According to the Telegraph, several Grok Bot users saw their quotas cut in half over the weekend, and one user reported waiting days for a fresh quota. Elon Musk responded to complaints on X on Sunday, saying that the cost of running Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue. He did not confirm a cut outright.
Grok Bot browses websites, answers emails and logs into accounts, and it shares its quota with Grok and the coding platform Cursor. According to Forbes, Musk called it his fastest-growing product less than two weeks earlier. In early October, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell cited 800,000 paying users per week, more than double the previous month's figure.
OpenAI and Anthropic are also tightening their flat-rate plans. OpenAI is merging Codex and Chat quotas starting in December and cracking down on account-hopping. Anthropic says an agent costs four to 15 times as much as a simple chat.
Why it matters if you build agents
Developers who run agents on Grok Bot's flat-rate quota may face tighter limits and longer waits, so usage should be measured before building on it. The reported cut also shows that agent workloads can cost much more than chat, which makes per-task cost a planning input. OpenAI's Codex and Chat quota merger and Anthropic's cost comparison point to similar pressure across other flat-rate plans.
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