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Grok Pricing — Free, SuperGrok, Heavy and API Rates

Who this is for: For anyone comparing Grok's subscription tiers against the API, or working out which SuperGrok plan actually fits how much they use it.

Every Grok and SuperGrok tier in one table, with what each one actually buys.

Quick answer: Grok has two separate price ladders. Subscriptions: free (limited, on X), SuperGrok $30/month, SuperGrok Heavy $300/month. API per million tokens: Grok 4 $3.00 in / $15.00 out with cached input at $0.75; Grok 4 Fast $0.20 / $0.50 with cached input at $0.05. A subscription does not include API access.

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Monthly list prices Oct 2026, per provider's public pricing page — what you actually pay month to month. Annual discounts (Claude Pro $200/yr, Perplexity $200/yr, Midjourney −20%) are compared on each provider's own page. Per-user tiers multiply by seats.
Core facts
Free tierLimited, on X only
SuperGrok$30 / month
SuperGrok Heavy$300 / month
Grok 4 API$3.00 in / $15.00 out per 1M
Grok 4 Fast$0.20 in / $0.50 out per 1M
StatusList prices collected Oct 2026 from each provider's public pricing page. Providers change tiers often — always confirm on the official page before billing decisions.

What are the Grok pricing tiers?

Grok splits into two ladders that do not overlap. The consumer ladder is a subscription: free with limits on X, SuperGrok at $30/month, and SuperGrok Heavy at $300/month for the highest usage ceilings and priority access. The developer ladder is per-token: Grok 4 at $3.00 input / $15.00 output per million tokens, Grok 4 Fast at $0.20 / $0.50, with cached input at 25% of base price in both cases. Paying for one does not give you the other — a SuperGrok subscription does not include an API key, and API credit does not unlock the Grok app. That separation is the single most common source of confusion in Grok pricing comparisons.

Common uses

  • Comparing SuperGrok against SuperGrok Heavy before upgrading
  • Working out whether $30/month beats per-token API billing
  • Seeing the full Grok price ladder in one table
  • Checking API rates for Grok 4 versus Grok 4 Fast

Why the subscription and the API are separate

A SuperGrok subscription buys access to the Grok product — the app, the chat interface on X, image generation and elevated usage limits. The API is a developer product sold per token, with its own account and billing on xAI's platform. Neither includes the other. If you are budgeting for a team that both chats with Grok and calls it programmatically, you are paying two line items, not one, and the per-token side will scale with usage while the subscription stays flat.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much is Grok per month?
SuperGrok is $30/month and SuperGrok Heavy is $300/month. There is also a free tier on X with usage limits. The API is separate and billed per token rather than monthly.
Is Grok free?
Partly. Grok is usable on X at no cost with rate limits, and those limits are what the paid tiers remove. Free access does not extend to the API, which requires a paid xAI account.
Does SuperGrok include API access?
No. The subscription covers the Grok consumer product — chat, image generation and higher in-app usage limits. The API is a separate product billed per token, and an API key is obtained separately on xAI's developer platform. Budget for both if you need both.
What does SuperGrok Heavy add for $300?
The highest usage ceilings and priority access to the most capable models — aimed at people who hit the $30 tier's limits daily. Unless you are running into those limits regularly, the base tier delivers the same models at a tenth of the price.
How do Grok API prices compare with competitors?
Grok 4 at $3.00/$15.00 per million tokens sits level with Claude Sonnet 4.5 ($3/$15) and above Gemini 2.5 Flash ($0.30/$2.50). Grok 4 Fast at $0.20/$0.50 undercuts most competing budget tiers, sitting near Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and DeepSeek V3 on input.

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