Is Grok Free? Grok Pricing (2026): Where the Free Plan Stops

Yes. Grok Free costs $0/month and includes limited chat and Cursor agent requests, limited image generation and Grok Build, plus standard X posting, replies, and follows. The current paid plans are Plus at $8, Premium at $30, Super at $100, and Ultra at $200 per month; xAI publishes usage multiples, not guaranteed message counts. Current plans and Free features.

Grok pricing at a glance

Grok is free to start, and most casual users should keep it that way. The paid ladder buys more capacity and named features, but xAI's public pages do not convert that capacity into a guaranteed number of prompts, images, videos, or coding tasks.

Prices and features were verified against the vendors' live pricing pages and documentation on October 14, 2026. These are the plans a new subscriber can buy on xAI's current pricing page, before applicable taxes and fees.

Since October 12, 2026, xAI, now called SpaceXSI, has offered The X Subscription, combining Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor, and X Premium. Existing SuperGrok, Cursor, and X Premium subscribers can keep their plan, price, and features, or switch for a prorated refund when the option appears in billing settings. Launch announcement.

The short verdict remains blunt: stay Free while a reset is merely inconvenient, buy Plus when interruptions recur, choose Premium when its bundle earns its cost, add Super for sustained high usage, and reserve Ultra for work that can defend $200.

What Grok Free actually gives you

Grok Free is a continuing $0 plan, not a timed trial. Its current card lists limited chat and agent requests, plus the ability to post, reply, and follow on X. The feature comparison also marks image generation through Imagine and coding through Grok Build as limited. Cursor's coding agent is included with limited requests. Free plan and comparison.

Video generation starts at Premium, not Free or Plus. The current pricing page does not print a fixed Free message or coding-task count. Do not turn its word “limited” into a daily allowance it has not promised.

That uncertainty is the Free plan's main cost. A senior operator can spend $0 in cash and still lose a useful work session when a cap arrives with no published capacity model. A casual user who asks a few questions or tries an occasional image or coding task may never feel it.

The upgrade trigger should be an event, not curiosity. Write down each time Free blocks a useful outcome: a finished brief, a research decision, a coding task, or a media deliverable. Repeated annoyance is still not a business case unless the interruption delays work worth more than the next plan.

Free also provides a clean way to judge product fit. Try the chat, image, and coding features on work you already need to finish. If those surfaces do not improve your work while the plan costs $0, paying for more of them will not fix the mismatch.

What each paid Grok plan buys

Paid plans buy a shared pool of Grok-model usage across Grok and Cursor. The pool covers Grok models in the Grok apps, Grok on X, and Cursor; within Grok, xAI names Chat, Imagine, Voice, and Bot. It refreshes weekly, and different products consume different amounts. Usage rules.

This changes the budget for a solo builder: coding in Cursor and working in Grok draw on the same included pool. Check remaining usage in settings before assuming an unused app has its own untouched allowance. Third-party models in Cursor are available on Premium and above, but their usage is billed separately at API list prices through top-ups.

Plus: the $8 interruption fix

Plus is the sensible first purchase for a light user who likes Grok but repeatedly hits Free. At $8/month, it includes Grok Chat, Voice, Imagine, Build, and Cursor, alongside an X checkmark, fewer timeline ads, creator tools, and advanced analytics. It is the basic usage tier against which the higher plans are measured. Plus features.

Plus does not include video generation or cloud agents and automations. Buy it monthly as a controlled experiment. If the same cap still interrupts work, the result is useful evidence for Premium rather than a reason to stack random top-ups forever.

Premium: the $30 combined plan

Premium costs $30/month and includes the benefits of SuperGrok, Cursor Pro, and X Premium+, with 4x Plus usage. The pricing page adds the latest Grok models, faster chat responses, video generation, cloud agents and automations, code hosting, and AI code reviews. Most X surfaces become ad-free. Premium features.

xAI describes Grok Bot, included from Premium, as “AI teammates that get work done.” Announcement.

