Grok AI Statistics 2026: Users, Revenue & Market Share

Last Updated: October 18, 2026

Grok had about 117 million monthly active users of its AI features as of March 31, 2026, according to SpaceX’s IPO prospectus. SpaceX acquired xAI, Grok’s maker, on February 2, 2026 in an all-stock deal that valued xAI at $250 billion and the combined company at $1.25 trillion. Since then, xAI has been renamed SpaceXAI, SpaceX has gone public and bought Cursor for $60 billion, and Grok’s flagship model is now Grok 4.7, released September 21, 2026. Grok held 2.3% of global AI chatbot web traffic in September 2026, per Similarweb.

Grok is one of the hardest AI platforms to measure. Its usage is tied up with X, its parent company has changed names twice in a year, and until SpaceX’s IPO filings, most Grok numbers were third-party estimates. Those filings now give the clearest picture yet: a large user base reached mostly through X, fast-growing AI revenue that is still far behind OpenAI and Anthropic, and enormous spending on computing power.

This guide compiles the key Grok AI statistics for October 2026: users, traffic, revenue, funding, models, benchmarks, Colossus, pricing and competitive position. Every figure is sourced and dated.

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xAI no longer exists as an independent company. SpaceX acquired it on February 2, 2026 in an all-stock deal that valued xAI at $250 billion and SpaceX at $1 trillion, creating a combined company worth $1.25 trillion, per Bloomberg and CNBC, which called it the biggest merger of all time.

What has happened since:

Grok is now one product inside a publicly traded space, satellite and AI company. That makes SpaceX’s SEC filings the most reliable source of Grok data available.

For the full corporate picture, see our xAI statistics guide.

Grok had about 117 million monthly active users of its AI features as of March 31, 2026, per SpaceX’s prospectus filed with the SEC.

What the 117 million counts: users of Grok AI features across both X and Grok’s own apps and website. It is not a count of grok.com visitors alone. X had about 550 million users, and roughly 21% of them engaged with Grok features, per Pulse 2.0’s summary of the filing.

Paying users: about 1.9 million people paid for SuperGrok, SuperGrok Heavy or SuperGrok Lite as of March 31, 2026, per the same SpaceX prospectus. That is a paid conversion rate of under 2% of monthly users, much lower than Claude’s reported 13%.

Earlier estimates: before the filing, third-party estimates put Grok’s monthly users far lower, mostly between 35 million and 64 million. The filing’s higher figure likely reflects counting Grok features used inside X, not just standalone Grok usage.

App downloads: the Grok Android app has passed 100 million downloads on Google Play. In the US, Grok was downloaded about 1.9 million times in August 2026, per Apptopia data cited by Gradually AI.

X distribution: Grok’s biggest advantage is its place inside X. Hundreds of millions of X users can reach Grok without downloading anything new, a distribution channel no standalone AI chatbot has.

Grok held 2.3% of global AI chatbot web traffic in September 2026, down from 2.4% in August and about 2.8% in May, per Similarweb data reported by OfficeChai.

Web traffic market share, August 2026 (Similarweb):

Source: Similarweb data reported by The Decoder.

Monthly visits: grok.com drew about 314 million visits in January 2026, per Similarweb. That is the most recent full monthly figure from Similarweb. Grok’s slipping share since then suggests its web traffic has not kept pace with Claude and ChatGPT.

Grok Imagine: Grok’s image and video tool is one of its most-used features. xAI said Grok Imagine produced 1.245 billion videos in the 30 days before February 2, 2026. In the quarter ending March 31, 2026, it averaged about 10 billion images and more than 2 billion videos a month, per the SpaceX prospectus. These are company-reported figures.

Grok’s web numbers understate its reach, because much of its use happens inside X. Its falling share of standalone AI chatbot traffic still matters, though: it shows Grok is not winning many users who go looking for an AI assistant on their own.

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SpaceX’s filings give no age, gender or country breakdown for Grok users, and xAI has never published one.

Third-party audience estimates from web analytics firms consistently suggest a younger, male-leaning audience, which matches X’s core user base. Treat these as rough estimates, since they measure web visitors only and cannot see the many people who use Grok inside X.

What the official data does show:

SpaceX’s AI segment, which includes Grok, X and AI computing services, reported $2.561 billion in revenue in Q2 2026, up from $818 million in Q1 2026, per SpaceX’s Q2 2026 results. This is not Grok-only revenue. It includes X and the sale of computing capacity.

2025 results (per SpaceX’s IPO filing, as reported by TechCrunch):

What drove the Q2 jump: the AI segment’s revenue rose about 3x between Q1 and Q2 2026, as SpaceX began selling capacity on its Colossus data centers to outside customers, including Anthropic (see the Colossus section below).

Funding history before the merger:

Sources: Wikipedia’s xAI funding summary, xAI, Bloomberg.

The valuation trajectory: xAI went from a $24 billion valuation in May 2024 to a $250 billion acquisition value in February 2026, about 10x in under two years. SpaceX was valued at about $1.77 trillion at its June 2026 IPO.

