What happens to an in-progress Grok Bot job if the subscription that pays for it ends?

The Grok Bot billing pages do not say. They say access requires a paid Cursor plan or a linked individual SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, SuperGrok Heavy, or X Premium+ subscription. They say what happens when weekly usage runs out, when an on-demand cap is crossed mid-run, and when you cancel a trial or delete the account. They do not say whether a job already running is stopped at the moment a subscription lapses, or how long the cloud computer is kept after that. I am not going to fill that gap with a retention period from a third-party cancel guide.

What they do document is enough to stop treating “the subscription ended” as one event. A usage limit, a downgrade, a canceled trial, a removed Teams seat, and a deleted account are different switches. Only some of them mention a job that is already going.

Which subscription is even paying?

Grok Bot does not have a separate subscription. Cursor’s plans page says access is included on every paid individual Cursor plan and on Cursor Teams: Pro, Pro+, and Ultra, plus a self-serve Teams seat. Enterprise is turned on through the account team, not by a personal checkout I can describe from that page. You can also link an individual SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, SuperGrok Heavy, or X Premium+ account. SuperGrok Lite does not include Grok Bot. SuperGrok Team and SuperGrok Enterprise cannot be linked. Only the individual tiers and X Premium+ can.

A link is a usage grant on the Cursor account, not a second plan. The plans page says the grants do not stack. If you already have Pro, Pro+, Ultra, or a Teams seat, linking SuperGrok does not add usage on top. If you had no Cursor plan, Grok Bot usage comes from the SuperGrok or X Premium+ grant alone, and only while that subscription stays active. The Grok Bot FAQ still has a sentence that says if you have both, Grok Bot uses whichever has more usage. The plans page, which is the one that walks through downgrades and links, says they do not combine. If those two pages still disagree when you read them, trust the plan screen in the app over either summary, including this one.

Canceling one bill does not cancel the other. The plans page says a Cursor subscription and a SuperGrok or X Premium+ subscription can both stay active and keep billing. Buying one does not cancel the other. A link, once created, cannot be unlinked or moved. Ending SuperGrok at xAI does not, by itself, delete a Cursor Pro plan that also includes Grok Bot. Ending Cursor does not, by itself, cancel SuperGrok. If either grant is still active, you have not actually ended the thing that pays for Grok Bot.

What is documented when the meter hits zero mid-job?

The on-demand cap is the one place the plans page talks about a bot that is already working. Weekly usage is the included grant. It resets weekly. When it runs out, extra usage continues as on-demand if that is enabled, billed through Cursor, up to the on-demand monthly limit. The page says a limit is not a hard stop in the middle of a run. A bot already working can finish past the monthly limit. After that, on-demand stops until you raise the limit or the billing cycle resets. Leaving the limit where it is does not add more weekly usage.

If on-demand is off, the same page says Grok Bot stops when weekly usage runs out. The screen says you have reached your Grok Bot usage limit, and it resets with weekly usage. That sentence does not say a half-finished browser task is rolled back, or that the cloud computer is deleted. It says Grok Bot stops. Read it as “no new usage,” not as a published story about the files on the shared computer.

A downgrade is the nearby case. Downgrading SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, or SuperGrok Heavy lowers the linked grant after a refresh of up to 24 hours. Usage already spent this week still counts. If you are already past the new tier, further included usage stops. On-demand continues only if it is enabled. Downgrading a Cursor plan, such as Ultra to Pro+, changes the Cursor weekly usage the same way. A SuperGrok link does not replace that drop or add usage back. If an admin removes your Teams seat, the Teams grant ends. A SuperGrok or X Premium+ link already on that Cursor account does not turn into a larger grant and does not restore the Teams allowance. None of those bullets say the in-progress job is killed, and none of them say it is allowed to finish. That silence is the answer I can stand behind.

What does canceling a trial do, since that one is explicit?

It ends the trial immediately and deletes the remaining credit. Cancel Trial appears on free-plan accounts. On a paid plan or a Teams seat, the page says the trial ends on its own and there is nothing to cancel. The trial is a usage credit, with a 7-day window also applying. A long job can use most or all of the credit at once. Used trial credit is not restored. The page does not say the run that burned the credit is stopped mid-step, or that it is guaranteed to finish. It says the credit is gone, and that you keep using Grok Bot by moving to Pro, Pro+, Ultra, Teams, or a qualifying link.

An App Store intro offer is a different trial. