Is Grok Free? Yes. xAI Just Won't Say How Much

Yes. Grok is free on grok.com, in the iPhone and Android apps and inside X. A free account gets chat, voice, image generation, connectors to Gmail and Google Drive, and Grok Build, xAI's tool for making small apps and web pages.

What you won't find is how much of it you get. xAI's plan table says "Limited" against the free plan and puts no number on it. It doesn't say which Grok model a free account talks to either. Video generation hasn't been on the free plan since at least May, and since 12 October the $8 Plus plan doesn't have it. And xAI's own FAQ says it may use your chats to train Grok, with a switch called "Improve the model" that decides whether it does.

For this post I read xAI's pricing page and plan comparison table, the launch post for The X Subscription, xAI's help pages for Grok and for the new plans, its consumer FAQ, its terms of service and privacy policy, and X's help article on Grok, all on 30 October 2026. I also tried grok.com without an account.

The Short Answer

Question	Answer
Is Grok free?	Yes. $0 on grok.com, in the iPhone and Android apps, and in X
What's included?	Chat, voice, image generation, Grok Build, connectors and file uploads, all in limited amounts
What isn't?	Video, Grok Bot and API access. Video starts at Premium, $30 a month
Is it unlimited?	No. xAI calls the free allowance "Limited" and publishes no number
Which model is free?	xAI doesn't say. Only the $30 Premium card promises the latest Grok models
Can I use it without an account?	Only in Fast mode, and in my test grok.com asked me to sign up before it answered
Are my chats used for training?	They can be, unless you switch off "Improve the model". Signed out, there's no opt-out outside the EU and UK
Is there a free trial of a paid plan?	Only through a referral link. Two weeks of Premium, card required
What's the cheapest paid plan?	Plus at $8 a month. More usage and API access, but no video

What Grok's Free Plan Includes in 2026

Since 12 October, new customers buy Grok through The X Subscription, one plan family for Grok, Cursor and X Premium. Its Free tier costs $0, and xAI's launch post sums it up as "Daily access to Grok, a starter allowance for Cursor's coding agents, and standard X."

The plan card is even shorter. It lists "Limited Chat requests" and "Limited agent requests", and for X, "Post, reply, and follow." xAI's comparison table and help pages fill in the rest.

• Chat. Marked Limited. Signed out, the mode picker lets you choose Fast only, and labels Auto, Expert and Heavy "Requires sign-in". xAI doesn't publish which of those a signed-in free account gets.
• Voice. xAI's FAQ refers to "Grok's free tier limits on Chat and Voice", so voice is on the free plan with its own allowance.
• Images with Grok Imagine. Marked Limited. Every image carries a Grok watermark, and the FAQ says "there is no setting to remove the watermark."
• Grok Build. Marked Limited. You describe an app, a game or a dashboard and Grok builds it. xAI opened Build to every plan on 19 August.
• Connectors. xAI's connectors page says they're "available to all Grok users." The built-in ones are Gmail and Google Calendar, Google Drive, OneDrive, Outlook, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Salesforce, with a catalogue of others and room for your own MCP server.
• File uploads. Up to 150 MB a file, about 100 files at once on the web and 20 on Android. PDFs, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, images, audio and video all go in.
• Private Chat. A conversation that stays out of your history and out of training.
• Grok in X. Grok is built into the X app and x.com, and X's help centre says it's available in every country where X is.

xAI also calls its Excel add-in and its Google Workspace add-on free. Its Outlook add-in launched in July for "all paid X and SuperGrok users", so don't count on that one.

What the Free Plan Leaves Out

The comparison table puts a dash, not a smaller number, against these on the free plan:

• Video generation. It's missing from Free and from the $8 Plus plan, so the cheapest Grok that makes video is Premium at $30 a month.
• Grok Bot, xAI's agents that run on their own cloud computer and keep working when you close the laptop. Premium and up.
• Grok API access. Plus and above include access, and xAI's FAQ says API usage is "billed separately at standard model rates."
• Priority at busy times, which starts at Super, $100 a month.

Two more things are only implied. Premium's card promises "Latest Grok models" and "Faster Chat responses". Neither line appears on the Free or Plus cards.

Is Grok Free Unlimited?

