Grok Plus vs Grok Premium: Complete Comparison and Report on Price, Usage Limits, Cursor Features, and Grok Bot
Grok Plus and Grok Premium are the two entry-level paid tiers of The X Subscription, the single plan that SpaceXSI (the company behind xAI and Grok) introduced on October 12, 2026 to bundle Grok, Grok Bot, the Cursor coding editor and X Premium benefits. Plus costs $8 a month or $80 a year, Premium costs $30 a month or $300 a year, and both draw on one weekly usage pool shared across the Grok apps, the Grok tab on X and Cursor. Above them sit Super at $100 and Ultra at $200, with 15x and 50x the usage of Plus.
The decision between the two comes down to features more than volume. Premium includes 4x the usage of Plus for 3.75x the price, so each unit of usage costs $7.50 on Premium against $8 on Plus when billed monthly. More decisive are the features that only Premium carries: Grok Bot, video generation, Cursor cloud agents and automations, Bugbot code reviews, code hosting through Origin, and third-party models such as Claude or GPT in Cursor at API list price. Plus keeps Grok chat, voice, image generation, Grok Build, Grok API access, the X checkmark and the X creator tools, and runs Cursor's first-party models at fixed settings (Fast off, medium effort).
For someone who wants the X checkmark, everyday Grok chat and image generation, Plus covers the job at a quarter of the price. For anyone who codes in Cursor every day, wants Grok Bot agents or needs Grok video, Premium is the lowest tier that includes those features at all, and xAI says the benefits it bundles previously cost $90 a month when bought separately. Prices and plan terms in this comparison are as listed on the official xAI and Cursor pricing pages on November 9, 2026.
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GROK PLUS AND GROK PREMIUM: WHAT THE X SUBSCRIPTION CHANGED.
Before October 2026, Grok, Cursor and X were sold as separate subscriptions. A Grok user paid for SuperGrok, a developer paid for Cursor Pro, and an X user paid for X Premium or Premium+. The X Subscription replaced that arrangement for new customers with five tiers (Free, Plus, Premium, Super and Ultra) that cover all three products under one bill and one usage meter. xAI announced the plan on October 12, 2026, made it available to new customers that day and said it would reach users globally over the following days.
Existing subscribers were left where they were. According to the official overview, current SuperGrok, Cursor and X Premium plans continue at their current price unless the subscriber changes or cancels them, and switching is optional. A subscriber who does switch gets the old plan cancelled with a prorated refund for unused time, and the switch is permanent: xAI states that its support team cannot undo it. New customers, including people who only have a free X account, start directly on The X Subscription.
The mapping between old and new plans helps place Plus and Premium. Cursor's help center lists legacy Cursor Pro at $20 a month as comparable to Premium, legacy Pro+ at $60 as comparable to Super, and legacy Cursor Ultra at $200 as comparable to Ultra. Plus has no legacy Cursor equivalent outside India, where the Start plan at ₹649 a month is mapped to it. On the X side, the official X Premium page says Plus carries a checkmark, creator tools and fewer ads, while Premium, Super and Ultra carry "full X Premium+ benefits".
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Item | Grok Plus | Grok Premium |
Monthly price | $8 | $30 |
Annual price | $80 ($7/mo as listed) | $300 ($25/mo as listed) |
Usage vs Plus | 1x (base) | 4x |
Grok Bot | Not included | Included |
Video generation | Not included | Included |
Cursor cloud agents, Bugbot, Origin | Not included | Included |
Third-party models in Cursor | Not available (Grok models only) | Available at API list price |
X benefits | Checkmark, creator tools, fewer ads | Full X Premium+ benefits |
Team seats | Not available | $30 per seat |
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GROK PLUS VS GROK PREMIUM PRICING, ANNUAL DISCOUNT AND COST PER USAGE UNIT.
The official pricing page, last updated October 11, 2026, lists Plus at $8 a month and Premium at $30 a month. The annual prices are $80 for Plus and $300 for Premium, which xAI displays as about $7 and $25 a month. In both cases the annual price equals ten months of the monthly price, a saving of 16.7% on twelve monthly payments: $16 a year on Plus and $60 a year on Premium. List prices exclude sales tax, which the page says may be added at checkout.
xAI does not publish the size of any usage pool in tokens, messages or dollars. It publishes multipliers instead, with Plus as the base unit. That makes it possible to compute what each tier charges per unit of usage, although the unit itself stays undisclosed. The arithmetic below was run in Python from the official monthly and annual prices.
