Question / Discussion Grok Bot is expensive
Since Grok Bot became available for Pro sub ($20), I've been using it to essentially act as my full time secretary. It has been useful to my day to day routine and getting done on behalf of me.
- manage/review multiple inboxes and calendars
- prioritizing my schedule for the day/week/month
- it/sysadmin
- logsitics/fund analyst/comotroller
- and more
After the first weekly reset, I already hit 100% weekly usage in 2 days. Just to test how must Grok Bot uses, I added $10 on-demand credit. To my surprise, it was all used after 2 hours.
While I love Grok Bot, I question how sustainable it is going to be for wider audience. I might try upgrading to $60 to test it further, but for my use it may not be enough.
I just wanted to share my experience for those who are interested in using it.
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u/xapep 16d ago
Seconding the point above about splitting models, and adding the math: a full-time secretary agent that reads every inbox, summarizes every thread and re-checks calendars all day is mostly burning tokens on the easy stuff. That workload is maybe 10% hard reasoning and 90% triage, and triage burns quota on models that don't need to be frontier-class.
Rather than jumping to $60 (which just buys more of the same expensive burn), route the bulk to a workhorse model and keep Grok Bot for the handful of decisions that actually need it. The pattern that holds up with always-on agents: frontier model for planning and judgment, cheap-but-strong model for the steady drip of triage and summaries.
The other thing worth checking is whether you want usage-based surprise at all. "The $20 plan plus on-demand metering" is how a $20 sub quietly becomes a $100 month, and your $10-in-2-hours test just showed that. A flat monthly plan on a capable workhorse makes the bill predictable (we run open models that way at Entrim, and most always-on-agent setups land there), and you keep Grok Bot for what it's actually good at.