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THE X SUBSCRIPTION -- GROK, GROK BOT, CURSOR AND X PREMIUM IN ONE PLAN, OLD PLANS CLOSED TO NEW CUSTOMERS (2026-10-12, vendor-primary): SpaceXAI introduced **The X Subscription**, 'which brings together Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor, and X Premium in one plan', available to new customers from 10/12 and 'to everyone globally' over the next few days. **Tiers (x.ai/pricing, identical on cursor.com/pricing):** **Free $0** (daily Grok Chat, Imagine, Voice and Build, a starter Cursor agent allowance, standard X); **Plus $8/month** (base usage; Grok Chat, Voice, Imagine, Build, Grok API and Cursor -- **Grok models only in Cursor on Plus**; checkmark, fewer ads, creator tools); **Premium $30/month** (4x Plus; Grok Bot, video generation, Cursor cloud agents, Origin code hosting, Bugbot reviews; 'the benefits of SuperGrok, Cursor Pro, and X Premium+, previously $90/month combined'); **Super $100/month** (15x Plus, peak-time priority); **Ultra $200/month** (50x Plus, earliest access); **Teams from $30 per user/month** (Premium, Super or Ultra seats at individual prices, SSO and admin controls; SpaceXAI claims 3x more coding usage than older Cursor Teams at a lower per-seat price); **Enterprise custom** with one usage pool across Grok and Cursor. **How usage works:** one pool shared across Grok (Chat, Imagine, Voice, Bot, API) and Cursor, **refreshed weekly**; top-ups when it runs out. **Third-party models in Cursor (Claude, GPT, Gemini) are not in the allowance on any self-serve tier -- Premium and above can use them billed separately at API list prices via top-ups**; Plus cannot use them at all. SpaceXAI says every X Subscription plan includes 'at least twice as much coding usage with our models as the comparable Cursor plan' and that each comparable new tier gives more usage per dollar. **Existing subscribers:** SuperGrok, Cursor and X Premium plans continue unchanged at their current price; 'the previous plans are no longer available for new sign-ups'; switching ends the old plan with a prorated refund and comes with limited-time upgrade offers; annual terms run to their end date; 'Eventually we'll move any remaining customers to the new plans, but there's no timeline yet', with advance notice promised. Subscriptions are sold only by X Subscription Corp. **This page's pricing table now shows the new ladder; the old X Premium+ / SuperGrok Heavy figures are no longer quoted because they were unverifiable and are closed to new buyers.**
2026-10-12•SpaceXAI (x.ai/news/x-subscription, JSON-LD datePublished 2026-10-12, on-page 'Oct 12, 2026'); x.ai/pricing and cursor.com/pricing (both now show the same Free / Plus $8 / Premium $30 / Super $100 / Ultra $200 / Teams $30+ per user / Enterprise ladder, sold by X Subscription Corp.) -- post fetched via curl with browser UA, pricing pages via Firecrawl, all 2026-10-12
TEAM BOTS -- SHARED GROK BOTS WITH PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS, PUBLIC BETA ON TEAMS AND ENTERPRISE (2026-09-28, vendor-primary): 'Today we're launching Team Bots, Grok Bots that work and learn alongside your team. Give one access to the files, apps, and expertise it needs, then share it so everyone can work from the same context.' A Team Bot is built around a role or workflow and combines four things: **Context** (files, instructions, skills -- brand guides, internal docs), **Plugins** (Salesforce, Notion, GitHub; connected per person or configured for the team), **Credentials** (secure access to third-party APIs without a plugin) and **Memories**. Privacy model: 'although the Bot is shared, each person's conversations with it remain private. The Bot keeps separate context and memories for each user while drawing on the skills shared across the team.' Slack: each Team Bot has its own handle and can be invited to a channel. SpaceXAI's own deployments: a Team Bot per major sales account that reviews company news, Gong calls, Notion and Slack nightly and posts a role-tailored morning briefing; engineering coordination; company data questions. Customer example: Harper (small-business insurance) built a lapsed-policy reinstatement bot in 24 hours and says it saved customers over $120,000 across hundreds of policies. **Availability: 'Team Bots is available today in public beta on Teams and Enterprise plans'**, with pre-built bots for sales, product management, marketing and data analytics; macOS download, contact sales. No price beyond plan membership is stated.