Premium is the strongest default for someone who uses the combined products. xAI puts their former combined price at $90/month, so $30 is a $60 monthly reduction against that stated comparison. That saving matters only if you would otherwise pay for the comparable products; an unused bundle benefit saves nothing.

Super: the $100 high-usage plan

Super costs $100/month and includes 15x Plus usage, Premium's features, and priority model access at peak times. The multiple is relative to Plus, not Premium. Super features.

Super is the rational step when a $30 plan repeatedly pauses paid work. It costs $70 more than Premium and $100 less than Ultra. The decision should come from the workload you cannot finish, not from assuming a larger multiple guarantees a particular number of tasks.

Ultra: a $200 capacity purchase

Ultra is for measured exhaustion, not status. It costs $200/month and includes Super's features with 50x Plus usage, the largest individual pool on the current pricing page. Ultra features.

Ultra costs twice Super. A funded founder running repeatable research or coding workflows can consider it after Super repeatedly stops paid work. A mid-market CTO should require usage records, a named workload, and a monthly value estimate before approving it.

The break-even and cost per outcome

The current monthly ladder has four upgrade gaps: $8 from Free to Plus, $22 from Plus to Premium, $70 from Premium to Super, and $100 from Super to Ultra. Those gaps, calculated from the current prices, are the amounts an interruption must earn back.

xAI's public page does not quote consumer annual prices. Do not carry forward previously published annual figures. If an annual offer appears in your logged-in checkout, compare that exact total with the number of months you expect to keep the plan.

Top-ups create a second break-even. Plus plus $22 of additional usage reaches Premium's $30 sticker price. Premium plus $70 reaches Super at $100, and Super plus $100 reaches Ultra at $200. These are spend break-evens, not equivalent quantities of usage. Separately billed third-party models and API calls remain extra even after a plan upgrade.

Cost per outcome is still useful if you define the outcome yourself. At an assumed 100 completed outcomes in a month, Plus allocates $0.08 to each, Premium $0.30, Super $1.00, and Ultra $2.00. At only 10 useful outcomes, those figures become $0.80, $3.00, $10.00, and $20.00. These are budgeting examples, not included allowances. An outcome is a finished decision, approved document, working code task, or shipped media asset, not another prompt.

That framing changes the purchase. A solo technical builder who completes 100 useful coding and research outcomes with Premium is allocating $0.30 to each. A Super subscriber who produces only 10 useful outcomes is allocating $10.00 to each. The same plan can be cheap or wasteful without its list price changing.

1. 1

   Stay on Free long enough to observe friction

   Record blocked outcomes for a normal working week. Do not count curiosity, only work you would have completed.

2. 2

   Buy the next tier monthly

   Choose Plus first unless you already need Premium's named features. Monthly billing preserves the option to leave.

3. 3

   Check usage before topping up

   Review the shared Grok and Cursor pool in settings. Keep third-party model spend and API charges separate when deciding whether a larger plan would help.

4. 4

   Recheck checkout before an annual commitment

   The public pricing page currently quotes monthly consumer amounts only. If your account shows an annual offer, calculate its break-even from that live checkout total.

Hidden costs and billing catches

The largest hidden cost is spending outside the included pool. xAI offers top-ups when that pool runs out, while third-party models in Cursor on Premium and above carry separate charges at API list prices. Set the available spending caps before relying on those models. A $30 subscription with unreviewed extra usage is no longer a fixed $30 bill. Usage and separate charges.

Subscriptions renew automatically. The current pricing page and bundled subscription terms say to cancel at least 24 hours before renewal. Payments are generally non-refundable except where law requires a refund or the service specifies one. The announced prorated refund for switching an existing plan is a specific offer; it does not turn ordinary cancellation into a refund promise.

Refund and cancellation routes depend on the purchase channel. Cancel Apple purchases through the App Store, Google purchases through Google Play, and web purchases through account settings. Check the terms attached to the subscription you actually hold, especially if you are keeping an existing plan.

