THE 60-SECOND VERSION
● SuperGrok Heavy's near-unlimited promise is gone. The page now reads highest usage limits. Price unchanged at $300.
● There is a $100 tier between SuperGrok and Heavy that most people considering Heavy have not seen.
● 6 days to the 31 August double deadline — Sonnet 5 reprices and GPT-5.4 leaves Codex on the same Monday.
A quiet Monday. No model launches, no incidents, no pricing moves in the last 24 hours. One story worth your time, and a week ahead that matters more than today does.
SuperGrok Heavy: the wording changed, the price did not
SuperGrok Heavy launched at $300 a month promising near-unlimited usage. Somewhere in mid-2026 that phrase was replaced on the pricing page with highest usage limits — a promise of being less restricted than the cheaper tier, rather than freedom from limits.
Alongside it, community reports through mid-2026 put the daily video clip allowance down from around 100 to roughly 30, at the same price. Subscribers describe burning a fresh weekly quota within an hour or two on Grok Imagine, then being unable to run ordinary chats without topping up.
The mechanism behind that: paid Grok plans now run on one shared weekly pool across Chat, Imagine, Voice and Build. The per-two-hour caps most guides still quote were retired in June 2026, so image and video generation draw from the same budget as everyday questions.
Full breakdown: what $300 actually gets you, and the test for whether to pay it →
And the tier most people miss
Grok now runs six consumer tiers across two parallel subscription paths — free, X Premium at $8, SuperGrok Lite at $10, SuperGrok at $30, X Premium+ at $40, SuperGrok Plus at $100 and Heavy at $300.
Two mistakes come up repeatedly. Paying $40 for X Premium+ without using X socially, which is $10 more than SuperGrok for less AI capability. And jumping from $30 straight to $300 without noticing SuperGrok Plus at $100, which exists precisely for people exhausting the cheaper plan.
Every tier explained, plus the API pricing trap above 200K tokens →
Six days to a double deadline
| Date |
What happens |
| Aug 31 |
Claude Sonnet 5 goes $2 to $3 per million input, $10 to $15 output, plus a tokenizer change adding 10 to 35 percent tokens on code |
| Aug 31 |
GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 mini leave Codex for ChatGPT sign-in users. Still available via API key |
| Aug 31 |
kimi-k2.5 and moonshot-v1 sunset, migrate to kimi-k3 |
| Early-mid Sept |
Grok 4.7 window per Musk. Still no model ID at docs.x.ai |
| Oct 1 |
OpenAI vs Apple hearing |
| Oct 24 |
deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner deprecated |
| ~Nov 21 |
GPT-5.6 Sol promotional pricing ends |
If you run coding workloads across both Anthropic and OpenAI, next Monday is a repricing and a migration at once. Worth modelling the tokenizer change this week rather than discovering it in September's invoice.
Still open
- CVE-2025-62593 in Ray. Federal deadline passed 20 August. Anything below 2.52.0 remains exposed, and the attack path is a developer's browser. What to check →
- OpenAI's public S-1. Filed confidentially 8 June, still not on EDGAR. The CFO committed to a 2027 listing last week.
- Grok 4.7. Pre-training complete, supplemental training on SpaceX engineering data, no model ID published.
FAQ
Did SuperGrok Heavy get more expensive?
No. The price stayed at $300. What changed is the wording — near-unlimited usage became highest usage limits — and community reports indicate the daily video allowance fell from around 100 clips to roughly 30.
What is SuperGrok Plus?
A $100 tier between SuperGrok at $30 and Heavy at $300, for people consistently exhausting the cheaper plan. It is the option most people considering Heavy have not looked at.
What happens on 31 August?
Claude Sonnet 5 rises to $3 in and $15 out per million with a tokenizer change alongside it, and GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 mini leave Codex for ChatGPT sign-in users. Both models remain available through the API.
Do Grok image and video generation have separate quotas?
No. Paid plans run on one shared weekly pool across Chat, Imagine, Voice and Build since the per-two-hour caps were retired in June 2026.