Meta Muse vs Grok Bot: which to use
Both Meta Muse and xAI's Grok Bot give you an agent with its own cloud computer that keeps working after you close the app. Muse is free up to 100 million tokens a week, then $20 or $100 a month, but only works in the US and Canada. Grok Bot has no free tier at all and comes bundled into paid SuperGrok or Cursor plans starting around $20 to $30 a month. What separates them right now is Muse's publicly documented first three weeks, which include a security researcher's zero-day, a 6.8GB internal filesystem export and a home address handed to a stranger.
Last verified 29 September 2026.
Muse vs Grok Bot, side by side
| Fact | Meta Muse | Grok Bot |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta source | xAI (SpaceXAI) source |
| Launch date | 8 September 2026 (US); Canada 18 September 2026 source | Early beta 11 August 2026; expanded to more plans 21 and 26 August 2026; "Team Bots" (shared agents for a team) launched around 28 September 2026 source |
| Price and plans | Free for up to 100 million tokens per week. Power $20/month and Maximum $100/month buy more usage, not extra features. source | No standalone Grok Bot price. Bundled into SuperGrok ($30/mo), SuperGrok Plus ($100/mo, reported), SuperGrok Heavy ($300/mo, reported, xAI's own pricing pages return HTTP 403 to automated checks), Cursor Pro ($20/mo), Cursor Pro+ ($60/mo), Cursor Ultra ($200/mo), and Cursor Teams Standard/Premium ($40 / ~$120 per seat). Each eligible plan gets a weekly Grok Bot usage allowance (size unpublished); heavier use bills on demand. source |
| Availability | US and Canada only. Explicitly NOT available in the UK, Ireland or the EU as of 1 October 2026. source | By plan: SuperGrok Plus, SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Pro+, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Standard or Premium. source |
| Platforms | iOS, Android, muse.ai (web), directly in WhatsApp, and a Mac app (no Windows app). Coming to Meta AI glasses. Standalone hardware "Muse Charm" expected US-first, December 2026. source | Grok app (desktop, iOS), and via a required Cursor account for the Cursor-bundled routes. Team Bots reachable in Slack or the Grok Bot interface. source |
| Underlying model | Meta's own model, internally "Avocado" (Muse Spark), for nearly every session. One independently-exported session showed a subagent task routed server-side to a model tagged azure/muse-special, likely an OpenAI model served via Azure; this is Meta's own infrastructure choice, not a user-facing way to plug in an outside account. source | Grok 4.6 ("Same 1.5T base as 4.5", per third-party aggregation; API priced at $2 input / $6 output per million tokens) source |
| Where memory lives | Yes, named and documented: MEMORY.md plus dated files under memory/ and memory/bank/, inside the user's isolated cloud VM. "You can find out what Muse remembers about you at any time by asking directly, or by viewing files like your MEMORY.md." A named "Forget skill" removes specific topics/people; a full reset deletes all Muse data. source | On xAI's cloud: a Bot keeps preferences, role context and summaries of prior work, and your Bots share one cloud computer for files and browser sessions. source |
| Always on | Yes. "Muse keeps things moving after you close the app. It monitors, follows up, and sends a notification when something needs your attention." source | Yes. "Persistent agents on a shared computer" that keep working after you stop looking; the distinguishing line used against it: "Grok thinks, Bot acts." source |
| Own computer / browser | Yes. Runs in "Muse Secure VM", a dedicated isolated cloud VM per user, with its own browser. A separate "Sentinel" agent is the sole permission authority for network egress and connector actions. source | Yes. Described consistently across sources as having its own cloud computer; got browser-based App Store submission automation as a demoed capability. source |
| Integrations | Gmail, Google Calendar, HealthEx, OpenTable, Facebook, Instagram, Peloton, Plaid/Finances, Function Health, Google Contacts at launch; Walmart, Best Buy, Sephora, Instacart, Notion, GitHub, Gap, Wayfair, Expedia, Granola, Shopify (via Shop Pay), PayPal added at Meta Connect (23 Sep). Checkout runs through Link by Stripe. source | Team Bots: "Give your Team Bot the skills, plugins, and credentials it needs for its role." Individual Grok Bot: app/plugin ecosystem not itemized in sources found beyond the App Store automation example. source |
| Trains on your data by default | ON by default at first use. Toggle under Settings > Data controls turns it off. Excluded from ad targeting regardless of this setting. source | Follows your Cursor account and privacy settings, and Grok Bot needs cloud data storage (Cursor's Legacy Privacy Mode is not supported). source |
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Who should pick which?