For current plan prices, see our Grok AI pricing guide.

Grok went from launch in November 2023 to about 117 million monthly users of its AI features by March 2026, in under two and a half years.

The key accelerant was distribution, not model quality. Grok ships inside X, in front of hundreds of millions of people who never had to download anything. That gave Grok a running start no independent chatbot could match.

The plateau: Grok’s share of AI chatbot web traffic has slipped from about 2.8% in May 2026 to 2.4% in August and 2.3% in September, per Similarweb. Over the same period, Claude’s share grew to about 9%. Grok’s growth now depends less on new chatbot users and more on bundling: putting Grok, Cursor and X Premium into one subscription.

Model release timeline:

Sources: Wikipedia, IT Brief, GEO Toolbox.

Grok 5: Grok 5 has now missed target windows in late 2025, Q1 2026 and Q2 2026, and xAI has not committed to a release date. Grok 4.8 and 4.9 are reportedly planned first, per GEO Toolbox’s Grok 5 tracker.

Grok 4.7, released September 21, 2026, is xAI’s current flagship. It beats GPT-5.6 Sol on several of xAI’s reported benchmarks but trails Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 on most of them.

Grok 4.7 benchmarks (reported by xAI):

Source: xAI, as reported by IT Brief. Note that xAI compared Grok 4.7 to GPT-5.6 Sol, not OpenAI’s newer GPT-6 models.

What stands out: Grok 4.7 made its biggest gains on legal and enterprise tasks, where it led every model xAI compared it against. On coding in a terminal, it nearly doubled Grok 4.6’s score but still finished far behind Claude.

Grok 4 (July 2025) highlights, as reported by xAI:

The benchmark caveat: most headline Grok scores are self-reported by xAI under specific test conditions. Independent results are often lower. For business users, real-world accuracy, speed and cost on specific tasks matter more than leaderboard positions.

For the coding comparison specifically, see our Claude Code statistics.

Colossus is xAI’s Memphis-area data center campus and its most important physical asset. Colossus and Colossus II came online in 122 days and 91 days respectively and together provide about 1 gigawatt of computing power, per SpaceX’s IPO filing as reported by TechCrunch.

Key Colossus facts:

The Anthropic deal: in May 2026, SpaceX agreed to give Anthropic exclusive use of its Colossus cluster. According to SpaceX’s filing, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.25 billion a month through May 2029, though either side can end the deal on 90 days’ notice. Musk publicly disputed the length, describing it as a 180-day lease, per TechCrunch. A direct competitor became one of SpaceX’s biggest AI customers.

Other compute customers: CNBC reported in June 2026 that Google would pay SpaceX about $920 million a month for computing capacity at xAI data centers.

These deals explain why SpaceX’s AI revenue tripled in a single quarter. Renting out computing power is, for now, a larger and faster-growing business than selling Grok subscriptions.

Grok ranked fifth in global AI chatbot web traffic in August 2026 with 2.4%, behind ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and DeepSeek, per Similarweb. Its share slipped to 2.3% in September.

What sets Grok apart in 2026:

Grok’s limitations:

For the full competitive picture, see our AI market share 2026 guide.

Since October 12, 2026, new customers buy Grok through The X Subscription, a single plan that combines Grok, Cursor and X Premium, per Yahoo Finance.

Paid tiers share one usage pool across Grok, Cursor and other Grok products. Existing SuperGrok, Cursor and X Premium subscribers can keep their current plans.

API pricing: Grok 4.7 costs $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, and the faster default version costs $4 and $12, per xAI. The older Grok 4.3 costs $1.25 and $2.50.

For the full breakdown, see our Grok AI pricing guide.

The revenue comparison is the clearest. OpenAI and Anthropic each have annualized revenue of $50 billion or more. SpaceX’s entire AI segment, including X and data center rentals, earned $2.56 billion in Q2 2026. Grok has a large audience and enormous infrastructure, but its subscription business is still small.

For full profiles, see our Claude AI statistics and ChatGPT statistics guides.

xAI Statistics 2026
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Grok AI Pricing 2026
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ChatGPT Statistics 2026
The equivalent statistics guide for OpenAI.

Claude AI Statistics 2026
How Anthropic’s numbers compare, including the Colossus deal.

Grok vs ChatGPT
A head-to-head comparison for business users.

How many users does Grok AI have in 2026?
Grok had about 117 million monthly active users of its AI features as of March 31, 2026, according to SpaceX’s IPO prospectus. That figure counts Grok use across X and Grok’s own apps and website. About 1.9 million people paid for a SuperGrok plan at the same date. Grok’s Android app has passed 100 million downloads on Google Play.

What is xAI’s valuation in 2026?
SpaceX acquired xAI on February 2, 2026 in an all-stock deal that valued xAI at $250 billion and the combined company at $1.25 trillion. SpaceX then went public on Nasdaq on June 12, 2026, valued at about $1.77 trillion. xAI has since been renamed SpaceXAI, and Musk said in October 2026 it will become SpaceXSI.

