# Is Grok Free? What the Free Plan Gets You, and What Plus, Premium, Super and Ultra Cost

> Grok's Free plan costs $0 with limited usage, paid plans run from $8 to $200 a month, and there's no free trial, only a half-price first month.

By Pat Simmons · November 12, 2026 · 9 min read

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Yes, Grok is free to start. SpaceXSI, the company that makes Grok, lists a $0 Free plan with daily access to Grok, a starter allowance for Cursor's coding agents and standard X, and its pricing docs give that plan's usage as "Limited," with no message count.

Paying buys more usage and more features. Plus costs $8 a month, Premium $30, Super $100 and Ultra $200, and every paid plan draws on one weekly usage pool that Grok and Cursor share. Grok Bot starts on Premium.

There is no free trial. On November 12, 2026, grok.com/plans offered 50% off the first month of Premium, Super and Ultra instead, and new subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel.

Last checked November 12, 2026: every price, plan detail and offer on this page, against SpaceXSI's X Subscription announcement, its pricing, usage and overview docs, and the plans page on grok.com.

## Is Grok free to use now?

Yes. The Free plan is listed at $0 a month and $0 a year in SpaceXSI's pricing docs. Our page on what Grok does and what's changed tracks the app itself.

The grok.com home page opens on a chat box even when you're signed out, with Sign in and Sign up buttons in the top corner.

_The Grok home page for someone who isn't signed in, with the chat box and the image, web search and website shortcuts. Screenshot of grok.com, November 12, 2026._

How much the Free plan lets you do is less clear. SpaceXSI puts "Limited" in its usage column and publishes no number of messages, images or videos for it.

## What does Grok's free plan include?

Grok's free plan includes daily access to Grok, a starter allowance for Cursor's coding agents and standard X, in the words of SpaceXSI's announcement of The X Subscription, the plan lineup it launched on October 12, 2026.

_SpaceXSI's launch image for The X Subscription, which put Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X Premium on one set of plans. From the X Subscription announcement, October 12, 2026._

The pricing docs add that "Free includes standard X," while the paid individual plans add X Premium perks such as the checkmark once you connect your X account.

Grok Bot isn't part of the Free plan. The pricing docs say Grok Bot "is included on Premium, Super, and Ultra" and that "Plus does not include Grok Bot."

The plans page also doesn't name the Grok model that Free or Plus users get. Premium is the first plan to list "Latest Grok models," and Ultra lists "Most powerful Chat models."

## Is there a Grok or SuperGrok free trial?

No. None of the SpaceXSI pages we checked list a free trial for Grok or SuperGrok, including the 7-day trial people search for. The closest offer is a first-month discount on the three bigger plans.

On November 12, the plans page showed Premium at $15 for the first month ("50% off for 1 month, then $30 monthly"), Super at $50 and then $100, and Ultra at $100 and then $200. Plus, the $8 plan, had no discount.

The small print under the plans says "New subscriptions auto-renew until you cancel," and asks you to cancel "at least 24 hours prior to renewal to avoid additional charges." If you take the half-price month to try Premium, cancel at least a day before it renews or you pay the full $30.

New customers can't buy SuperGrok anymore. The X Subscription overview says new customers, "including anyone with only a free X account, start on The X Subscription." People who already pay for SuperGrok keep their plan, price and features unless they change or cancel it.

Premium is the plan that replaced SuperGrok for new sign-ups. The announcement says it includes "The benefits of SuperGrok, Cursor Pro, and X Premium+, previously $90/month combined."

## Is Grok no longer free?

Grok is still free. The announcement and the pricing docs both list the Free plan at $0, and both were still online when we checked on November 12, 2026.

The plans page on grok.com shows paid plans only. It starts with Plus, which it calls "Our introductory plan," so someone who lands there sees $8 as the lowest price.

Some paid users also hit Grok Bot's limits early. In early November some Grok Bot subscribers ran out of their weekly usage days before it reset, and Elon Musk replied on X on November 1 that "The cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue." That reply was about Grok Bot, which needs a paid plan. Our write-up covers why Grok Bot users ran out of usage early.

## What Grok's paid plans cost

Grok's paid plans cost $8, $30, $100 or $200 a month, and paying for a year brings each one down. Here is every individual plan.

PlanMonthlyYearlyIncluded usageGrok BotWhat the plans page lists

Free$0$0"Limited"NoDaily access to Grok, a starter allowance for Cursor's coding agents, standard X
Plus$8$80 ($7 a month)BaseNoGrok Chat, Voice, Imagine and Build, the Grok API, Cursor, fewer ads and a checkmark on X
Premium$30 ($15 for the first month)$300 ($25 a month)4x PlusYesLatest Grok models, faster chat, AI images and videos, cloud agents
Super$100 ($50 for the first month)$1,000 ($84 a month)15x PlusYes1080p videos, priority access at peak times
Ultra$200 ($100 for the first month)$2,000 ($167 a month)50x PlusYesMost powerful chat models, earliest access to new products and models

Prices come from SpaceXSI's pricing docs and the first-month offers from grok.com/plans, both checked November 12, 2026. They are US list prices before sales tax.

