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1 / 4Grokbot's daily users rose ninefold in 50 days after xAI cut the price to $8×

Always on

xAI's Grokbot, an always-on agent that runs on its own cloud virtual machine and keeps working after the app closes, had about 600,000 daily active users as of October 26th, up from about 67,000 on September 6th, according to Similarweb figures Musk shared on X and reported by Seoul Economic Daily on Saturday.

The price cut

Uptake was slow while it was bundled with $200 to $300 monthly plans and picked up in October after an $8 subscription launched.

In the car

Grokbot is also built into Tesla cars, where a driver on Full Self-Driving can ask it by voice to send email or order groceries.

The caveat

The numbers are a third party's estimate passed on by the company's owner. Meta's Muse, the consumer agent Grokbot is chasing, publishes no usage figures to compare.

Sources and the full story

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Grokbot's daily users rose ninefold in 50 days after xAI cut the price to $8

xAI's Grokbot, an always-on agent that runs on its own cloud virtual machine and keeps working after the app closes, had about 600,000 daily active users as of October 26th, up from about 67,000 on September 6th, according to Similarweb figures Musk shared on X and reported by Seoul Economic Daily on Saturday. Uptake was slow while it was bundled with $200 to $300 monthly plans and picked up in October after an $8 subscription launched. Grokbot is also built into Tesla cars, where a driver on Full Self-Driving can ask it by voice to send email or order groceries.

The numbers are a third party's estimate passed on by the company's owner. Meta's Muse, the consumer agent Grokbot is chasing, publishes no usage figures to compare. SourcesB

Sources

• BGrokbot closes in on Muse as Musk targets Meta (Seoul Economic Daily)en.sedaily.com

This story ran in the Afternoon Brief of November 1st 2026.