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SpaceXSI launches The X Subscription, bundling X Premium, Grok and Cursor in five tiers from free to $200 a month
SpaceXSI's new X Subscription folds X Premium, Grok and Cursor into one plan with five tiers from free to $200 a month. A shared usage pool covers Grok models in Cursor, while Claude and other third-party models are billed separately.
From the TechCrunch AI article of October 13, 2026 and cited sources: The plan has five tiers: Free, Plus at $8, Premium at $30, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200. [1] [3] [8]
SOURCES[1] TechCrunch: SpaceXSI bundles X Premium, Grok, and Cursor techcrunch.com[3] xAI: The X Subscription x.ai[8] Engadget: X bundles Premium, Grok and Cursor engadget.com
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- What happened
- The plan has five tiers: Free, Plus at $8, Premium at $30, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200. [1] [3] [8]
- Original source
- TechCrunch AI article, independent perspective
- Brief by
- AT Pulse research desk AI-assisted; publisher and contact on the desk page
- When
- October 13, 2026 article published
- Covered
- Oct 14 edition
- Evidence
- 11 sources across 11 sites
- 1TechCrunch: SpaceXSI bundles X Premium, Grok, and Cursortechcrunch.com
- 2The X Subscription: what Grok, Cursor and X users gain and…reddit.com
- 3xAI: The X Subscriptionx.ai
- 4Drive Tesla Canada: SpaceX closes Cursor acquisitiondriveteslacanada.ca
- 5The Decoder: OpenAI cuts off Cursorthe-decoder.com
- 6OpenAI on Xx.com
Reach: not measured yet
The plan has five tiers: Free, Plus at $8, Premium at $30, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200. Plus includes Grok's chat, voice, image and build tools, the Grok API, Cursor and X's checkmark. Premium adds Grok Bot, the latest Grok models, Cursor cloud agents and ad-free X. The higher tiers add priority access and earlier access to new models. [1] [3] [8]
A single Grok usage pool covers the Grok apps, the Grok tab on X and Cursor. Within Cursor, third-party models such as Claude are paid for with prepaid credit at API list prices, so the pricing pushes coding work toward Grok. The company says the bundle gives at least twice the Grok coding usage of comparable standalone Cursor plans. That claim cannot be checked because the quotas are not published. [3] [9]
Grok usage comes out of the bundled pool, while other models in Cursor cost API list prices. As a result, Grok becomes the cheaper default in Cursor. Teams that rely on Claude or OpenAI models face extra metered spend and a November 12 OpenAI cutoff.
Sources are gathered; the dossier follows.
Executive brief
SpaceX Super Intelligence (SpaceXSI) now sells one plan, "The X Subscription", that bundles X Premium, Grok and Cursor. Inside Cursor, the bundle pays for Grok models only. Claude and other third-party models in Cursor are still available on Premium and higher tiers, but they are billed separately at API list prices through top-ups (xAI). The plan has five tiers: free, then $8, $30, $100 and $200 a month (TechCrunch). The launch comes two months after SpaceX bought Cursor and one month before OpenAI's announced cutoff of Cursor's access to its models. The result ties a popular coding tool more closely to SpaceXSI's own models.
What changed and event timeline
SpaceX closes Cursor deal
The all-stock $60B acquisition made Cursor a wholly owned subsidiary. Its team also works on Grok, Grok Build, Grok Bot and the Grok API ().
OpenAI ends its Cursor partnership
OpenAI set a November 12 cutoff, saying Musk's companies have a record of violating contracts. Cursor CEO Michael Truell said OpenAI models were about 5% of Cursor traffic (;).
SpaceXAI becomes SpaceXSI
Musk confirmed the rename, which follows a September 29 executive order that favours the term "Super Intelligence" over "AI" ().
The X Subscription announced
The company unveiled five tiers with one shared pool of Grok usage. Rollout to customers worldwide was set for the following days ().
Press coverage
TechCrunch reported the bundle as a play for subscribers against OpenAI and Anthropic, and said upgrades would roll out gradually through billing settings ().
Capabilities and access
- Free: daily Grok access, a starter allowance for Cursor's coding agents, and standard X (xAI).
- Plus ($8): Grok Chat, Voice, Imagine and Build; the Grok API; Cursor; the X checkmark, creator tools and fewer ads (Engadget).
- Premium ($30): adds Grok Bot, the latest Grok models, Cursor cloud agents and automations, and ad-free X (Engadget).
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- Free: daily Grok access, a starter allowance for Cursor's coding agents, and standard X (xAI).
- Plus ($8): Grok Chat, Voice, Imagine and Build; the Grok API; Cursor; the X checkmark, creator tools and fewer ads (Engadget).
