| Category | Chat & assistants · Chatbots & LLMs | Chat & assistants · Chatbots & LLMs |
|---|
| In one sentence | The search engine that answers with sources: ask as you would a person and check every fact in one click. | Elon Musk’s assistant that reads X in real time and prides itself on not mincing words. |
|---|
| Free plan | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
|---|
| Price | Free / Pro $20/mo / Max $200/mo | Free / Plus $8/mo / Premium $30/mo |
|---|
| Plans and pricing | - Free €0
- Pro $20/month or $200/year (≈$16.67/month)
- Max $200/month or $2,000/year
- Education Pro $10/month
- Enterprise Pro / Max $40 / $325 per user per month
| - Free $0
- Plus $8/month ($80/year)
- Premium $30/month ($300/year)
- Super $100/month ($1,000/year)
- Ultra $200/month ($2,000/year)
|
|---|
| AIAO score | 97/100 best | 93/100 |
|---|
| Languages | No verified data | No verified data |
|---|
| Where to use it | Web, iOS, Android, Windows and macOS; Comet browser; Sonar API. | Web (grok.com), iOS, Android, built into X and Tesla cars; Grok Build and Cursor for coding. |
|---|
| Pros | - Every answer links its sources so you can check them instantly.
- Up-to-date, real-time information.
- One subscription to choose between OpenAI, Anthropic and Google models.
- Comet, a free Chromium-based browser with an assistant that acts for you.
| - Real-time access to what is being posted on X.
- Grok 4.7 is a frontier coding model with a competitive API ($2 / $6 per million tokens).
- Grok Imagine turns an idea into images and short videos in seconds.
- Premium ($30/month) bundles SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and X Premium+, previously about $90 combined.
|
|---|
| Cons | - Clashes with publishers (lawsuits from Dow Jones, The New York Times, Britannica, Reddit…).
- Limited free plan: about 3 Pro searches a day and 1 research report a month.
- Agentic-browser risks (prompt injection) and training on by default.
| - Serious content controversies and an open EU investigation (DSA).
- Not reliable as a fact-checker: it has endorsed viral hoaxes.
- Privacy failures (shared chats indexed by Google in 2025, repositories uploaded by Grok Build in 2026).
|
|---|
| Use cases | - Students, journalists and researchers who need sourced answers; professionals who want several frontier AIs with one subscription; anyone looking for a Google alternative for complex searches.
- Narrow the sources in the question itself (e.g. “only .gob.es sites and Spanish press from 2026”) and always open two or three citations before trusting a fact. If you use it for work, turn off “AI data retention” first.
| - Heavy X users, journalists and community managers following the news (always cross-checking); developers who use Cursor; creators of images and short videos.
- On X, reply to a post mentioning @grok to get the context, but treat it as a starting point: ask for sources and check them before sharing anything.
|
|---|
| Privacy and data | On Free, Pro and Max, “AI data retention” is on, so your queries may be used for training; turn it off in Settings > Preferences (only affects future data). On Enterprise, data is never used for training and files are deleted after 7 days. | Outside Europe, X uses posts and Grok interactions for training by default (turn off at x.com/settings/grok_settings). In the EU, X committed in 2024 not to use European users’ personal data for that training. |
|---|
| Profile | View details → | View details → |
|---|
