Grok is free to start, and for a lot of people that is the end of the story. If you want more, the standalone paid plans run $10 a month for SuperGrok Lite, $30 for SuperGrok, and $300 for SuperGrok Heavy, though Heavy is discounted to $99 a month for three months as of this writing. There are also team plans at $30 per seat, and a developer API billed per token from about $1 per million.
The trouble is that Grok is sold two overlapping ways, the prices moved more than once in 2026, and most Grok pricing guides you will find still quote tiers that have changed. Below is every current Grok price, reconciled and dated June 2026, plus the question the numbers exist to answer: which plan, if any, you should actually pay for. One quick disambiguation first, because the search results mix them: this is about xAI's Grok chatbot, not the unrelated "Grok" crypto token.
How Much Does Grok Cost? Every Plan at a Glance
Here is the whole lineup in one place, at US prices as of June 2026.
| Plan | Price (US, per month) | What it is | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Grok on the web and in the X app, usage-capped | Casual questions and light use |
| SuperGrok Lite | $10 | Standalone Grok with higher limits, lighter features | Regular users on a budget |
| SuperGrok | $30 | The main paid tier; 7-day free trial | Daily and power users |
| SuperGrok Heavy | $99 for 3 months, then $300 | Maximum limits, multi-agent mode | Heavy and professional users |
| Grok Business | $30 per seat | Team management, no training on your data | Teams and companies |
| Grok Enterprise | Custom | SSO, SCIM, custom data retention | Large organizations |
Two things cause most of the confusion, so it is worth getting them straight before you pay for anything.
Grok is sold two completely different ways for individuals. One is a standalone subscription you buy directly at Grok's plans page, which is the SuperGrok line in the table above. The other is bundled into an X Premium subscription, where Grok comes attached to the social platform. They are not the same product, and people routinely overpay for one when they wanted the other. We untangle that below.
SuperGrok also offers annual billing at a discount, around $300 a year, via the yearly toggle on the plans page. The per-tier annual figures move, so confirm them there before you prepay.
The second point: the developer API is separate again. If you are wiring Grok into your own software, you do not buy a plan at all, you pay per token. Most people reading a pricing page want the consumer tiers above; if you are a developer, skip down to the API section. For the bigger picture of what the product actually is, our guide to what Grok is covers the models and history in plain terms.
Is Grok Free? What the Free Tier Actually Gives You
Yes. Grok has a free tier, and you do not need an X account to use it. Sign in at grok.com with a Google account or email and you can start chatting and getting real-time answers pulled from the web and X.
The catch is the usage cap. Free accounts get a limited number of messages in a rolling window before Grok asks you to wait or upgrade. xAI does not publish an exact figure and it shifts with demand, but the pattern users report is roughly ten prompts every couple of hours, with the most capable model reserved for paying tiers. The window is rolling, not a daily reset, so if you hit the wall you wait it out rather than losing access for the day. Ask a few questions a day and you will rarely notice the cap. Lean on Grok for real work and you will hit it fast, which is the signal to consider paying.
The free tier has also been shrinking. The clearest example is the Grok Imagine creator: its image and video generation was effectively free for casual users at launch, then xAI restricted it to paying subscribers in early 2026, a change it framed as temporary. Image and video creation through Grok Imagine now sits behind the paid tiers, starting with SuperGrok Lite, so a guide written last year that promises free image or video generation no longer matches what you get. Treat the free plan as a genuinely useful way to try Grok and handle light tasks, not as a permanent substitute for a paid plan if you generate media or run long sessions.
SuperGrok vs SuperGrok Lite vs SuperGrok Heavy
The standalone subscriptions all carry the SuperGrok name, and the differences between them are mostly about usage limits and how many agents you can run, not three completely different products. Here is what each one is for, with prices from Grok's plans page as of June 2026.
SuperGrok Lite ($10 a Month)
The budget tier. It roughly doubles your conversation length over the free plan, adds one AI agent in Expert mode, lets you try image and video creation at lower quality, and lifts your limits at regular speed. It is the right pick if you use Grok often enough to resent the free caps but do not need the heaviest features.
SuperGrok ($30 a Month)
The mainstream plan and the one most paying users want. It adds access to Grok Build, five times longer conversations than the free tier, faster replies, HD video generation, and more file uploads. xAI currently runs a seven-day free trial on it, so you can test it at no cost before the first $30 charge, as long as you cancel in time if it is not for you.
SuperGrok Heavy ($99 Promo, Then $300 a Month)
The power tier, currently discounted to $99 a month for the first three months. It includes everything in SuperGrok plus the highest usage limits, a multi-agent mode that runs up to sixteen agents in parallel on hard problems, dedicated support, and early access to new features. For most people it is overkill. It earns its price only for a narrow group running heavy reasoning or research workloads daily.
Some paying users have reported that usage limits and media quotas tightened through mid-2026, with video and voice throttled faster than before. These are user reports rather than published figures, and limits move often, so check the current allowances on your plan before assuming a tier will cover your volume.
