The key facts
- Musk called the cost of running Grok Bot 'unacceptably high' relative to revenue
- Subscribers reported that the weekly usage quota was being exhausted faster than usual
- The company has not announced any changes to the limits and has not disclosed financial figures
Musk's admission about costs
On Sunday, Elon Musk wrote on the social network X that the cost of running Grok Bot — xAI's agentic chatbot — had become 'unacceptably high' relative to the revenue it brings in. According to Anadolu, he was responding to a user's question about whether xAI could reset the service's weekly usage quota. According to the questioner, many subscribers exhausted their Grok Bot limit within a week noticeably faster than usual.
What is known about the service and what remains unclear
Grok Bot was launched by xAI in early beta in August as an AI agent capable of performing tasks in apps and online services using its own virtual computer. Unlike a regular chatbot, it can carry out multi-step tasks and keep working in the background. Access is available through several paid SuperGrok and Cursor tiers, and the Grok Bot quota is spent separately from the other Grok and Cursor limits.
Open questions
Musk provided neither data on costs and revenue nor an answer to the subscribers' main question — whether the limits will be changed or reset. Thus, the statement records the financial pressure on the service amid growing demand, but contains no decisions made: the company has not yet announced any revision of quotas or pricing.
