Grok Build Pricing: Subscription Access and API Costs

Grok Build has two separate cost paths: the CLI itself, bundled into a SuperGrok or X Premium+ subscription, and the underlying Grok Build 0.1 model, sold separately on the xAI API by the token.

There is no standalone price just for the CLI. xAI ties access to an existing consumer subscription rather than selling Grok Build as its own product.

This guide breaks down both paths so you know what you are actually paying for before you install it. For what the tool does, read our Grok Build explained guide first.

What Does a Grok Build Subscription Cost?

Grok Build requires an active SuperGrok or X Premium+ subscription; xAI has not published a separate CLI-only price.

Both plans also unlock Grok's chat, image, and voice features on the X platform, so the CLI comes bundled with the rest of the SuperGrok or X Premium+ tier rather than billed on its own.

Because xAI's consumer pricing changes without much notice, confirm the current SuperGrok and X Premium+ rates directly on x.ai/grok before you budget for a team rollout.

• No standalone Grok Build price — access rides on SuperGrok or X Premium+.
• Both tiers also include Grok chat, image, and voice on X.
• Confirm current rates on x.ai/grok before budgeting.
• Install is free once you hold a qualifying subscription: curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash.

Grok Build 0.1 API Pricing

The Grok Build 0.1 model costs $1 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens on the xAI API, with a 256K-token context window.

xAI describes the model as built for agentic coding tasks, including web development, debugging, and MCP tool calling, and reports it running at over 100 tokens per second.

It is also available through OpenRouter and the Vercel AI Gateway, which can simplify billing if your team already routes other model traffic through one of those platforms.

• $1 per million input tokens, $2 per million output tokens.
• 256K-token context window.
• Over 100 tokens/second reported throughput.
• Also available via OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway.

How Grok Build Pricing Compares

Claude Code is included in Claude Pro at $20 a month, with Max plans at $100 or $200 a month for heavier use, plus pay-per-token API access. Cursor runs a free Hobby tier, a $20-a-month Pro plan, and a $200-a-month Ultra plan, with Teams starting at $40 per user per month.

Grok Build's subscription path does not have a clean like-for-like comparison, since SuperGrok and X Premium+ bundle X's consumer features alongside the CLI, while Claude and Cursor plans are priced around the coding tool itself.

On raw token cost, Grok Build 0.1's $1/$2 per million rate sits below several flagship coding models, which matters most for high-volume headless or CI use rather than everyday interactive sessions.

When we budget token spend across our own scheduled routine-automation runs, the output-token rate usually matters more than the input rate, since a coding agent's plan-and-edit responses dominate the bill. Grok Build 0.1's $2/M output rate is a real factor worth modeling before you commit a headless workload to it.

How to use Grok Build

You do not host Grok yourself — you use it through a tool, so "getting started" really means choosing the right one.

The fastest way to put Grok Build to work day to day is inside an AI IDE, and Cursor is the most popular — it supports it directly, so you can be working in minutes. Prefer a different editor? Windsurf, Zed, and GitHub Copilot drive these models too.