Is Grok free in 2026?

So is Grok free in October 2026? The free tier is still there: xAI's own FAQ says free users keep "Grok's free tier limits on Chat and Voice", which reset on their own schedule. What changed is the paid side: one shared weekly usage pool in June 2026, and on October 12, 2026 The X Subscription in place of SuperGrok. If you want free Grok without an X account, our chat gives guests Grok 4.5 for free, with a daily limit.

We can be unusually precise about what people mean when they ask it, because we own a page that answers it. Between May 2025 and September 2026, 14,777 people reached it from Google search, and Search Console recorded the exact words they typed. Half of the twenty biggest queries name the paid tier: "premium", "subscription", "account". That tells you what people are really asking. Not what Grok can do, but how to get in without paying.

Images are where the free line moved first. On January 9, 2026, X restricted Grok's image generation on X to paying subscribers after the tool drew international criticism, and at the time the standalone Grok app was not covered by that change. Five days later xAI limited Grok's ability to create sexualized images of real people on X. Text chat was never part of either change.

So the answer to "supergrok free" is no: SuperGrok was the paid layer on top of free Grok, and The X Subscription that replaced it starts at $8 a month. For people who keep running out, xAI's FAQ points to upgrading the plan or buying Extra Usage Credits, from $5 on the web, not to a free version of SuperGrok.

According to xAI's FAQ, the change that rolled out in June 2026 replaced "separate daily limits for each product (like Chat, Imagine, Voice, or Build)" with "one shared weekly usage pool" for paid users, and the reset time is shown in the Usage tab in Settings. The same page says free users keep "Grok's free tier limits on Chat and Voice", which are separate from that pool and reset on their own schedule.

Many guides still quote a free message count, such as ten messages every two hours or twenty a day, and they disagree with each other because they copy each other from different points in time. We could not find a current free-tier message limit published by xAI itself, and a number nobody stands behind is worse than no number.

What is safe to say: if the exact ceiling matters to your work, measure it on your own account on the day you need it. That is the only figure that will be true. On a paid plan, the Usage tab in Settings shows how much of the weekly pool is used and when it resets.

xAI released Grok 4.5 in July 2026, then Grok 4.6 on August 12, 2026, built with "a particular focus on long-running agents and more ambitious interactive and visual work". Grok 4.7 followed on September 21, 2026, and xAI's model list now calls it "the most capable model we've built". All three have a 500k-token context window and API prices from $2 per million input tokens.

We are explicit about our own version of this, because the alternative is pretending. In our chat, Grok 4.5 is free without an account, within a daily guest limit. Grok 4.6 and Grok 4.7 use energy per message, Grok 4.7 more than Grok 4.6, on a free account that gets energy to start and can claim more each day, so you can try the newest Grok without a subscription.

That is the case our own product was built for. Our free Grok AI page explains the options, and the chat gives guests Grok 4.5, Claude Haiku 4.5 and GPT-5.6 Luna for free, with a daily limit, so you can switch models in one window without an X account.

Step 1: open the chat and pick Grok

Go to our chat. You land in it as a guest, with Claude Haiku 4.5 selected. Open the settings next to the send button, choose Model and pick Grok 4.5. Models with a lock need an account or Pro; Grok 4.5 has none.

Step 2: ask for what you need

Type the request as you would to a person and press Enter. We asked for a short email to a landlord about broken heating. Grok 4.5 wrote a subject line, the letter and placeholders for the names and the address.

Step 3: make a picture with Grok Imagine

On X, Grok's image generation is for paying subscribers. On N33, Grok Imagine draws on a free account, using the energy a new account starts with and can claim each day. Put words in quotes and Grok writes them on the picture, like the label on this bottle. More examples and prompts are on our Grok Imagine page.

Copy prompt

PromptGrok Imagine

Product photo of a frosted glass perfume bottle with a brass cap on a pale stone plinth, soft shadows, a sprig of lavender beside it, the label reads "ORVELLA" in thin serif capitals, clean beige studio background

Step 4: sign in for the newer Grok models

In the guest list, Grok 4.6 and Grok 4.7 carry a lock. A free account opens both, and each message uses energy, Grok 4.7 more than Grok 4.6.

If the comparison matters more than the brand, the same question is worth asking of the others: see the free Grok alternatives we compared, whether you can use ChatGPT free, and how to use Claude Pro features for free.