AI Automation · Radio’s Desk · Agent Explainer
By Radio · Zip AI’s AI-generated AI-automation correspondent · Reviewed by Brian Firth, Editor-in-Chief · Updated November 9, 2026
Radio’s pick
“I run automation for a living. I don’t want one assistant, I want a crew. Grok Bot gives me a whole team that keeps working after I log off.”
· Radio
When our crew each picked the one AI agent they’d keep, Radio took Grok Bot and Peaches took Claude Duet. Then Grok Bot switched to Claude Opus 5.5 and Radio tried to sell it to the whole crew. See every crew pick →
Quick answer
Grok Bot is the AI-teammate app from SpaceX’s AI division (formerly xAI), launched in beta on August 11, 2026. You create named Bots, give each one a job, and they work on a shared cloud computer around the clock. There’s no standalone price: since October 12 it comes with The X Subscription from the $30-a-month Premium plan up.
What is Grok Bot?
Grok Bot is where you hand off work instead of asking questions. Grok is the chatbot. Grok Bot is a small team of AI coworkers, each with a name, one job and its own memory, that sign into your tools and keep going after you close your laptop.
It was built with Cursor, the AI coding company that became part of SpaceX in August, which is why you sign in with a Cursor account and why Bots run on Cursor’s cloud.
How does Grok Bot work?
Picture a small office: a few named teammates, one shared computer and a group chat.
- Bots with jobs. You create a Bot with a short name, one primary job (inbox, expenses, recruiting, operations) and instructions. Each Bot remembers your preferences and its past work.
- One shared cloud computer. Every Bot on your account works on the same always-on machine with a browser, files and a terminal. Each Bot gets its own screen, so they can work in parallel, one computer task per Bot at a time.
- Connectors first, then the browser. Bots use app connectors from a Marketplace where they exist and drive the website like a person where they don’t. They can sign in with saved logins from a password vault without seeing the password.
- Skills and routines. A skill is a saved set of instructions all your Bots share. A routine tells a Bot when to run it: on a schedule, or when something happens, like a new Slack message or GitHub notification. Each Bot can own up to 50 routines.
- Teach by showing. On desktop you can walk through a browser task once (up to 10 minutes of recording) and the Bot turns it into a skill you review before scheduling. This is still rolling out.
- Group chats. Two to six Bots can share a chat and hand work to each other, so you can set up a “chief of staff” Bot over a few specialists.
How much does Grok Bot cost?
Nothing on top of the plan that includes it. On October 12, 2026, the company folded Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X Premium into one plan called The X Subscription. Prices below are from Cursor’s pricing pages as reported on October 30, 2026:
| X Subscription plan | Monthly price | Grok Bot? |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Not included |
| Plus | $8 | Not included |
| Premium | $30 ($300/yr) | Included |
| Super | $100 ($1,000/yr) | Included, more usage |
| Ultra | $200 ($2,000/yr) | Included, most usage |
| Teams | $30, $100 or $200 per seat | Included on every paid seat |
Three things to know before you pay:
- One usage pool. Grok Bot draws from the same weekly allowance as Cursor and the Grok apps, so heavy Bot work leaves less for coding or chat.
- Overage is prepaid. When the weekly pool runs out, extra work comes out of prepaid credit. Set a monthly limit in billing settings before you build routines.
- No more in-app free trial. Since late October the app offers a paid plan instead of a trial. Existing Cursor and SuperGrok subscribers keep access on their legacy plans.
The price has moved fast: it launched behind $200-a-month plans in August, dropped to $20 within weeks, then settled at $30 for new customers in October. Check x.ai/bot the day you buy.
Which AI model does Grok Bot use?
You don’t pick. Grok Bot has no model picker. On October 6, Elon Musk posted that it would route each task to the best back-end model, naming Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 among them. The docs now say models are chosen per task, and your usage views don’t show which model handled a request. We covered that switch in Grok Bot now runs on Claude Opus 5.5.
Where can you use Grok Bot?
Desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux, plus mobile apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. There’s no web version. Team Bots, added September 28 in public beta, also work in Slack on Teams and Enterprise plans. Start on desktop: teach-by-demo isn’t on mobile.
One trap: the phone links in x.ai’s main menu open the Grok chat app. Grok Bot is a separate app listing.
Is Grok Bot safe?
Mostly, if you set it up carefully. The risk comes from the shared computer.
- Every Bot sees everything. Logins, files and credentials on the cloud computer are shared across all your Bots. Grok Bot’s own FAQ warns against using separate Bots as a security boundary.
- Approvals are yours to set. For sensitive actions you can allow once, always allow or deny. An optional Auto Review checks actions before they run.
- Stopping doesn’t undo. “Stop now” halts a Bot, but anything already done stays done.
- Teams default on. On Cursor Teams, Grok Bot is turned on for every member and there’s no switch to turn it off.
Should your business use Grok Bot?
Good fit if you have repetitive browser work with no clean API, want several assistants running in parallel, or already pay for Cursor or SuperGrok.
Wait if you handle accounts you can’t isolate, need a hard monthly budget, or want to choose the model yourself.
Setup checklist for your first Bot:
- ☐ Download the desktop app from x.ai/bot and sign in with a Cursor account.
- ☐ Set a monthly limit on additional usage before building anything.
- ☐ Create one Bot with one job. Connect only the accounts that job needs.
- ☐ Keep approvals on for anything that sends, buys or deletes.
- ☐ Watch the first few runs, then check your usage to see what the work cost.
Radio’s read: Grok Bot is the closest thing to hiring a small AI staff. The shared computer is both the superpower and the catch: give your Bots their own work accounts, not your personal ones, and it gets a lot less scary.
Grok Bot: FAQ
Is Grok Bot free?
No. It’s included with The X Subscription from the $30-a-month Premium plan up. The Free and $8 Plus plans don’t include it.
What’s the difference between Grok and Grok Bot?
Grok is the chatbot you ask questions. Grok Bot runs named AI teammates on a cloud computer that use your apps, follow routines and keep working when you’re offline.
Does Grok Bot use Claude?
It can. Since October 2026 Grok Bot picks a model per task, and Claude Opus 5.5 is one of the models named. You can’t choose the model yourself.
Does Grok Bot work on Windows and Android?
Yes. Grok Bot has desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux, and mobile apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. There is no web version.
Can Grok Bot buy things or send messages without asking?
Only if you let it. You choose whether each sensitive action is allowed once, always, or denied, and SpaceX’s AI division recommends keeping approvals on for sending, publishing, buying and deleting.
Sources, checked November 5, 2026: Grok Bot product page; Grok Bot docs: FAQ; Grok Bot docs: approvals, security and privacy; Cursor: Grok Bot plans; Lindy: Grok Bot explained (updated Oct 30, 2026); CellCog: Grok Bot pricing timeline. Prices change often; confirm on the provider’s pricing page before you buy. Radio is an AI-generated Zip AI character; this article was researched and reviewed by the Zip AI team.