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Grok pricing in the US
SpaceXSI, the company formerly called xAI, sells Grok to Americans through The X Subscription, launched 12 October 2026: Free, then Plus, Premium, Super and Ultra for one person each, in US dollars before sales tax. Teams seats are priced per seat in US dollars and Enterprise is quoted. Use past a plan's weekly pool is paid from prepaid credit, and the Grok API is priced separately per million tokens.
Country
- Starting price
- Free plan
- Paid from US$8/month (Grok Plus)
- Pricing model
- Per person for one user
- Per seat for teams
- Plus prepaid usage credit
- Billing
- Monthly or yearly
- Yearly is about 17% less
- Tax
- Sales tax not included
- Prices in USD; tax added at checkout where required
- YOY change
- Not enough history
- Last updated
- 18 Oct 2026
How much does Grok cost in the US?
Plans
Five plans priced in US dollars before sales tax, with Teams per seat and Enterprise quoted.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual, per month | Who it is for | Key limits |
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| Grok Free | US$0 per user | Not offered | Limited Chat and agent requests, plus standard X | Key limits
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| Grok Plus | US$8 per user | US$6.67 per user | Our introductory plan | Key limits
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| Grok Premium | US$30 per user | US$25 per user | Most popular; recommended for new AI users | Key limits
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| Grok Super | US$100 per user | US$83 per user | Recommended for daily agent users | Key limits
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| Grok Ultra | US$200 per user | US$167 per user | Recommended for power users | Key limits
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| Grok Teams | US$30 per user | Not offered | For professionals collaborating with others | Key limits
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| Grok Enterprise | Contact sales | Not offered | Larger organisations that need invoicing, pooled usage, or advanced security | Key limits
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Additional costs
Costs on top of the plan price.
| Cost | Price | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Usage past the weekly pool | Any amount on the web; iOS packs US$5; US$20; US$50; US$100Prepaid top-up credit, with optional auto top-up and a monthly cap | |
| Third-party models in Cursor | API list priceFrom prepaid credit, from the first request | |
| Grok Teams seats | US$30 Premium; US$100 Super; US$200 UltraPer seat a month, tiers can be mixed | |
| Grok Enterprise | Not publicly listedQuoted, with invoice and wire transfer billing | |
| Sales tax | Rate not statedAdded at checkout where required; prices are shown before tax | |
| Legacy SuperGrok plans in the iOS app | US$10 Lite; US$30 SuperGrok, or US$300 a year; US$100 Plus; US$300 HeavyMonthly in-app purchase, US App Store | |
| Grok Business, legacy | US$30 a userPer user a month; cancelled and refunded on switching | |
| US regional API endpoint | 1.1 times the standard API priceAPI usage |
API prices
The Grok API is billed by use, in US dollars per million tokens, separately from any plan.
| Model | Input | Output | Cached input | Context window | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grok 4.7 | US$2 | US$6 | US$0.50 | 500K tokens |
Grok cost calculator
Enter how many people need Grok, any Super seats, extra usage and API use to price every plan. Estimates in US dollars, excluding sales tax.
How many people in each role will use AI?
For example, General office: 10 people. 12 people in total.
- General officeEmail, writing, summaries and researchpeople
- Content and marketingDrafting, editing and campaignspeople
- Software developmentCoding assistants, reviews and debuggingpeople
- Customer supportReplies and ticket summariespeople
- Finance and analysisSpreadsheets, reports and documentspeople
Do you also want AI to do jobs automatically?
How many times a month for each job. For example, 300 if you sign about 300 contracts a month.
Writing
- Answer support emailsa month
- Summarise email threadsa month
- Answer questions from your documentsa month
- Summarise contractsa month
- Draft blog posts or newslettersa month
- Review code changesa month
Decisions
- Route support ticketsa month
- Score inbound leadsa month
- Flag invoices for reviewa month
- Check documents against a policya month
Estimated cost
US$360a month
Grok Teams: 12 people
- Per year, billed monthly
- US$4,320
- Seats
- US$360
How we worked it out
- General office staff use AI in short bursts, so a standard seat covers them.
- Content and marketing staff use AI through the day, within a standard seat's limits.
Estimated, USD, excluding sales tax.
What Grok costs by company size
Estimated cost by number of employees on the cheapest plan that fits each end of the band. Two or more people are priced on Grok Teams Premium seats.
| Employees | Plans | Monthly cost | Annual cost | |||||||||
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| 1 to 10 | Grok Free to Grok Teams | US$0 to US$300 | US$0 | to | US$300 | US$0 to US$3,600 | US$0 | to | US$3,600 | |||
| 11 to 50 | Grok Teams | US$330 to US$1,500 | US$330 | to | US$1,500 | US$3,960 to US$18,000 | US$3,960 | to | US$18,000 | |||
| 51 to 200 | Grok Teams | US$1,530 to US$6,000 | US$1,530 | to | US$6,000 | US$18,360 to US$72,000 | US$18,360 | to | US$72,000 | |||
| 201 to 500 | Grok Teams | US$6,030 to US$15,000 | US$6,030 | to | US$15,000 | US$72,360 to US$180,000 | US$72,360 | to | US$180,000 | |||
Grok discount codes and offers
Current Grok offers in the US, checked 18 October 2026.