SpaceXSI describes the tiers only by these multiples. Premium gives four times Plus's usage, Super 15 times and Ultra 50 times, and none of them comes with a message count.

All of that usage comes from one weekly pool. The usage limits page says the pool is "shared across eligible Grok and Cursor surfaces," and your account's usage view shows how much is left and when it resets. Once it runs out, extra usage is paid from credits you buy as top-ups, and spending caps can limit that.

To see how these plans line up against the other chatbots, our guide lists what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok cost, plan by plan.

## Can you use Grok Bot and Grok Imagine for free?

You can't use Grok Bot for free. It starts on Premium, the $30 plan, and its usage comes out of the same weekly pool as Grok chat and Cursor; the pricing docs say it draws on that pool "not a separate additive pool."

Imagine, Grok's image and video maker, appears in the plans page's list for Plus ("Grok Chat, Voice, Imagine, and Build"). Premium adds "Make stunning AI images & videos" and Super adds "Create 1080p videos."

The pages we checked don't say how much image or video making the Free plan allows. The signed-out grok.com page does show a "Create an image" shortcut.

In Pat Simmons's own test, Grok Bot used up a paid plan quickly. He ran that test on a paid SuperGrok plan, and in Pat gave Grok Bot, Muse and Dots the same jobs he wrote that after mostly small tests he'd used 83% of it, then hit the limit in the middle of the second job and spent another $30 on pay-as-you-go usage to finish. His advice there: "If you want it doing real work every day, plan on a $100 tier."

## Is Grok good? What Pat's tests found

For agent work, Pat's tests put Grok Bot first, and for building websites and games, Grok 4.7 came last. Neither test used the Free plan.

In the agent test, Grok Bot, Meta's Muse and ChatGPT's Dots got the same three jobs: plan a weekend in Montreal, research and write a YouTube video, and run a fake coffee company for four hours. Grok Bot won all three, and in the coffee-company job it got an A- to Dots' B. Pat's verdict: "If I had to pick one, it's Grok Bot, and I don't think it's close."

He drew one line in the same post: "I wouldn't trust it with day-to-day coding, but you can ask it to hand big coding jobs to Claude Code or Codex."

His build test backs that up. In Grok 4.7 vs GPT-6 Astra on the same three builds, Pat gave Grok 4.7, GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 the same prompts for a copy of an award-winning website, a 3D product page for a mechanical keyboard and a playable copy of Mario Kart's Rainbow Road. Grok 4.7 placed last on all three.

Grok was much cheaper to run. At the models' published API prices, its three builds would have cost $29.52 against $114.29 for GPT-6 Astra. Pat's verdict in his Grok 4.7 review: "I was all ready to give 4.7 the benefit of the doubt, especially because it's so much cheaper, but it really was not coming anywhere close to Fable and Astra."

## Are there apps like Grok for free?

Yes. ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini all have $0 plans, and each one's own pricing page showed the details below on November 12, 2026.

ChatGPT Free gives "Unlimited text chats with GPT-6," with limited uploads, image creation, voice chats, deep research and Codex, according to ChatGPT's pricing page. OpenAI notes the unlimited chats are "subject to abuse guardrails."

Claude's Free plan covers chat on web, desktop and mobile, web search, file creation and running code, with "Limited usage every 5 hours and every week," per Anthropic's pricing page. Our guide to what Claude's Free plan gets you has the full breakdown.

Gemini costs "$0/ month with a Google Account" on Google's Gemini plans page, which lists the Flash-Lite model, image generation and editing, Deep Research and Gemini Live on the free plan.

For paid options matched to specific jobs, see Grok alternatives by job.

## Questions people ask about Grok's free plan

Is the Grok app free?
Yes. SpaceXSI offers Grok on grok.com, on iPhone and Android, and inside X, and the Free plan costs $0. If you later pay through the App Store or Google Play, the plans page says to manage the subscription "through the platform you subscribed on."

Does the Free plan include Cursor?
Yes. It includes a "starter allowance for Cursor's coding agents," and the paid plans share one weekly pool between Grok and Cursor.

Do Claude or GPT models in Cursor come out of Grok's pool?
No. The overview says third-party models in Cursor, "like Claude or GPT, aren't included in your plan," and are "billed at API list prices from the first use and paid from your prepaid credit."

Can I keep my old SuperGrok plan?
Yes. Switching to The X Subscription is optional, and the overview says "Your current plan, price, and features continue unless you change or cancel." It also says a switch is permanent: "It can't be undone, and Support can't undo it for you."

What happens when a paid plan runs out of usage?
Any further use is paid from extra usage credits you buy as top-ups, until the weekly pool resets. Your account settings control whether automatic top-ups are on, and spending caps can limit them.

## Sources

- SpaceXSI: Introducing The X Subscription

- SpaceXSI Docs: The X Subscription pricing

- SpaceXSI Docs: What is The X Subscription?

- SpaceXSI Docs: Usage limits

- Grok plans

- Elon Musk on X: the cost of serving Grok Bot

- ChatGPT pricing

- Claude pricing

- Gemini subscriptions