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Plan | Monthly price | Annual price | Usage multiplier | Cost per usage unit (monthly) | Cost per usage unit (annual, per month) |
Plus | $8 | $80 | 1x | $8.00 | $6.67 |
Premium | $30 | $300 | 4x | $7.50 | $6.25 |
Super | $100 | $1,000 | 15x | $6.67 | $5.56 |
Ultra | $200 | $2,000 | 50x | $4.00 | $3.33 |
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The gap between Plus and Premium on a pure usage basis is small. Premium is 6.25% cheaper per unit than Plus on monthly billing, and the annual Premium plan at $6.25 per unit is slightly cheaper than annual Plus at $6.67. The steep discounts begin higher up the ladder, where Ultra delivers each unit of usage for half of what Plus charges. A user who would need four times the Plus allowance pays $30 on Premium against $32 for the same multiple of Plus, but multiple Plus subscriptions cannot be combined into one pool, so in practice the comparison is between one Plus account and one Premium account.
The other number xAI attaches to Premium is its bundle value. The launch announcement says Premium includes SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and X Premium+ benefits that were previously $90 a month combined. The figure is xAI's own and describes the separate prices of the older products; it is the clearest official statement of what the $30 tier replaces.
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GROK PLUS AND GROK PREMIUM USAGE LIMITS: ONE WEEKLY POOL FOR GROK AND CURSOR.
Every paid seat on The X Subscription gets a single weekly pool of included usage. The official usage-limits page, last updated October 11, 2026, says the pool covers "eligible first-party usage only" and is shared across the Grok apps, the Grok tab on X, Grok Bot and Cursor, instead of being split into separate quotas per product. Different products draw different amounts from the pool, and the Grok help center states that a chat message uses far less than a video or a long coding task. The live usage view at grok.com/dashboard shows the next reset date.
The size of the pool depends on the plan and is expressed only as a multiple of Plus. Premium is 4x, Super is 15x and Ultra is 50x. Cursor's help center confirms that the pool covers its first-party "Cursor models", listed as Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6, Grok 4.5 and Composer 2.5, and that third-party models are never part of it. Unused included usage does not roll over to the next week.
Two separate charges sit outside the pool. The first is Additional Usage: first-party usage beyond the weekly allowance, paid from prepaid credit that the subscriber buys as top-ups. The second applies only to Premium and higher: third-party models such as Claude or GPT in Cursor, which are billed at API list price from the first request. Grok API access, included on both Plus and Premium according to the Cursor pricing table, is billed separately at standard model rates and does not draw from the plan's pool.
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Usage rule | Grok Plus | Grok Premium |
Weekly included pool | Base (1x) | 4x Plus |
Pool covers | Grok apps, Grok on X, Cursor first-party models | Grok apps, Grok on X, Cursor first-party models, Grok Bot |
Cursor models in pool | Grok 4.7, 4.6, 4.5, Composer 2.5 | Grok 4.7, 4.6, 4.5, Composer 2.5 |
Cursor model settings | Fixed (Fast off, medium effort) | Auto in Cost mode; fixed-settings rule stated for Plus only |
Third-party models | Not available | API list price from prepaid credit, from first use |
Usage beyond the pool | Prepaid credit at API list prices | Prepaid credit at API list prices |
Rollover | None | None |
Reset | Weekly | Weekly |
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Prepaid credit comes with its own controls. The official prepaid-balance page says credit can be bought at any time from the billing page, that Auto Top-up runs only when the subscriber turns it on, and that a monthly spending cap stops paid Additional Usage once reached, even when credit remains. Cursor's help center adds that each top-up expires 365 days after purchase. Switching to The X Subscription does not turn on Auto Top-up by itself.
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GROK PLUS VS GROK PREMIUM IN THE GROK APPS: CHAT, IMAGINE, VIDEO AND GROK BOT.
On the Grok side, Plus and Premium share most of the everyday features. The official comparison table on Cursor's pricing page, which presents the full X Subscription, marks Grok Chat, image generation with Imagine, Grok Build and Grok API access as included on both tiers. The Free tier gets limited Chat, limited Imagine and limited Grok Build, and no API access.
