Grok
xAI's witty assistant with real-time access to X.
Watch the demoOfficial walkthroughGrok is xAI's witty assistant with real-time access to X. Freemium, with paid plans from $30/mo.
About Grok
Grok is the conversational AI assistant from Elon Musk's xAI, marketed for its real-time access to posts on X and its willingness to handle edgier topics than mainstream rivals. The product is powered by xAI's in-house Grok model family, with Grok 4 introducing stronger reasoning, longer context and native tool use. Standout features include DeepSearch and DeeperSearch for multi-step web research, a Think mode that surfaces chain-of-thought, the Aurora image generator and a Companions mode with animated voice characters. Grok is available inside the X app and on its own web and mobile apps at grok.com, with a free tier and paid SuperGrok plans. xAI also ships the Grok API for developers and integrates the model into Tesla vehicles. The product targets X power users, traders, journalists and developers who want a chatbot tightly coupled to live conversation on the network.
Grok pros and cons
Hand-derived from the catalog data, strengths and trade-offs to weigh before signing up.
- Free tier available; paid plans from $30/mo
- Grok 4.7
- Real-time X data
- Aurora image generation
- No autonomous agent, handles single prompts, not multi-step workflows
- Competition is strong in this space, see Kimi and Gemini for comparison
4 plans from Grok
Pulled from Grok’s public pricing page. Prices may change, verify on the vendor’s site before purchasing.
Free
Access to Grok with limits
- Limited daily messages
- Image generation
- Real-time web access
Premium (X)
Includes Grok via X subscription
- Higher Grok usage
- Ad-free X experience
- Longer posts
SuperGrok
Premium Grok access
- Higher rate limits
- Early access features
- Advanced reasoning models
- DeepSearch
SuperGrok Heavy
For power users
- Maximum usage
- Highest priority access
- All advanced features
Grok vs Chat & Assistants
Side-by-side with the top 3 other chat & assistants in this category.
| Picked from the top tools in chat & assistants | xAI's witty assistant with real-time access to X. | Moonshot AI's assistant, powered by the 2.8T open-weight Kimi K3 model. | Google's multimodal AI integrated with Workspace and real-time search. | OpenAI's flagship conversational AI for writing, reasoning, and analysis. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STARTS AT | $30/mo | Free chat; API from $3 / 1M tokens | $19.99/mo | $20/mo |
| PRICING | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| AI AGENT | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| EDITOR'S PICK | No | No | No | Yes |
| KEY FEATURES | Grok 4.7, Real-time X data, Aurora image generation | 2.8T-param open-weight MoE (16 of 896 experts active), 1M-token context window, Native multimodal (vision) | Gemini 3.8 Flash & 3 Pro models, Workspace integration, Deep Research | GPT-6 Astra + GPT-5.6 tiers, Advanced Voice Mode, Code interpreter |
| BEST FOR | Real-time news, Casual chat, Image generation | Long-document analysis (1M context), Coding & front-end generation, Self-hosted / private deployments | Workspace tasks, Research, Image understanding | Brainstorming, Writing, Research |
| WORKS WITH | #chatbot#x#realtime | #chat#open-source#reasoning#long-context | #chatbot#multimodal#google | #chatbot#reasoning#assistant |
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Related tools
Moonshot AI's assistant, powered by the 2.8T open-weight Kimi K3 model.
Google's multimodal AI integrated with Workspace and real-time search.
OpenAI's flagship conversational AI for writing, reasoning, and analysis.
Alibaba's open-source Qwen models in a free chat interface.