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Last editorial review: 2026-09-05

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GROK BOT FOR ENTERPRISE -- AND THE FREE-USAGE OFFER IS BUNDLED WITH CURSOR, WHICH IS THE PART THAT MATTERS (2026-09-03, vendor-primary): SpaceXAI made **Grok Bot available for enterprises**, adding the governance layer the 8/11 early beta lacked: '**today's release adds access, network, and audit controls**' to let organizations 'govern Bots at scale', with each user's work running 'in its own secure and isolated environment'. **THE ACQUISITION IS NOW VISIBLE IN THE COMMERCIAL TERMS, NOT JUST THE ORG CHART:** '**Grok and Cursor Enterprise customers have free usage for the next two weeks, and can invite their whole organization, including people without an existing seat.**' **Cursor Enterprise customers are being given a SpaceXAI product for free, org-wide, with no seat requirement** -- the clearest instance yet of the consolidation being used as a distribution channel, and it lands in the same window that OpenAI is winding Cursor off its models. **This is a dated promotion: two weeks from 2026-09-03 puts expiry around 2026-09-17.** Treat 'free' as an acquisition subsidy with an end date, not a plan feature. **WHAT A BOT ACTUALLY IS, in xAI's framing:** 'a worker you create inside Grok Bot for a specific job', each running 'on its own computer in the cloud', usable via any app or website the way a person would. Training is by demonstration -- 'have it follow along once. It saves the routine, takes your corrections, and runs it on its own from then on' -- and working Bots can be handed to a colleague as a template. Bots can message each other and share context. xAI claims 'thousands of organizations' since launch, naming **Legora, Supermicro and Servi**. **PRICING FOR THE ENTERPRISE TIER IS STILL NOT PUBLISHED** -- the post routes to 'contact sales', so the standing gap on this page (Grok Bot standalone pricing) remains open after the free window.
2026-09-03•SpaceXAI (x.ai/news/grok-bot-for-enterprise, JSON-LD datePublished 2026-09-03) -- fetched 2026-09-05 via curl with browser UA
XAI PUBLISHES ITS OWN GROK BOT CASE STUDY -- A VENDOR-RUN INTERNAL TRIAL, NOT A CUSTOMER RESULT (2026-09-04, vendor-primary): SpaceXAI posted 'Setting Grok Bot loose on procurement', reporting that a Bot it named **Haggle Bot**, given access to '**vendor spend, contracts, and usage data**', '**found more than $100,000 in direct savings**' by surfacing unused SaaS seats, renewals that no longer matched usage, and recurring purchases that were never re-shopped. **READ THE PROVENANCE BEFORE THE NUMBER: this is xAI running its own product on its own procurement and publishing the result.** It is a plausible and specific use case, and the setup detail is genuinely informative -- 'you tell or show a Bot what you want it to do, give it access to the right tools, and let it execute without designing the workflow step by step' -- but $100,000 at an unstated company size, with no baseline, no methodology and no independent verification, is a marketing figure and should be cited as one. **It is included here because it is the clearest published description of what an enterprise Grok Bot deployment actually looks like in practice, not because the savings claim is verified.** The access it required -- full vendor spend, contracts and usage data -- is also the honest part of the story: this class of result needs broad financial-systems access, which is exactly what the 9/03 enterprise access, network and audit controls exist to govern.
2026-09-04•SpaceXAI (x.ai/news/grok-bot-procurement, JSON-LD datePublished 2026-09-04) -- fetched 2026-09-05 via curl with browser UA
GROK BOT GETS A FIRST-PARTY X INTEGRATION, AND xAI HANDS OUT X API CREDITS TO PULL YOU IN (2026-08-29, vendor-primary): xAI shipped an X connector for **Grok Bot**. The mechanics are unusually frictionless and that is the point: '**Connect your X account in Grok Bot and we'll create a developer account for you if you don't have one**' -- so the X developer-account step, historically the barrier to building anything against X, is provisioned automatically. '**Paid Grok Bot users get free X API credits to start.