Elon Musk says Grok Bot cost unsustainable relative to revenue
Elon Musk replied that the cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue after users reported their weekly allowance was exhausted overnight. The incident, highlighted on Cursor’s forum, saw usage meters jump from about 52 % to 100 % with no activity, halting a major SaaS update for one user.
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- Grok Bot usage jumped to 100 % overnight, halting a user’s SaaS update
- Elon Musk said the cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainable relative to revenue
- SpaceXSI’s AI business earned $7.56 billion in the last quarter
SpaceXSI’s AI agent, sold through a $30‑a‑month Premium tier of The X Subscription, has 800,000 paid weekly users as of early October, double the previous month. The company’s AI business generated $7.56 billion in the last quarter, yet Musk noted that Grok Bot’s compute could become the largest consumer of SpaceX’s Super Intelligence resources. No public statement has clarified whether the spike was a metering fault or a new limit.
Cursor staff advised users to set usage limits or contact SpaceXSI support for recalculation. The incident followed a service degradation on SpaceXSI’s status page that opened at 05:38 UTC and closed at 10:53 UTC without explanation.
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Grok Bot users ran out of a week’s usage overnight, and Elon Musk says the agent was costing too much
madrobot.blog · 1 November 2026
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