No, and this is where xAI is vaguest. The comparison table's usage row reads Limited for Free, Basic for Plus, then 4x Plus for Premium, 15x Plus for Super and 50x Plus for Ultra. Every paid plan is sized against Plus, and xAI never says how much Plus includes. So there's no number anywhere on the ladder, free or paid.

The free plan also runs on its own clock. xAI's FAQ, written for SuperGrok subscribers, says that when a paid pool runs out, "paid features will pause until your weekly limit resets", but "you will still have access to Grok's free tier limits on Chat and Voice (these are separate from your weekly usage limit and resets on their own schedule)." If that still holds on the new plans, and xAI hasn't said otherwise, the free allowance isn't a slice of any weekly pool. It's separate, and xAI doesn't say when it refills.

Paid plans refresh weekly. xAI's pricing FAQ puts it as "Your allowance refreshes weekly, so one heavy day never wipes out your whole month," and paid users can keep going on prepaid top-ups. xAI's help pages describe top-ups only for paid seats, so on the free plan your choices are to wait or to upgrade. The FAQ's guide to what costs most is short: "A chat message uses little compute; generating a high-quality video or running a long coding task uses far more." How the weekly pool works, and what happens when it runs out, is in Grok's limits.

Which Grok Model Is Free?

xAI doesn't say. The current comparison table has no model row. The one xAI showed on 10 October, two days before The X Subscription launched, listed Grok 4.6 for every plan, Free included. The new cards mention models only once, on Premium, as "Latest Grok models".

xAI's release notes don't settle it either. Grok 4.5 got its own post on 22 July saying it "now powers Grok wherever you use it", on grok.com, X and the apps. Grok 4.6 in August and Grok 4.7 on 21 September launched in Cursor and Grok Build, and I couldn't find a post bringing either one to the Grok app.

What you can see is the mode. Signed out, grok.com picks Fast for you. xAI's Grok page lists "multi-agent reasoning", where several agents work on one hard question in parallel, as a reason to upgrade.

What You Pay Instead: Your Chats

Your Chats Can Train Grok

xAI's consumer FAQ is direct about it: "We may use your content and interactions with Grok (e.g., prompts, searches, and other materials you submit) along with Grok's responses to train our models." The control is a setting called Improve the model. On grok.com it's under Settings, then Data. In the apps it's under Settings, then Data Controls. Check which way yours is set before you paste in anything you'd mind a model learning from.

Three details sit under that switch. It only covers what comes next: "Once you select that your data should not be used for training, your new conversations will not be used to train our models." Feedback overrides it, because a response you rate "may be used for training purposes" even after you opt out. And people may read your chats. The FAQ says "a limited number of our authorized personnel may review your conversations with Grok," for purposes that include "improving model performance."

Private Chat is the clean option. The FAQ says those conversations aren't used for training, and xAI deletes them within 30 days. Deleting an ordinary chat also clears it within 30 days, unless xAI has to keep it for legal or safety reasons.

Signed Out, You Can't Opt Out

The terms of service, updated on 27 October, say that when you use Grok without logging in, "where permitted, you grant us full rights to use any data you provide to or obtain from our Service for product development and model training purposes." The FAQ spells out what that means in practice: "in some regions (excluding the EU/UK), when you use Grok without logging in, you won't have the option to opt out of model training."

So an account is the private option here, the reverse of what you might expect.

Grok in X Has Its Own Switch

The grok.com setting doesn't reach X. X's help centre says X "may share with xAI your public X data as well as your user interactions, inputs and results with Grok on X to train and fine-tune Grok." X counts your public posts and their engagement, public Spaces and your public profile as public data, and what you type to Grok goes in with them.

The opt-out lives in X's settings. Go to Privacy and safety, then Data sharing and personalization, then Grok & Third-party Collaborators, and untick "Allow your public data as well as your interactions, inputs, and results with Grok and xAI to be used for training and fine-tuning." X adds that a private account keeps your posts out of training too.

Connected Apps Stay Out of Training

Here Grok is cleaner than Gemini. xAI's page for each connector says it doesn't train on what the connector reads. The Gmail page says xAI "does not use your Gmail or Google Calendar data for model training," and the same line appears for Drive, Outlook, Teams and the rest. Google makes you leave training switched on before Gemini can read your Gmail, which I went through in Is Gemini free?. xAI's connector pages list no such condition. Your chat about that email is another matter, and it follows your Improve the model setting.

