seller’s voice, and leave every send for approval.
• Inbox triage: work through email and leave you only what needs a person.
• Website builds: build the site, buy the domain, deploy it and hand back a live URL.
• Meeting stand-in: join a call you cannot make, take notes and send a summary.
• Refund recovery: find the claim, file it and follow it through.
• Procurement: SpaceXAI says a Bot with access to vendor spend, contracts and usage data found more than $100,000 in direct savings.

The personal examples in the 101 guide are smaller and easier to copy. One is a private CRM in Notion built from the 800 to 900 people the author follows on X, using only public profile information, set up from a phone in 10 to 15 minutes.

Safety: What a Bot Can Reach

• No access by default. A Bot reaches only the accounts you sign it into, and each user’s work runs in its own isolated environment.
• Approval cards. Choose Allow once, Always allow or Deny. Approvals from work that started without you, like a routine, expire after about 10 minutes.
• Rules in plain English. Write allow and block rules under Settings → General → Agent. A separate review agent checks proposed actions against them.
• One shared computer. All your Bots share the same cloud machine, so if you sign into a site with one Bot, every Bot can reach it. The 101 guide is blunt: an agent on a computer logged into Amazon can technically buy things, like a person could.
• Secrets stay out of chat. Use the secure prompt when a Bot asks for a password or API key.
• Your own machine is opt-in. A Bot runs commands on your desktop only if you allow it, and by default it asks each time.

Grok Bot vs OpenAI Dots

OpenAI announced a similar product on September 29. Both run on their own cloud computer and come back when work is done or a decision is needed. The differences are price and access:

If you want to try an always-on agent without committing, Grok Bot is the cheaper door. If you already pay for ChatGPT Pro, your first dot costs nothing extra. For the model side of SpaceXAI’s lineup, see Grok 4.7 .

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How much does Grok Bot cost?

Grok Bot has no separate subscription. It is included with Cursor Pro ($20/month), Pro+, Ultra and Cursor Teams ($40/seat/month), or with a linked individual SuperGrok ($30/month), SuperGrok Plus, SuperGrok Heavy or X Premium+ account. Extra usage past the weekly allowance is billed on demand through Cursor.

Is Grok Bot free?

Not fully. A free Cursor account gets a Grok Bot trial, which is a usage credit with a 7-day window. It drains by agent steps and tokens, one large task can use all of it, and it never turns into a paid plan automatically.

How do I use Grok Bot?

Download the app from x.ai/bot (Windows, macOS, Linux) or the App Store and Google Play, and sign in with a Cursor account. Your first Bot is created automatically. Give it a name, label and description in Bot settings, connect your tools under Plugins, and message it a task.

Is Grok Bot the same as Grok?

No. Grok is xAI’s chat app; Grok Bot is a separate agent app that signs in with a Cursor account and meters usage there. Limits in the Grok app do not apply to Grok Bot.

Is Grok Bot on Android?

Yes. The phone app is on Google Play and the App Store, and the desktop app runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. Signing in with the same Cursor account carries your access and your Bots across devices.