Grok Bot

In our experience, Grok Bot gets more done than the other personal agents we've tried. It leans toward action, which we like, and it's why approvals matter.

Our stake: Navigate helps clients set up agents like this one, and publishes templates for Grok Bot. Nobody paid for this guide.

• Morning briefsYour day, summed up before you open your laptop.
• Inbox triageSorted, with replies drafted for your yes.
• Shared Bots in SlackOne bot your whole team can message, on a team plan.
• Live X dataWhat people are saying right now.

Introducing Grok BotGrok Bot, from Grok on YouTube

SpaceXSI's own video, on YouTube. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.

Which plan?

If you're new, buy Premium at x.ai/bot and pay monthly. Setup touches three sites: x.ai to buy it, Cursor for the account you sign in with, and grok.com for spending limits. The note below only matters if you already pay for Cursor or SuperGrok.

How far does it go?

We couldn't find the allowance published as a number. Every run uses it, test runs included, so a job that runs every few minutes costs far more than one that runs each morning. Without extra credits, Grok Bot stops until your weekly allowance resets. We'd accept that at first, because a stopped bot costs less than a surprise bill. Check your usage after the first few days.

For a team

Shared Bots need a Cursor team. A shared bot's reply uses the usage of the person it's answering.

Legacy paid Cursor plans and linked SuperGrok plans include it too, except SuperGrok Lite. The X Subscription's Plus and Free plans don't. Some accounts can start a free trial, a usage credit with a 7-day window. A trial started in the iPhone app turns into a paid subscription unless you cancel first. Prices are in US dollars. Checked 7 Nov 2026.

8 steps, about 30 minutes today, then a week of checking. We put the approvals on before anything else.

1. Get the app
2. Put the brakes on
3. Check your data setting
4. Set your limits
5. Start with one bot
6. Connect your calendar
7. Run one job by hand
8. Know how to stop it

We would use it for low-risk jobs, with approvals on. This is what we would watch.

• Most actions run on their ownThat's the default in SpaceXSI's docs. Auto-review checks each action, but only your Ask first rules always stop one for you, so they come first in the setup.
• Hidden instructionsAn email or web page can carry orders meant for your bot. Keep Ask first on for anything outbound.
• Client recordsCursor says its data processing agreement doesn't apply to individual plans. Keep any mailbox with client records off Grok Bot until you've checked what your plan covers.
• You carry the riskThe Grok Bot terms make you responsible for what your bots do, and ask for human review before financial transactions, outside messages and deleting data.
• Bots share everythingAll your bots share one cloud computer, and SpaceXSI's docs say not to treat them as separate.
• Saved cards fill inA saved card can fill in without a separate approval each time, so don't save one.

In early November 2026, as users reported hitting their limits sooner than usual, Elon Musk said on X that the cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue. Some reports said allowances had been cut. SpaceXSI hasn't confirmed a cut or published new limits. TechRadar

In July 2026, a researcher reported that Grok Build, a separate coding tool from the same company, was uploading whole Git repositories to company storage. Retests from 13 July found no uploads. The company has not confirmed that covers every account or is permanent. The Hacker News

• Your bots need separate logins or files. They all share one cloud computer
• You're on a legacy Cursor plan and need a hard spending limit. There, a limit isn't a hard stop in the middle of a run
• You need to choose or know the model. Grok Bot picks one for each task, which can be a third party's, and doesn't show which

Only one test has scored Grok Bot itself so far: PersonalAgentBench. Dots came first of six and Grok Bot tied for fourth, on a small sample heavy on Google Workspace that its makers call early. We still start people on Grok Bot, because it costs a third as much to begin with and, in our experience, it gets more done. If you'd rather follow the test, start with Dots. Model tests are only a rough guide here, because Grok Bot picks a model for each task and doesn't show which.

• Personal agentsPersonalAgentBench, by micro1. Tests this product
• ?Coding agentsAA Coding Agent Index, by Artificial Analysis. We can't say, because it doesn't show its model
• Self-hosted agentsWildClawBench, by InternLM. Not tested
• ?Office tasksGDPval-AA, by Artificial Analysis. We can't say, because it doesn't show its model
• ?Running a businessVending-Bench, by Andon Labs. We can't say, because it doesn't show its model
• Freelance workRemote Labor Index, by Center for AI Safety and Scale Labs. Not tested

See who tests what

• DotsPeople who already live in ChatGPT. From US$100 a month.
• MuseOwners on Facebook and Instagram, in the US, Canada, Japan or Singapore. Free for most things.
• OpenClawTeams with someone who can secure it. Free software.

Compare Grok Bot and Dots