Grok

Editor's Review

Grok in October 2026 is a bundle, not a chatbot. On October 12, xAI relaunched the X Subscription (replacing SuperGrok/X Premium) as four tiers: Plus $8/month (Grok Chat, Voice, Imagine images, Grok Build, API access, Cursor included); Premium $30/month — xAI's recommended tier, 15× Plus usage, the old SuperGrok + Cursor Pro + X Premium+ benefits that previously cost $90 combined; Super $100; Ultra $200 (50× usage). The flagship model is Grok 4.7 (September 21, 2026); API pricing is genuinely cheap — grok-4.7 at $2.00/$6.00 per million input/output tokens ($0.50 cached), budget grok-4.3 at $1.25/$2.50 with 1M context. One weekly usage pool is shared across Grok + Cursor. Then October 14: Grok Voice 3.0 hit #1 on Artificial Analysis' Speech-to-Speech Index (86.9) with 0.81s time-to-first-audio — already deployed in Tesla and Starlink. That's the technical headline. The honest knocks: at $30/month Premium is the only major chatbot above the $20 standard (ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, Google AI Pro all sit at $20); responses skew toward Musk's worldview on contested topics; coding lags GPT/Claude; and comparative analyses call it the hallucination king among flagships. Who should pay? If you code in Cursor or live on X, the $30 Premium bundle math works — you're getting three subscriptions for the price the old stack charged $90 for. As a standalone $30 chatbot it's a hard sell versus $20 alternatives. Grok's real edges: real-time X access, voice leadership, and cheap frontier API pricing.