Grok Bot Is Only $20 Now. Here's What They're Not Telling You transcript

Grokbot, 2 weeks ago, this thing cost $200 a month. Today, it costs 20. It is the easiest AI agent anyone has ever built. You install an app and a team of little AI employees start working for you on one always-on computer in the cloud, even while your laptop is closed. The whole internet is losing its mind over it. Half the videos are selling you the dream, the other half are dunking on it. And here's the thing, I run AI agents every single day.

So, I paid for it, I used it for 2 weeks, and I lined it up against the tools I already run. So, in this video, I'm going to show you exactly what Grokbot [music] is, the things it genuinely does better than anyone else, the worst parts they cut out of the demos, how it stacks up against the other tools that do the same [music] job, and how to actually get value out of it starting for free. Let's get started. Before my opinion on Grokbot, here's what it is in plain terms.

Grokbot is a team of AI agents that live inside of one app. You give each one a name and a job, and they all run on one computer in the cloud with a browser, a file system, and a memory. Each bot gets its own screen on that computer, so several can work at once. That computer is always on. So, the work keeps running after you close your laptop, and you can check it from your phone. The bots also talk to one another. You give one a job, and it hands part of it to others on its own.

It is built by xAI and Cursor, and it runs on Grok's models. The cheapest way in is the Cursor Pro plan at $20 a month. It launched at 200, so So, is a 10-time price cut in 2 weeks. The honest catch, though, is that it is closed. You are locked to Grok's models, and you cannot bring your own. You take what they give you. And I gave it real work for 2 weeks, and some of it genuinely surprised me. Look, to be honest, I went in expecting a toy, and a few things changed my mind.

The first is the setup. There's basically none. If you can install an app, you can run Grok Bot. It's that simple. That has never been true before this. I've literally had to make setup videos before to show people how to setup that AI agent. That's simply not true with Grok Bot. It's extremely simple to install. The second is the connections. You authorize a tool once, and every bot can use it. And for anything without a connector, the bot opens a real login screen and lets you sign in yourself.

The third is the computer. I gave a bot a job, I closed my laptop, and it just kept going. I checked it from my phone while I was out, and I think a lot of people will really like this capability. The fourth thing that surprised me is its ability to learn a task. I recorded myself doing something once, and it turned that recording into a repeatable skill. And the fifth thing, which surprised me the most, after one bot finished the job, it left itself a note of what went wrong, and it fixed its own skill without me asking it to.

The honest catch is that easy and good are not the same thing. This is the easiest agent ever made. That does not make it the best one you can run, because once I pushed it harder, the cracks started showing. So, here is what people are not telling you. Every demo online shows you the magic, but here's the part they cut out. Let's start with the money because the $20 is not the real number. No plan tells you how much usage you actually get.

The free trial can easily be gone in one day. If you run a few bots hard, you can burn most of a week of usage in one afternoon. After that, it starts charging you by the token. So, it is cheap to walk in, but it can get very expensive once you are inside. Then, there is security. [clears throat] And this is the one that matters. Every bot runs on that one shared computer. Their own documentation says the bots are not a security boundary.

So, every account you connect, your email, your calendar, your files, all sit on that one machine under one company. So, if one thing leaks, it is all in the same place. Then, the third thing is reliability. It is a beta and it behaves like one. The shared computer can get stuck and take every bot down at once. Connectors time out every once in a while. And at some point, I could not get one of mine to connect at all, with it sometimes handing me jobs half finished.

And lastly, it locks you in. It is closed. I mean, it is Grok models only and when a bot's memory fills up with junk, you cannot clean it out. Oh, and here's another reason why not owning your setup may not be the best feature in Grok bot. My X account got suspended for sharing an open source tool with my audience. And the moment it did, my Grok bot access was gone. Every bot, every routine, every single login I had connected was locked away from me.