- Premium ($30): adds Grok Bot, the latest Grok models, Cursor cloud agents and automations, and ad-free X (Engadget).
- Super ($100): adds priority access at peak times. Ultra ($200): earliest access to new products and models.
- Teams pay the same per-seat price as individuals. Enterprise pricing is custom.
- The company does not name a specific Grok model version.
Technical analysis for researchers and developers
- Shared metering: one pool of Grok usage covers the Grok apps, the Grok tab on X and Cursor (xAI).
- Allowance multiples: Premium, Super and Ultra get 4×, 15× and 50× the Plus allowance.
- Routing by price: Grok models come out of the pool, while third-party models draw on prepaid credit at API list prices.
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- Shared metering: one pool of Grok usage covers the Grok apps, the Grok tab on X and Cursor (xAI). Teslarati describes the pool as weekly (Teslarati). The xAI page reviewed does not mention a reset period.
- Allowance multiples: Premium, Super and Ultra get 4×, 15× and 50× the Plus allowance. The size of the Plus allowance itself is not disclosed, so actual capacity can't be calculated (TeslaNorth).
- Routing by price: Grok models come out of the pool, while third-party models draw on prepaid credit at API list prices. In practice this pushes Cursor users toward Grok by default.
- No benchmarks or evaluations were published with the launch.
Claims and evidence
- "At least twice" the Grok coding usage of comparable standalone Cursor plans, and 3× for teams.
- Premium at $30 replaces about $90 of separate subscriptions (SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and X Premium+) (Teslarati).
- Existing X Premium+ subscribers pay the same or less for the comparable new plan (TechCrunch). Switching comes with a prorated refund (xAI).
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- "At least twice" the Grok coding usage of comparable standalone Cursor plans, and 3× for teams. This comes from the company only and cannot be checked without disclosed quotas (xAI).
- Premium at $30 replaces about $90 of separate subscriptions (SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and X Premium+) (Teslarati).
- Existing X Premium+ subscribers pay the same or less for the comparable new plan (TechCrunch). Switching comes with a prorated refund (xAI).
- Conflicting figures: Engadget puts Ultra at 20× Plus (Engadget), and TeslaNorth gives Super as 4× (TeslaNorth). xAI's announcement says 15× and 50×.
Context and prior work
- The bundle builds on SpaceX's $60B purchase of Cursor.
- After OpenAI's exit, Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown said Anthropic would add compute capacity for Claude in Cursor (The Decoder).
- OpenAI also said it would not supply future models to Cursor (DevOps.com).
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- The bundle builds on SpaceX's $60B purchase of Cursor. SpaceX also sells capacity on its Colossus compute infrastructure to Google, Anthropic and Reflection AI (Drive Tesla Canada).
- After OpenAI's exit, Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown said Anthropic would add compute capacity for Claude in Cursor (The Decoder).
- OpenAI also said it would not supply future models to Cursor (DevOps.com).
Limitations, safety and contested findings
- OpenAI framed the cutoff partly as a safety issue: it cited Musk's contract history and the cyber capabilities of its new Astra model.
- Neither SpaceXSI nor Tesla has said whether the plans change in-car Grok access for Tesla owners (Teslarati).
- The Free and Plus tiers do not include the latest Grok models, and Plus does not include Grok Bot.
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- OpenAI framed the cutoff partly as a safety issue: it cited Musk's contract history and the cyber capabilities of its new Astra model. Cursor disputed how much the cutoff matters, citing OpenAI's roughly 5% traffic share (The Decoder).
- Neither SpaceXSI nor Tesla has said whether the plans change in-car Grok access for Tesla owners (Teslarati).
- The Free and Plus tiers do not include the latest Grok models, and Plus does not include Grok Bot.
Business and practitioner implications
- Teams using Claude or GPT in Cursor: budget for metered, prepaid API spend on top of the subscription.
- Teams comfortable on Grok: the shared pool may make $30 cheaper than buying the tools separately.
- Procurement: coding, social media and chat now sit under one vendor. That means consolidated billing, but also more dependence on a single supplier.
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- Teams using Claude or GPT in Cursor: budget for metered, prepaid API spend on top of the subscription. Check the Nov 12 OpenAI cutoff against existing workflows.
- Teams comfortable on Grok: the shared pool may make $30 cheaper than buying the tools separately. Compare against measured usage, since the actual quotas are not published.
- Procurement: coding, social media and chat now sit under one vendor. That means consolidated billing, but also more dependence on a single supplier.
- Competitors: Cursor is now a distribution channel for Grok, which raises pressure on standalone coding tools.
The source trail.
Sources (11)
TechCrunch: SpaceXSI bundles X Premium, Grok, and Cursor
techcrunch.comThe X Subscription: what Grok, Cursor and X users gain and lose
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