The differences on the Grok side are three. Video generation is marked as a Premium feature and is blank for Plus. Grok Bot, xAI's agent product described in the launch post as "AI teammates that complete work", is included on Premium, Super and Ultra and excluded from Plus; the Grok Bot page of the X Subscription documentation states that "the Plus plan doesn't include Grok Bot", and Cursor's Grok Bot help page directs Plus and Free users to upgrade to Premium or higher. The plan cards also list "latest Grok models" and "faster Chat" among the additions that Premium brings over Plus, without naming which model versions are reserved to the higher tier.
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Grok feature | Free | Grok Plus | Grok Premium |
Grok Chat | Limited | Included | Included, listed as faster |
Voice | Voice mode on Free | Included | Included |
Image generation (Imagine) | Limited | Included | Included |
Video generation | Not included | Not included | Included |
Grok Build | Limited | Included | Included |
Grok API access | Not included | Included, billed separately | Included, billed separately |
Grok Bot | Not included | Not included | Included |
Latest Grok models | Not listed | Not listed | Listed on the plan card |
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Grok Bot usage counts against the same weekly pool as chat and coding, which affects how far the Premium allowance stretches: a Premium subscriber who runs Grok Bot agents for long tasks spends the same allowance that covers Cursor sessions and Grok chats, and the Grok Bot documentation says only that Super and Ultra include larger weekly pools than Premium, without numbers. Data Studios covered the most recent change to Grok Bot limits in our report on Grok Bot usage limits.
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GROK PLUS VS GROK PREMIUM IN CURSOR: AGENTS, BUGBOT AND THIRD-PARTY MODELS.
Cursor is where the two plans differ the most. Both include Cursor's Agent and both draw on the weekly pool for the first-party models. According to Cursor's pricing help page, Plus runs those models "at fixed settings (Fast off, medium effort)" and does not include Auto, Cloud Agents, Automations, Bugbot, Origin or third-party models. Premium and higher add all of these. On individual plans, Auto is available in Cost mode only; the Balance and Intelligence modes are reserved for Teams and Enterprise.
The practical effect is that Plus works as a Grok-only coding assistant inside the editor, with a single effort level. Premium turns Cursor into the full product that legacy Cursor Pro offered: cloud agents that run tasks remotely, automations, AI code reviews through Bugbot, code hosting through Origin, and the option to call models from other providers. Those third-party models are billed at API list price from prepaid credit and never come out of the included pool. Cursor's token-rate page adds that individual plans do not pay the $0.25 per million token Cursor Token Rate that team plans pay on third-party requests.
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Cursor feature | Grok Plus | Grok Premium |
Agent | Included | Included |
First-party models (Grok 4.7, 4.6, 4.5, Composer 2.5) | Included, fixed settings | Included |
Fast mode and effort level | Fast off, medium effort | No fixed-settings restriction stated |
Auto | Not included | Cost mode (individual plans) |
Cloud agents and automations | Not included | Included |
AI code reviews (Bugbot) | Not included | Included |
Code hosting (Origin) | Not included | Included |
Third-party models | Not available | API list price, from first use |
Cursor Token Rate on third-party models | Not applicable | Not charged on individual plans |
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The model behind most of this usage is Grok 4.7, released on September 21, 2026. xAI's developer documentation lists it with a 500,000-token context window and four reasoning effort levels (low, medium, high and xhigh, with high as the API default). The release notes add that Grok 4.7 Fast, which xAI says doubles output speed, costs twice the standard token rates and is available only in Cursor and Grok Build, billed through the plan. Since Plus fixes Fast off and medium effort, a Plus subscriber cannot use the Fast variant or the higher effort levels in Cursor.
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GROK PLUS VS GROK PREMIUM ON X: CHECKMARK, ADS AND CREATOR TOOLS.
The X benefits are the area where Plus comes closest to Premium. Both tiers include the Premium checkmark and the full creator toolkit listed in the official comparison table: getting paid to post, editing posts, longer posts, Articles, Media Studio, Advanced Analytics, bookmark folders, offline and background video, community creation, video downloads, the Highlights tab, Creator Subscriptions, reply boost and Radar Search. X's own documentation, last updated November 3, 2026, describes the Plus benefits as a checkmark, creator tools and fewer ads, and the Premium benefits as full X Premium+ benefits.
The visible difference on X is advertising. The comparison table lists ad-free scrolling on "some surfaces" for Plus and on "most surfaces" for Premium, and the launch announcement says the highest tiers remove ads from the timeline entirely without naming which tiers those are. The X Money rows are the same on both tiers in the table (6.00% APY and 3% cashback), with the Plus cells carrying a direct-deposit condition on the APY.