2026-09-28•SpaceXAI (x.ai/news/team-bots, JSON-LD datePublished 2026-09-28) -- fetched 2026-09-28 via curl with browser UA
GROK BOT RUNS THE COMBINED SPACEXAI + CURSOR SUPPORT DESK -- 175% MORE TICKETS, NO NEW HIRES, $0.20-$0.30 PER RESOLUTION (2026-09-22, vendor case study): 'When Cursor became part of SpaceXAI on August 14, our two customer support teams began coming together around a much broader product portfolio' while preparing to launch Grok Bot; the company used Grok Bot itself across the operation. Claims: 'our new combined team has seen a 175% increase in support tickets, but we have not had to hire any new people ... We might have hired 200 additional people otherwise'; against flat-rate AI support tools at '$1 to $4 per resolution', Grok Bot is billed on plan usage and 'with minor optimizations, we've been able to resolve tickets for as low as $0.20 to $0.30'. Method: connected Plain (ticketing) and Linear first, let it act as ticket owner with internal notes only and human approval on every write, added traces and evaluations to every run, then let it answer customers directly after a day of manual review; every ticket now gets a pre-investigation pass; known issues route to Linear, backend errors to Datadog, and it reproduces bugs with a video for engineering. This is vendor self-reporting on its own product, so treat the ratios as marketing-grade, but it is also the first concrete per-resolution cost figure xAI has published for Grok Bot.
2026-09-22•SpaceXAI (x.ai/news/grok-bot-customer-support, JSON-LD datePublished 2026-09-22) -- fetched 2026-09-28 via curl with browser UA
GROK 4.7 SHIPPED (2026-09-21, vendor-primary) -- A NEW BASE MODEL AT AN UNCHANGED PRICE, AND THE BENCHMARKS ARE PICTURES, NOT NUMBERS. SpaceXAI's framing: '**our most capable model for coding and knowledge work. It works longer on difficult tasks, checks its own work more carefully, and comes with our best-calibrated safeguards to date. Served at the same price and speed as Grok 4.6.**' Under the hood it is **a new, larger base model than Grok 4.6**, trained 'with a longer reinforcement learning run on a harder mix of tasks, weighted toward problems that take many hours to complete', and trained 'to natively understand the Grok Bot harness' -- so the model and the agent product are now co-designed. **PRICING, VERIFIED ON THE LIVE RATE CARD THE SAME DAY:** $2.00 input / $0.50 cached / $6.00 output per 1M for prompts under 200k tokens; **$4.00 / $1.00 / $12.00 once a prompt reaches 200k** (the long-context rate then applies to every token in the request); 500k context; knowledge cutoff May 2026. **Grok 4.7 Fast** is 'the same Grok 4.7 model served on faster infrastructure, at twice the standard token rates' -- $4 / $1 / $12 below 200k, $6 / $1.50 / $18 above -- and xAI is explicit that it is '**available only through Cursor and Grok Build; it is not available on the public xAI API, and Grok Build's free tier does not include it.**' A US regional endpoint (us.api.x.ai) bills 1.1x and currently serves only grok-4.7 and grok-4.6. **BENCHMARKS -- READ THIS BEFORE QUOTING ANY SCORE:** the post compares Grok 4.7 against Grok 4.6, GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5.1 on CursorBench 4.0, DeepSWE v1.1 (Grok's entry flagged as a high-effort run), EEBench, AA Briefcase v1.1, Terminal-Bench 4.0, Harvey Legal Agent Benchmark and HealthBench Professional, and against Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra on GDPval, AA Briefcase and EEBench -- **but every figure is rendered inside charts and a styled table we could not extract, and xAI publishes no plain-text results table.