One signup screen. One bill. X, Grok, and Cursor in a single plan, instead of three charges for the same work.

It is built for anyone already paying for Premium and then paying again for Grok or Cursor. Usage moves into one pool. Premium stays the tier you know: the checkmark, longer posts, and Cursor included, not sold beside it.

The current builds demonstrate intended use: Grok can share chat history between X and its standalone app, trigger bots from posts or replies, join groups in X Chat (with privacy adjustments) and more.

1. X Subscription packs X, Grok, and Cursor into four plans

There’s one shared usage pool with four tiers and a first-month discount available through October 9. The signup process is still being tested, so consider the prices an early preview rather than final. A single plan is meant to cover X, Grok, and Cursor.

Monthly plans start at half price through October 9, while annual plans don’t get the discount. The most affordable web plan is $4 for the first month, then $8, and the top tier costs $200 per month.

What the onboarding shows

@blankspeaker posted a first look at the official signup flow on 4 October, quoting an earlier look from 28 September. Back then, the same account said X and SpaceXAI were folding Premium into a single subscription.

The new post gets more specific. One plan covers X, Grok, and Cursor, with usage drawn from one shared pool. The subscription is still in development, and the details can change.

The four tiers

The new post gets more specific. One plan covers X, Grok, and Cursor, with usage drawn from one shared pool. The subscription is still in development, and the details can change.

1.Premium is the base plan.

On the web it is $4 the first month, then $8 a month. Yearly is $80, about $6.67 a month. On the Play Store and App Store it is $5 the first month, then $10 a month. Yearly is $100.

On X you get fewer timeline ads, the checkmark, pay-to-post, and the same perks as current X Premium. On the AI side, one shared usage pool covers Grok Chat, Voice, Imagine, and Build, the Grok API, and Cursor. The screen says Cursor — not Cursor Pro or Cursor Ultra.

Plus includes everything in Premium.

Same price everywhere: $15 the first month, then $30. Yearly is $300, about $25 a month.

X adds ad-free scrolling, a preferred handle, and a higher reply boost. AI usage is 4× Premium, with Grok Bot, the latest models, faster Chat, 720p videos up to 30 seconds, cloud agents and automations, plus Bugbot and Origin.

Super includes everything in Plus.

Web: $50 the first month, then $100. Yearly is $1,000, about $83.33 a month. App stores: $65 the first month, then $130. Only the App Store shows a yearly price, $1,300. The Play Store look has no yearly option.

AI usage is 15× Premium: 1080p video, priority at peak times, and faster responses.

Ultra includes everything in Super.

Web: $100 the first month, then $200 a month. Yearly is $2,000, about $166.67 a month. Play Store and App Store: $130 the first month, then $260 a month. Only the App Store lists a yearly price, $2,600. The Play Store look has no yearly option.

AI usage is 50 times Premium, with the most powerful Chat models, earliest access, and the fastest responses.

What you would actually use it for

If you already pay for X Premium and a separate Grok or Cursor plan, this flow puts them on one bill and one usage pool, with a prorated refund of the plans it replaces.

Premium is the familiar X feature set, plus Cursor and the Grok tools. Plus steps up to ad-free scrolling, a higher reply boost, and 4× the AI pool. Super and Ultra are for heavier AI use: 15× and 50×, faster responses, and higher video limits.

Check the Cursor line before you switch. The onboarding says Cursor, not Cursor Pro or Cursor Ultra. If you are on a higher Cursor tier, this look does not say that tier comes with it.

Still a test build

This is a community look at an onboarding flow, not a post from X or Cursor. Prices, store listings, and the refund line were already moving the morning of the post. Wait for the live checkout if the number on the screen is the reason you would switch.

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2. Grok on X Now Shares Conversation History, and Grok Bots Can Be Triggered from Posts

X product engineer Mridul Singhai says Grok inside X can now share conversation history with standalone Grok. Two days later he named the follow-up he had withheld: later this week, a user’s @bot can be triggered by a post or a reply on X.

Shared conversation history

Until now, a chat started in Grok on X and a chat started on grok.com or in the Grok app could stay separate, even on the same account. The update is meant to close that gap so history can move between them.

Mridul framed the work as part of a longer effort, covering user experience, engineering, and regulatory and compliance requirements.

Availability:

Premium: open to all Premium accounts.
Free: rolling out slowly, so it will not appear for every free account at once.

The practical use is continuity. A thread begun in Grok on X can be picked up in standalone Grok, and history from standalone Grok can appear back inside X. Related replies around the rollout describe this as an account link that brings Grok-on-X history across; users who have not agreed to that link should not expect both sides to match.

