Cursor joins The X Subscription with shared Grok usage

• Paid plans share Grok usage across Cursor and Grok products, with twice the Grok coding usage of equivalent Cursor plans, according to Cursor's announcement.
• Third-party models move to API-priced usage, with top-ups funding access in Cursor.
• Existing subscribers can keep their current plans, ericzakariasson confirmed in a reply.
• Paid tiers cost $8, $30, $100 and $200 a month before taxes, according to WesRoth's launch summary.

Premium bundles benefits previously priced at $90 a month for $30. The unification docs say Support cannot reverse a switch. Even Grok API access draws from the shared allowance, according to the pricing page.

SpaceXSI announced the bundle on October 12, opening it to new customers immediately and promising global availability over the following days. Switching for existing subscribers is rolling out through account billing settings.

The shared allowance has four mechanics, described in the announcement and pricing FAQ:

• One pool: Grok usage in Cursor competes with Chat, Voice, Imagine, Build, Bot and API usage for the same allowance.
• Weekly refresh: the usage allowance renews weekly despite monthly subscription billing.
• Different consumption rates: usage costs vary by product.
• Overage: exhausted allowances can be supplemented with paid top-ups, or usage can resume after the refresh.

The advertised coding increase applies to Grok models. Claude and GPT spending follows a separate billing path.

The launch pricing table gives these monthly prices and allowance multiples:

| Plan | Monthly price | Included usage relative to Plus |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| Free | $0 | Limited |
| Plus | $8 | Base |
| Premium | $30 | 4× |
| Super | $100 | 15× |
| Ultra | $200 | 50× |

Grok Bot starts at Premium. Super adds priority model access at peak times, while the pricing page describes Ultra as offering the earliest access to products and models.

Ultra is available to individuals, kunchenguid confirmed after initially reading it as team-only. His pricing screenshot omitted it from the individual view:

Team pricing uses the same Premium, Super and Ultra prices per seat. SpaceXSI claims three times the coding usage of older Cursor Teams plans, alongside SSO, administration, consolidated billing, usage analytics and SOC 2 compliance.

Each team member gets X benefits by connecting a personal X account, according to Cursor's unification documentation.

On the new plans, Cursor retains third-party models on Premium and above. The support documentation spells out the charging boundary:

• Claude and GPT usage is excluded from the subscription allowance.
• Charges begin with the first use, at API list prices, paid from prepaid credit.
• Existing Cursor plans retain their included third-party usage until the subscriber switches.

The Claude/GPT bill is the sharpest migration gotcha.

The change prompted dingyi to warn that switching would make Opus unavailable. Third-party models remain accessible with top-ups, ericzakariasson clarified in a reply.

Heavy Grok Bot usage could exhaust the allowance too: dingyi described it as insufficient for intensive Bot users, without supplying a measured workload or quota calculation.

In a separate post in the pricing thread, kunchenguid argued that generating software repeatedly consumes tokens, compute and wall-clock time. His example of spending three days and $500 in tokens rebuilding a terminal multiplexer was hypothetical.

He proposed three characteristics for software that agents consume:

1. High-quality applications whose expensive development is amortized across users.
2. Headless services that agents call and that continue charging for usage, citing Jira, Linear and Stripe.
3. Interfaces personalized through natural language while the underlying application core remains reusable.

Cursor subscribers enter through cursor.com/unify. Under Cursor's switching rules, eligible accounts are combined into one workspace, subscription and bill:

• Multiple Cursor accounts are merged into a selected primary account where that option is supported.
• Billing, usage and top-ups are managed per workspace at grok.com/dashboard; a person can belong to multiple workspaces.
• Selected Cursor, SuperGrok and paid X Premium subscriptions end at checkout, with prorated refunds for unused time, subject to app-store exceptions.
• The new billing cycle starts on the switch date.
• Cursor Enterprise customers without an active Grok account can switch through their account team; other Enterprise accounts cannot switch yet.

The current option to stay on a legacy plan also has a longer-term caveat. SpaceXSI's launch FAQ says it eventually plans to move remaining subscribers to the new plans, with advance notice and no timetable yet.

Unification does not cancel a Cursor subscription purchased through Apple's App Store, according to Cursor's support docs. Apple continues billing until that subscription is cancelled in iPhone or iPad Settings, and refund requests must go to Apple.

App Store billing also changes legacy-plan flexibility. Existing Cursor customers can generally upgrade or downgrade among their current Cursor plans without unifying, but App Store-billed plans must switch first.