On Sunday afternoon, 1 November, the X account Doge Norway wrote that its Grok Bot usage had reached 100% with four days left before the weekly reset, adding that it normally does not reach the limit at all. About four hours later the same account quoted that post and asked Elon Musk directly whether users could get a reset, saying that “lots of people” had run out of usage very quickly that week. That question had been viewed about 1.3 million times by Monday morning. [1][2]
Musk replied 23 minutes later: “The cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue.” By Monday morning the reply had been viewed about 5.9 million times and had drawn close to 3,000 replies. It is the only public explanation from the company’s leadership so far. [3]
Other subscribers described the same pattern on X. One user wrote that more than a quarter of a seven-day limit was gone after a single day, and another that the limit still showed 100% after what he described as a fixed glitch. These are individual accounts and cannot be checked from outside. [7][8]
Grok Bot is an AI agent that xAI launched in beta in August. It carries out multi-step tasks on its own virtual computer and can keep working in the background. It is included in paid SuperGrok and Cursor plans, with an allowance that is metered separately from ordinary Grok chat. SpaceX said in October that Grok Bot had reached 800,000 paid weekly users, a company figure that does not show revenue. [4][6]
Anadolu Agency and International Business Times both note that Musk gave no figures on costs or revenue and did not say whether limits would change or be reset. IBTimes also reports that Grok’s account linked the change to adjusted allocations and mentioned a separate, already fixed fault in the usage dashboard. Grok’s replies on X are generated automatically and are not a formal company statement. [4][5]