So, think about what that actually means. Your workspace does not belong to you, it belongs to your account, and your account belongs to them. The day they decide that you're done, your whole team of AI employees become unaccessible. So much for owning your own setup. That being said, the biggest pros for Grok Bot is that you are renting convenience. And also that you do not own any of it, funny enough. Which raises the real question.

Now that it is $20, is it actually better than the tools that cost the same or nothing at all? At $200, this was easy to ignore. At 20, it lands right on top of tools that are free or nearly free. So, let me align them up honestly. Let's start with its most obvious competitor, Hermes Agent, because it is what I have been running for the past 6 months. Hermes is free, it's open source, you run it on your own machine or a cheap server, and you point it at any model you want.

If you have the ability to point it at a local model, then it literally costs you nothing. It's absolutely free. >> [snorts] >> Or you can do what most people do and run it on a $20 Codex subscription, which is plenty for a normal month of use. You own it, it remembers you, it writes its own skills, it gets better as you use it, and nobody can lock you out or change the price on you. The catch is that you set it up yourself, and for some people that can cost them an afternoon.

Then there's Openclaw. It is the tool Grok Bot is also chasing. It is also free, also open source, also yours, but it leans on you to host it and keep it alive, much like Hermes Agent. Not to mention some of the issues with Openclaw and it needing maintenance every once in a while when it decides to break itself when you ask it to run an update. And then there are the builder tools like Claude Code and Codex at $20. People lump these in, but they are a different job.

They build things while you sit there. They do not sit running your life on a schedule. They're not an AI assistant. They're more like coding assistants. They're worth knowing about, but they're not the same category. You do also, however, get co-work with your $20 cloth subscription, and that can genuinely run your life. It does multi-step work on your computer. It runs on a schedule while you're away. It is the closest thing on the cloth side to Grok Bot.

But, the catch is the same. It is closed. It is a rental, and it burns usage fast. So, here is the real trade. Grok Bot and Co-works' $20 buy you convenience. Hermes' and Open Cloth's $20 buy you ownership for maybe also $0 to $20. Two of them you pay for every month, but you can't see inside. The other two are yours forever and at a price you control. The honest catch is that you will never open a terminal. Grok Bot could genuinely be a better pick for you.

Convenience is worth money to a lot of people. So, before you decide, let me show you how to get the most out of Grok Bot starting for free. I have good news because you do not pay anything to start. There is a free trial on Grok Bot, and it is enough to see what this thing can do. The free usage is small, so keep that in mind. It can be gone in a day if you throw a bunch of stuff at it. So, do not waste it on just random busy work.

Give it one real job with a real outcome you care about. Here are some ideas I have for you. The first is a master setup. All you have to do is write this down. Here is everything about me, and then over here you can literally write every single thing that you can write about yourself. Think about your name, your job, what it is you do, what What your interests. Literally as many contexts and information as you can. You can send this out as a voice message as well.

Or you can do like me, if you already run Hermes, if you already run Claude, you can ask that agent to give you everything it knows about you into one file that you can input here, which is what I've done. So, I'm going to press enter and let's see what we get. So, there you go. It's literally creating them one by one and the bots are appearing as we speak. It decided to create five bots. Pulse, which is a client success radar for our clients.

Nova, which is our YouTube growth bot. Sage, which is our X bot. Ledger, which is our inbox replier bot, so it replies to our emails. Atlas, which is our investment calls bot. And it created them. It's live and it made itself our chief of staff. There you go. We can literally go into all of them. They have their cron schedule. They have their all of their schedule aligned and they're literally set up from this one single prompt.

This is super interesting because it is as simple as it gets to set it up at first. The second thing I would recommend you do is a morning brief from your chief of staff. And this is the prompt right here. Every weekday at 7:00 a.m. read my calendar and my inbox from the last 24 hours. Give me my meetings today, the three things worth acting on from email and a suggested plan for the day. One short message, please. Do not send anything on my behalf.

