Comparison · Data as of 14 August 2026

Else vs Grok Bot:
a stop line you set yourself.

Grok Bot comes with a weekly usage allowance shared across your account. Else comes with no allowance at all — a balance in US dollars, a ceiling you put on each run before it starts, and an itemized receipt the moment it ends.

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The difference in one line

One stop line arrives on its own schedule.
The other one is a number you chose.

Both halves are quoted from something published. The left is xAI’s description of what the weekly usage pool does on its paid plans. The right is the ceiling Else puts on a single run.

Grok Bot · a weekly allowance
Paused

On xAI’s paid Grok plans, “when your weekly usage limit is met, paid features will pause until your weekly limit resets.” Grok Bot’s own documentation says subscriptions include weekly usage, and that eligible accounts can add on-demand usage billed from model and token cost.

Else · a ceiling per run
$0.15
Default ceiling on one run · adjustable up to $5

The run stops there and asks whether to keep going. Nothing is shared with another job, and nothing resets on a schedule you did not pick. See real receipts →

What makes Else different

Four things a weekly allowance
cannot do for you.

01
The stop line is yours to place
Grok BotThe published limit is a weekly usage pool shared across the account. On paid Grok plans, features pause when it is met and resume when it resets.
ElseEvery run carries a dollar ceiling you set before it starts — $0.15 by default, up to $5 — and it stops there and asks whether to continue, on your phone if you have closed the tab.
02
Carrying on mid-week
Grok BotExtra Usage Credits can be bought to continue. By xAI’s documentation they are “priced at standard rates, which means the cost per action is higher than the effective rate you get from the included weekly usage in your plan,” and they expire a year after purchase.
ElseThere is one balance, in dollars, at one price. Adding to it mid-week costs the same as adding to it at any other time, and it does not expire.
03
A quiet month costs nothing
Grok BotIt arrives with a subscription — SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra or Cursor Teams Premium — which renews whether you handed off forty jobs or none.
ElseThere is no plan to renew. Your balance sits there, never expires, and only moves when something actually runs.
04
Whose computer your logins sit on
Grok BotBy its own documentation, “every Bot on your account uses the same computer”; browser cookies and signed-in sessions are shared, files are visible to every Bot, and command-line credentials are shared. The same page adds: “Do not use separate Bots as a security boundary.”
ElseNothing asks you to leave logins on a shared machine. You connect an app by granting a permission you can withdraw — Gmail, Drive, Slack, Notion, GitHub and Airtable among them — and anything that sends, publishes or buys asks you first.
What Else does better

Six things, all checkable today.

01A receipt for every jobEvery run ends with an itemized receipt in US dollars: the total, the ceiling that was set, how much of it was used, and the lines underneath it. Real receipts are published unedited.
02You pick the engine, by nameFour named tiers — Auto, Fast, Smart, Max — changeable whenever you like, even mid-task, or point a single request at one named model. Leave it on Auto and Else picks per job.
03Price and engine come as a pairBecause the price follows the tier you chose, no amount is ever shown without its tier beside it. You always know which engine produced the number you are reading.
04It asks before it actsSending, publishing, buying and changing things ask you first, out of the box. Connected apps read only what you allow — Gmail, Drive, Slack, Notion, GitHub and Airtable among them.
05It keeps going without youHand a job off with a repeat — every 30 minutes through weekly — and it runs on its own, accounting for itself in dollars every single time.
06Free to startNo card to enter and no plan to cancel. Hand over one real job, read the receipt, and decide from that rather than from a page like this one.
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Feature comparison · Data as of 14 August 2026

The rest of the account.

Every Grok Bot cell is quoted from a page xAI or Cursor publishes; every Else cell is checkable in the product. Grok Bot entered beta on 11 August 2026, so read each row as true on the date above and not for ever.

What you are comparingElseGrok Bot
How you pay
Per job — top up a balance in US dollars, spend only what runs
A subscription that includes weekly usage; eligible accounts can add on-demand usage billed from model and token cost
When work stops
At the dollar ceiling you set on that run, which then asks whether to continue
On paid Grok plans, when the weekly usage limit is met, paid features pause until it resets
Carrying on after that
Top up at the same price; the balance does not expire
Extra Usage Credits at standard rates — a higher cost per action than the plan’s included usage — expiring a year after purchase
What you get after a job finishes
An itemized receipt in dollars, beside the tier that ran
— none published
Ceiling on one job
In dollars — $0.15 by default, up to $5, checked between steps
— none published; the published limit is the weekly pool
A month you hand off nothing
Costs nothing — there is no plan to renew
The subscription renews
Where your logins live
Per-app permissions you grant and can withdraw
One computer per account: “Browser cookies and signed-in sessions are shared,” files are visible to every Bot, and command-line credentials are shared
Separation between bots
Each run leaves its own itemized record
“Do not use separate Bots as a security boundary”
Working in tools with no interface for software
Through connected apps and the open web
Its central capability — a persistent computer that signs into apps and websites the way you do
Learning a path by watching
You describe the job; repeats can be scheduled
Follow it through a path once and it keeps the path as a routine
Where it runs
Any browser, installable as a web app
macOS on Apple silicon and Intel, Windows on x64 and Arm64, iPhone on iOS 18 or later
Best for
People who hand off work now and then and want each job priced in money
People who need a machine that signs into everything and keeps working unattended