**' Once connected you can ask a Bot to '**search posts, read your timeline, check mentions, or pull together what's happening on X**'. **WHY THIS IS MORE THAN A CONNECTOR:** X API access has been expensive and rationed since 2023, and xAI is now giving it away as a bundled benefit of a Grok subscription. **That converts a paywalled data asset into a customer-acquisition subsidy for the agent product** -- and it is only possible because SpaceX owns both, following the consolidation that closed 2026-08-14. Read alongside the 8/26 change that pushed Grok Bot down to Cursor Pro and every paid Cursor tier: within two weeks xAI has both widened who gets Grok Bot and deepened what it can reach. **CAVEATS, AND xAI STATES THEM ITSELF:** '**This is the first version of this integration**', with no capability guarantees beyond the four read-oriented actions listed. **The credit grant is characterised only as 'free X API credits to start'** -- no volume, no duration, and no published rate for what happens after they run out, so do not build a production workflow on this without pricing the fallback. Access requires signing in with the X connector from inside Grok Bot.
2026-08-29•xAI (x.ai/news/grok-bot-and-x, on-page 'Aug 29, 2026') -- fetched 2026-08-31 via curl with browser UA (x.ai 403s WebFetch)
GROK 4.6 ON GOOGLE'S GEMINI ENTERPRISE AGENT PLATFORM, WITH A PUBLISHED RATE CARD (2026-08-21, vendor-primary): Grok 4.6 became available through **Model Garden** on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. **Pricing, verbatim from xAI: $2.00 per 1M input, $0.50 per 1M cached input, $6.00 per 1M output.** Same 500k context and low/medium/high/xhigh reasoning efforts. **PRICE CORRECTION WORTH KEEPING: our daily triage reported cached input at $0.30 per 1M. The vendor page says $0.50. We ship $0.50** -- if an aggregator later shows $0.30, this note is why we did not follow it. Note also that xAI's post title says 'Vertex AI' in the URL slug while the page body consistently says **Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform**; Google renamed the surface, and the body text is the current name.
2026-08-21•xAI (x.ai/news/grok-4-6-vertex-ai, on-page 'Aug 21, 2026') -- fetched 2026-08-28 via curl with browser UA
GROK 4.6 ADDS MICROSOFT FOUNDRY -- THE FOURTH MAJOR CLOUD, AND ALL FOUR NOW CARRY IT (2026-08-26, vendor-primary): xAI put Grok 4.6 on **Microsoft Foundry**, restating **500k context and configurable reasoning efforts (low, medium, high, xhigh)**. xAI's pitch is procurement-shaped: Foundry gives orgs '**a single place to evaluate Grok 4.6 against other frontier models**', run workload-specific tests, deploy managed endpoints, and apply enterprise security and governance. **NO PRICING WAS PUBLISHED on the Foundry post** -- unlike the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform post, which did carry a rate card. Do not assume the two are priced identically. **THE PATTERN IS NOW THE STORY: within roughly two weeks Grok 4.6 landed on GitHub Copilot, Amazon Bedrock, Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and Microsoft Foundry.** For a model from a SpaceX subsidiary, distribution breadth -- not benchmark position -- is what changed this month. **This post was missed entirely by our daily triage; it was found by direct newsroom enumeration.**
2026-08-26•xAI (x.ai/news/grok-4-6-microsoft-foundry, on-page 'Aug 26, 2026'); xAI links Microsoft's own 'Grok 4.6 comes to Microsoft Foundry Models' announcement -- fetched 2026-08-28 via curl with browser UA
GROK BOT OPENS UP TO EVERY SUPERGROK AND CURSOR PAID TIER -- AND THE PULSE HAD THIS DATE WRONG BY FIVE DAYS (2026-08-26, vendor-primary): xAI expanded Grok Bot, launched in beta **2026-08-11**, from its narrow top-tier bundle to **all SuperGrok and Cursor paid plans**. **Full entitlement list, verbatim from the vendor page:** SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Pro, Cursor Pro+, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams (Standard and Premium). **The commercially important line is the metering: 'Grok Bot comes with its own usage, separate from your Grok and Cursor plans, so anything you hand off to a Bot won't count against your existing usage.'** That is a genuine grant of new capacity, not a repackaging of existing quota -- and it is the detail that decides whether this is a real upgrade for an existing subscriber. **DATE CORRECTION, RECORDED SO A LATER SWEEP DOES NOT 'FIX' IT BACK: our daily triage reported this as 2026-08-21 on three consecutive days. The vendor page is dated Aug 26, 2026. Vendor-primary wins.** Earlier triage also described the new tiers as 'SuperGrok Plus and Cursor Pro+'; the page says **SuperGrok and Cursor Pro**, i.e. one tier lower in each ladder and therefore a wider expansion than reported.
2026-08-26•xAI (x.ai/news/grok-bot-more-plans, on-page 'Aug 26, 2026') -- fetched 2026-08-28 via curl with browser UA