Grok bots from posts and replies

The 1 October follow-up, which quotes the history announcement, is the piece Singhai had called “the other thing.” Later that week, a user’s @bot can be triggered by posting or replying on X.

The accompanying graphic is labeled “X · Grok · Grok Bot,” with the three marks shown together. He did not publish setup steps, limits, or which accounts get it first. On the announcement itself, the use is straightforward: a post or a reply on X can call the user’s bot, rather than the bot living only inside a Grok chat.

3. Grok Now Answers Inside X Chat Group Threads

X Chat now lets Premium users add Grok to a group the same way they add a person. The useful part is immediate: summaries, answers, X search, and scheduled replies inside the thread. The cost is also immediate. While Grok is in the room, the chat is no longer end-to-end encrypted.

The encryption tradeoff

This is the part admins need before they tap add. X Chat stays end-to-end encrypted by default. Once Grok is added, and until it is removed, X and xAI can access messages so Grok can read and reply. Live chats with Grok are labeled so every member can see it is in the conversation. A build screenshot shows that label under the group name: “Grok enabled.”

Grok does not get history from before it was added. Only messages sent while it is a member are ones X and xAI can process.

That makes it a poor fit for a group that chose X Chat because the platform cannot read it. It is a reasonable fit for a planning or work thread where an answer in place matters more than a closed room.

How it can be used

Add Grok only to a group whose members already accept the tradeoff. The label is the check: if “Grok enabled” is showing, the room is no longer fully closed.

Once it is in, use it. Ask it to summarize messages from the point it joined, answer a question already in the thread, search X, reply in the chat, or schedule a reply to a prompt. Remove it when the group wants encryption back. The default only returns after Grok is gone.

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4. X’s Video Editor Now Lets Creators Fix Captions, or Hand the Rewrite to Grok

⁠X has shipped a cleaner native video editor, and with it a feature creators had been asking for: captions you can edit after they are generated. A 9 September leak had already sketched the same direction, including a detail the launch post did not confirm.

A cleaner editor, then the caption tools

Allegra described the editor itself as cleaner, more intuitive, and easier to use, and said she had been using it as a video creator on X. The caption screen is the part that matters. Generated lines appear with timestamps, a creator can open that list and change a line without leaving the editor.

What creators can do with a caption

The launch post lists three controls.

Edit a generated caption by hand. That covers the usual failures: a name spelled wrong, a word the model heard as something else, or a line that should be shorter.
Ask Grok to correct the captions. Auto-correct and “Ask Grok” sit on the same screen, so you do not have to copy the text out and paste it back.
Tell Grok how the captions should change. Allegra’s example is translation. The same path is broad enough for tone, length, or a cleanup that is more than a spelling fix.

What was visible three weeks earlier

On 9 September, @Iorel_X posted that X was working on edits to captions generated in the in-app editor. The leak said a creator could fix the lines by hand or tell Grok to do it. That part matches what shipped. It also said generated captions could be exported as an .srt file. Jacchia’s launch post does not mention an .srt export, so that detail was planned at the time of the leak, not confirmed in the release.

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5. X Chat is being rebuilt in pieces, not in one release

Five looks from late September and 1 October cover a settings redesign, an info sheet, chat archives and a call dock. None of this is a staff launch post. Four are builds in testing. The useful distinction is what the screens already do, and what they do not.

A new settings screen on Android

On 24 September, I posted about an Android alpha with a redesigned X Chat settings page, cleaner than the screen it replaces. The post quotes an earlier look from @blankspeaker of that settings UI on Android.

The alpha was not a full copy of the earlier video. Two items were missing: the encryption key, and the privacy controls. Those controls matter more than the visual cleanup. Without them, the redesign shows a tidier page, not the full settings surface the earlier look had already sketched.

The info sheet on web

The info sheet on web is getting a new layout. Archive is the piece still behind it.

On 29 September, @blankspeaker posted a look at the X Chat info sheet on web. That sheet is the panel you open on a chat to act on it. The actions already sitting there include Ask Grok, edit, and check read receipts, along with the other controls on that panel.

The same day, the same account posted Android footage of the next step. Archived chats and groups come off the main list and stay findable through search. An Archive folder in the dropdown would make search unnecessary, and a reply treated that as still possible because the work looked early. Until that folder exists, the shown behavior is simple: archive it, then search for it. Still in development and testing.

A dock for minimized calls

Also on 1 October, @Iorel_X posted a calls redesign still in progress. A minimized call drops into a dock at the top of the screen, so the timeline can keep scrolling while you stay on the call. The same look adds a shareable call link, so more people can join without starting a new call for each person.

A follow-up in that thread puts the current design next to the new one. The post does not give a ship date.

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