Musk admits Grok Bot costs 'unsustainable' as users see quotas jump 20–40% overnight
op7418 · x · 2026-11-02
op7418 rounds up recent Grok Bot changes: early on many tasks were routed to Opus 5.5, but users report that routing has increasingly moved away from it, while usage quotas jumped 20–40% overnight — quotas that used to be effectively unlimited now run out quickly.
Elon Musk, replying to a user complaint, admitted that 'the cost of providing Grok Bot is unsustainable relative to revenue.' The author's takeaway: the economics of personal agents are very hard to make work — even xAI can't keep subsidizing them.
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