What is Grok’s market share vs ChatGPT?
Grok held 2.4% of global AI chatbot web traffic in August 2026, versus ChatGPT’s 55.5%, Gemini’s 25.6% and Claude’s 9.3%, per Similarweb. Grok’s share slipped to 2.3% in September. By users, Grok had about 117 million monthly users in March 2026, while ChatGPT had about 1.2 billion weekly users by September 2026.

What is Grok’s current flagship model?
Grok 4.7 is xAI’s current flagship model, released September 21, 2026. It costs $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens through the API, with a faster default version at $4 and $12. Grok 5 has still not been released, and xAI has not committed to a date.

What is xAI’s revenue in 2026?
SpaceX’s AI segment, which includes Grok, X and data center services, reported $2.561 billion in revenue in Q2 2026, up from $818 million in Q1, per SpaceX’s results. In 2025, the segment earned $3.2 billion and lost $6.4 billion from operations. X and Grok subscriptions brought in $365 million in 2025.

What is the Colossus supercomputer?
Colossus is xAI’s data center campus in the Memphis area. Colossus and Colossus II together provide about 1 gigawatt of computing power, according to SpaceX’s IPO filing, with plans to reach nearly 2 gigawatts and over 1 million GPUs. In May 2026, SpaceX gave Anthropic exclusive use of the Colossus cluster for $1.25 billion a month, per the filing.

Is Grok growing or declining in 2026?
Both. Grok reached about 117 million monthly users by March 2026, and SpaceX’s AI revenue tripled between Q1 and Q2 2026. But Grok’s share of AI chatbot web traffic slipped from about 2.8% in May to 2.3% in September, per Similarweb, and Grok 5 has missed three target windows.

What makes Grok different from ChatGPT and Claude?
Grok’s main differences are real-time access to X posts, which helps with breaking news and social sentiment, and bundling: since October 2026, Grok, Cursor and X Premium come in one subscription from $8 to $200 a month. Its API is also priced competitively, at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens for Grok 4.7. Its weaknesses are a small paying base and weaker enterprise adoption.

What are the key Grok AI statistics for October 2026?
Grok had about 117 million monthly users of its AI features and 1.9 million paying SuperGrok users as of March 2026, per SpaceX’s prospectus. SpaceX’s AI segment earned $2.561 billion in Q2 2026. Grok held 2.3% of AI chatbot web traffic in September 2026, per Similarweb. Its flagship model is Grok 4.7, released September 21, 2026.

How many monthly active users does Grok have?
Grok had about 117 million monthly active users of its AI features as of March 31, 2026, per SpaceX’s IPO prospectus. About 21% of X’s roughly 550 million users engaged with Grok features, and about 1.9 million paid for a SuperGrok plan.

What is xAI’s valuation and who owns it now?
SpaceX owns xAI, now called SpaceXAI, after acquiring it on February 2, 2026 at a $250 billion valuation in a deal that valued the combined company at $1.25 trillion. SpaceX went public on Nasdaq on June 12, 2026 at about $1.77 trillion. In October 2026, Musk said SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI.

What is Grok’s web market share vs ChatGPT in 2026?
In August 2026, Grok held 2.4% of global AI chatbot web traffic, ranking fifth behind ChatGPT (55.5%), Gemini (25.6%), Claude (9.3%) and DeepSeek (3.4%), per Similarweb. Grok’s share slipped to 2.3% in September 2026.

The Grok AI statistics of October 2026 tell a story that resists simple framing.

The scale is real: about 117 million monthly users, a parent company valued at well over $1 trillion, about 1 gigawatt of computing power and a $60 billion acquisition of Cursor. Few AI products have been built this fast or backed this heavily.

The business is less settled. Only about 1.9 million people pay for Grok, its share of AI chatbot traffic has slipped to about 2%, and Grok 5 keeps missing its windows. Much of SpaceX’s AI revenue growth now comes from renting computing power to rivals like Anthropic, not from Grok itself.

For business leaders, Grok is worth testing where its strengths are real: monitoring news and social sentiment through X data, and cost-sensitive API workloads. For regulated industries and deep enterprise rollouts, ChatGPT and Claude remain further ahead.

The bigger question is strategic. With Grok, Cursor and X now sold as one subscription, SpaceXAI is betting on bundling over model leadership. Whether that bet works will define Grok’s next year more than any benchmark.

By Sameer Khan

This article was AI-assisted, then reviewed by Sameer Khan before publishing.

Sameer Khan is the founder of AI Business Weekly. He has a background in research and advisory, working with HR leaders and executives across Canadian public-sector and enterprise organizations on research and AI adoption. He holds an MBA from the Ted Rogers School of Management and has spent nearly a decade in B2B sales across SaaS, research and advisory, and AI. Connect on LinkedIn.