The Ads Are X's

OpenAI shows ads to free ChatGPT users in the US and a growing list of other countries, as I covered in Is ChatGPT free?. xAI's plan pages say nothing about ads in Grok. The ads they do mention are X's. Free comes with "standard X", Plus gets "Less timeline ads", and Premium and up get ad-free scrolling "on most surfaces."

Is Grok No Longer Free?

It's still free. Four changes this year are behind the question.

No video on Free, and now none on Plus. An archived copy of xAI's comparison table from 22 May 2026 already shows a cross against video for Free, while every paid tier had it. Since 12 October, the $8 Plus plan has a dash there too. Image generation is still on the free plan, in a limited amount.

Paid plans moved to a weekly pool. xAI's FAQ says that from June 2026, "instead of separate daily limits for each product (like Chat, Imagine, Voice, or Build), you get one shared weekly usage pool." Any page quoting a daily count for Grok describes the old system.

SuperGrok stopped taking new customers. On 12 October xAI launched The X Subscription. Its help pages say "New self-serve customers choose from The X Subscription plans," while existing SuperGrok and X Premium plans carry on unless the subscriber switches. The $30 tier is now called Premium, and it bundles Cursor Pro and X Premium+ benefits with Grok. How much Grok costs has every tier and its annual price.

xAI's own pages haven't caught up. The Grok page on x.ai still says "Free to try on the web and in the apps. Upgrade to SuperGrok for higher limits and multi-agent reasoning." The welcome page of xAI's help centre still says "Paid SuperGrok plans raise your limits." Both describe a plan a new customer can't buy. The pricing page has the current ladder.

The free plan gained things too. Connectors came to the web and the apps in May, Grok Build opened to every plan in August, and Grok 4.5 reached the app in July.

Is Grok Imagine Free?

Partly. Images, yes. Imagine image generation is marked Limited on the free plan and included from Plus at $8. Videos, no. The video row has a dash for Free and Plus and a tick from Premium at $30, so no amount of free use gets you a clip.

Everything Grok makes carries its watermark on every plan, free or paid. If you only need the odd short clip, a $30 plan isn't the only route. The per-second prices in our Sora alternatives roundup and Veo vs Kling vs Seedance are often cheaper than $30 a month for occasional video.

Free Grok vs Plus vs Premium

	Free	Plus	Premium
Price (US)	$0	$8 a month, or $80 a year	$30 a month, or $300 a year
Usage	Limited	"Basic", a weekly pool shared with Cursor	4x Plus
Chat, voice and Build	Limited	Included	Included
Image generation	Limited	Included	Included
Video generation	No	No	Yes
Grok API access	No	Yes, billed separately	Yes, billed separately
Grok Bot	No	No	Yes
"Latest Grok models"	Not listed	Not listed	Listed
X benefits	Standard X	Checkmark, creator tools, fewer ads	Full X Premium+, ad-free on most surfaces
Training on your chats	Your setting	Your setting	Your setting

Sources are xAI's pricing page, its comparison table, the launch post and its X Subscription help pages, read on 30 October. The annual prices are ten months of the monthly ones. Super at $100 and Ultra at $200 add 15 and 50 times Plus's usage, priority at busy times and, on Ultra, the earliest access to new models.

The most telling line on the page is xAI's own advice. Its pricing FAQ recommends "Premium for new AI users" and says "Plus is recommended for social creators with limited AI usage." In other words, the $8 plan is an X plan with some Grok on top. If you're paying for Grok as an assistant, xAI expects you at $30.

Is There a Grok Free Trial?

Not on the pricing page, which offers no trial on any plan.

There is one way to try Premium free, and it runs through referrals. A subscriber on Premium, Super or Ultra who is based in the US, and who checked out at least seven days ago, can send you a link for "a 2-week free trial of Premium." You have to be new to Grok and live anywhere except China, and "a credit card is required to start the trial." xAI sends a reminder seven days before the first charge. Subscriptions bought through Apple or Google don't count.

Some accounts also see a Start Trial button for Grok Bot. xAI's Grok Bot FAQ says that trial is a usage credit with a seven-day window, and it "never turns into a paid plan." One big task can use all of it.

Plenty of guides still describe a SuperGrok free trial. SuperGrok closed to new customers on 12 October, so whatever trial they describe is for a plan you can't sign up to.

