Grok: live web and X search, plus DeepSearch

What it is

Grok is xAI’s AI chat assistant, on grok.com and in iOS and Android apps. xAI’s Grok page says it searches the web and X (formerly Twitter) live and shows citations, shows its reasoning step by step, reads uploaded files and PDFs, and keeps memory across chats. It also lists a multi-agent mode, where several agents work on parts of a hard question at once. xAI’s API release notes list Grok 4.7 as its newest frontier model, released in September 2026.

DeepSearch. xAI introduced DeepSearch with Grok 3 on February 19, 2025 and called it its first agent: it browses and gathers information, weighs conflicting sources, and writes up a report. See the list of things we could not verify below for what that looks like in the apps today.

X data. For developers, xAI’s API has an X Search tool that does keyword search, search by meaning, user search, and fetching a post with its replies, with date and handle filters. That is the API. In the consumer app, xAI’s page says only that Grok has live X integration.

Grok is not Grok Bot. Grok Bot is a different product that works inside your apps. xAI’s own FAQ says Grok Bot is not the same as Grok on grok.com or the Grok mobile apps.

Best sales uses

• Recent news on one account. Ask for what happened at a company in the last month, with links. Open every link before you use a fact.
• What a prospect said in public. Ask what a person posted on X about a topic, as background for a call. Treat it as a lead to check, not a fact.
• Competitor chatter. Ask what people on X are saying about a competitor’s launch. Expect opinions mixed with facts.
• A second tool for our plays. The plays work in any AI chat tool, so Grok is a good second tool for our second-tool test kit.

Who it’s for

SDRs and AEs who research accounts, and owners who sell and have no time for a long search. It is a poor fit when you need an answer built only from text you paste in, because live search can bring in outside information. Say “use only the text I pasted” in your prompt and check that it did.

Setup effort

Easy. Open grok.com, sign in with an X or email account, and type. Plain chat needs no connectors.

Pricing (checked 2026-10-15)

• Free: $0 a month, with limited chat and agent requests.
• New paying customers buy The X Subscription: Plus $8, Premium $30, Super $100, Ultra $200 a month. Premium has 4 times the Plus usage, Super 15 times, Ultra 50 times. Usage is one weekly pool shared across Grok and Cursor.
• xAI says prices are subject to change and exclude taxes.

Caveats

• Live posts are claims, not facts. A post on X can be wrong, old, or a joke. Check the source before you repeat it to a prospect.
• Check what it pulled in. If you asked it to use only your pasted text, look for facts that are not in that text.
• Privacy. Don’t paste customer data into a consumer chat tool without checking your company policy and the tool’s data settings. See Safe Use.
• AI makes things up. Check every name, number, and quote before you send anything.
• Disclosure. The first draft runs of our plays were done in a Grok Bot session, and this page was researched in one. There are no sponsor or affiliate links on this site.