X Premium vs Standalone SuperGrok: Which One Gives You Grok?
This is where most people overpay, so it is worth slowing down. There are two separate ways to buy Grok as an individual, and they are easy to confuse because both involve Elon Musk's companies and both put "Grok" on the label.
The first is standalone SuperGrok, bought at grok.com. You are paying for Grok itself, and nothing else. The second is X Premium, the subscription to the X social platform, which bundles some Grok access in alongside ad-free posts, longer videos, and the other X perks. X Premium runs around $8 a month and X Premium+ around $40, though those figures vary by region and have changed over time, so confirm them on X before subscribing.
The trap is assuming X Premium+ at roughly $40 gives you the full Grok experience. It does not. The X bundles include Grok with tighter caps and fewer of the standalone features, while a $30 SuperGrok subscription gives you more Grok capability for less money. If you mainly want Grok, the standalone SuperGrok line is almost always the better buy. If you live on X anyway and just want Grok as a bonus, the bundle can make sense. xAI has also at times discounted SuperGrok for existing X subscribers, so if you already pay for X, check whether a current bundle discount changes the math.
| You want | Buy | Roughly per month |
|---|---|---|
| Just to try Grok | Free tier at grok.com | $0 |
| More Grok, lowest paid price | SuperGrok Lite | $10 |
| Grok as your main AI tool | SuperGrok | $30 |
| X perks plus some Grok | X Premium / Premium+ | $8 / $40 |
| Maximum Grok power | SuperGrok Heavy | $99 (promo) / $300 |
Grok API Pricing for Developers
If you are building software on Grok rather than chatting with it, you do not buy a subscription at all. You pay per token, the chunks of text the model reads and writes, billed separately for input and output. A SuperGrok plan does not include API usage, and API usage does not need a SuperGrok plan. Here are the current rates from xAI's pricing docs as of June 2026.
| Model | Input (per 1M tokens) | Output (per 1M tokens) | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| grok-4.3 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 1M |
| grok-4.20-0309-reasoning | $1.25 | $2.50 | 1M |
| grok-4.20-0309-non-reasoning | $1.25 | $2.50 | 1M |
| grok-4.20-multi-agent-0309 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 1M |
| grok-build-0.1 | $1.00 | $2.00 | 256K |
The headline number is how cheap the flagship is. At $1.25 input and $2.50 output per million tokens, grok-4.3 undercuts the comparable frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic, whose top tiers run several times higher. That price-per-intelligence is xAI's main pitch to developers right now.
A few things to read into that table. The official docs list a tighter set of models than the third-party pricing aggregators do. Older entries like grok-4, grok-4-fast, and grok-3 still show up on other sites at rates like $3 and $15 per million, but they are not in xAI's current model list, so treat them as legacy unless you confirm them directly. There is no grok-5 in the API yet, which lines up with the model still being in training rather than released. Beyond the per-token rate, server-side tools are billed on top: web and X search run $5 per thousand calls, code execution $5, file attachments $10, and collections search $2.50, per xAI's pricing docs.
A quirk worth knowing: on the consumer apps you often cannot tell which Grok model answered a given question, because tiers route between models automatically and the interface does not show it. The API is the opposite. It uses explicit model IDs, most of them dated, so if you need to know exactly what you are running, the API is the only place you get a firm answer.
How to Use Grok (and Where to Access It)
You can reach Grok in four places, and which one you pick changes what you pay and what you get.
- grok.com (web). The simplest path. Go to grok.com, sign in with a Google account or email, and start chatting on the free tier. No X account is required, which surprises people who assume Grok is locked to the social platform.
- The X app. Grok is built into X for logged-in users, and your access there depends on whether you have X Premium. This is the bundled path described above.
- The standalone Grok app. xAI publishes a dedicated Grok app for iOS and Android, which uses the same account and subscription as grok.com.
- The xAI API. For developers. You create a key in the xAI developer console and call the models directly, billed per token as covered above.
For most people, the answer is grok.com on the web or the standalone app, on the free tier to start. Upgrade to SuperGrok only once you have hit the free limits enough to know you need more. One caveat: availability is not universal. Grok and X Premium are not sold in every country, and prices differ sharply by region, which is why some users abroad cannot subscribe at the US price or at all. If a plan will not let you check out, regional restrictions are the usual reason.
Is Grok Worth It? Grok vs ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini on Price
On the consumer side, it depends on the tier. SuperGrok Lite at $10 undercuts every $20 rival, but the mainstream SuperGrok tier at $30 sits above ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, and Google's Gemini AI Pro, which all cluster around $20. So at the tier most people actually buy, Grok is not the cheapest, and reviewers who do not care about real-time X data often struggle to justify the extra $10 over a $20 rival.
