Grok Bot is moving fast, so this page tracks what actually changed, dated and sourced, instead of making you re-read launch coverage every time you check in. Last updated: August 18, 2026.
This is the third piece in our Grok Bot cluster. For the full picture, start with what Grok Bot actually is and what its documentation says about your credentials, or jump straight to how to set up your first Grok Bot team. This page only covers what is new since launch.
Timeline
August 11, 2026. Grok Bot launches in early beta for SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Premium Teams subscribers, on macOS, Windows, and iOS. No standalone price, no free tier.
August 12, 2026. Grok 4.6 becomes available inside Grok Bot, alongside Grok Build, Cursor, and the API, per SpaceXAI's own announcement.
August 16, 2026. Krista Letz, SpaceXAI's own enterprise GTM lead, publishes a detailed internal playbook for running a Chief of Staff plus specialist bots. It becomes the most detailed public account of real-world usage inside the company itself.
August 17, 2026. Bot Directory, a community-maintained, open directory of ready-to-use Grok Bot prompts, goes live. A second, independent community list, awesome-grok-bot on GitHub, also appears, explicitly noting that Grok Bot is a distinct product from Grok Build, xAI's separate coding agent.
August 16 to 18, 2026. No pricing or tier changes detected. An independent pricing tracker that checks daily confirms Grok Bot still has no standalone subscription or flat per-bot fee as of August 17.
Still open
None of these have changed since our companion article's original research. They stay listed here, not because we forgot to check, but because they are still genuinely unresolved and worth a look each week:
- No Android release date. Still listed as "coming soon" with no timeline attached.
- No enterprise self-serve date. Organizations outside the three beta tiers remain on a waitlist.
- No published weekly usage allowance. Subscriptions include metered usage, but the exact number per tier still is not public.
- No audit log yet. The admin documentation still describes this as "coming," not shipped.
Worth watching
Two things are likely to move soon and are worth checking again next cycle: whether the wider rollout Elon Musk referenced around the Grok 4.6 release actually loosens the beta-tier restriction, and whether either community prompt directory (Bot Directory or awesome-grok-bot) gets picked up by SpaceXAI itself, the way official documentation sometimes absorbs community tooling once it proves useful.
Why this page updates, and the other two do not
Our companion pieces are deliberately not rewritten every week. The what-is-it article is a point-in-time investigation, and the setup tutorial is a durable how-to. This page exists specifically to carry the weekly churn so neither of those has to.