Is xAI X Premium+ worth it in August 2026?

Updated August 20, 2026 · Grok Build · checked 2026-08-20

Yes, on the arithmetic. $40 a month buys up to $872 of usage, which is 21.8 times the price.

Subsidy multiple
21.8x
$40 a month against a ceiling of $872 at xAI's own API rates. 0.6x the SuperGrok figure, using the vendor's own published multiple. The tier it scales from was measured.

What you actually get

The plan allows 0.6 times the allowance of SuperGrok per week.

The models behind it

ModelInOutBlended
Grok 4.6 $2.00 $6.00 $3.00

Against the other xAI tiers

PlanPriceCeilingMultiple
X Premium+ $40 $872 21.8x
SuperGrok $30 $1,454 48.5x
SuperGrok Heavy $300 $5,816 19.4x

Priced against other vendors

xAI X Premium+ vs Moonshot AI Allegretto
$40 against $39 a month
xAI X Premium+ vs MiniMax Token Plan Max
$40 against $50 a month
xAI X Premium+ vs Anthropic Pro
$40 against $20 a month

Check it yourself

This page is generated from the catalogue, so it matches the plan data exactly. To measure your own usage against it, install the skill and ask your agent:

curl -o ~/.claude/skills/aisubsidy-measure/SKILL.md --create-dirs https://aisubsidy.pages.dev/skill.md