And in case you don't have something authorized like my calendar, I'm just going to give it access like that and it's going to do the rest. Granted, you can go to plugin, add anything you want access to Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, so on and so forth. And that was literally this simple. Google Calendar is connected. The weekday 7:00 a.m. brief will include today's meetings, three email actions, and a day plan.

First run is tomorrow. Something you can do by the way is plugin multiple calendars if you have multiple emails and multiple sources within the same connection. I asked it to run a test of this prompt right here, and it just did. The third thing you can set up is an email triage or an inbox triage. I'm going to send it to Ledger, which happens to be our email bot, and I'm going to send them this. Read my inbox first, batch every email that is safe to archive without me reading it, and show me one list with an archive button.

Then summarize the ones I need to know, but do not need to reply to. Then for anything that needs a reply, reply the full thread and draft a reply in my voice ready to send. Learn my preferences over time. Never send without my approval. I just realized I didn't specify I wanted it from the last 24 hours, so I said only the last 24 hours, please, cuz it's been like 5 minutes, and I'm like, what the hell? And this is very interesting because just by telling it this, not by telling it that I want anything else fixed, it figured that it should fix its other scheduled jobs to run the emails in the last 24 hours unless I say otherwise.

That is fascinating. And just like that, it came out with everything that I just asked for. The fourth thing is a research agent. For this, this is the prompt that I would use. You watch X for me or whatever platform you want it to watch. It could be YouTube, X, Reddit, whatever it is. Every morning or whenever it is you want, every 30 minutes, every hour. For me, it's every morning. Check for anything new that actually matters on AI, Hermes, Grok Bot, and message me only when there's something worth knowing.

Ignore the noise. When you report, give me the headline, why it matters, and the link. And I also told it, let's start with a test right now. This is especially important if you are a creator or a business owner or both. And just like that, we have everything we just asked for at the snap of a button. And the last one is my favorite. You hand it a small project, ask it to spin up a sub agent, and manage it and only report when it's done.

So, this is the prompt I gave it. I want to build a landing page for X, spin up a builder bot, hand it the job, and manage it until it is done. Show me the result on a live URL. Only check in with me if you need a decision. And it's doing that. It's literally coding right now, spinning up an agent, and the builder is ready. Let's see what it gives us. It's crazy because it handed cursor, it opened the cursor tab, and it handed cursor such a good prompt along with outcomes, the goal and success criteria, when to know that it's done.

That is a great goal prompt. But, let's see how it does. Let's see how fast it can do this. Can I solve this Rubik's Cube before it is done with the landing page? All right, that was 1 minute 7 seconds, and as I can see, it is still going on. We do have a preview already. Oh. Oh. There you go. All right, it's actually done. Wow. Happening now, X is the public conversation in real time. So, it's made a landing page about X.

I don't think that's what I wanted, but then again, your output is only as good as your prompt. I don't know what it's waiting for for it to announce it to me, but it did finish in about 1 or 2 minutes. So, here is the move. Pick your single best use case, run it on the free trial, and judge it on that one thing if it earns its keep in a week. Pay the $20. If it does not, you have lost nothing but your time. I have put the exact prompts I used throughout this video.

They're free, and they're in the first link in the description. You can copy-paste them in so that you skip straight to the good part. All right, my verdict for this video for Grokbot is that at $20, Grokbot is worth one free trial and the test. It is the easiest AI agent anyone has ever built. If you will never touch a terminal, it is a genuinely good pick. But, if you are willing to learn a little, the tools you own do the same job, if not better.

They do not meter you and no one can raise the price on you. That is the real trade, convenience versus control. So, tell me in the comments which one you're on. Have you used Grok Bot yet, or are you planning on trying it? If you enjoyed this video, make sure to leave a like. Or, if you're new to my channel, then subscribe because I have a ton more content just like this coming your way. Oh, and the algorithm gods have decided you're very likely to enjoy this next video, as well.

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