Sources & Methodology

xAI's own product pages, announcements and documentation. Treated as fact, dated to when they were read.

Open-source and community recreations of the avatar. Used for how it moves, not for what the product does.

Independent write-ups. Used where xAI's pages are quiet, and checked against them.

Methodology

How the guide tells them apart

Last updated September 2026

What is official: Everything about what Grok Bot does, which plans include it, what it costs, where it runs and how usage is metered comes from xAI's pages listed above. Where a number appears in this guide, it appears on one of those pages.
What is inferred: The 'Best as' and 'Oversight' tags on the Jobs page, the three trust levels, the oversight matrix and the first-week plan are this guide's reading of xAI's descriptions and its own advice. They are labelled as suggestions, not as product features.
What comes from community implementations: The avatar page uses supplied PNG exports for the eight shape thumbnails, sixteen face thumbnails and fifteen state previews, including Swirl. The studio falls back to an original SVG approximation for unexported combinations. Its fourteen procedural loops are separate from the exported stills. xAI's design write-up is the source for the six working moods only.
Where labels are normalised: xAI uses 'bot', 'agent' and 'Grok Bot' in different places; this guide says 'helper' throughout for a non-technical reader. Job titles are shortened and descriptions rewritten in plain English; each keeps the meaning of xAI's own listing.
Last verified: This guide was last updated on the date shown at the top of this page. Prices and plan inclusion have already changed more than once since launch; treat anything about cost as a snapshot and check it at the source.

Not affiliated with xAI. The avatar engine here is an independent implementation; the product’s own avatars may differ in detail.