** The only prose claims are that Grok 4.7 'is at the frontier in price-performance' on CursorBench 4.0 and that on GDPval and AA Briefcase it 'improves upon Grok 4.6 ... and performs comparably to other frontier models'. Per this site's rule, no numbers ship until a vendor table or a third-party leaderboard exists. **SAFETY IS THE ONE PLACE XAI GIVES NUMBERS:** 'the strongest model we've tested on refusals and jailbreak resistance', topping LatchBio's biosafety benchmark at **62.4%**, and on xAI's own HackerBench v0.3 allowing '**only 3.3% of risky dual-use prompts through**' -- with 'select cybersecurity partners' getting invite-only access to its red-team capabilities. That is the same gate-the-cyber-tier pattern OpenAI (Daybreak) and Google (Fairwind) adopted this month. **AVAILABILITY:** Cursor and Grok Build on day one, the Grok API, 'third-party coding harnesses, and model routers and cloud platforms' -- and **GitHub Copilot the same day (see next entry)**. Grok 4.6 remains on the rate card at identical prices, so there is no forced migration.
2026-09-21•SpaceXAI (x.ai/news/grok-4-7, JSON-LD datePublished 2026-09-21); docs.x.ai/docs/pricing (rate table incl. long-context tier, Grok 4.7 Fast section, US regional endpoint) and docs.x.ai/docs/models ('Last updated: September 21, 2026'; 500k context; May 2026 cutoff); Cursor blog 'Introducing Grok 4.7' (cursor.com/blog/grok-4-7, a stub pointing to x.ai) -- all fetched 2026-09-21 via curl with browser UA
GROK 4.7 REACHED GITHUB COPILOT ON LAUNCH DAY -- AND THIS TIME IT IS ON BY DEFAULT (2026-09-21, vendor-primary on GitHub's side): GitHub's changelog lists **Grok 4.7 for Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise**, across VS Code, Visual Studio, Copilot CLI, the Copilot cloud agent, the Copilot app, JetBrains, Xcode and Eclipse, billed 'at provider list pricing under usage-based billing' with a 'gradual' rollout. **The enablement posture has flipped since Grok 4.6:** the 8/14 entry for 4.6 said the org policy was 'off by default'; the 4.7 entry says new models are **enabled automatically unless administrators disable them** under GitHub's global model policy (GA since 8/26). So for most Business/Enterprise orgs Grok 4.7 simply appears in the picker. **Zero-day placement is now xAI's standard playbook** -- 4.6 took two days to reach Copilot; 4.7 took zero -- and it lands the same week GitHub scheduled **Grok 4.5's removal from Copilot for 2026-10-19** (migration target Grok 4.6, per the 9/18 slate on github-copilot.ts). GitHub published no benchmark claims and no premium-request multiplier, describing the model only as 'xAI's latest reasoning model' for 'agentic coding and complex, multistep workflows'.
2026-09-21•GitHub Changelog (github.blog/changelog/2026-09-21-grok-4-7-is-now-available-in-github-copilot, on-page 'September 21, 2026') -- fetched 2026-09-21; enablement contrast against github.blog/changelog/2026-08-14-grok-4-6-is-now-available-in-github-copilot (already on this page)
GROK BUILD GAINS PERSISTENT MEMORY (2026-09-16, vendor-primary): Grok Build 'now carries conventions, decisions, and project facts from one session to the next'. Mechanics, per xAI: **capture runs in the background after every completed turn** and 'never blocks the session'; notes are **markdown files, one topic per subject**, kept in a per-project workspace scope plus a global scope for cross-project preferences; before starting related work Grok 'reads the topics that cover the area and applies them, including in sessions where the subject never comes up'; **instructions in the current conversation always take precedence** over a note. Two new commands: **/memory** (a read-only browser of every memory file, grouped by scope) and **/dream** (merges fresh observations into topic files; also runs periodically on its own). xAI states what is deliberately left out -- 'task state, tentative conclusions, secrets, and anything the repository or its docs already cover'. It applies to new sessions only (run /new or start a fresh session). **Why it matters for the comparison:** this is the persistent-project-memory layer that terminal coding agents have converged on, and Grok Build now has it alongside its 8-agent parallelism and plugin marketplace -- the remaining gap versus Claude Code and Cursor is ecosystem depth, not the feature list. Found via the daily pulse and confirmed against the vendor post; the 9/17 sweep's x.ai enumeration had missed it.
2026-09-16•SpaceXAI (x.ai/news/grok-build-memory, JSON-LD datePublished 2026-09-16) -- fetched 2026-09-21 via curl with browser UA

