SpaceXAI launches The X Subscription: Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X Premium in one $8–$200 plan; extra usage covers Grok models, third-party models in Cursor billed at list price

Why it matters

【Key points】

SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) on Oct 12 launched The X Subscription, one plan for Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X Premium, open to new customers now and rolling out globally. Tiers: Free $0, Plus $8/month, Premium $30 (SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and X Premium+ benefits, previously $90 combined), Super $100 and Ultra $200, with 4x, 15x and 50x Plus usage.

Paid tiers share one weekly-refreshed usage pool across Grok and Cursor. Each tier includes at least twice the Grok-model coding usage of the comparable Cursor plan, but third-party models in Cursor are limited to Premium and above and billed at API list prices via top-ups. Team seats cost $30/$100/$200, said to be cheaper than old Cursor Teams with 3x the coding usage. Existing subscribers can keep their plans or switch with a prorated refund; old plans are closed to new sign-ups, and remaining customers will eventually be moved, with no timeline yet.

【Verifiable】

Announcement: https://x.ai/news/x-subscription

Pricing: https://x.ai/pricing

@SpaceXSI (2026-10-12 23:08Z; ~41k views, 640 likes, 76 quotes in ~15 min): https://x.com/SpaceXSI/status/2109783335296008414

Matching posts from @cursor_ai, @grok and @Subscriptions; related X posts rose from single digits to ~170 per hour after launch.

【Our read】

1. More than a bundle discount, this pricing steers coding traffic to in-house models: the extra allowance covers Grok models, while Claude, GPT and other third-party models in Cursor become pay-as-you-go at list price. Cursor users who mostly code with Opus or GPT should run the numbers before switching.

2. Closing old Cursor plans to new sign-ups signals Cursor shifting from a neutral multi-model editor toward part of the SpaceXAI ecosystem.

3. Watch whether Grok coding models retain the developers the allowance attracts, and whether third-party top-ups make real bills higher.