The X Subscription pricing: Grok, Cursor and X Premium

The X Subscription has five plans: Free, Plus at $8 a month, Premium at $30, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200. Every paid plan covers Grok, Cursor and X Premium perks from one shared usage pool, with one catch for people who code: Claude and GPT inside Cursor are now billed separately at API list prices.

The launch came on Monday. "We've unified plans across Grok, Cursor, and X Premium," @SpaceXSI posted. That's the account for the company formerly called SpaceXAI, which runs Grok and bought Cursor in August. A minute later the new @Subscriptions account said "X Premium is now part of The X Subscription," with plans from $8. If you already pay for X Premium or Premium+, you can keep your plan or move to a comparable one at the same price or less.

What each plan costs

Here's the lineup from xAI's launch page:

According to xAI, Premium includes the benefits of SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and X Premium+, which cost $90 a month together when bought separately. It's also the cheapest plan that includes the newest Grok models and Grok Bot, the company's task agent. Some early coverage said Ultra gets 20x the Plus usage. xAI's own page says 50x.

Teams can buy Premium, Super and Ultra at the same per-seat prices as individuals. xAI says that's cheaper per seat than the old Cursor Teams plans, and team plans come with SSO, admin controls and consolidated billing. Enterprise deals go through sales.

The Cursor catch: Claude and GPT bill separately

If you write code, read Cursor's own post. Paid plans share one pool across Cursor and Grok's products, it says, and you get twice the Grok coding usage of the matching old Cursor plan. Then comes the line that matters: third-party models in Cursor "move to API pricing on the new plans," to make room for more Grok usage.

So if you use Claude or GPT in Cursor, the plan fee covers none of those tokens. The launch page says third-party models stay available on Premium and up, and that usage beyond the plan bills at API list prices through prepaid top-ups. Muskonomy read through the help docs for an X article and found two more things to know before you switch. The switch is permanent, so you can't split the accounts apart later. And if you cancel, your old plans don't come back.

Pushback came quickly. A long-time Cursor Ultra subscriber wrote on Cursor's forum that the change throws away the model neutrality that made Cursor worth paying for. A staff member merged the thread into the announcement topic, and that reply didn't touch the billing question.

Should you switch?

You don't have to. "Nothing changes for existing SuperGrok, Cursor, or X Premium subscribers," xAI says, unless you opt in. The switch option is rolling out gradually in billing settings.

I think it comes down to which model does your work:

• If you already use Grok a lot and pay for X Premium+, the $30 Premium tier looks like a good deal on paper.
• If most of your Cursor work runs on Claude or GPT, stay on your current Cursor plan until you've priced your real usage at API rates. One long agent run on a top model can cost more than a month of the subscription.
• If all you want is the checkmark, Plus at $8 now throws in some AI usage too.

The bundle is built to pull usage toward Grok. That's fine if Grok is the model you'd pick anyway. It gets expensive fast if it isn't.

What this means for a small business

Most small teams never planned their AI tools. They added one subscription at a time, and nobody has a list. A pricing change like this one is a good prompt to write down what you pay for and which model actually does the work, so the next change is a quick decision and not a surprise on the card statement.

If you'd like help with that, New Face Design runs a free process audit for Fox Valley businesses. We look at where AI and automation can save real hours, and where you're paying twice for the same tool.