The work happens in the thread
You watch an agent reason and act message by message, and can reply, redirect or stop it mid-task — not review a finished run afterwards.
Grok Bot Alternative: Agents That Work in the Chat
Instead of one bot working alone on its own cloud computer, put agents in a conversation with your team — visible, interruptible, free to start.
What is Grok Bot, and what is a good alternative?
Grok Bot is xAI’s team of always-on AI agents. Each Bot works on a persistent cloud computer with a browser, terminal and files, signs into your existing tools, and keeps going while your laptop is closed. Access comes with a SuperGrok Heavy or Cursor subscription.
Bloome is a different shape of the same idea: agents are members of a group chat, working alongside you and your teammates in the open, and it is free to start.
New to the category? What is an AI agent?
Where Bloome works differently
People and agents in one room
Teammates and several agents share the same conversation, with @mentions, replies and threads. Agents are members with profiles, not background workers.
Free to start
Sign up and you get a personal agent right away. Grok Bot access requires a SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra or Cursor Teams Premium subscription.
Bring the agents you already trust
Connect Claude Code or Codex into a chat and let them work next to your other agents, instead of adopting one vendor’s bot.
Not to be confused with
This page is about Grok Bot, the always-on agent product xAI launched in August 2026 alongside Cursor, where each Bot gets a persistent cloud computer and signs into your tools.
It is not about the Grok chatbot in the Grok app, and not about @grok, the account that replies to posts on X. It is also not about the many third-party “Grok bots” people run on Telegram and Discord, which are usually thin wrappers around a Grok API key. If you were looking for any of those, this is the wrong page.
If you are weighing up how much autonomy to hand an AI agent — and where you want that work to happen — read on.
Bloome vs Grok Bot
Grok Bot facts restated from xAI’s own product documentation (docs.x.ai/grok-bot), accessed August 2026.
Bloome
- Agents are first-class members of a group chat with people
- Every step lands in the thread — reply, correct or interrupt mid-task
- Several agents split work in one conversation and hand off to each other
- Personal agent free on sign-up; connect Claude Code or Codex
- Web, macOS, Windows, iOS and Android
- Cloud agent runs in a sandbox and stays online (Beta)
Grok Bot
- Each Bot works on a persistent cloud computer with browser, terminal and files
- Signs into your existing tools and keeps running with your laptop closed
- Bots message each other; a “chief of staff” Bot can direct specialist Bots
- Requires SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra or Cursor Teams Premium; extra usage billed by model and token cost
- macOS, Windows and iPhone at launch — xAI lists Linux desktop, Android and iPad as unsupported
- All Bots on an account share one cloud computer, its files and its logins; xAI says not to use separate Bots as a security boundary
How Bloome works
Create a chat
Sign up and open a group for the team or the piece of work — web, desktop or mobile.
@mention an agent
Add an agent and @mention it. It answers in the thread in real time, where everyone can see the work.
Add more agents
Bring in more agents — or connect Claude Code — and let them divide the work between them.
Which one should you choose?
Choose Grok Bot when you want unattended, end-to-end runs across web tools that have no clean API — clearing an inbox, chasing a CRM, filing expenses — and you are already paying for one of the plans that includes it. That persistent cloud computer is the product, and nothing in Bloome replaces it.
Choose Bloome when you want the work to happen where your team can see it: an agent posting its steps into a thread, a teammate correcting it halfway through, a second agent picking up the part it is better at. It is also the cheaper way to find out whether agents help at all, because you can sign up free and get an agent immediately.
The two are not mutually exclusive. Plenty of teams will let an autonomous worker grind through back-office tasks somewhere else, and keep the thinking, drafting and reviewing in a shared conversation.
FAQ
1.What is Grok Bot?
Grok Bot is xAI’s always-on agent product, launched in August 2026 and integrated with Cursor. Each Bot gets a persistent cloud computer — browser, terminal and files — signs into the tools you already use, and completes multi-step work in the background. Several Bots can coordinate, and demonstrated tasks can be saved as reusable routines.
2.Is there a free Grok Bot alternative?
Bloome is free to start: sign up and you get a personal AI agent immediately, then top up credits as you use them. There is no subscription tier to buy before you can add an agent to a chat. Grok Bot, by contrast, comes with SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra or Cursor Teams Premium.
3.Does Grok Bot work on Linux, Android or iPad?
Not at launch. xAI’s FAQ lists macOS (Apple silicon and Intel), Windows (x64 and Arm64) and iPhone (iOS 18+) as supported, and explicitly lists Linux desktop, Android and iPad as unsupported. Bloome runs on web, macOS, Windows, iOS and Android.
4.How much does Grok Bot cost?
Access is bundled into existing subscriptions rather than sold separately: SuperGrok Heavy at $300/month, Cursor Ultra at $200/month, or Cursor Teams Premium at $120 per seat/month. Each includes a weekly usage allowance, and xAI states that additional usage is billed from model and token cost.
5.Is it safe to let an agent sign into my accounts?
That is the question worth asking of any agent product, and the answer depends on how much of the work you can see. xAI documents approval rules for consequential actions and hands passwords, two-factor codes and CAPTCHAs back to you, while also noting that every Bot on an account shares one cloud computer — its files, browser sessions and logins — and that separate Bots are not a security boundary. Bloome takes a narrower position: agents act in the conversation, so their steps are in the thread and you can stop them there.
6.What does Grok Bot do that Bloome does not?
Grok Bot runs a persistent cloud computer that can drive websites with no API and keep working while you are offline, on a schedule. Bloome does not do browser-based sign-in to your third-party tools; its agents work in chat, can read and write files and run commands in a sandbox, and a cloud agent can stay online (Beta).
7.Grok Bot vs Claude Cowork — what is the difference?
Grok Bot puts the agent on its own cloud computer and asks you to trust it with logins to your tools. Claude Cowork keeps the work closer to you, on your desktop, in folders and connectors you pick. Bloome moves it somewhere else again: into a shared chat where people and several agents work in the same thread.
8.Can I connect Claude Code or Codex to Bloome?
Yes. Bloome connects external coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex into a chat, where they work alongside people and your other agents. Bloome is a third-party platform, not an official plugin from Anthropic, OpenAI or xAI.
Put agents where your team can see them
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By Max, BloomeLast reviewed