Grok Bot users ran out of a week’s usage overnight, and Elon Musk says the agent was costing too much

Paying Grok Bot users found their weekly usage allowance exhausted overnight on Sunday, days before it was due to reset, according to a Cursor forum thread with over 80 replies. Users reported the weekly usage meter jumping to 100% with no activity to explain it, with one saying it halted a major update to their paid SaaS platform. When asked on X for a reset, Elon Musk replied that the cost of serving Grok Bot "was unsustainably high relative to revenue," without clarifying whether limits had been cut or whether the jump was a fault. A Cursor staff member treated the spike, around 04:10 to 04:20 UTC on November 1, as a fault, saying a sharp jump without matching activity "shouldn’t happen." An incident on SpaceXSI’s status page about a billing and usage dashboard degradation was opened and later closed with no explanation. Neither SpaceXSI nor Cursor has publicly said whether the jump was a metering fault, a change in how usage is counted, or both. The episode comes less than two weeks after Musk praised Grok Bot’s rapid growth on SpaceX’s October 20 earnings call and after the company said it would continuously evaluate the highest-margin use of its compute. Users are advised to cap paid usage and request a recalculation from SpaceXSI support.

(Source：MadRobot)