Pick Muse if…
Pick Muse if you're in the US or Canada and want the deepest household-task integration on the market today, Shop Pay checkout, grocery and dinner-party planning, Instagram and Gmail connectors, and you're comfortable that Meta trains on your interactions by default unless you turn that off yourself in Settings > Data controls.
Pick Grok Bot if…
Pick Grok Bot if you're already paying for SuperGrok or a qualifying Cursor plan and want an agent tied more to coding and team workflows (Team Bots, shared credentials, Slack) than to consumer shopping and household errands. It has no free tier, so budget at least a Cursor Pro or SuperGrok subscription to try it at all.
Skip both if…
Both are the wrong fit outside the US and Canada without a SuperGrok or Cursor plan. Muse has not launched in your country, and Grok Bot has no free tier. Neither is documented checking your work against a plan you set, so both are the wrong fit if that is the job.
What do users say?
“I'm slowly cleaning up the suburbs with Muse. Saw this mess of wires on a pole. Took a picture and asked Muse to contact Verizon to get them cleaned up... 'Someone should do something about that' is now a prompt.”
@toddsaunders, Meta Muse
“This weekend, I used Instinct to order bagels for my son's birthday. When I arrived to pick them up, the store hadn't received the order... I was late for the party, really frustrated, and made the decision to switch to Muse... Assistants are going to need nines of reliability, not just in uptime but in terms of task execution.”
@benspringwater, Meta Muse
“I used to use chat GPT for everything I needed, but I get more done with muse in 30 minutes than I do in 2 hours with chat gpt... My favorite part about it is the NO BS opinions it gives me. Chat gpt will tell me what I want to hear most of the time.”
kingbulltrev, App Store review "Better than gpt", Meta Muse
“It's cute. It's cuddly. And it wants all your data.”
NBC News, Meta Muse
“My issue with Muse and Instinct is i'm not constantly booking flights or making reservations (thought they're great at that). I struggle to figure out what to use it for daily even though I want to.”
@hassaanraza (on the personal-agent category broadly, quoted here for the Grok Bot comparison context), Grok Bot
“The idea is cool. I like Grok Bot, however, the issue is limits are very low, the Mac app is full of bugs, and the model is way far behind Claude or CGPT. I guess the new 'Dots' agents, as they call it, by OpenAI would surpass it easily.”
@ItsMOK__, Grok Bot
“This is great but please increase usage limits for grok bot! I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one who wants this!”
@betmontdev, Grok Bot
“wait so team bot is me and my 12 bots, or my team and their bots? asking bc my bots already outnumber my humans”
@Chalam_PVS, Grok Bot
Common questions
Is Meta Muse available where I live?
Only the US (from 8 September 2026) and Canada (from 18 September 2026) as of this research. Meta has explicitly not launched it in the UK, Ireland or the EU, and third-party analysis guesses a UK launch could slip into 2027.
What actually happened with Muse's security record?
In its first three weeks: a macOS zero-day let any local app or terminal command steal a user's Muse auth token (found by security researcher Patrick Wardle); a researcher asked Muse to export its own filesystem and received 6.8GB including internal skill directories and SSH key files; Meta admitted routing some "AI" phone calls to human call-center staff without telling testers; Muse read a user's iMessage database without the expected permission gate; and it gave a stranger a user's home address on Facebook Marketplace. Every one of these is reported with a named source and date in this site's Muse fact table.
Does Grok Bot have similar public incidents on record?
None were found in this research. That may reflect a cleaner track record, a narrower rollout that has drawn less scrutiny, or simply less independent security research aimed at it so far. Treat the absence of reports as not the same thing as a clean bill of health either way.
Do either of these push back when I'm about to do something I said I wouldn't?
Neither is documented doing this. Muse nudges you toward goals it has recorded and Grok Bot executes what you assign it; no source found in this research describes either one contradicting or friction-checking a user's own stated plan the way a dedicated planning tool would.
Neither one fits? Each agent has its own alternatives page, with every fact linked to its source. Or Mover OS, $49 once. It is the wrong choice if you want something that keeps running while your computer is off.