Can You Use Grok Free Without an Account?

Not much of it. Signed out, grok.com offers only Fast. When I typed a question without an account on 30 October, it took the message and showed a sign-up card in place of an answer: "Sign up to continue seamlessly with Grok's full power." xAI's terms say signed-out use is offered "where available", so it may go further where you are. Remember the training trade above before you rely on it.

Signed in, a free account works the same on the web and in the iPhone and Android apps, and xAI says your conversations and settings sync across them. In X, Grok sits in the navigation bar of the app and the website.

Is Grok Free for Business Use?

If the account is for work, three things are worth knowing.

Who owns what Grok writes? You do. xAI's consumer FAQ says "You own the Inputs and Outputs" and that you're free to use them "including for commercial use." It asks you to credit Grok for generated work, following its brand guidelines.

What can xAI do with what you send? The consumer terms give xAI "an irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, and worldwide right" to use it "for any purpose," with "data analysis, customer and market research" among the examples. Signed in, the same terms let you opt out of xAI using your content to improve its products and train its models. That's still a wide licence to grant over a client's contract on a personal account.

What about a business plan? The same FAQ says "we do not use content from our business and enterprise customers to improve our models." Team seats on The X Subscription cost $30 a month each at the Premium level and add team-wide privacy settings and custom chat retention. Plus isn't sold to teams.

When Paying for Grok Makes Sense

You want video. Premium at $30 is the only Grok plan that makes it.

You mostly post on X. Plus at $8 is built for you, by xAI's own description, with a checkmark, creator tools and fewer ads.

You keep running out of free Grok. Plus is the cheapest bigger allowance, though xAI won't say how much bigger.

You want agents that keep working while you're away. That's Grok Bot, from Premium.

Clients send you their files. A Team seat adds team-wide privacy settings. A personal plan has the same training setting as the free one, so paying for Plus or Premium changes nothing there.

You ask Grok a few things a week. The free plan is enough.

You'd like Claude or ChatGPT in the mix. xAI's plans cover xAI's models. Other labs' models are only in Cursor, from Premium up, billed per use on top. That's where the next section comes in.

Where izzedo Fits

izzedo chat's free plan includes Grok 4.7, the model xAI released on 21 September for Cursor, Grok Build and its API. It sits in the same picker as GPT-6 Luna, Claude Haiku 5.5, Gemini 3.8 Flash, DeepSeek, Kimi and Qwen, with no card. In the thread below, Grok 4.7 worked out whether a two-chair barbershop comes out ahead by moving from $28 to $32 a cut if it loses 10% of its cuts. Then I switched to Kimi K3, also on the free plan, and asked it to check the sums and find the break-even.

Both got it right. Grok found the gain, $128 a week. Kimi turned it into the number the owner can actually watch in January, 140 cuts a week. Neither model questioned the 10%, and that's the figure I made up. A second model checks the working. It doesn't know your customers.

Grok in izzedo runs on xAI's API, where the rules are different from grok.com. xAI's API documentation says it "never trains on your API inputs or outputs without your explicit permission" and deletes stored requests after 30 days. There's no training setting to remember. The free plan also has agent mode and the 1,400+ connectors, Gmail and Google Drive among them, and izzedo asks you before each tool call unless you change that.

The $6 Hobby plan adds Grok 4.7 X Search, which reads X posts, and Grok's image model, along with every other chat model, including Claude Sonnet and Opus, GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 3.1 Pro. Grok Imagine video is on the $12 Pro plan. In xAI's own plans, video starts at $30. izzedo's allowance is shared across all the models, and the current amounts are on the pricing page. If you've never run one question past two models, here's how it works.

The Bottom Line

Grok is free, on the web, in the apps and in X, and the free plan covers chat, voice, images, Build and connectors. It leaves out video and Grok Bot.

What it doesn't tell you is what matters most for planning. xAI publishes neither how much you get nor which model answers, on the free plan or the paid ones. And it can train on your chats unless you switch Improve the model off in Grok and the separate setting in X. Signed out, you can't switch it off at all outside the EU and UK.

So make an account, set both switches the way you want them, and use Private Chat for anything sensitive. xAI has changed how Grok is sold or metered twice since June, and its own pages still disagree about the plan names, so check the date on anything you read about Grok, this post included, and then xAI's pricing page.

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