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Grok review

Live web and X search on the free tier, and the highest paid entry price here.

BRecommended with a reservation

The verdict

Strong at live search and connectors, with one reservation: xAI publishes the least complete pricing and compliance information of any vendor in this comparison, including two named plans with no price.

Grok homepage with the headline "What should we explore?"
The Grok homepage as it looked on 1 September 2026.

How the 7.2 is built

Score breakdown for grok, criteria set Software and apps
CriterionWeightScore
Capability

Real time web and X search, voice, image and video generation, and a 500k token context window on the current model through the API.

30%8.0
Usability

Nothing to configure to start, and the X integration puts it where a lot of its use already happens, though there is no desktop client.

20%8.0
Value

Thirty dollars is the highest paid entry price in this comparison, and two of the plans in the official comparison table carry no price at all, so a buyer cannot see the ladder they are stepping onto.

20%6.5
Integrations

Seven built in connectors covering Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Salesforce, a wider catalogue including GitHub, Notion and Linear, and support for bring your own MCP servers.

10%8.0
Support

Expert support is listed on the paid tiers, and everything beyond that, including any service level target, sits behind an enterprise quote.

10%5.5
Trust

The privacy policy names Private Chat as a retention control with a 30 day deletion window but names no training opt out, and the security page itself lists no certification, with the only SOC 2 claim appearing on the pricing page.

10%5.5
Weighted total100%7.2

Pros and cons

What works

  • Real time web and X search plus voice mode on the free tier
  • Bring your own MCP server, so the connector set is not limited to the published catalogue
  • Private Chat commits to deletion within 30 days
  • Enterprise offers customer managed encryption keys and a dedicated data plane

What does not

  • SuperGrok Lite and SuperGrok Heavy are named on the pricing page with no price attached
  • The security page names no certification, and the only SOC 2 claim sits oddly on the free tier row of the pricing page
  • No named opt out from training, only a retention control
  • No desktop client, and no consumer plan includes API credits

What Grok costs

From $30 per month · free tier available

Grok pricing tiers
PlanMonthlyAnnual, per monthWhat you get
FreeOne person$0Real time web and X search · Voice mode and connectors · Limits described only as generous, with no number published
SuperGrokOne person$30Grok 4.6, image and video generation · Higher rate limits and expert support · Connectors and Grok Bot access
SuperGrok PlusOne person$1001080p video creation · Significantly higher usage across chat, image, voice and build · Priority access at peak times and early access to new features
EnterpriseQuote onlyNot publishedCustom rate limits, single sign on and SCIM · Data residency options, custom role based access, audit controls · Customer managed encryption keys and a dedicated data plane

Two further plans, SuperGrok Lite and SuperGrok Heavy, appear by name in the comparison table on the xAI pricing page with no price and no feature detail. X Premium at $8 a month and Premium Plus at $40 a month both state increased Grok usage limits without saying what those limits are. No consumer plan includes API credits: the API is billed separately per token.

Key specs

Grok key specifications
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, X
API access
Team features
SOC 2
Mobile app

Who it is for

Best for

  • Anyone whose work depends on what is being said on X right now
  • People who want to wire in their own MCP servers without an enterprise contract

Not for

  • Buyers who need to see the full price ladder before subscribing
  • Anyone who needs documented compliance certifications

In more detail

The pricing page has two plans on it that have no price

Start with the thing you can check yourself in ten seconds, because it shapes everything else.

xAI's pricing page lists Free, SuperGrok at $30 per month, SuperGrok Plus at $100, and Enterprise on request. It also lists SuperGrok Lite and SuperGrok Heavy by name in the comparison table, with no price and no feature detail against either.

Third-party write-ups fill that gap with a figure for Heavy. We do not, because no xAI page we could open states one, and a number everybody repeats is not the same as a number the vendor publishes. The consequence for a buyer is concrete: you cannot see the ladder you are stepping onto, and you cannot tell whether the plan above yours is a small step or a large one.

