October 15, 2026. xAI, now part of SpaceX, launched The X Subscription on October 12: one plan that bundles Grok, Grok Bot, the Cursor coding editor and X Premium at five prices, free, $8, $30, $100 and $200 a month, according to its announcement. For a development team the number that matters is the seat price. Team seats cost the same as the individual plans, so a Premium seat is $30 a month, against the $40 a user that Cursor charged for its Teams plan as late as October 5. Five developers move from $200 to $150 a month, but Claude and other third-party models inside Cursor are billed on top, at API list prices.
Key numbers
| Item | Number |
|---|---|
| X Subscription Plus (only Grok models in Cursor) | $8 a month |
| X Subscription Premium (4x Plus usage; replaces $90 of plans, per xAI) | $30 a month |
| X Subscription Super (15x Plus usage) | $100 a month |
| X Subscription Ultra (50x Plus usage) | $200 a month |
| Cursor Teams before October 12 (Internet Archive capture of 5 October) | $40 per user a month |
| Cursor Pro before October 12 | $20 a month |
| Five developers on Premium seats ($200 on the old Cursor Teams plan) | $150 a month |
Plan prices read on 15 October 2026 from xAI's announcement and pricing page and Cursor's pricing page; Cursor's earlier prices from an Internet Archive capture of 5 October 2026.
What the five plans include
- Free, $0. Daily access to Grok, a starter allowance for Cursor's coding agents and standard X.
- Plus, $8 a month. More Grok and Cursor usage, plus an X checkmark, creator tools and fewer ads. Cursor's pricing page notes that only Grok models are available on this plan.
- Premium, $30 a month. Four times the Plus usage, Grok Bot, and the benefits of SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and X Premium+, which xAI says previously cost $90 a month combined.
- Super, $100 a month. 15 times the Plus usage.
- Ultra, $200 a month. 50 times the Plus usage.
The usage pool covers Grok models in the Grok apps, the Grok tab on X and Cursor, and xAI says each plan includes at least twice as much coding usage with its own models as the comparable Cursor plan. Third-party models remain available in Cursor on Premium and above, billed separately at API list prices through top-ups. Teslarati reported the same five prices and usage multiples.
What changes for Cursor teams
Before the launch, Cursor's pricing page listed Pro at $20 a month and Teams at $40 a user a month, in an Internet Archive capture from October 5. The same page now shows the X Subscription tiers. Team plans on the X pricing page start at $30 a seat for Premium, with centralized billing, usage analytics, team-wide privacy settings and SAML or OIDC single sign-on, and you can mix seat types. xAI says that is cheaper per seat than the older Cursor Teams plan and includes three times the coding usage.
- Five Premium seats: $150 a month. Against $200 at the old Cursor Teams price.
- Five Super seats: $500 a month. 15 times the Plus usage per seat, for heavier agent use.
- Five Ultra seats: $1,000 a month. The top tier at the same per-seat price as an individual Ultra plan.
Existing SuperGrok, Cursor and X Premium subscribers keep their plans, prices and features unless they choose to switch, and switching comes with a prorated refund of the old plan. Cursor's pricing page now lists only the X Subscription tiers, so a new customer who wants Claude or another third-party model inside Cursor starts at Premium, $30 a month, plus API top-ups.
What it means for agencies and dev teams
- Price the seats and the tokens separately. If your developers mostly use Claude inside Cursor, the $10 a seat saving can disappear into API top-ups. Pull a month of model usage before you move a team.
- Keep the old plan if it is cheaper for you. Nothing forces a switch, and the option appears in billing settings as it rolls out.
- Test the models your team will actually use. Model access inside Cursor has kept changing since the acquisition; our AI vendor risk note covers the OpenAI side.
- Grok Bot comes with every seat from Premium up. Our Grok Bot brief covers what those agents do for an agency.
Grok now ships with every paid X plan, so more of your buyers will have it open when they ask an assistant for a shortlist of vendors. Our AI search optimization work covers how a business gets named in those answers. If you would rather have the software built for you than buy seats, see our AI engineers and SaaS launch service.
Frequently Asked Questions
The X Subscription has five plans: Free at $0, Plus at $8 a month, Premium at $30, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200. Premium includes four times the Plus usage, Super 15 times and Ultra 50 times. xAI says Premium covers the benefits of SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and X Premium+, which cost $90 a month combined.
Team seats on The X Subscription cost the same as the individual plans: $30 a seat a month for Premium, $100 for Super and $200 for Ultra. Cursor's pricing page listed Teams at $40 a user a month in an Internet Archive capture from October 5, 2026.
No. The shared usage pool covers Grok models. Third-party models are available in Cursor on Premium and above and are billed separately at API list prices through top-ups. Cursor's pricing page says only Grok models are available on the $8 Plus plan.
No. xAI says existing SuperGrok, Cursor and X Premium subscribers keep their current plan, price and features. Switching is optional, comes with a prorated refund of the old plan, and appears in billing settings as it rolls out.