"I’m on SuperGrok and want to buy additional Grok Bot requests, but on-demand billing appears to require a Cursor Pro subscription."

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as title,

cursor? considers supergrok’s grok bot use is “free use”,

even i wanna pay for extra quotas, it force me to buy the cursor pro plan.

i.g.

supergrok (india, 8usd/mo), now w little free grok bot quota.

want buy more? paid 20usd/mo for cursor pro, THEN u can buy more quota of grok bot.

wtf.

thanks

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btw, i dont code… no.. i dont code w cursor.

so cursor pro is not useful to me, at all.

thanks

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GPT, after digging w CDP/CDT on chrome on this fourm:

Yes—there’s already a fairly clear answer in related Cursor forum threads:

  • Linking SuperGrok grants Grok Bot access and its included weekly allowance, but it does not create or upgrade a Cursor plan. Cursor Billing’s response confirms this.
  • Once the weekly Grok Bot allowance is exhausted, extra usage can use Cursor’s shared On‑Demand pool—but only if On‑Demand is enabled on the Cursor account. Current Cursor docs state that the SuperGrok link “does not change your Cursor plan.”
  • Therefore, your observation is likely correct: a SuperGrok-only account remains Cursor Free, and Cursor requires a paid plan such as Pro before enabling On‑Demand. The forum reports describe the same “Cursor Free → buy Pro” behavior. Related forum discussion

I couldn’t verify whether your newly created thread already has a reply—the live page wasn’t accessible through the browser connection—but the existing answer is: SuperGrok gives you the weekly Grok Bot allowance, not a standalone paid Cursor billing relationship or an On‑Demand wallet.

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Hey, thanks for the report. You don’t need Cursor Pro for this, and it’s definitely not worth buying Pro just for Grok Bot.

The key point is that Pro and SuperGrok pools don’t stack. Even if you buy Pro, it won’t add any Grok Bot usage. So it can’t solve “I want more Grok Bot” at all. Don’t buy it for that.

How to get more usage the right way:

  • A SuperGrok subscription linked to your Cursor account gives you a weekly Grok Bot allowance. This is a usage grant, it does not create a paid Cursor plan. You can stay on Free and that’s fine.
  • When the weekly amount runs out, the correct way to get extra usage is on-demand usage on the same account with an active SuperGrok link. It’ll ask you to add a card.

The “Pro required” message usually shows up when the account you’re viewing doesn’t have SuperGrok linked. For example, you’re on a free trial credit, or you’re logged into cursor.com with a different account than the one Grok Bot is using.

Try this:

  1. Open Grok Bot → Settings → plan / usage screen. Check which email is signed in and whether it shows SuperGrok as the plan.
  2. If SuperGrok isn’t shown there, link the subscription via Get Access with Grok, or open Cursor - The best way to code with AI while logged into cursor.com with the same account. The link is permanent, so use the account you plan to keep using with Grok Bot.
  3. Once the account shows an active SuperGrok link, open https://cursor.com/dashboard/spending on the same account, find On-Demand Usage, and enable it.
  4. Go back to Grok Bot and send a message. It should work even after the weekly amount is used up.

One more note. SuperGrok Lite does not include Grok Bot. Grok Bot comes with SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, SuperGrok Heavy, and X Premium+. Based on your description SuperGrok India, you likely have base SuperGrok, which supports Grok Bot and on-demand.

If after step 3, with an active SuperGrok link, the spending page still asks for a paid Cursor plan, send the email shown in Grok Bot and a screenshot of that page and I’ll take a look. Either way, buying Pro won’t fix your issue, so start with linking and on-demand.

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hi, things ok now after i upgraded grok bot .exe to be the latest version.

thanks.

btw, the only question now is say USD 5 could result in how many grok bot usage.

pls show me any reference meter if possible. thanks

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Glad it started working after the update.

About “$5 = how much Grok Bot usage”, there’s no fixed conversion here. On-demand is billed based on the model’s actual usage (input and output tokens per task), not the number of messages. So $5 can cover lots of short tasks or just a few long, complex ones. It depends on context size and response length. That’s why there isn’t a single “$X = N requests” table.

What actually helps you track spending is opening https://cursor.com/dashboard/spending on the same account. On-demand spend updates in real time there, so you can see how much was used and what it went to. Also keep in mind the weekly included allowance from SuperGrok is used first, and on-demand only kicks in after that.

If you want to keep spend under control, you can set an on-demand limit in that same section. Let me know if anything about usage is still unclear.