Key findings
- New self-serve customers start on The X Subscription: Free, Plus US$8, Premium US$30, Super US$100, and Ultra US$200 per month, with annual billing at US$80, US$300, US$1,000, and US$2,000.
- Team seats come at Premium, Super, and Ultra prices per seat, and Plus is for individuals only. Grok Bot is included from Premium up.
- Each paid seat has its own weekly pool for first-party usage, shared across Grok and Cursor. Premium holds 4x the Plus allowance, Super 15x, and Ultra 50x.
- Third-party models in Cursor bill from prepaid credit from the first use, at API list prices, so they never touch the included pool.
- The monthly additional usage limit is the only hard stop on paid extra usage. Alerts warn without stopping it, and adding credit does not raise the cap.
Budget Grok as two lines: the seats, and a top-up balance for heavy users. Each seat's allowance resets every week. Once a person spends it, their usage draws down the balance, which ends when it is empty or reaches the spending limit you set for the month.
What each plan lists
xAI lists The X Subscription's prices in US dollars before sales tax. On every paid tier, a year costs ten times the monthly price. Paid individual plans add X benefits once a personal X account is connected: Plus adds a checkmark and creator tools on X, and Premium and above add full X Premium+ benefits.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Included usage | Team seats | Cost per seat per year, billed monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | US$0 | US$0 | Limited | Free seats only | |
| Plus | US$8 | US$80, or US$7 a month | Base | Not offered | |
| Premium | US$30 | US$300, or US$25 a month | 4x | US$30 per seat | |
| Super | US$100 | US$1,000, or US$84 a month | 15x | US$100 per seat | |
| Ultra | US$200 | US$2,000, or US$167 a month | 50x | US$200 per seat |
xAI documentation, The X Subscription pricing and team plans pages, checked Oct 26, 2026; yearly totals for monthly billing calculated by GILD.
How the weekly pool is spent
From June 2026, paid Grok plans use one weekly pool in place of separate daily limits per product. The Usage tab shows the share used by product (API, Build, Chat, Imagine, and Voice) and the next reset. A chat message draws little from the pool, and a high-quality video or a long coding task draws far more. When the pool runs out, paid features pause until the reset, and free-tier Chat and Voice limits stay available.
What happens past the pool
Extra usage bills from prepaid credit. xAI says Extra Usage Credits cost more per action than the included pool, and that upgrading is the better value for anyone who regularly exceeds it. Top-ups start at US$5 on the web and expire one year after purchase. On a team, seats share one prepaid balance while each keeps its own weekly pool.
- Auto Top-up is off unless someone turns it on, and switching to The X Subscription does not turn it on.
- The monthly additional usage limit can be a fixed amount or an amount per seat on self-serve teams.
- A team can have credit left and still be blocked once the monthly cap is reached.
Existing plans and switching
Existing Cursor, SuperGrok, and X Premium plans continue unless the customer changes or cancels them. Switching to The X Subscription cancels the selected plans with a prorated refund and starts a new billing cycle that day, and a team that paid for Grok Business has it cancelled, with the unused days refunded. Support cannot undo a switch. Enterprise organizations are not moved automatically, and their plan, seats, SSO, and provisioning continue.
Methodology
GILD read xAI's pricing, usage limits, extra usage, spending caps, team plans, and Grok help pages at docs.x.ai on October 26, 2026. Prices are xAI's list prices in US dollars before tax. GILD calculated the yearly totals for monthly billing. xAI does not publish the size of the Plus allowance in absolute units, so the pool sizes are stated as multiples.
Products in this piece
Sources
- Official documentation
- 10
- xAI docs: The X Subscription pricing
- xAI docs: The X Subscription usage limits
- xAI docs: Extra usage credits and top-ups
- xAI docs: Spending caps and alerts
- xAI docs: Team plans, workspaces, seats, and invites
- xAI docs: What is The X Subscription?
- xAI docs: X Premium customers moving to The X Subscription
- xAI docs: Enterprise account unification
- xAI docs: Grok Bot on The X Subscription
- xAI docs: FAQ, Grok Website / Apps