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

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 (Meta)

8.8

Meta's frontier model line from its Superintelligence Lab -- Muse Spark 1.1 (2026-07-09) adds substantially better coding, 1M-token multi-agent orchestration, and Meta's first paid developer API (Meta Model API, public preview)

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Claude (Anthropic)

8.5

Anthropic's flagship LLM family. **Claude Opus 5 launched 2026-07-24** and is now the default model on Claude Max and the strongest model on Claude Pro -- same $5/$25 per 1M as Opus 4.8, but Anthropic says it lands within 0.5% of Fable 5 on CursorBench at half the cost. **Sonnet 5's $2/$10 per 1M is now permanent** -- Anthropic cancelled the 2026-09-01 rise to $3/$15 and made the launch rate standard -- and it stays the default on Free/Pro. **Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 launched 2026-09-01** and now top the range -- same $10/$50 per 1M as Fable 5, with the saving delivered entirely through a 4x cheaper cache read ($1 -> $0.25/MTok), so it is 25-45% cheaper only if your workload reuses cached context. **From 2026-08-14 future Claude models watermark their text output globally** (SynthID-Text; no extra tokens, no price or speed change, no identifying information -- detector API not shipped yet), and the **legacy Workbench plus the experimental prompt-tools APIs retired 2026-08-17**

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Gemini (Google)

8.3

Google's LLM with deep Google Workspace integration, 2M token context window, and native code execution -- **Gemini 3.8 Flash launched 2026-09-02** -- the third Flash release in six weeks -- at the SAME $0.75/$3.75 per 1M intro rate as 3.7 Flash and, critically, **on the same 2026-12-31 expiry** (then $1.50/$7.50), so the discount window did not reset. HLE-Verified 54.9%; Google warns it uses more tokens per task because it 'works harder', so cost per task can rise at an unchanged rate. **Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber** is trusted-defenders-only via the new **Fairwind Program**. Gemini 3.7 Flash (2026-08-13) remains fully supported for efficiency-first work. Gemini 3.5 Pro STILL delayed and partner-testing-only (Bloomberg, 7/16 -- coding shortfalls, no ship date), so Flash keeps shipping while the Pro line stalls. Gemini 4 pre-training underway. **Two new models in Aug 2026: Gemini 3.5 Transcribe (2026-08-26) speech-to-text and Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (2026-08-27) production video with 40s scene extension, start/end frames and 4K** -- neither shipped with a public rate card

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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). SpaceXAI's irreverent chatbot with a direct line to X/Twitter -- and now **Grok 4.6 (launched 2026-08-12)**, focused on long-running agents and interactive/visual work, at the same $2/$6 per 1M as Grok 4.5 (fast variant 2x). xAI says it matches GPT-5.6 Sol on the AA Intelligence Index (61), though Sol still leads it on DeepSWE and Terminal-Bench. **Grok Bot** (8/11, early beta) adds always-on agents with their own cloud computer. **Grok 4.6 reached GitHub Copilot on 2026-08-14** across all five paid Copilot SKUs (off by default for orgs), adding to its day-one Cursor availability. Grok 4.3 remains the value tier at $1.25/$2.50

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