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50% off the first month
Premium US$15, Super US$50, Ultra US$100 for the first month
Claimed on grok.com
Monthly billing; then US$30, US$100 or US$200 a month
The US App Store lists SuperGrok, a legacy plan, as an in-app purchase; whether it carries a free trial there was not checked.
How to negotiate Grok's price
Ranked by confidence of the biggest return.
| Rank | Lever | How it works | What it can save |
|---|---|---|---|
| [01] | Pay yearly | Every paid plan costs about 17% less paid yearly: Premium is US$300 a year against US$360 paid monthly, and Ultra US$2,000 against US$2,400. | US$60 a year on Premium; US$400 on Ultra |
| [02] | Match the tier to the weekly pool you use | Premium gives 4 times Plus's weekly usage, Super 15 times and Ultra 50 times. Move down a tier if the pool is rarely used up. | US$70 a month from Super to Premium; US$100 from Ultra to Super |
| [03] | Put only heavy users on Super seats | Teams seats can be mixed, so only the people who exhaust Premium's weekly pool need a Super seat. | US$70 a month for each person moved from Super to Premium |
| [04] | Cap extra usage | Top-ups are prepaid, auto top-up is optional, and a monthly spending cap can be set. | All extra usage past the cap you set |
| [05] | Keep third-party models out of Cursor | Claude and GPT models in Cursor are not in any plan's pool and are billed from prepaid credit at API list price from the first request. | The API list price of each such request |
| [06] | Ask for volume pricing on Enterprise | Enterprise is quoted and lists volume pricing, invoicing and pooled usage among its terms. | Not publicly listed |
Grok price history
The X Subscription plans launched on 12 October 2026, so there is no earlier price for them to chart yet.
API prices
Grok's API price over the same two years, one line per model family, in US dollars per million tokens. Each point is the blended price, 70% input and 30% output; hover for each launch and change.
Grok alternatives
Other tools in our price guides for the US, largest first by market share.
| Vendor | Starting price | Pricing model | Key difference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Free plan; paid from US$8 a user a month (ChatGPT Go) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus usage credits | Credits for use past Business limits | Price guides |
| Gemini | Free plan; paid from US$4.99 a user a month (Google AI Plus) | Per person on Google AI plans, per user in Google Workspace, plus AI credit top-ups | Business use comes through Workspace | Price guides |
| Claude | Free plan; paid from US$20 a user a month (Claude Pro) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus usage at API rates | Use past plan limits billed at API rates | Price guides |
| Meta AI | Free plan; paid from US$7.99 a user a month (Meta One Core) | Free for everyday use, per person for Core and Premium, per profile for business plans, plus API usage | Free assistant, with paid Meta One bundles per person or per business profile | Price guides |
| DeepSeek | Pay as you go API, per million tokens | Pay as you go, per million tokens, half price off-peak | Half price off-peak | Price guides |
| Mistral Vibe | Free plan; paid from US$15 a user a month (Mistral Vibe Pro) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus usage at API rates | Per person or per seat in US dollars before tax, with API usage in the same plan | Price guides |
| Qwen | US$8 a user a month (Qwen Token Plan Lite) | Per person for one developer, per seat for teams, plus API usage per token | Per person or per seat in US dollars on monthly Credits quotas, plus API usage per token | Price guides |
| Kimi | Free plan; paid from US$19 a user a month (Kimi Plus) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, paid yearly, plus usage top-ups | Per person or per seat in US dollars, Business paid yearly, plus top-ups at about API rates | Price guides |
| Z.ai | Free plan; paid from US$18 a user a month (GLM Coding Plan Lite) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus Team overage at API rates | Per person or per seat in US dollars before tax, 20% off quarterly and 30% off yearly | Price guides |
| MiniMax | Free plan; paid from US$22 a user a month (MiniMax M Plan Go) | Per person for one user, no team plan, plus credit packs past plan limits | Per person in US dollars before tax, no team plan, plus credit packs past plan limits | Price guides |
| Jev | Pay as you go API, per million tokens | Pay as you go, per input token, output free | API only, per billion input tokens in US dollars, output free | Price guides |
Grok pricing questions
Grok Free costs nothing. Plus is US$8 a month, Premium US$30, Super US$100 and Ultra US$200, before sales tax, or US$80, US$300, US$1,000 and US$2,000 paid yearly. Teams seats are US$30, US$100 or US$200 a month, and Enterprise is quoted.
List prices do not include sales tax. SpaceXSI's docs say tax may be added at checkout where required, and X Subscription Corp, which sells the subscriptions, calculates and collects it. The rate depends on where you are and is not stated.
