crew bot vs Grok Bot
Both keep working when your laptop is closed. Grok Bot gives you personal agents with a big cloud computer of their own. Crew bot is a crew that works on your own servers, routers, databases and websites, and asks before it changes anything.
Checked 1 November 2026Free to start, no card needed.
Side by side
What each one is, who it's for and what it can reach, as of November 2026.
| Compared | Grok Bot | crew bot |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Always-on AI agents from xAI, each working in a cloud computer that stays on | A crew of AI bots (a Lead, specialists and a skeptic) that works on your business: in its own workspace and on your systems |
| Made for | Personal and coding work, for people on xAI's and Cursor's paid plans | Small businesses and tech teams with servers, networks, websites and customers |
| How you get it | Paid plans onlyReports differ: SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra or Teams Premium, or from the $30-a-month X Premium tier | Free to start, no cardStart $19, Growth $49, Scale $149 a month per workspace |
| The AI | xAI's own Grok models | Models from several AI labs, picked per jobOr bring your own keys |
| Its computer | Debian with Chrome, a terminal and files: about 8 CPUs, 16 GB memory, 128 GB disk, shared by all your botsCommunity measurements; xAI doesn't publish specs | A Firecracker microVM per workspace that sleeps when idle: 2 CPUs, 2 GB, 5 GB on Start, up to 4 CPUs, 8 GB, 25 GB on ScaleNone on Free. More storage at $2 a month per 10 GB |
| Your servers, routers and databases | Not what it's built for: it works inside its own computer, with its own logins | Built in: SSH, Postgres and MySQLLogins stay in a vault, out of the crew's computer; SSH uses five-minute certificates |
| Putting your apps live | No supported way to serve anything from its computerNo public endpoint | Deploys to your own server: builds, starts, checks it answers, then switches over, with HTTPSRoll back to the release before |
| A support chat on your website | — | One line on your site; a bot answers visitors and hands over to a person |
| Control | Your bots, on your account | Team members, approval rules and a budget on every jobIt asks before anything that writes |
Grok Bot details come from xAI's launch post, press coverage and users' own measurements, listed below.
Where Grok Bot is ahead
Its own model
Grok Bot runs on xAI's own Grok models, trained on one of the largest AI computers in the world. Crew bot uses models from other labs.
A bigger computer
About 16 GB of memory and 128 GB of disk, against 8 GB and 25 GB on crew bot's biggest plan. For heavy builds or big files, that matters.
Coding in Cursor
It comes with Cursor's top plans, so it fits straight into a Cursor workflow.
A big company behind it
More people, more polish, and the backing of one of the largest AI labs.
Where crew bot is different
It works on your own systems
It signs in to your servers, routers and databases, reads what's wrong and tells you the fix, or makes it once you approve. Logins stay in a vault and never reach a model.
It puts your work live
It deploys apps to your own server, checks they answer before switching over, and keeps the release before so you can go back.
It answers your customers
Put one line on your website and a bot of yours answers visitors, takes their details and hands over to your team when it should.
A crew, not one assistant
The Lead plans the job and splits it between specialists who work at the same time. A skeptic checks what they find. It remembers how you like things done.
You stay in charge
It asks before anything that writes, every job has a budget, and every step is on record. Approve from your phone, or talk to the Lead on Telegram.
Everything else you work with
240+ apps, most connected with one click, whiteboards the crew draws on with you, and your Mac's screen when you let it. In your browser, on Mac and on Windows today; Linux, iOS and Android are coming soon.
Which to choose
Choose Grok Bot if
- You already pay for SuperGrok Heavy or Cursor's top plans
- You want agents for research, browsing and coding, in a big computer of their own
- You want xAI's own models
Choose crew bot if
- You run servers, networks or websites and want an AI that works on them, with your OK
- You want your customers answered on your website
- You want to start free and grow with a team
Hand the crew its first job.
Free to start, no card needed.