# Ray vs Grok Bot

> Grok Bot drives a computer. Ray works your tools. Their facts from their own pages, checked August 2026, including where they are the better pick.

Source: https://heyray.io/compare/grok-bot

## 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.

Source: https://x.ai

## One message, two outcomes

In #ops, Jonas says: "The vendor portal has no API and someone still has to pull last month's invoices out of it."

**Ray**

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

**Grok Bot**

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

## Side by side

| | 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.

## 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 We do not publish a monthly figure for it, because the configuration a team would actually buy does not have one yet.

Source: https://x.ai

## 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 checked against their own documentation, August 2026.

- 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. (https://x.ai)
- 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. (https://x.ai)

## Questions people ask

**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.

## Our rule for this page

Every Grok Bot fact here comes from their own published pages, checked August 2026, and we say where they are the better choice. If anything here is wrong, tell us at support@heyray.io and we will fix it.