On the API, the story flips. grok-4.3 at $1.25 input and $2.50 output is one of the cheapest frontier models available, well below the top OpenAI and Anthropic tiers.
| Provider | Main paid plan | Flagship API (input / output per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| xAI Grok | SuperGrok $30 | grok-4.3, $1.25 / $2.50 |
| OpenAI ChatGPT | ChatGPT Plus about $20 | GPT-5.5, about $5.00 / $30.00 |
| Anthropic Claude | Claude Pro about $20 | Claude Opus 4.8, about $5.00 / $25.00 |
| Google Gemini | Google AI Pro $19.99 | Gemini 3.1 Pro, about $2.00 / $12.00 |
So whether Grok is worth it depends on which buyer you are. As a $30 consumer chatbot, it is a harder sell than the $20 alternatives unless you specifically want its real-time access to X and its looser content style. As an API for developers, grok-4.3 is genuinely cheap for a frontier model, which is the strongest case for paying xAI anything. And if you live on X already, the bundle math changes again. For a feature-by-feature read rather than just price, see our comparisons of Grok vs ChatGPT and Grok vs Claude, and our standalone breakdown of Gemini's pricing.
Canceling, Refunds, and Free Trials
Cancellation trips people up because it depends on where you paid. If you subscribed on grok.com, you cancel in your account settings on the web. If you subscribed through the Apple App Store or Google Play, you cancel in that store's subscription list, not on grok.com, because the store is what charges you. The quickest way to find out which one applies is to check your card statement or the store you used to sign up.
Two practical warnings. First, subscriptions are generally non-refundable once a billing period starts, so canceling stops the next charge rather than refunding the current one. If you want to avoid a charge, cancel before the period renews, not after. Second, users have reported the web cancellation button failing to open when an ad-blocker or browser extension interferes, so if it does not open, try an incognito window. And if you start the SuperGrok seven-day free trial, it converts to the full $30 a month automatically, so set a reminder before day seven if you only wanted to test it.
Which Grok Plan Should You Actually Pay For?
Most people overbuy. Here is how to decide, from the bottom up.
Stay free if you ask Grok a handful of questions a day and do not generate much media. The free tier covers it, and you will know you have outgrown it the day you keep hitting the limit mid-task.
Pay $10 for SuperGrok Lite if you use Grok regularly but want the lowest paid price and do not need the heaviest features or high-resolution media.
Pay $30 for SuperGrok if Grok is one of your main AI tools. This is the right answer for most paying users, and the seven-day trial lets you confirm it costs you nothing to find out.
Pay for SuperGrok Heavy only if you run heavy reasoning or research daily and will use the multi-agent mode. The $99 promo makes it easier to try, but at the full $300 it is a professional tool, not an everyday one.
Use the API instead of a plan if you are building software. A subscription buys one person a seat in the app; the API meters whatever your code does, and grok-4.3 is cheap enough that for programmatic work it is usually the right model.
Why Grok's Price Matters for Your Brand
One point here outlasts any specific price. Whichever tier people pay for, Grok is not just a chatbot they visit. It answers questions by pulling in real-time information from X and the web, which means it is already describing your category and naming options to people who ask it what to buy or who to hire.
So the more useful question is not which plan you should buy. It is whether Grok mentions your brand at all when someone asks it for a recommendation, and what it says when it does. That visibility does not come on a pricing tier, and it is the gap we help businesses close.
The prices above will move again, because xAI has repriced Grok more than once this year, so confirm the current figure on Grok's plans page before you pay. And once you know what Grok costs, the next question is what it tells people about you. Our Citation Interceptor maps where Grok and the other AI engines cite sources your brand is missing from, so you can see which conversations to get into. You can learn the broader method in our guide to tracking AI visibility.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does Grok cost per month?
Grok is free to start. Standalone paid plans are SuperGrok Lite at $10, SuperGrok at $30, and SuperGrok Heavy at $300, currently discounted to $99 for the first three months, as of June 2026. Team plans are $30 per seat, and the developer API is billed separately per token.
Is the Grok free tier enough?
For light use, yes. The free tier gives you Grok on the web and in the X app with real-time answers from the web and X. Usage is capped, with users reporting roughly ten prompts in a rolling two-hour window, so you will hit the wall quickly on long sessions. Image and video creation through Grok Imagine have moved to the paid tiers.
How much does Grok 4.3 cost on the API?
grok-4.3 costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, with a one-million-token context window, per xAI's developer docs. That makes it one of the cheaper frontier models, well below the top OpenAI and Anthropic tiers.
Is Grok cheaper than ChatGPT?
It depends on the tier. SuperGrok Lite at $10 undercuts ChatGPT Plus, but the mainstream SuperGrok tier at $30 costs more than Plus at about $20. On the API it is clearer: grok-4.3 at $1.25 and $2.50 per million tokens is cheaper than GPT-5.5, which runs about $5 and $30.
Do I need an X account to use Grok?
No. You can use Grok at grok.com by signing in with a Google account or email, no X account required. An X Premium subscription is a separate path that bundles some Grok access with the social platform.
How do I cancel a Grok subscription, and can I get a refund?
Cancel from wherever you subscribed: grok.com settings for web sign-ups, or the Apple or Google subscription list if you paid through an app store. Subscriptions are generally non-refundable, so canceling stops the next charge rather than refunding the current period.