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X benefit | Free | Grok Plus | Grok Premium |
Post, reply and follow | Included | Included | Included |
Premium checkmark | Not included | Included | Included |
Ad-free scrolling | Not included | Some surfaces | Most surfaces |
Get paid to post, Creator Subscriptions | Not included | Included | Included |
Edit posts, longer posts, Articles | Not included | Included | Included |
Media Studio, Advanced Analytics | Not included | Included | Included |
Radar Search, reply boost | Not included | Included | Included |
X Premium+ benefits | Not included | Not stated | Full Premium+ benefits |
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For subscribers who already pay for X Premium+, the official X Premium page gives a direct instruction: to keep Premium+ benefits after switching, choose Premium or higher. Switching cancels any X Premium or Premium+ subscription on the connected account, with an automatic refund for unused time, and Premium Business accounts and their affiliates can claim the Premium plan at no extra charge from Premium Hub.
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GROK PLUS VS GROK PREMIUM COST EXAMPLES: WHAT EXTRA USAGE COSTS AT GROK 4.7 RATES.
Because xAI does not publish pool sizes, the only usage cost that can be calculated from official figures is the cost of usage beyond the pool. The launch announcement states that usage beyond the included pool is billed at API list prices via top-ups. The API list price for Grok 4.7, the newest model in the Cursor pool, is $2 per million input tokens, $0.50 per million cached input tokens and $6 per million output tokens for prompts below 200,000 tokens, rising to $4, $1 and $12 above that threshold, with the Fast variant at twice the standard rates.
The examples below apply those rates to three monthly volumes of overage, all with prompts under 200,000 tokens. The assumptions are stated in the table: total input tokens, the share of them served from cache, and output tokens. The arithmetic was run in Python. They show what a subscriber would pay on top of the plan price once the weekly pool runs out; they do not show whether Premium's 4x pool would absorb the same work, because xAI does not disclose how many tokens one unit of pool usage represents.
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Assumed monthly overage profile | Input tokens | Of which cached | Output tokens | Grok 4.7 cost | Grok 4.7 Fast cost |
Light (occasional long chats and small coding jobs) | 10M | 6M | 0.5M | $14.00 | $28.00 |
Agent (daily Cursor agent sessions) | 40M | 30M | 2M | $47.00 | $94.00 |
Heavy (long agent runs most days) | 120M | 96M | 6M | $132.00 | $264.00 |
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Two readings follow from these numbers. A Plus subscriber who regularly exceeds the pool by the light profile pays $8 plus $14, or $22 a month, still below the $30 Premium price, while keeping Plus's feature limits. A Plus subscriber at the agent profile pays $8 plus $47, or $55 a month, nearly twice the Premium price, and at that point the upgrade buys four times the included usage and the features Plus lacks for less than the overage alone; the remaining uncertainty is how much of that work Premium's pool would cover. Fast mode doubles every figure, and Plus runs Cursor with Fast off.
On an annual basis, moving from Plus to Premium costs $220 more per year ($300 against $80), or $264 more on monthly billing ($360 against $96). Third-party model usage in Cursor, available only on Premium and higher, adds its own cost at each provider's API list price from the first request and should be budgeted separately.
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GROK PREMIUM FOR TEAMS AND WHY GROK PLUS IS INDIVIDUAL-ONLY.
Team plans start at Premium. The official pricing page lists team seats at $30 for Premium, $100 for Super and $200 for Ultra, each with the same usage as the matching individual tier, and states that Plus is not available for teams. Teams can mix seat tiers, for example three Premium seats and one Super seat, and get centralized billing, administration and usage analytics. The launch post adds that, compared with older Cursor Teams plans, teams get 3x more coding usage, along with SSO, admin controls and SOC 2 compliance.
Each paid team seat keeps its own weekly pool; seats do not share included usage, while the team shares one prepaid balance for Additional Usage. Team plans pay the $0.25 per million token Cursor Token Rate on third-party model requests on top of the model's API price, which individual plans do not pay. Cursor's legacy Teams Standard plan at $40 per user is mapped to a Premium seat, and Teams Premium at $120 per user is mapped to a Super seat.