Yes. Teams seats cost the same as the matching individual tier: US$30 a month for Premium, US$100 for Super and US$200 for Ultra. Seats can be mixed, a team can have one person or many, and Plus is not available for teams. Teams has central billing and administration and one shared prepaid top-up balance. Enterprise adds invoicing, SSO, SCIM and volume pricing, and is quoted.
On 12 October 2026 SpaceXSI replaced SuperGrok, Cursor and X Premium sign-ups with The X Subscription, which bundles Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X Premium benefits. Existing SuperGrok, Grok Business, Cursor and X Premium plans continue until changed. The US App Store still lists SuperGrok at US$30 a month or US$300 a year.
Each paid plan has a weekly usage pool shared across Grok, Grok Bot and Cursor. Past it, use is paid from prepaid top-up credit, with optional auto top-up and an optional monthly spending cap. Third-party models in Cursor draw on that credit at API list price from the first request.
The API is billed separately from any plan, in US dollars per million tokens. Grok 4.7 is US$2 for input, US$0.50 for cached input and US$6 for output. Paid plans include API access, but API use does not draw on the plan's weekly pool.
In US dollars, SuperGrok launched in February 2025 at US$30 a month and SuperGrok Heavy in July 2025 at US$300. X Premium+, which included Grok, rose from US$16 to US$22 in December 2024 and to US$40 in February 2025. The X Subscription replaced them on 12 October 2026 at US$8, US$30, US$100 and US$200 a month in the US.
Grok pricing sources and methodology
From grok.com/plans as shown to a US visitor on 18 October 2026, and SpaceXSI's X Subscription docs, which list the same prices. Prices are shown before applicable taxes and fees, so prices here exclude sales tax. Annual per month is each plan's yearly price divided by 12; grok.com rounds these to US$7, US$25, US$84 and US$167.
Estimates from list prices, excluding sales tax. Free, Plus, Premium, Super and Ultra serve one person each; two or more people are priced on Teams, at US$30 a Premium seat and US$100 a Super seat a month, monthly only because no yearly Teams price is published. Ultra seats are not estimated. Extra usage is added at cost. API tokens are priced on the chosen model from Ensurva's AI price guides, in US dollars; no plan includes API credits. Company size assumes every employee gets a Premium seat. Enterprise is quoted and is not priced.
SuperGrok, SuperGrok Lite, Plus and Heavy in the US App Store, and Grok Business, are listed as additional costs, not plans: since 12 October 2026 new customers start on The X Subscription. Whether a new customer in the US can still buy the in-app SuperGrok plans was not tested.
The API table comes from the same data as Ensurva's AI price guides, read from SpaceXSI's own pricing pages, in US dollars per million tokens.
Not charted. The X Subscription plans launched on 12 October 2026, and the plans before them (SuperGrok, X Premium) were different products, so there is no earlier price for these plans. US prices of the earlier plans come from SpaceXSI's announcements and press reports, and are in the pricing questions.
Drawn from how SpaceXSI charges, not from records of negotiated deals.
Not shown. Public comments on Grok's pricing from people identifiably in the US have not been collected yet.
Checked monthly against SpaceXSI's own pages.
The calculator's By use case tab puts each person on a seat that suits how heavily their role uses AI. Software developers use it most, about 15% of their working hours against about 6% across all workers (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2026), so they get the heavier seat where the plan has one. Content, support and finance staff fit a standard seat, and general office staff use AI least. Each automated job is priced at a typical size, about 100 tokens to 75 words: a support reply reads about 1,100 words and writes 200, and a contract summary reads 10,000 and writes 750. Decision jobs read the record and give a short typed answer: about 600 words to route a support ticket, 4,500 to check a document against a policy. Those sizes are Ensurva's own estimates. A model that writes no text, such as Jev, is priced on decision jobs only. Jobs are priced as API use on the vendor's default model, less any API credits the plan includes.
- Grok plans (United States) 18 Oct 2026
- SpaceXSI pricing 18 Oct 2026
- X Subscription pricing 18 Oct 2026
- Team plans 18 Oct 2026
- Extra usage 18 Oct 2026
- Prepaid balance 18 Oct 2026
- Introducing The X Subscription 18 Oct 2026
- Bundled Subscription Terms 18 Oct 2026
- API pricing 18 Oct 2026
- API billing 18 Oct 2026
- SpaceXSI for Business 18 Oct 2026
- Grok Business launch 18 Oct 2026
- Grok on the US App Store 18 Oct 2026
- TechCrunch on The X Subscription 18 Oct 2026
- TechCrunch on X Premium price rises, December 2024 18 Oct 2026
- TechCrunch on X Premium price rises, February 2025 18 Oct 2026
- TechCrunch on SuperGrok Heavy 18 Oct 2026
- MSPowerUser on SuperGrok's launch price 18 Oct 2026
Prices are estimates from SpaceXSI's published list prices on the date shown. Check grok.com before buying.