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What to use if Grok is down

Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.

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Muse Spark + Muse Wonder (Meta)

8.8

Meta Superintelligence Labs' model family, now four lines deep: **Muse Wonder** (2026-10-12, frontier, $4/$20 per 1M on the Meta Model API; Wonder Full only in Muse Code subscriptions), **Muse Spark 1.3** (2026-09-02, $1.25/$4.25, or $0.10/$0.20 in Contributor mode if Meta may train on your content), **Muse Spark Open** (2026-10-15, 816B/42B-active open weights, 1M context, runs on two Mac Studios with M5 Ultra) and **Muse Glimmer** (2026-08-10, 30B, Apache 2.0, built for local agents). Consumers get it through **Muse**, Meta's personal-agent app (2026-09-08): free with limits, Power $20/mo, Maximum $100/mo

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Claude (Anthropic)

8.5

**Claude Haiku 5.5 shipped on 2026-10-07 at $0.10 / $0.50 per 1M tokens for prompts up to 100K ($0.50 / $2.50 above) -- 90% below Haiku 4.5 on most requests -- with adjustable effort for the first time on a Haiku, and the same day Anthropic halved Sonnet 5.5 cache reads to $0.10 and added monthly API credits for Max ($100 or $200) and Team (up to $500 pooled).** **Anthropic expanded the Cyber Verification Program on 2026-10-06 into three access tiers (Defense, Red Team, Specialized) that unlock reduced cyber safeguards on Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Mythos 5.1 and future models for verified security teams -- closing the 'coming weeks' note Opus 5.5 shipped with; generally available Claude keeps its conservative cyber blocks.** **Two Claude 5.5 models in six days: Claude Opus 5.5 (2026-09-22) and Claude Sonnet 5.5 (2026-09-28).** Opus 5.5 performs at Fable 5.1 level on most work and costs 40% less than Opus 5 to run -- $4/$20 per 1M (down from $5/$25) with cache reads cut to $0.20 (from $0.50), fast mode at $8/$40 up to 2.5x speed, output 30%+ faster, and five-hour usage limits raised on Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise with a saveable rate-limit reset. Sonnet 5.5 keeps Sonnet 5's $2/$10 but needs far fewer tokens (up to 30% cheaper per task), runs 30%+ faster and jumps Terminal-Bench 4.0 from 10.3% to 70.6%. Both are 1M context, Jun 2026 cutoff, on the Claude Platform, Bedrock, Vertex and Foundry; Haiku 5.5 followed on 2026-10-07. Opus 5.5 launches with Fable-class cyber and bio safeguards (most cyber tasks fall back to Opus 4.8) and cannot run with thinking off.

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Gemini (Google)

8.3

**Gemini 4 Argon went generally available on 2026-10-13: in the Gemini API (paid tier only), AI Studio, Gemini for business and GitHub Copilot, in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, and in Google Antigravity for Ultra. The API rate card prices it at $2 input / $10 output per 1M tokens with $0.10 implicit-cache reads through November 30, 2026, doubling to $4 / $20 / $0.20 on December 1; there is no free tier and no explicit caching.** Google calls it its flagship reasoning model, with a 1M-token unified input-output limit, #1 on the Vals Index, 87% on the ERQA embodied-reasoning benchmark and 0.7% attack success on Gray Swan prompt injection, alongside the 9/30 numbers (77.9% DeepSWE v1.1, 51.3% AutomationBench, 91.7% LVBench, 68% CWE-bench v1) -- all vendor-reported. Earlier in October: Gemini 3.7 Flash and 3.5 Flash were retired from AI Studio (10/08) with API calls auto-routed to 3.8 Flash and 3.6 Flash, Nano Banana 2.1 went GA (10/06) and SynthID Detector opened to everyone in English (10/07). Late September in the Gemini app: **skills replace Gems** (9/30; slash-command instructions with reference files, Gems removed from November 2026 for personal accounts), **Guided Vision in Gemini Live** for blind and low-vision users on Android (10/01), and the 9/23-9/24 wave still stands: Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS with voice design at $0.50/$9.00 and $0.50/$6.00 per 1M (doubling 2027-01-01), Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar in Gemini Enterprise, free 1080p Omni 1.1 video in Google Vids. Googlebook was scheduled to reach shelves 10/04 (shipment not yet vendor-confirmed).

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MiMo (Xiaomi)

8.3

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5 family launched 2026-04-22 -- Pro (1T total / 42B active MoE, 1M context, native vision+audio reasoning), Multimodal base, TTS (3 sub-models: base, VoiceDesign, VoiceClone), and ASR (open-source, English + Chinese + major dialects). Full voice pipeline for the agent era. Extra-charge 1M-context tier removed at launch

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Hunyuan 3 (Tencent Hy3)

8.1

Tencent's Hy3 reached GA 2026-07-06 (upgraded from the April preview) -- 295B total / 21B active MoE, 256K context, now Apache 2.0 open weights on HuggingFace + ModelScope with the EU/UK/South Korea restriction lifted. ~90% agent-task completion on Tencent's internal apps; API via Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Integrated into Yuanbao, WeChat, QQ

About Grok

Tier B (7.5/10). **The X Subscription (2026-10-12) folds Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X Premium into one plan: Free, Plus $8, Premium $30 (what SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and X Premium+ cost $90 for combined), Super $100 and Ultra $200 a month, with one weekly-refreshing usage pool shared across Grok and Cursor; the old SuperGrok, Cursor and X Premium plans are closed to new sign-ups.** **Team Bots launched 2026-09-28 in public beta on Teams and Enterprise plans** -- shared Grok Bots built around a role, with team context (files, instructions, skills), plugins (Salesforce, Notion, GitHub), credentials for APIs without a plugin, and memories, where the bot is shared but each person's conversations and memories stay private; each Team Bot gets its own Slack handle. SpaceXAI runs one per major sales account, and its 9/22 case study says the merged SpaceXAI + Cursor support desk absorbed a 175% ticket increase on Grok Bot with no new hires at $0.20-$0.30 per resolution. **Grok 4.7 (9/21)** remains the flagship at $2/$6 per 1M with chart-only benchmarks; Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 and the corrected $15/1M-character TTS price stand.

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