xAI Brings Grok Bot to iPad and Android, Cuts Price From $300/Month to $20/Month

xAI has expanded Grok Bot, its iMessage-style AI agent app, to iPad and Android roughly a month after launch, while cutting the entry price from $300/month to compatibility with the $20/month Cursor Pro plan.

Grok Bot debuted last month as a Mac and iPhone app that displays AI agents as chat-style teammates. According to reporting from 9to5Mac, the app originally required a $300/month subscription — a price point far above typical consumer AI subscriptions. That has now changed on two fronts: platform availability and cost.

What's new

Grok Bot is now available on iPad, confirmed via a post from developer Matt Palmer on X, and has also expanded to Android. This brings the app to four platforms total: Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android.

On pricing, Grok Bot now works with Cursor Pro, a $20/month plan, putting it in line with other mainstream AI subscription tiers rather than the premium $300/month tier it launched with. The company has not disclosed exact usage limits or feature differences between the tiers.

Grok Bot has also added enterprise support. For customers already on Grok or Cursor enterprise plans, xAI is offering free access to Grok Bot for the next several weeks, according to the report.

Context: the Cursor acquisition

The pricing and platform changes follow xAI's acquisition of Cursor, the AI coding tool. That deal appears to be driving the integration — Grok Bot's new $20/month access tier rides on the existing Cursor Pro subscription rather than introducing a separate standalone price. Cursor's install base and existing pricing infrastructure give xAI a faster path to distribution than building a new subscription tier from scratch.

The report notes xAI has been "falling behind" competitors in the broader AI market, framing the Cursor acquisition and subsequent Grok Bot repricing as part of a catch-up effort.

What this means

A roughly 15x price cut in under a month — from $300/month to $20/month — signals that the original price was either a launch misstep or a deliberate anchor designed to make the current price feel like a bargain. Either way, aligning Grok Bot with Cursor Pro's existing $20/month tier removes the biggest adoption barrier: cost.

The platform expansion to iPad and Android also matters more than it might seem. Launching Mac- and iPhone-only limited Grok Bot's reach; adding Android in particular opens the product to a far larger global user base than Apple's ecosystem alone.

The free enterprise window is a standard land-grab tactic — get large accounts using the product before usage-based billing kicks in, then rely on switching costs to retain them. Whether Grok Bot can hold users at $20/month against established coding and agent tools from Anthropic, OpenAI, and others will depend on capability, not just price. No independent benchmarks or capability comparisons for Grok Bot have been published.