Grok Bot phone calls: how they work and how to try them

Grok Bot phone calls let xAI's task agent dial a person or a business, ask for what you need, and send you a written summary when the call ends. The built-in version is still rolling out, so most people who want Grok Bot to make calls today do it through a phone connector such as Bland.

Elon Musk announced it on Sunday. "Grok @Bot can now call someone or a business for you," @elonmusk posted. He added that it takes notes on the response and sends you a note summarizing the conversation.

Is it actually out?

Only partly. Replying under Musk's post, Grok's own account cooled things down. "The built-in calling is only in prerelease so far," @grok replied, naming 0.75.5 from October 23 as the latest public release. @TeslasRUs reported that the feature first showed up in 0.77 prerelease builds on October 24.

Version 0.77.0 builds started showing up today in community Linux repackages of xAI's official installer. Their release notes cover packaging and nothing else, so I can't say whether calling is turned on for every account yet. Update the app and look for a Calls section before you count on it.

Coverage of the prerelease builds says a call can sit on hold, press keys to get through a phone menu, and get transferred, all while you watch a live transcript. Musk only confirmed the core loop: call, ask, take notes, summarize.

What it can do

People are already posting results. @ScottyBeamIO wrote that his bot got $35 a month knocked off his internet bill, cancelled a gym membership, booked a barber appointment and set up a dinner date. "Total: almost 2 hours on the phone today. I spent 0 of them," he said.

@BrianRoemmele said he and dozens of clients already make calls through Grok Bot every day with an external connector, and that 0.77 builds the feature in. That external route is how you can try it right now.

How to try it

Grok Bot comes with every paid Cursor plan, Cursor Teams, and the SuperGrok plans, per xAI's FAQ. On The X Subscription, Premium at $30 a month is the cheapest plan that includes it (more in our X Subscription pricing breakdown). It runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and Android.

Built-in calls (0.77 and later)

Update Grok Bot, then give it the whole job in one message. For example:

Call my dentist's office at [number]. Ask for the earliest cleaning appointment next week after 4 p.m. Don't book anything. Send me the options.

Name the business, the number, the goal, and what the bot may and may not agree to. Spell out that last part every time, because nobody has said yet whether calls need your approval before the bot commits to something.

Calls through Bland, available now

Bland's Grok Bot guide gives you two ways in. You can let the bot set up its own Bland account and pay with Stripe Link, or add the connection by hand:

Without the paid plan, calls go out from a shared Bland number on free credits. Bland says plan pricing changes, so check its billing page before you pay.

What nobody has said yet

xAI hasn't said which plans include built-in calling, which countries it works in, what number the other person sees, or whether the bot says it's an AI. It also hasn't said whether calls get recorded. In the US, the FCC ruled in February 2024 that AI-generated voices count as artificial voices under the TCPA, so the rules on robocalls apply. Calling a store to ask about its hours is fine. Pointing it at anything that looks like outreach is a question for a lawyer.

What this means for a small business

Most of the coverage is about the person placing the call. If you run a shop or an office, you're the one picking up. Grok Bot now does what Google Duplex and Meta's Muse agent already do, so some of the calls hitting your front desk will come from software asking plainly about price, availability or cancelling. An agent will happily sit through a long phone menu or wait for a business-hours callback, which a real customer usually won't.

The practical move is to make the common requests easy: post hours, prices and booking online, and make sure whoever answers the phone, human or AI, can handle a caller that reads from a script. If you want help figuring out which of your calls and follow-ups are worth automating first, New Face Design's free process audit is a good place to start.