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Team rule | Grok Plus | Grok Premium seat |
Available for teams | No | Yes |
Seat price | Not applicable | $30 per seat |
Usage per seat | Not applicable | Same as individual Premium (4x Plus) |
Pool sharing between seats | Not applicable | No, each seat has its own pool |
Prepaid balance | Individual | Shared across the team workspace |
Cursor Token Rate on third-party models | Not applicable | $0.25 per 1M tokens on top of API price |
Comparable legacy Cursor plan | Start (India only) | Teams Standard ($40 per user) |
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SWITCHING, UPGRADING AND CANCELLING BETWEEN GROK PLUS AND GROK PREMIUM.
The upgrade path from Plus to Premium is immediate on the web. According to the official upgrade page, last updated October 11, 2026, the higher tier starts at once on web purchases and checkout shows how any remaining value is handled; on iPhone and iPad the change takes effect after Apple confirms it, and on Android after Google Play confirms the purchase. Cursor's help center states that on The X Subscription upgrades apply right away and downgrades apply at the end of the billing period, so a Premium subscriber who drops to Plus keeps Premium until the period ends.
The billing cycle is chosen when the plan changes, which is the moment to move to annual billing for the 16.7% discount. Plans are managed at grok.com/dashboard/billing. Apple App Store subscriptions to Cursor are not cancelled by switching and must be cancelled in the device settings, with any refund decided by Apple. Subscribers who still hold a legacy SuperGrok, Cursor or X Premium plan can keep it; switching cancels the selected old plans at checkout with a prorated refund sent separately, so the new plan is charged at full price on the day of the switch.
For a full view of every tier from Free to Ultra, including the legacy SuperGrok plans still in use, see our guide to Grok pricing and plans. Readers comparing Grok's tiers with ChatGPT and Claude can find the cross-vendor picture in our Grok vs ChatGPT vs Claude plans comparison.
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WHAT XAI HAS NOT PUBLISHED ABOUT GROK PLUS AND GROK PREMIUM.
Several figures that matter for this choice are missing from the official pages. The size of the Plus pool, and therefore of every multiple of it, is not stated in tokens, messages, dollars or minutes of video. The usage-limits page says only that higher tiers include larger pools and refers readers to the pricing page, which gives multipliers. The rate at which chat, voice, Imagine, Grok Bot and coding consume the pool is described as varying by product, with no table.
The plan cards also leave the model split loose. Premium is listed with "latest Grok models" and "faster Chat", while Cursor's help center lists the same first-party models (Grok 4.7, 4.6, 4.5 and Composer 2.5) in the pool of all paid plans, with Plus restricted to fixed settings. Which Grok model versions, if any, are unavailable in the Grok apps on Plus is not specified. The number of ad-free surfaces on each tier, the context window per plan in the Grok apps and any per-plan Imagine image quota are also unpublished. There are no independent evaluations of the plans themselves; the benchmark tables xAI published for Grok 4.7 describe the model and apply to both tiers equally.
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GROK PLUS OR GROK PREMIUM: WHICH PLAN FITS WHICH USER.
The facts above sort most users into one tier without much ambiguity. The table below matches common workloads to the plan that covers them, using only the features and prices listed on the official pages.
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Workload or need | Recommended plan | Reason |
X checkmark, creator tools and payouts | Grok Plus | Same creator toolkit as Premium for $8 |
Everyday Grok chat and image generation | Grok Plus | Chat and Imagine included; $8 per usage unit against $7.50 on Premium |
Grok video generation | Grok Premium | Video generation is not included on Plus |
Grok Bot agents | Grok Premium | Grok Bot is excluded from Plus |
Daily coding in Cursor with cloud agents or Bugbot | Grok Premium | Cloud agents, automations, Bugbot and Origin start at Premium |
Claude or GPT models inside Cursor | Grok Premium | Third-party models are unavailable on Plus |
Keeping existing X Premium+ benefits | Grok Premium | xAI says to choose Premium or higher to keep Premium+ |
A small team | Grok Premium seats | Plus is not sold for teams; seats start at $30 |
Regular overage above $22 a month on Plus | Grok Premium | Plus plus overage passes the $30 Premium price |
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Plus is the right purchase for X-centric users and light Grok users: it delivers the checkmark, the creator tools, chat, voice, image generation, Grok Build and API access for $8 a month or $80 a year. Premium is the right purchase as soon as any one of its exclusive features is needed, because Plus has no add-on path to Grok Bot, video generation, Cursor cloud agents, Bugbot or third-party models, and the $22 monthly difference also buys four times the included usage. A developer who works in Cursor most days should start at Premium, on annual billing at $300, and watch the weekly usage meter before considering Super.
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