Some Grok Bot users hit their weekly usage limit over the weekend after their meters jumped to 100%. Elon Musk pointed to the cost of running Bot, and by Monday morning at least one user reported that his meter looked back to normal. Later in the week, Bot showed off its shopping tools and we got another look at how it makes phone calls for you.
Grok Bot’s Weekly Limits Briefly Tighten
Some users went from as low as 50% used to maxing out their weekly allowance, TechCrunch reported. When a user asked for a reset on Nov. 1, Musk said serving Grok Bot was costing too much relative to what it brought in.
@DogecoinNorway The cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2026By Nov. 2, Sawyer Merritt said his usage meter appeared to be back where it was before the change. SpaceXSI hasn’t said whether the tighter limits will return. Merritt also suggested $500 and $1,000 monthly tiers above the current $200 plan. That was his proposal. You can see the available plans in our X Subscription tiers guide.
There’s also a reset option in testing. A prerelease screenshot from Grok Bot 1.1.0-pre.12 shows an offer to reset usage at 100% if you let SpaceXSI use your Bot interactions to train its models. The screenshot is from a test build, and SpaceXSI hasn’t announced a rollout.
Shopping Gets a Closer Look
Last week, we covered shopping cards and Buy Now. On Nov. 3, the Grok Bot account showed how you can compare products, look for a better deal and track your orders in Bot. Musk also said Bot can handle returns for items you don’t want.
What It Looks Like When Bot Calls for You
In Merritt’s Nov. 3 demo, you tell Grok Bot who to call and why, then follow the conversation in a live transcript. If Bot needs an answer from you mid-call, you can type it into a box and it’ll relay your reply.
Grok @Bot‘s new calling feature is very impressive. You just tell it who to call and why, and it handles the conversation for you.
— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) November 3, 2026The call comes from Grok Bot’s own number, Merritt says. There’s no separate charge, though the call counts toward your weekly usage.
Grok API Text Gets a Watermark
As of Nov. 7, SpaceXSI watermarks text by default from Grok 4.7, 4.6, 4.5, 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 models. That includes structured output and tool-call arguments in the Responses and Chat Completions APIs. The watermark changes which tokens the model picks without adding visible characters. Look for x-watermark: true in the response headers to see whether it was applied.
SpaceXSI says the watermark is there to comply with the EU AI Act. Team admins can turn it off for eligible models in the Console if they confirm a legal exception applies. Changes take effect within five minutes. Access to the detection API is by application.
Also This Week
- SpaceXSI’s Matt Palmer posted a What’s New in Grok Bot video covering shopping cards, order tracking, payments, custom modes, Team Bot sharing and Contacts in Vault.
- SpaceXSI’s data science team shared how it uses Data Bot to query the company’s data warehouse, analyze A/B tests and build dashboards. The team estimates Bot handled about 70 hours of work that would otherwise have landed on its desk in the week before the Nov. 2 case study.
- Musk said Gun Range, the next Colossus 2 training hall, is on track to open by the end of November. Spam, a cluster of about 200,000 GB300s for inference, is expected in December. The name is literal. SpaceXSI bought the local police department’s gun range.
Previously: This Week in Grok, Nov. 1.
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