What is The X Subscription?

Cursor announced on August 14, 2026 that it had become part of SpaceX. Two months later, xAI's post “Introducing The X Subscription” (dated October 12, 2026) described it as “Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor, and X Premium, all on one plan”. New customers could buy it from that day, and xAI said it would reach everyone worldwide “over the next few days”. Existing SuperGrok, Cursor and X Premium subscribers can switch once the option appears in their billing settings, but they do not have to.

This bundling explains most of the confusion. One subscription now covers chat in the Grok apps, Grok Bot agents, Cursor's editor and cloud agents, and X features like the checkmark and fewer ads. xAI says Premium at $30 includes the benefits of SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and X Premium+, which used to cost $90 a month together. The free tier keeps daily Grok access and a starter Cursor allowance. Cursor's help center adds two rules. X benefits apply only after you connect a personal X account, and on team plans each seat holder connects their own.

Plus vs Premium vs Super vs Ultra

Cursor gives the pool sizes only as multiples of Plus. It does not publish a token or dollar figure for any tier, so the multiple is the only fair way to compare them. Divide each multiple by the price and the bigger tiers get cheaper per unit of usage. Ultra gives twice as much pool per dollar as Plus:

What Plus leaves out

Plus is not just a smaller Premium. It runs only Cursor's own models, at fixed settings: Fast is off, effort is medium, and Grok 4.7 uses the 256k context window. Third-party models are not available on Plus at all. If you need Claude or GPT in the editor even occasionally, Premium is the lowest tier that offers them.

How the weekly pool works

Each paid tier has one pool for Cursor models: Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6, Grok 4.5 and Composer 2.5. The pool is shared across Agent in the editor, the Cursor CLI, Cloud Agents, Grok Bot and the Grok apps, so a long Grok chat on your phone uses the same allowance as an agent run in your repo. The Grok API is billed separately. In Cursor's words, the pool “refreshes weekly, so one heavy day doesn't use up your month”. In Cost mode (classic Auto), every request is billed as a Cursor-model request from the pool, whichever model actually serves it.

What you pay once the pool is empty

When the weekly pool runs out, Cursor models keep working at full speed and quality. The usage is paid from prepaid credit at these rates:

Most surprise overage comes from two settings, not from the tier. A Fast variant costs 2× to 6× the standard rate, and any request over 256k input tokens doubles. An agent that keeps a huge context and runs on Composer 2.5 Fast drains the pool much faster than the same work on standard Composer 2.5 with a trimmed context.

Third-party models and prepaid credit

Third-party models never draw from the pool. Cursor bills Claude, GPT, Gemini and other third-party models at API list price, starting with the first request, and takes the cost from prepaid credit. This is the biggest difference from the old Cursor Pro, which included an Other Models allowance. Prepaid credit also pays for Cursor-model usage once your weekly pool is gone. It expires 365 days after purchase. Two controls at grok.com/dashboard/billing keep this spending in check:

• Auto Top-up refills your balance when it falls below a threshold you choose.
• The monthly additional-usage limit caps paid usage each month, however much credit you hold. Set this if you turn on Auto Top-up.

Teams seats on The X Subscription

Each seat's pool belongs to that person only. Seats do not share pools, and unused usage does not move between members. Third-party model usage and any overage come from one prepaid team balance. Admins set a monthly additional-usage limit for the whole team, plus a default monthly limit per member with per-member overrides. When the team limit is reached, paid usage pauses until next month or until an admin raises it, even if credit remains. Teams also pay a Cursor Token Rate of $0.25 per million tokens on eligible third-party requests. Cursor models, Cost-mode requests and third-party models whose cache-read price is below $0.10 per million are exempt. For seat-sizing and cap tactics, see Cursor team spend controls.

What happens to legacy Cursor plans?

Cursor says its older plans “keep working as they are”. Legacy plans keep two monthly pools (Cursor Models and Other Models) and pay-as-you-go on-demand usage, with billing at cursor.com/dashboard. Switching is optional, but it is permanent and cannot be undone. Individuals switch at cursor.com/unify, and team owners or admins at cursor.com/unify/team. A new billing cycle starts on the day you switch.

Where does X Subscription usage show?

Remaining pool and next reset date appear in two places: Cursor's editor settings, and Usage at grok.com/dashboard. Cursor manages the subscription, bills, usage and top-ups for each workspace on grok.com/dashboard. Credit, Auto Top-up and the additional-usage limit are at grok.com/dashboard/billing. Team admins see team usage on the same dashboard. Legacy plans still use cursor.com/dashboard. For a tour of what each number means, read the Cursor usage dashboard guide.

How do I pick a tier?

Start from what you actually ran last month, not from the price list. Two numbers decide it: Cursor-model overage, meaning what prepaid credit paid after your pool ran out, and third-party spend. Upgrading only reduces the first one. Third-party spend stays the same on Premium, Super and Ultra. The rule is to upgrade when your typical monthly Cursor-model overage is more than the price gap to the next tier:

A worked example 🧮: you are on Premium ($30) and your pool runs out every week, so prepaid credit pays about $40 a month for Cursor-model work. Super costs $70 more and has 3.75× Premium's pool. Since $40 is less than $70, stay on Premium. If overage regularly passes $70 a month, Super's larger pool becomes the cheaper home for that work. If you mostly use Claude and the pool barely moves, the right move is the opposite: drop to Premium and budget the third-party credit.

1. 1

   Read last month's split

   At grok.com/dashboard, note your weekly pool use, how often it ran out, and how much credit went to Cursor models versus third-party models.
2. 2

   Rule out Plus if you need third-party models

   Plus runs only Grok and Composer at fixed settings. Anyone who needs Claude, GPT or Gemini in Cursor needs Premium or above.
3. 3

   Apply the overage rule

   Move up a tier only when Cursor-model overage is more than the price gap. Fix Fast mode and long contexts before paying for a bigger pool.
4. 4

   Cap the downside

   Set a monthly additional-usage limit before you turn on Auto Top-up. On Teams, add a default per-member limit as well.

Sources checked November 8, 2026: xAI: Introducing The X Subscription (October 12, 2026), Cursor pricing, Cursor pricing docs, Cursor models and pricing, Cursor Teams pricing, legacy Cursor plans, Cursor Help: What is The X Subscription?, Cursor is now a part of SpaceX (August 14, 2026), and the whoburnedmore CLI Cursor reader source.