Grok Bot usage limits: weekly usage and on-demand explained

Grok Bot counts usage on two meters: Weekly usage, which comes with your plan and resets every week, and On-demand usage, which is extra, billed through Cursor, and only starts if on-demand is turned on. On an individual plan, weekly usage is Grok Bot's own pool, separate from your Cursor plan's usage and from your Grok limit.

#What spends which meter?

Three meters can move while you and your Bots work, and two of them belong to Grok Bot. Pick a kind of work to see which meter pays for it, then change how your week is going.

Why one reply costs more than another, and how to make a week go further, is in Usage running out.

#Is Grok Bot usage separate from Cursor and Grok?

On an individual plan, yes. Grok Bot's weekly usage is a pool of its own on your Cursor account, and the table shows where a Bot's work is counted on each kind of plan.

• The separation ends when the week does. Past 100%, with on-demand on, Bot work is billed from the same on-demand balance as everything else on your Cursor account.
• The two reset on different cycles: Grok Bot's usage by the week, a Cursor plan's own usage by its billing month.
• A Cursor plan and a SuperGrok or X Premium+ link don't add together. Grok Bot uses whichever gives more.

#Where to see your usage

Your usage is one click away, on any screen of the app. Click your picture at the bottom left, then Weekly usage.

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1. 1The percent of this week's included usage that's spent.
2. 2Resets in counts down to your next week. The app shows a countdown, not a date.
3. 3On-demand shows what you've spent this cycle against your limit. Change limit opens the setting.

• The percent is your share of your plan's weekly allowance. The size of that allowance isn't published for any plan, so the percent and the countdown are the numbers to plan by.
• The same two meters are in Settings > Usage & Billing, where the first is titled Weekly usage limit.
• For the date of the reset, open cursor.com/dashboard in a browser and choose Spending. The Grok Bot card there shows it.

#What happens when you run out?

Grok Bot warns you before the week is gone, at 75% and again at 90%, in a banner above the message box. At 100% the limit banner appears, and what happens next depends on on-demand.

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1. 1The warning: "You’re at 90% of your weekly usage limit. It resets in 6 days." The 75% warning reads the same with 75%. Both carry one button, Get More Usage.
2. 2The limit: "Weekly usage limit reached. It resets in 6 days." Its buttons are Increase limits and an upgrade button named for the next plan up, here Upgrade to Pro+.

• With on-demand off, your Bots stop until the countdown ends. Nothing is billed.
• With on-demand on, nothing stops. Bot work carries on as on-demand usage, up to your monthly limit.
• On a team plan the limit banner can offer Request Upgrade, which asks your admins.

#Turn on on-demand usage, with a cap

On-demand usage is how you keep working past the weekly amount. On an individual plan it stays off until you turn it on: open Settings > Usage & Billing and use the menu beside On-demand monthly limit.

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1. 1None: on-demand is off. When the week runs out, your Bots stop.
2. 2Fixed: on-demand is on, up to the dollar amount in the box beside the menu.
3. 3Unlimited: on-demand is on, with no cap.

To set a cap, choose Fixed, type an amount and choose Save. The setting then shows a bar of its own: what you've spent against the cap, with a countdown to the month's reset. If the app asks for a card, add it on the web: cursor.com/dashboard, then Spending, then Monthly Limit.

• The cap is monthly. It doesn't reset with your week.
• The cap covers your whole Cursor account, so anything you run in Cursor past your plan's included usage counts toward it too. Grok Bot can't have a cap of its own.
• The cap isn't a hard stop. A Bot that's already working can finish and go a little past it.
• On-demand usage is billed by the work, at the cost of the tokens used. There's no price per message, and usage already spent isn't refunded.

#Check: who pays on Thursday?

Try the rules on one case.

A cap helps when a week keeps running out, and so does spending less of it.

1. 6 October 2026
   First published.