xAI Grok
Founder, Automation Squad
Only If It Fits
Ranked #9 of 10 AI assistants & chat
$30
Grok's edge is speed to the news cycle — its web and X integration means it often has an opinion on something that happened an hour ago, which the others don't. Grok for Business launched in 2026 at $30/seat/month, a self-serve tier built for small-to-mid teams, with SOC 2 Type II and no training on your data by default. Above that, Enterprise is custom-quoted.
Standout feature: Fastest real-time awareness of anything here, courtesy of direct X platform access most competitors don't have.
The verdict
xAI Grok earns a SquadScore of 50.2/100 (only if it fits), ranking #9 of 10 AI assistants & chat we’ve scored at $30. Fastest real-time awareness of anything here, courtesy of direct X platform access most competitors don't have.
Scored by the published SquadScore v1.0.0 methodology from vendor-published specs, August 2026.
Pros
- Real-time X/web integration gives it a genuine speed advantage on breaking news and social sentiment
- Grok for Business explicitly does not train on your data by default and includes SOC 2 Type II
- SuperGrok Heavy's multi-agent mode is a real capability jump for complex research, if you need it
Cons
- Business tier context window (128K) is the smallest of the major paid assistants here
- Brand risk: Grok's public persona has generated controversy more than once; some executives will rule it out on optics alone before evaluating capability
- Youngest enterprise offering on this list — fewer years of production hardening than the others
SquadScore breakdown
How the 50.2/100 was built. Each spec is normalised to a 0–100 quality score, then weighted.
— means the vendor publishes no figure. Blanks drop out of the maths and the remaining weights re-balance — we don’t guess.
Research log. Every figure above traces to a source; where a vendor publishes nothing, we record the gap instead of guessing.1 dated correction
x.ai/pricing returned a 403 to direct fetch. Business-tier price and the 128K context figure come from xAI's own January 2026 Grok for Business launch announcement as reported by industry press, not a live-fetched vendor page — worth reconfirming before publishing if precision matters. SuperGrok Heavy ($300/month) and SuperGrok Lite ($10/month) are the adjacent consumer tiers if $30 doesn't fit. Rewired to the categories.ts eight-spec schema: securityTier is 'SOC 2' only, not 'SOC 2 + SSO' — xAI's own materials say Grok for Business ships SOC 2 Type II and RBAC, but list custom SSO and SCIM as an Enterprise-tier addition reached only through a sales conversation, so this Business tier doesn't clear the SSO rung. connectorSupport is 'MCP support' — xAI's own docs (docs.x.ai/grok/connectors) list 7 built-in OAuth connectors that read your data on request, plus bring-your-own-MCP support; we found no vendor evidence of Grok writing back to connected systems the way Claude/ChatGPT/Perplexity's agent actions do, so this stops one rung short of 'MCP + agent actions'. integrations is 7 — the exact count of built-in connectors on that same xAI docs page (Gmail & Calendar, Google Drive, OneDrive, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Salesforce). freeTier remapped from 'Yes' to 'capped'. appCoverage is 'web + mobile' — xAI has not shipped an official desktop app (PWA and third-party wrappers only), so this stays one rung below the desktop-equipped assistants.
Corrected Aug 16, 2026no change. Grok Business remains $30/seat/month with self-serve seat management, consolidated billing, domain verification and no training on business content.
Full specifications
| Price Per Seat | $30 |
|---|---|
| Security & Admin | SOC 2 |
| Setup Effort | 15 minutes |
| Free Tier Quality | Capped |
| Business Integrations | 7 |
| Data & Tool Connections | MCP support |
| Context Window | 128 K tokens |
| Where It Runs | Web + mobile |
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