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Cursor's $20 plan is gone — and the models most Cursor users run left the usage pool
On 12 October 2026 SpaceXAI merged Grok, Cursor and X Premium into one five-tier ladder: Free, Plus $8, Premium $30, Super $100, Ultra $200. Cursor Pro at $20 is closed to new signups. The headline is a price cut, but the shared usage pool now covers Grok models only — Claude and GPT in the Cursor editor moved to pass-through API billing on Premium and above. For a developer whose daily driver is Sonnet, a flat $20 bill becomes $30 plus metered tokens.
Read story →Grok 4.7 keeps the $2/$6 rate card and changes the thing the rate card doesn't measure — a bigger base model, trained to work longer
SpaceXAI shipped Grok 4.7 on 21 September 2026 at $2 input and $6 output per million tokens, identical to Grok 4.6, and says it is 'served at the same price and speed.' It is also a new, larger base model trained with a longer RL run weighted toward multi-hour problems, and every score in its column is measured at xHigh effort where 4.6's column says High. A flat per-token price and more tokens per task is not a flat bill. The one chart on the launch page that plots score against average cost per task is the one with no numbers on it.
Read story →SpaceXAI's X Search meter moves from calls to results on 21 September — and the number you now pay for is one the model picks, not you
From 21 September 2026 at 12:00 PM PT, X Search bills $5 per 1k posts fetched and $10 per 1k user profiles fetched, replacing $5 per 1k calls. Break-even is exactly one post per call, so any real search is a price increase. Parent and quoted posts count too — results pulled in by thread structure rather than by your query — and the published tool parameters include no way to cap how many results come back. The token row on the Grok rate card did not move. The part of the bill you can forecast did.
Read story →The Pentagon built the multi-model deployment everyone talks about — by removing the vendor that said no
On 31 August 2026 the Department of War put OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI's Grok for Government live on GenAI.mil alongside Gemini, at IL5, for 1.7 million of its 3 million personnel. The stated goal is to prevent 'AI vendor lock.' Claude is still absent, four days after a federal judge called the Pentagon's action against Anthropic illegal and baseless. Model portability is sold to buyers as insurance. This is what it looks like as leverage.
Read story →Grok 4.6 landed on Amazon Bedrock — and AWS just published a price for data residency: 10%
On 19 August 2026 Amazon Bedrock added SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6. The headline is distribution; the story is the pricing table. Global routing costs $2.00/$6.00 per million tokens — exactly xAI's own list price — while US data residency costs $2.20/$6.60. That's a published, line-item price for a compliance requirement. And 'Grok 4.6 on Bedrock' is really two different products depending on which endpoint you call.
Read story →SpaceXAI ships Grok 4.6: it ties the GPT-5.6 Sol tier on the composite index, for a third of the price — but the coding benchmarks tell a narrower story
Grok 4.6 launched 12 August 2026. On Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index it scores 61, up from 56 and level with GPT-5.6 Sol Max, at $2/$6 per million tokens. It's a post-training refresh, not a new base model, it's the default in Cursor, and it still trails on the agentic-coding benchmarks that matter most for autonomous work. Here's the grounded read for buyers.
Read story →SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5 tomorrow, pitched as a cheaper Opus rival — what's confirmed, what's a Musk claim, and how the $60B Cursor deal fits
Elon Musk said July 8 that Grok 4.5 goes public July 9 — a 1.5-trillion-parameter model he calls 'Opus-class, but faster, more token-efficient and lower cost.' It's the first flagship under the freshly-renamed SpaceXAI (xAI rebranded July 6 after folding into SpaceX), and it lands the same day OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6. Here's the grounded read: what's actually confirmed, why the 'Opus-class' claim needs independent benchmarks, and how the still-pending $60B Cursor acquisition factors in.
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