Does Grok Bot ask before it acts?

Yes, and we will not pretend otherwise: their own material says the agents come back when they need your approval. The difference is who decides. On Grok Bot the agent judges when it needs you. On Ray every sensitive action stops for a human whether the agent thought it was risky or not, and there is no setting that changes that.

Can Ray drive a browser like Grok Bot does?

No. Ray works through the integrations it has wired, so a tool with no API is out of reach. That is a genuine limitation and the honest trade for it is that Ray can only ever do what its integration list says it can do.

Which is available today?

Ray is, on any Slack workspace. Grok Bot is in early beta with enterprise access waitlisted, so whether you can have it depends on where you are in that queue.

Is Ray as capable as an agent with its own computer?

In reach, no. In the tools it does connect to, it does the job and shows you the card before it writes. If breadth is what decides it for you, they have more of it.

Grok Bot drives a computer. Ray works your tools.

xAI launched agents that live in group chats and sign into your tools in August 2026. Here is what each approach buys you, and what it costs.

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Compared against Grok Bot's own pages. Last checked August 2026.

What Grok Bot is

Agents from xAI, launched in early beta in August 2026, that xAI calls teammates. Each one gets its own computer in the cloud, signs into your tools, and works across apps and websites, coordinating inside group chats on multi-step work. It ships a catalogue of a couple of hundred plugins with none installed by default, and decides per task whether a plugin or raw browser control is the better route. It comes back when it needs your approval. Grok Bot's own page

One message, two outcomes.

What happens to the same sentence in your channel, depending on which of the two is in the room.

Jonasin #ops

The vendor portal has no API and someone still has to pull last month's invoices out of it.

Ray

Cannot reach a tool with no API, and says so plainly
Handles the tools it does connect to, with an approval each time
Available on your Slack today

Grok Bot

Can drive that portal in a browser like a person would
Decides for itself whether to use a plugin or the browser
In beta, with enterprise access behind a waitlist

The difference, in one table.

What each one is for, side by side. Grok Bot's column comes from their own pages, checked August 2026.

Dimension	Ray	Grok Bot
How it reaches a tool	A curated integration per tool, wired deliberately	A plugin where one exists, or a browser driven like a person
Tools with no API	Out of reach, and we say so	Reachable, which is the point of the browser
Who decides to ask you	Nobody. Every sensitive write stops, structurally	The agent, when it judges that it needs you
Where it runs	Our infrastructure, inside your Slack	Its own cloud computer, signed into your accounts
Availability	Live on any Slack workspace today	Early beta, enterprise access waitlisted
What it costs	Flat by team size, published	Bundled with their top tier, no team price published
Chat platforms	Slack today	Group chats on their own surface, plus integrations

What Ray costs

Free covers 25 tasks a month plus a one-time 50-task starter grant that never expires. Pro is one flat price for your team’s size: $49 a month for 1 to 3 people, $99 a month for 4 to 10 people, $199 a month for 11 to 25 people. No seats, and using Ray more never costs more.

The full pricing page

What Grok Bot costs

It is included with xAI's top consumer subscription tier, and enterprise access is a waitlist rather than a purchase. We do not publish a monthly figure for it, because the configuration a team would actually buy does not have one yet. their pricing page

Which one you should pick

The honest version, their side first.

Choose Grok Bot if

You need an agent to use a tool that publishes no API. Driving a browser reaches software a curated integration set never will, and that is a real capability Ray does not have.
You want one agent with the widest possible surface. A couple of hundred plugins plus anything with a login is broader than any hand-wired set.
You already subscribe at xAI's top tier, where it is included rather than another line on the bill.
You are comfortable being early. It is in beta from a company with the resources to move quickly, and being on it now means seeing that happen.

Choose Ray if

You want the approval to be structural rather than the agent's judgement call. On Ray every sensitive write stops, whether or not it looked risky to the agent.
You want it on your Slack this afternoon rather than on a waitlist.
You want a published team price you can put in a budget.
You would rather an agent could not reach a tool at all than reach it by logging in as a person and clicking around in it.

What Grok Bot does not do

Each one checked against their own documentation, August 2026. If any of this changes, tell us and we will fix it.

Enterprise access is a waitlist rather than a product you can buy today, so a team that wants it now may not be able to have it. their docs
There is no published price for a team. It rides xAI's top consumer subscription, and what an organisation pays is not something we could read at source. their docs

The rest of the field

If you are still drawing up the shortlist, these are the other tools people weigh against Grok Bot and against Ray. Each one says where it is the better pick.

Questions people ask.

The short answers are here. If we have not covered something, just ask.

Try Ray with your own team.

Free to start, no card. Ray sees only the channels you invite it to, and nothing sensitive happens without your approval. Or read Grok Bot for their side of it.