The bundling adds to it. X Premium and Premium Plus both state increased usage limits on Grok. Neither says what those limits are, or how they compare to a SuperGrok subscription you might be paying for separately.

What thirty dollars buys against twenty everywhere else

SuperGrok is the highest paid entry price in our assistant comparison. ChatGPT Plus, Gemini AI Pro and Perplexity Pro all sit around twenty, and Claude Pro is lower still on annual billing.

For the premium you get Grok 4.6, image and video generation, Grok Bot, higher rate limits and expert support. What you do not get is the connector set, because that is already on the free tier, and neither is the real time web and X search or voice mode. The free plan here is unusually complete, and that cuts both ways: it is generous, and it makes the paid tier harder to justify.

Grok scores 7.2 and value is the criterion carrying that number down.

Connectors are the real reason to look at this

The part of Grok that is genuinely ahead of the field is the integration surface, and it is on every tier.

Seven connectors are built in: Gmail and Google Calendar, Google Drive, OneDrive, Outlook mail and calendar, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Salesforce. A wider catalogue adds GitHub, Notion and Linear among others. On top of that, xAI supports bringing your own MCP servers.

That last part matters more than the list. Most assistants in this category let you connect to what the vendor has built. This one lets you connect to what you have built, without an enterprise contract.

Live X search is the other differentiator, and how much it is worth depends entirely on whether what is being said on X is part of your job. For a journalist, a trader or a communications team, it is. For most people it is a feature they will use twice.

Private Chat is a retention promise, not a training promise

Read this carefully, because the two are easy to conflate and xAI's documentation does not separate them for you.

The privacy policy names Private Chat and commits to deleting those conversations within thirty days, absent a legal or security hold. That is a retention commitment, clearly stated.

What we could not find on any xAI page is a named control for objecting to your content being used for training. OpenAI names Data Controls, Google names Keep Activity, and Anthropic at least presents training as a setting you choose. xAI documents a deletion window and leaves the training question to a general statement about publicly available internet data.

If the training default is what decides your purchase, this is the vendor in the category that gives you the least to work with. Microsoft Copilot is the opposite end of that scale.

Where the compliance story does not add up

The pricing page states SOC 2 compliance in the feature list. The security page, which is where a certification claim belongs, names no certification at all: it talks about safeguards in general terms, points at a trust portal and a bug bounty, and stops.

Enterprise offers customisable service levels, customer-managed encryption keys, a dedicated data plane, SCIM and audit controls, all of which sound right and none of which carries a published figure. No numeric service level appears anywhere.

Taken with the two unpriced plans, this is the least complete disclosure of any vendor we compared, and it is most of the reason this page does not score higher on trust under how we rate.

Who it is actually for

Use the free tier if live X search is what you came for, because that is where it already is. Buy SuperGrok when the rate limits start biting, or when you want image and video generation from the same subscription.

Do not buy it as a general assistant. You would be paying a premium over the twenty dollar shelf for a product whose own price list is incomplete, and the two things that make Grok distinctive are both available before you pay anything.

Prices, connectors and data terms on this page were checked against the vendor pricing page, documentation and privacy policy on .

Alternatives to Grok

Where Grok appears

Grok questions

How much does Grok cost?
Free to use, $30 a month for SuperGrok and $100 a month for SuperGrok Plus, as shown on the xAI pricing page on 29 August 2026. Two further plans, SuperGrok Lite and SuperGrok Heavy, appear by name with no price.
Does X Premium include Grok?
X states that Premium at $8 a month and Premium Plus at $40 a month both include increased usage limits on Grok. Neither page states what those limits are.
Can I stop xAI training on my chats?
The privacy policy names Private Chat, which deletes conversations within 30 days, but does not name a separate control for objecting to training use. Treat retention and training as two different questions here.

Ready to try Grok?

Live web and X search on the free tier, and the highest paid entry price here.

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