Grok Bot's usage meter jumped to 100% overnight? Here's how to check your real number and cap your spending

What's trending: a lot of people checked their Grok Bot app this weekend and found the weekly usage meter at 100% without doing much at all. It's like going to bed with half a tank of gas and waking up to the empty light. On Cursor's forum, where Grok Bot bugs get reported, one user watched the meter "keeps flipping in real time: 74%, then 77%, then 100% (capped)," and pointed out that "a false 100% reading makes my team stop all work." Many others added the same story: 34% to 73%, 47.5 to 95, 60 to 100 overnight with no routines running. The official status notice said: "We are investigating a service degradation affecting our billing and usage dashboard." It was marked resolved a little over five hours later. That notice doesn't say whether anyone's usage will be restored, and some users wrote after the fix that their meter still read 100%.

How usage works: Grok Bot has a weekly allowance that resets every week. What happens after it runs out depends on your plan. On The X Subscription (Premium, Super, or Ultra), Grok Bot shares one weekly pool with Cursor and the Grok apps, and extra work is paid from prepaid credit. On older Cursor plans (Pro, Pro+, Ultra), Grok Bot has its own weekly limit, and extra work runs as "on-demand" usage billed through Cursor, but only if on-demand is turned on. The official FAQ says "how fast you use your usage depends on the kind of work you give Grok Bot and how much effort each task takes," so a long browser task can use a lot more than a quick question. If on-demand is off and the meter hits 100%, the same FAQ says Grok Bot "stops when weekly usage runs out and resumes when weekly usage resets." That's why a wrong 100% hurts: the Bot acts like the tank is empty even if it isn't.

The play: don't trust a single number on a weird morning. Check it in two places, find out what used it, and put a cap on extra spending so a glitch (or a runaway routine) can't empty your wallet. Ask your Bot for a usage breakdown by Bot; the latest update even labels the leftover row "Deleted bots, group chats and other people's bots," so nothing hides. On the forum, a few people compared the meter against the usage export on their Cursor dashboard, which is how they could show their jump didn't match any real work. Grok Bot can help you keep an eye on all this, but it's a helper, not your accountant. Your billing dashboard is the number that counts.

How to run it: first, fully quit the Grok Bot app and reopen it. One forum user said that after doing this, the Bot's own reading and Settings finally matched, even if the number wasn't the one they hoped for. Then check the real number. On older Cursor plans, open Settings, then Usage & Billing, or go to cursor.com/dashboard and open Spending. On The X Subscription, open Usage at grok.com/dashboard. Next, set your safety cap. On older Cursor plans, find "On-demand monthly limit" in Settings, then Usage & Billing, and pick a fixed dollar amount (or None to turn extra usage off). On The X Subscription, leave Auto Top-up off or set a monthly additional usage limit at grok.com/dashboard/billing. Then ask your Bot: "Show me my usage by Bot since my last reset, and tell me which routines run most often." Pause anything you don't need this week. If your number still looks wrong, open the account menu, choose Support, then Send Feedback, say what the meter read and when it jumped, and ask for a reply. The person who started the forum thread also emailed [email protected].

Watch out for: a monthly cap isn't a brick wall. The FAQ says it "does not stop a Bot in the middle of a run," so a running task can go a little past it. On older Cursor plans, on-demand usage your Bot already used isn't refundable, which is the best reason to set the cap before you need it. Don't buy extra credit in a panic. One user wrote that the $20 they added on the Grok side seemed to cover only Grok, not Grok Bot. Extra usage is paid in different places depending on your plan (on-demand through Cursor on older Cursor plans, prepaid credit at grok.com on The X Subscription), so check which one is yours before you pay. If you run a side business on a Bot, keep a plan B for a day it's stuck. Also, Cursor's plans page says inviting a friend to Grok Bot can earn you a usage reset on The X Subscription, which is worth knowing on a week like this. Candid note: bots helped research and draft this article, and every quote comes from the linked sources.