Grok Pricing 2026: SuperGrok, X Premium, and the $300 Heavy Tier

Grok pricing confuses more buyers than any rival's because xAI sells the same model through two doors: standalone SuperGrok subscriptions on grok.com, and X Premium bundles inside the social network. Verified July 10, 2026, the menu runs X Premium at $8, SuperGrok Lite at $10, SuperGrok at $30, X Premium+ at $40, and SuperGrok Heavy at $300 a month. A free tier exists too. This page untangles which door makes sense.

Free Tier: 10 Prompts Every Two Hours

Anyone can use Grok free on grok.com or inside X - about 10 prompts every two hours on the lighter Grok 4 Mini model, with basic real-time web and X search included. Real-time X data remains the feature no competitor can copy. As a trial the free tier works; as a daily tool the two-hour meter runs out fast.

SuperGrok Lite and SuperGrok: $10 to $30 Standalone

SuperGrok Lite arrived in March 2026 at $10 as the entry-level paid tier, bundling Grok Imagine image generation and a single AI agent. The full SuperGrok plan costs $30 a month or $300 a year - the annual route saves $60, about 17%, and is the cheapest path to unrestricted Grok 4.5 access.

$30 undercuts nothing and matches nothing. SuperGrok sits alone between the industry's $20 defaults and $100 power tiers, which reads like xAI pricing its confidence somewhere between the two - a bet that started when Grok 4 launched with native tool use and a Heavy tier.

X Premium Bundles: The $8 Side Door

X Premium at $8 a month includes Grok access alongside the checkmark, reduced ads, and creator tools - the cheapest paid Grok anywhere, with tighter limits than SuperGrok. X Premium+ at $40 expands Grok access and removes ads entirely.

Buyers who mostly live on X get real value from the bundles. Anyone who just wants the chatbot should ignore them: SuperGrok's limits are higher per dollar, and the X features are dead weight.

SuperGrok Heavy at $300: The Most Expensive Consumer AI Plan

Heavy costs $300 a month - $100 above every rival's top tier - and buys Grok Heavy's multi-agent mode, maximum usage limits, and earliest access to new models. xAI aimed it at researchers and heavy agent users when the tier launched, and the price has not moved since.

Grok API Pricing: $2/$6 for Grok 4.5

Developers pay per million tokens, and xAI's headline rate lands well under frontier rivals.

$6 per million output tokens for a frontier-class model undercuts GPT-5.6 Sol's $30 and Fable 5's $50 by a wide margin - the price aggression matches the benchmark story in our Grok 4.5 vs Claude Fable 5 vs GPT-5.5 comparison. On top of that, xAI offers up to $175 a month in free API credits through its data-sharing program.

Three Billing Catches to Know

Grok pricing hides its biggest catch inside that generous credit program: the $175 is payment for your API data. Opting in means your prompts help train xAI's models - fine for public workloads, a real problem for anything confidential. Read the terms before flipping the switch.

Two more deserve attention. Buying Grok through X caps you at X-bundle limits with no upgrade path except starting over on grok.com. And only SuperGrok offers annual billing - Lite, Heavy, and the X bundles are monthly-only.

Which Grok Plan Should You Pick

Grok pricing rewards knowing which door is yours. X regulars should take X Premium at $8 and treat Grok as a bonus. Chatbot-first users belong on SuperGrok - annual at $300 if committed, Lite at $10 to test the water. Heavy is for multi-agent research workloads and almost nobody else. Developers should benchmark the API first; at $2/$6 it is the cheapest frontier-class ticket in the market.

For the full market picture, our guide to AI pricing compares every provider side by side, and the ChatGPT pricing and Claude pricing breakdowns cover the subscriptions SuperGrok is priced between.