Musk throttles Grok Bot limits over unsustainably high costs
Original title: Elon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to ‘unsustainably high’ costs
Some users saw weekly quotas jump to 100% over Halloween; Musk has not said how limits will change next.
Over Halloween weekend, some Grok Bot users found weekly usage limits unexpectedly maxed out. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on X on November 1 that serving costs were unsustainably high relative to revenue and that it was not a glitch. SpaceX said last month that AI is 52% of company income and that its Super Intelligence division posted a $431 million profit after $1.2 billion in one-time Cursor acquisition costs. Musk has not said how subscriber limits will change.
Unconfirmed: Musk has not said how subscribers' usage limits will be set going forward.
- Some users reported usage rising from as low as 50% to 100%.
- Musk confirmed the cap change in an X reply on November 1, 2026.
- SpaceX said AI is 52% of company income.
- Super Intelligence profit was $431 million after $1.2 billion of Cursor costs.
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Musk recently referred to Grok Bot as having "the fastest growth of a product that I've ever seen in my life."
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