How To Use Grok Bot: A Team Of AI Helpers

Grok Bot gives you AI helpers, called Bots, that do jobs for you rather than just answer questions. Each Bot has a name, a job and its own computer in the cloud, so it keeps working when your laptop is closed. You can set up one main Bot to coordinate the others, and it checks with you before anything risky, such as sending or buying.

Works with: the Grok Bot app on desktop and phone. It needs a paid plan.

What Is Grok Bot?

Grok Bot comes from xAI, the company behind the Grok chatbot. A chatbot answers your question and stops. A Bot is an AI agent: you give it a job and it carries out the steps, across websites, email and apps, then reports back.

According to xAI's own pages, each Bot:

• Has a name and a job, such as "Inbox Helper" or "Trip Planner". xAI suggests focused jobs rather than one vague general helper.
• Has its own computer in the cloud, with a web browser and files, so the work carries on while your own computer is off.
• Remembers your preferences, files and past conversations, so you don't have to explain things again each time.
• Comes back for approval when something needs your say, such as sending a message or paying for something.

You talk to a Bot by messaging it, the way you would text a person. You can type, dictate, or start a voice chat, on your computer or your phone, and carry on the same conversation on either.

One Main Helper And Specialist Helpers

The idea that makes Grok Bot different is that you can have several Bots working together, like a small team. xAI describes its own staff running a "chief of staff" Bot on top, with a specialist Bot for each job underneath.

• The main helper is the one you talk to most. You tell it what you need, and it works out which specialist should do it.
• Specialist helpers each look after one area: your email, your travel, your website, your paperwork. Because each one sticks to its job, it builds up knowledge about that area.
• They talk to each other. Bots can message one another, share notes and hand jobs over, so you aren't copying details from one chat to another. You can also put several Bots in one group chat and watch them sort a job out between them.

You don't need a team on day one. Start with one Bot and one job. Add a second when the first is busy, and a main helper once you have two or three.

How Do I Make A Job Happen By Itself?

Grok Bot has two building blocks for jobs you do again and again:

• A skill is a saved set of instructions for how to do a task. You can also ask a Bot to watch while you do a job once, and it saves the steps for next time.
• A routine tells a Bot when to do the job by itself: on a schedule, such as "every weekday at 8am", or when something happens, such as an email arriving.

xAI's advice is to do a job once by hand with the Bot, make sure it comes out right, and only then turn it into a routine. A new routine waits for its first scheduled time rather than running straight away.

Example 1: Planning A Trip

You tell your main helper: "We'd like four nights in Edinburgh in May, near the station, under a set budget." It passes the job to a Trip Planner Bot, which compares hotels and train times and comes back with a short list. You pick one. Booking and paying wait for your approval, so nothing is bought without you saying yes.

Example 2: Keeping On Top Of Email

An Inbox Helper Bot, connected to your email, can read new mail each morning and give you a short list: what needs a reply, what's a bill, and what looks like a scam. It can draft replies in your style for you to check. Set it up as a routine, for example "every weekday at 8am, list what needs my attention", and the summary is waiting when you sit down with your coffee.

Example 3: Running A Small Business Website

If you run a small business or a club, a Website Helper Bot can check your site for broken links, add new pages, and keep opening hours up to date. A second Social Media Bot can draft posts for you to approve. The main helper keeps them in step, so a new product added to the website also turns up in the next post. This site is an example: exonexo is run day to day by a team of Grok Bots, with a human checking the work. You can see what they do on our Watch Exo Work page.

Example 4: Family And Health Admin

A Household Helper Bot can keep a list of renewals, such as car insurance, the TV licence or a passport, and remind you a few weeks before each one is due. It can put appointments in your calendar and remind you the day before. It's a reminder service, not a doctor: check anything about health, money or the law with a professional.

How Do I Stay Safe With It?

• Give each Bot only the access its job needs. A trip planner doesn't need your bank login.
• Read approval requests properly before you say yes. That's your chance to stop a mistake.
• Check the work at first. Bots can get things wrong and still sound sure, just like chatbots.
• Keep scams in mind. A Bot reading your email may meet scam messages. Tell it never to click links or pay anything from an email without asking you. Our Is This A Scam? checklist helps.

How Much Does It Cost?

Grok Bot comes as part of a paid plan called The X Subscription, which also covers the Grok apps, Cursor and X Premium features. Grok Bot is included on the Premium, Super and Ultra plans. The cheaper Plus plan ($8 a month) and the Free plan don't include it. These are xAI's list prices in US dollars, checked 2 November 2026:

• Premium: US$30 a month, or US$300 a year (about £22 a month or £224 a year). Includes 4 times the usage of Plus. xAI recommends it for new AI users.
• Super: US$100 a month, or US$1,000 a year (about £75 a month or £746 a year). Includes 15 times the usage of Plus.
• Ultra: US$200 a month, or US$2,000 a year (about £149 a month or £1,493 a year). Includes 50 times the usage of Plus.

xAI doesn't publish prices in pounds. The pound figures above are our approximate conversions from the US dollar prices, at the exchange rate on 30 October 2026 (US$1 = £0.746), and the price you see at checkout may differ. xAI's prices don't include taxes such as VAT, which may be added when you pay.

Usage comes from one weekly allowance shared across Grok Bot, the Grok apps and Cursor, and it refreshes each week. If you run out, you can wait for it to refresh or buy top-ups. You can cancel at any time, at least 24 hours before your renewal date. People who already pay for older Cursor plans, SuperGrok or X Premium+ can also get Grok Bot. Cursor's plans page explains how.

How Do I Get Started?

1. Download the Grok Bot app from xAI's Grok Bot page.
2. Create your first Bot and give it one clear job, in plain words.
3. Connect only the apps that job needs, when the Bot asks.
4. Do the job together once and check the result.
5. When it's right, ask the Bot to save it as a routine.

Common Questions

New to all this? Our free AI Starter Guide walks you through the basics, and you can print it.

Resources To Learn More

Last checked 2 November 2026. Every link opened on that date.

• xAI: Introducing Grok Bot
• xAI: Grok Bot (features, pricing and download)
• xAI: The X Subscription pricing (all plans)
• xAI Docs: The X Subscription pricing (monthly and annual prices)
• Cursor Help: Grok Bot plans and billing
• xAI: Grok Bot 101 (beginner guide)
• xAI: Grok Bot Guides
• xAI Docs: Grok Bot overview
• xAI Docs: Skills and routines
• Swarm School: Grok Agents Explained, Bots, Multi-Agent and Subagents