Where a cell reads “none published”, that means it was absent from the Grok Bot pages we read on 14 August 2026 — a statement about what is published, not about what exists.

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When to use each

They are not the same purchase.

Plenty of people should buy Grok Bot. This is the short list of when.

Two different jobs
Reach for Grok Bot when…

The work lives in systems that offer nothing for software to talk to — an old vendor portal, an internal tool, a site that only has a login page. You want it to carry on after you shut the laptop. You would rather walk it through a path once and have it keep that path than describe the job in words. Or you already pay for SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra or Cursor Teams Premium, in which case it is already sitting there.

Reach for Else when…

You want to see, in dollars, what each job cost — and which engine tier that price came from. You want the stopping point on a run to be a number you chose rather than an allowance that resets on its own schedule. You would rather pay for four jobs this month than carry a plan you might not use. Or you want to be asked before anything is sent, published or bought.

Frequently asked

Questions people actually ask.

What happens when Grok Bot's weekly usage runs out?
By xAI's own documentation, Grok Bot subscriptions include weekly usage, and eligible accounts can add on-demand usage billed from model and token cost. xAI's Grok FAQ describes what the weekly pool does on paid plans: when the weekly usage limit is met, paid features pause until the limit resets, and Extra Usage Credits bought to continue are priced at standard rates — a higher cost per action than the effective rate of the usage included in the plan. Those credits expire a year after purchase. Else has no weekly allowance to run out. You top up a balance in US dollars, it never expires, and each run stops at the dollar ceiling you set for it rather than at a shared pool you cannot see. Figures captured 14 August 2026.
Is there a Grok Bot alternative with per-job pricing?
Else prices by the job rather than by the month. There is no subscription, no weekly allowance and no credit bundle: you top up a balance in US dollars, each run spends from it, and each run ends with an itemized receipt showing the total, the ceiling that was set, how much of it was used, and the lines underneath. One real run on the Auto tier came to $0.0819 in 22 seconds, and its receipt shows that figure beside the tier that produced it. What a run costs follows from the engine tier you picked — Auto, Fast, Smart or Max.
Do Grok Bot's bots share the same computer?
Yes, by xAI's own documentation. It states that every Bot on your account uses the same computer, that the computer is assigned to your user account and not an individual Bot, and that browser cookies and signed-in sessions are shared, files are visible to every Bot, and command-line credentials are shared. Installed connectors are described as account-wide. The same documentation tells you what to conclude from that: do not use separate Bots as a security boundary. Else does not ask you to put logins on a shared machine. You connect an app by granting a permission you can withdraw, actions that send, publish or buy ask you first, and every run leaves its own itemized record. Quoted 14 August 2026.
Can I set a spending limit on a single task?
On Else, yes. Every run carries a dollar ceiling before it starts — $0.15 by default and up to $5 — and the run stops at that line and asks you whether to keep going, on your phone if you have closed the tab. Because the check happens between steps, a run ends fractionally past the figure rather than exactly on it. On the Grok Bot pages we read on 14 August 2026, the limit published is a weekly usage allowance shared across the account, not a ceiling you set on one job.
What does Grok Bot cost?
Grok Bot is not sold on its own. Its documentation lists three eligible plans: SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra and Cursor Teams Premium. Cursor publishes Ultra at $200 a month and Teams Premium at $120 per seat a month, or $96 per seat a month billed annually. The pages that would carry SuperGrok Heavy's price did not load for us on 14 August 2026, so we are not quoting a figure for it. Else has no plan at any price: you top up a balance in US dollars and spend it a job at a time, and the price of a job follows the engine tier you picked.
Which is better, Else or Grok Bot?
They are different purchases. Grok Bot is the better buy if you need something that signs into tools that have no interface for software to talk to, that keeps working after you close your laptop, that learns a path by following you through it once and repeats it on a schedule, or if you already pay for one of the plans it comes with. Else is the better buy if you want to know in dollars what each job cost, to set a ceiling on a run before it starts, to be asked before anything is sent or published, and to pay nothing at all in a month you hand off nothing.

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Last updated 14 August 2026.

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