Grokbot Credits and Usage Limits Explained (Nov 2026)

Short answer, checked on November 8, 2026: Grok Bot has no monthly credit balance. Every X Subscription seat gets a weekly usage pool shared by Grok Bot, the Grok apps and Cursor. Credits only show up once that pool is empty: xAI calls them additional usage credits. You buy them with prepaid top-ups. No absolute allowance is published, so nobody outside xAI can tell you how many tasks a week you get.

Below: how the grokbot weekly limit works, what changed on November 1, how to buy more usage and what to do when your Grok Bot credits run out.

Grok Bot pricing and plans in November 2026

Grok Bot is sold inside The X Subscription, launched on October 12, 2026. It is included on Premium, Super and Ultra. Plus and Free do not include it.

Prices exclude taxes. Existing subscribers on legacy Cursor plans (Pro, Pro+, Ultra, self-serve Teams) keep Grok Bot access on those plans. Source: X Subscription pricing and Grok Bot FAQ.

How the grokbot weekly limit works

• One pool per seat, every week. "Each paid seat on The X Subscription receives a weekly pool for eligible first-party usage only." It is shared across Grok and Cursor, not split into separate quotas per product.
• Grok Bot draws from the same pool as Grok Chat, Imagine, Voice and Cursor. A long Bot task, a batch of images and a coding session all come out of one meter.
• Different work costs different amounts. xAI says usage rates vary by product, so different activities draw different amounts from the pool.
• No published number. Pools are expressed only as multiples of Plus. Bigger tiers get bigger pools.
• No model picker. The Grok Bot FAQ says it picks the model for each task with no model picker. You cannot route routine work to a lighter model to stretch the pool.

To see where you stand, open Usage on grok.com/dashboard. It shows how much you used and the date of your next reset. Sources: Usage limits, Grok Bot on The X Subscription.

Grokbot credits: top-ups and additional usage

When the weekly pool is empty, any further first-party usage becomes Additional Usage. xAI's wording: it is "paid from additional usage credits bought with top-ups." The Cursor pricing page calls the same thing top-offs.

• Buy grokbot credits: a prepaid top-up from your account settings.
• Auto Top-up: a setting that refills the balance for you. Leave it off if you want a hard stop.
• Spending cap: set a monthly additional usage limit under Additional usage credits.
• Teams: each seat has its own weekly pool. The team shares one prepaid balance for Additional Usage.

The pages we read do not publish a price per top-up. Third-party models in Cursor are billed at API list price, outside the weekly pool.

What changed on November 1, 2026

• August 11: Grok Bot launches in beta.
• August 26: xAI extends Grok Bot to more plans and says it "comes with its own usage, separate from your Grok and Cursor plans."
• October 2: xAI resets usage limits for all Grok Bot users.
• October 12: The X Subscription launches. Grok Bot moves into the weekly pool shared with Grok and Cursor.
• November 1: many users see their weekly meters jump to 100% over the weekend. Replying to a user who asked for a reset, xAI's owner wrote that "the cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue."
• November 2: TechCrunch and others report the tighter limits. No new pool sizes have been published since.

Users report different numbers, from a weekly meter going 50% to 100% over a weekend to limits "cut 5x". These are user reports, not official figures. Sources: xAI, August 26, post of November 1, TechCrunch, November 2.

When your Grok Bot credits run out: 5 options

1. Wait for the weekly reset. It costs nothing. The Usage view tells you the date. On a legacy Cursor plan with on-demand off, Grok Bot stops and resumes at the reset.
2. Top up with a cap. Buy additional usage credits and set a monthly limit first, so one heavy week cannot surprise you.
3. Move up a tier. Super is 15x Plus and Ultra 50x Plus, for $100 and $200 a month.
4. Cut the checks that burn the pool. A Bot that wakes up every hour to see if there is work spends usage even when there is none. One user put it this way: "Most of it was never the work, it was bots waking up to check if there was work." Run fewer, wider checks.
5. Run recurring work on a plan you already pay for. If you have Claude Pro or Max, or a paid ChatGPT plan with Codex, that usage is already in your budget. The plan's own limits still apply.

Option 5 in practice: Molted on your Claude Code or Codex plan

Molted gives you an AI agent that runs on the Claude Code or Codex subscription you bring, from $14 a month on top of it. Model usage is billed by Anthropic or OpenAI on your plan, with no Molted markup on tokens.

• You choose the model. Claude Code, Codex or an OpenRouter key. Switch later and the workspace, files and routines stay.
• Checks that do not burn your plan. A routine can be a plain script that checks on a schedule without AI and wakes the agent only when something changed.
• An isolated workspace per agent. Its own files, sessions and connected accounts. Download your files anytime.

On price, the honest split: if you already pay for Claude Code or Codex, Molted adds $14 a month. If you start from zero with Claude Pro at $20, the total is about $34. Grok Bot starts at $30 on X Premium.

Want a hand with the move? Tell us the task your Bot runs and we move the first one with you. Comparing options first? Read the best Grok Bot alternatives or Grok Bot vs Molted.

Grok Bot credits and usage limits: FAQ

Sources (checked November 8, 2026)

• xAI docs: Usage limits
• xAI docs: Grok Bot on The X Subscription
• xAI docs: Grok Bot FAQ
• X Subscription pricing (cursor.com)
• xAI: Introducing The X Subscription (October 12, 2026)
• xAI: Grok Bot is now included with more plans (August 26, 2026)
• TechCrunch (November 2, 2026)
• Claude pricing