Account identity can also create accidental double billing. A subscription belongs to the account used at purchase. Signing into another identity can make a paid plan appear missing. Confirm the active login before paying again. Grok account and billing FAQ.

Mobile prices, local taxes, currency conversion, and payment-method fees can change the checkout total. The prices here are the public dollar amounts on xAI's website. Compare the final amount on the exact platform where you intend to manage the subscription.

xAI lists no student tier or student discount on its current pricing page. Students can use Free, but there is no published reduced subscription rate on that page to budget around.

Grok app, X Premium, and API billing

Grok, Cursor, and X benefits now come together in The X Subscription. API usage remains a separate bill, even though paid plans include API access. That is the distinction to keep in the budget. Current billing rules.

X Premium benefits are now part of the bundle

Plus includes the X checkmark, fewer timeline ads, creator tools, and advanced analytics. Premium includes X Premium+ benefits alongside SuperGrok and Cursor Pro benefits. A new subscriber should compare those current bundles rather than add an old standalone X price to a new Grok plan.

Existing subscribers have a different decision: keep the plan, price, and features they already have, or compare the switch offer in billing settings. xAI says a switch brings a prorated refund for the old plan. Do not assume the new names mean an existing subscription was automatically replaced. Existing-subscriber policy.

The API charges for usage separately

The xAI API is the route for software and automation you want to meter directly. Paid subscription plans include API access, but API calls are charged at standard model rates and do not draw from the Grok and Cursor pool. API credits are non-refundable. Subscription FAQ and API credit policy.

For Grok 4.7 below 200,000 prompt tokens, global standard rates are $2 per million fresh input tokens, $0.50 per million cached input tokens, and $6 per million output tokens. A normalized exchange with 1,000 fresh input and 1,000 output tokens costs $0.008. At that shape, a separate $30 API budget funds 3,750 exchanges before tools, retries, storage, or priority processing. These are calculations from API rates, not a subscription allowance.

Reach 200,000 prompt tokens and the long-context rates apply to every token in the request: $4 input, $1 cached input, and $12 output per million. Priority Processing doubles standard token rates. Web search and code execution each add $5 per 1,000 calls; X search costs $5 per 1,000 posts fetched and $10 per 1,000 profiles fetched.

Media has clearer output pricing. A 1K Low image from grok-imagine-image-2.0 costs $0.04 to output, plus $0.01 when an image is supplied as input. On output price alone, $30 equals 750 images; choosing 1.5K Low at $0.05 instead makes that 600 images. For grok-imagine-video-1.5, 30 total seconds of output cost $4.20 at 720p or $7.50 at 1080p, before image-input charges. Seven such 720p workloads cost $29.40; eight cost $33.60. Image and video rates.

API storage can keep billing after generation. File storage is $0.025 per GiB per day, collection storage is $0.10 per GiB per day, and downloads are $0.20 per GiB. The Grok 4.5 review works through that model's broader token and context economics.

The decision rule is practical. Use the subscription for interactive work across its included products. Use the API when you need programmatic control and a countable bill. Do not buy a consumer plan expecting it to fund production calls.

Grok versus ChatGPT and Claude on price

ChatGPT matches Grok at the entry paid tier and remains cheaper at the mainstream tier. Its current ladder is $0 for Free, $8 for Go, $20 for Plus, and from $100 for Pro. Official OpenAI pricing.

Grok's Plus and ChatGPT Go both cost $8. The X Subscription's Premium costs $10 more than ChatGPT Plus, a 50% premium, but now includes Cursor Pro and X Premium+ benefits. Super matches ChatGPT Pro's $100 starting price. Those differences buy different products, so the right comparison is the workflow you need, not the longest feature list. The full current ladder is in the ChatGPT pricing guide.

