Musk tightens Grok Bot usage limits, citing costs
What happened
In early November 2026, several Grok Bot users found their usage allowance used up early over the weekend, with some reporting usage jumping from as low as 50% to 100%. Musk said on X that this was not a fault but that Grok Bot's running costs are unsustainably high relative to revenue; he did not directly confirm a cut, nor say how limits for existing subscribers would be adjusted. The Decoder reported that SpaceX is reportedly cutting Grok Bot usage quotas, with several users finding their quota halved. Grok Bot can browse websites, reply to emails and log into accounts, and its quota is shared with Grok and the coding platform Cursor; SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell said in early October that there were 800,000 paying users a week. A SpaceX document last month showed AI already accounts for 52% of company revenue, with its renamed Super Intelligence division posting $431 million in profit, though affected by a $1.2 billion one-off cost from the Cursor acquisition.
Written by AI from the reports · updated 26 min ago
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- The DecoderSpaceXSI apparently cuts Grok Bot quotas weeks after Musk called it his fastest-growing product
SpaceXSI is apparently cutting usage limits for its AI agent Grok Bot, less than two weeks after Musk called it his fastest-growing product. The operating costs were "unsustainably high relative to revenue," Musk wrote on X. OpenAI and Anthropic are also tightening their flat-rate plans as they grapple with the high costs of AI agents.
- TechCrunch · AIElon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to ‘unsustainably high’ costs
Musk recently referred to Grok Bot as having "the fastest growth of a product that I've ever seen in my life."
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