Is There a Grok Bot Free Tier?
No. Grok Bot has no free tier, no free trial and no public API. It is subscription only, and xAI has published no free access path since the beta opened on 11 August 2026.
That is the entire answer, and most coverage of the launch buries it under feature lists. If you arrived here hoping to try persistent AI agents at zero cost, the honest response is that this specific product will not let you.
The good news is that the thing most people actually want, a bot they can build and run themselves, lives behind a completely different door. AI Perks tracks $7.7M in credits across 194 companies for the layers of that stack which genuinely do hand out free credits.
Grok Bot Is Not the @grok Chatbot
The "grok bot free" search collides two different products. The conversational @grok assistant on X has a free tier. Grok Bot, launched as a separate beta product, does not.
Grok Bot is xAI's persistent agent platform, marketed as "AI teammates". Each agent gets its own dedicated cloud computer. It signs into tools and websites, learns workflows by demonstration, retains memory across sessions, coordinates with other agents and runs continuously without supervision.
That is a different category from a chat window. The nearest comparisons are ChatGPT Agent and Claude Cowork, not a chatbot you tag in a reply. Whatever those two charge, Grok Bot itself has no free entry point, so arriving from a free @grok conversation and assuming the same terms carry over sets you up for a surprise.
The naming overlap is causing real confusion, so it is worth stating plainly:
- @grok on X is conversational, has a free tier, and is not what this page is about.
- Grok Bot is an always-on agent product, is paid only, and has no API.
- The Grok API is a third thing entirely, and it is the one developers building a Discord or Telegram bot should be looking at.
Grok 4.6 shipped one day after the Grok Bot beta, on 12 August 2026, which added to the impression that everything announced that week was one product. It was not.
Which Subscriptions Include Grok Bot
Per xAI's own announcement page, Grok Bot is gated behind SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, SuperGrok Heavy, and Cursor Pro, Pro+, Ultra, Teams Standard and Teams Premium.
The Cursor half of that list surprises people until you trace the ownership. SpaceX acquired xAI in an all-stock merger announced 2 February 2026, and SpaceX and xAI then acquired Anysphere, Cursor's parent company, in June 2026. Grok Bot is bundled into Cursor plans because Cursor and Grok now sit inside the same company.
| Product | Grok Bot included | Free option |
|---|---|---|
| @grok on X | No, separate product | Yes |
| SuperGrok, Plus, Heavy | Listed by xAI | No |
| Cursor Pro, Pro+, Ultra | Listed by xAI | No |
| Cursor Teams Standard, Premium | Listed by xAI | No |
| xAI API | Not applicable, no Grok Bot API | Reported new-account credit |
| Enterprise | Waitlist | No |
Availability at launch was desktop and iOS. Android was described as planned rather than shipped. Enterprise access runs through a waitlist.
Why You Should Check Your Own Plan, Not an Article
xAI's official page lists a broad set of tiers. Secondary coverage narrows real access to the top tiers only. Those two claims conflict, and the sources have not reconciled them.
Reported figures in that secondary coverage cluster around $300 per month for SuperGrok Heavy, $200 per month for Cursor Ultra and $120 per seat per month for Cursor Teams Premium. If those are the real gates, a mid-tier subscriber reading xAI's list would expect access they do not have.
Treat xAI's own page as authoritative, because it is the publisher's own statement about its own product. Then verify inside your account before you upgrade anything. A beta product's entitlement list is exactly the kind of thing that moves week to week without a changelog entry.
Early reviews were not uniformly positive either. One reviewer noted the automatic model router "wasn't great" in the early beta. That is a user experience critique of a product weeks old, not a reason to avoid it, but it is worth knowing before you commit to a top tier to find out for yourself.
What to Use Instead: the Separate Grok API
If your goal is a bot you control, use the xAI API. It is a different product with a different access model, and unlike Grok Bot it comes with a reported credit allowance attached.
A new-account API credit of $25 per month has been reported as current. There is also an optional data sharing program that returns a recurring $150 per month credit in exchange for sharing API request metadata and outputs. That trade is not right for everyone, and it is a genuine trade rather than a giveaway, but it changes the arithmetic for hobby projects considerably.
Token pricing varies by model generation, and published figures differ across sources widely enough that quoting one here would mislead you. Check xAI's own console for current rates rather than trusting a number in any article, including this one.
Two limits worth knowing before you plan around xAI:
- xAI has no dedicated startup credit program comparable to what OpenAI and Anthropic run. The API credits above are what xAI has published, and there is no separate startup track alongside them.
- Grok Bot has no API at all. You cannot build on it, wrap it, or call it from your own code. It is a product you use, not a platform you build on.
That second point is the one that pushes most builders toward the API route by default, and toward AI Perks for the credits xAI itself does not offer.
Where the Free Credits Actually Are
Grok Bot has no credit program, but most other layers of an AI product do. Model providers, compute, vector databases, observability and the tooling around them run startup credit programs, and AI Perks tracks them in one place.
Start at getaiperks.com and filter to the AI Tool and Cloud Infrastructure categories. Those two cover model calls and where your code runs, which is where the bill concentrates.
Do not wait for xAI. No startup program exists there, so budget Grok as a paid line item and fund the rest of the stack with credits instead.
Price the whole stack, not just the model. An always-on agent burns compute, storage, queueing and observability alongside model calls, and those surrounding layers are where the credit programs actually live.
Re-check quarterly. Agent products and their entitlement tiers are moving fast right now, and so are the credit programs around them.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Grok Bot free to try?
No. Grok Bot has no free tier and no free trial. Access requires a paid SuperGrok or Cursor subscription. The free thing people are thinking of is the @grok conversational assistant on X, which is a separate product with a separate access model entirely.
Does Grok Bot have an API?
No. Grok Bot has no public API, so you cannot call it from your own code or build a product on top of it. The separate xAI API is what developers use to build Discord bots, Telegram bots and custom agents, and it carries a reported new-account credit that Grok Bot does not.
How much does Grok Bot cost?
xAI lists it across SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, SuperGrok Heavy and several Cursor tiers. Secondary coverage reports real access starting around $300 per month. Those claims conflict, so check your own account rather than any published figure, including the ones on this page.
Does xAI offer startup credits?
No. xAI runs no dedicated startup credit program comparable to OpenAI's or Anthropic's. New accounts get a reported $25 monthly API credit, and an optional data sharing program returns a reported $150 per month in exchange for sharing request metadata and outputs. Providers that do run dedicated startup programs are tracked at getaiperks.com.
Can I get free credits to build my own Grok bot?
Yes, though the credits come from the wider stack rather than from xAI. Compute, hosting, databases and rival model providers all run programs. AI Perks tracks $7.7M across 194 companies at getaiperks.com, spanning the hosting and model layers a self-built bot runs on.
Can I download Grok Bot on Android, Windows or Linux?
Grok Bot launched on desktop and iOS. Android was described as planned rather than shipped, and xAI has not published a release date. There is no free download on any platform, because the app is an entry point to a subscription rather than a standalone tool you install and run.
Pay for the one tool that has no free tier. Get the rest free at getaiperks.com.