Claude is tied with ChatGPT at the mainstream monthly tier. Claude Free costs $0, Claude Pro costs $20 month to month or $200 paid up front annually, and Claude Max starts at $100/month. Claude pricing.

Annual Claude Pro normalizes to $16.67 per month from a $200 upfront payment. Premium is $10 more than Claude Pro on monthly billing, and xAI's public page does not currently quote a consumer annual amount that would narrow the gap. The Claude Free and pricing analysis explains where its own variable limits stop being economical.

Choose Grok's bundle when its AI, coding, and X benefits earn their place in your work. Choose ChatGPT or Claude when their work surfaces fit better and the bundle adds nothing you would use. A buyer who cannot name that extra value should not pay 50% more for the mainstream plan.

Which Grok plan should you choose?

Free is the right plan for the casual researcher or anyone still deciding whether Grok's chat, images, or coding features are useful. Waiting through a cap costs less than a recurring charge when no deadline is attached.

Plus is the right first purchase for a solo user whose Free access interrupts useful work. Its $8 price keeps the experiment small while adding the paid Grok and Cursor pool and X benefits. Skip it if video generation or cloud agents are the reason you are subscribing.

Premium is the strongest default for a senior operator or solo builder who wants the combined Grok, Cursor, and X benefits. The $30 price buys 4x Plus usage and needs a workflow-specific reason because ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro each cost $20.

Super is the step for a user who can show that Premium's weekly pool is stopping paid work. At $100, it offers 15x Plus usage and priority model access at peak times.

Ultra belongs to a funded founder or production user with measured high-volume work. Its $200 price buys 50x Plus usage. A mid-market CTO should skip it for ordinary employee chat without account data showing why the smaller pool is insufficient.

The final rule is simple: Free until interruption has a cost, Plus until its limits or missing features matter, Premium until measured usage warrants Super, and Ultra only when the workload can defend $200 with completed outcomes. This week, check the shared usage meter and your existing subscriptions before buying the next tier.

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok fully free?

Grok has a continuing $0/month plan with limited chat and Cursor agent requests, limited image generation and Build, and standard X posting, replies, and follows. Paid features and higher usage require an upgrade.

Does free Grok have a limit?

Yes. The current pricing page labels Free usage as limited but does not print an absolute message or agent-request allowance. Treat exact limits reported elsewhere as observations, not guaranteed plan terms.

How much does Grok cost?

The current individual plans are Free at $0, Plus at $8/month, Premium at $30/month, Super at $100/month, and Ultra at $200/month. Premium, Super, and Ultra include 4x, 15x, and 50x Plus usage respectively. Teams starts at $30 per user each month; Enterprise uses custom pricing. Applicable taxes and fees are extra.

How can I use Grok without paying?

Start with Free through the link on x.ai/pricing or sign in at grok.com. You do not need a paid X subscription to start using the Free plan.

Is Grok free on Android and iPhone?

Grok has web, iOS, and Android apps and a Free plan. If you later subscribe, manage billing through the account and purchase channel you used.

Does Grok offer a student discount?

xAI lists no student tier or student discount on its current pricing page. Students can use the standard Free plan.

Can I get a refund for Grok or SuperGrok?

xAI says existing SuperGrok, Cursor, and X Premium subscribers can switch to The X Subscription for a prorated refund of their old plan. Ordinary cancellation is different: payments are generally non-refundable except as required by law or specified by the service. Check billing settings and the terms for your purchase channel.

Did Grok pricing change in 2026?

Yes. The X Subscription replaced the new-subscriber ladder with Free, Plus, Premium, Super, and Ultra and a Grok-model usage pool shared across Grok and Cursor. Existing subscribers may keep their plan, price, and features instead of switching.

Is the Grok API included with SuperGrok?

For the new plans, API access is included with paid subscriptions, but API usage is billed separately at standard model rates. It does not draw from the shared Grok and Cursor pool. Existing SuperGrok subscribers should check their retained plan's terms.

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