What is Grok?
Grok is the AI assistant from xAI, Elon Musk's AI company. You use it at grok.com, in dedicated apps, and built directly into X (formerly Twitter), where it can draw on live posts.
Its distinguishing features are real-time access to X's firehose of public posts, a deliberately less-filtered and more conversational tone, and tight integration with the X platform. It also generates images and offers a DeepSearch mode that browses the web before answering.
Grok is the model to reach for when you want a read on what people are saying right now, or a less buttoned-up conversational style.
What it's best for
- Real-time pulse-taking: what's being said on X about a topic, event, or company in the last hours.
- A blunter, more casual tone with fewer refusals on edgy-but-legitimate questions.
- Users already living inside X who want an assistant one tap away in the app.
- Quick web-grounded answers via DeepSearch.
- Image generation alongside chat.
Where it falls short
- Authoritative or sensitive work. The looser guardrails and social-data sourcing demand extra fact-checking.
- Open-weight or self-hosted deployments. Grok is a closed, hosted product.
- Teams that need mature enterprise admin, compliance, and data-governance controls. The offering is younger than its rivals.
- Regulated content where provenance and tone control are critical.
Getting started
Use Grok at grok.com or in the Grok app, or open it inside X if you have a subscription that includes it. Sign in and start chatting like any other assistant.
Inside X, Grok can summarize threads, explain what's trending, and answer questions about specific posts.
Real-time data and DeepSearch
Ask about a live topic and Grok can pull from current public posts on X, useful for breaking events and sentiment, with the caveat that social data is noisy and unverified.
DeepSearch browses the broader web and reasons over what it finds before answering; use it when you want sources beyond the X timeline.
Getting better answers
When you use real-time data, ask Grok to separate confirmed facts from speculation and to link the posts or sources it relied on.
Treat its confident, casual tone as a style, not a guarantee, and verify anything you'd act on.
Caveats: verification and privacy
Grok draws on live public posts from X, which are unverified by nature. Treat anything sourced from the timeline as a lead to confirm, not a fact. Its looser tone can also state opinion as if it were settled.
Because it's tied to the X platform, review xAI's data and privacy settings, and avoid putting confidential information into a consumer account.
What Grok costs
Approximate, in USD, as of January 2026. Prices change often. Confirm on the official site before you rely on them.
Free
$0
Limited access to Grok on the web and within X.
X Premium / Premium+
~$8 to 40 / month
X subscriptions bundle higher Grok usage with platform features.
SuperGrok
~$30 / month +
Dedicated subscription with the highest limits and latest Grok models.
API
Usage-based
Per-token access to Grok models through the xAI API for developers.
Example prompts
Copy these into Grok as starting points, then adapt them to your task.
Take the pulse
What are people on X saying about the topic below in the last 24 hours? Summarize the main viewpoints, note the loudest disagreements, and separate confirmed facts from speculation.
Explain a thread
Summarize this X thread for someone with no context. What's the claim, what's the evidence, and what's still unverified?
Web-grounded answer
Use DeepSearch to answer the question below with current sources. Cite each source and tell me how confident you are.
Fact-check a claim
Here's a claim I saw on X. Check it against current sources, tell me whether it holds up, and link the evidence on both sides.
Grok
common questions.
Direct answers to the questions we get asked the most. If yours isn't covered, write to the team.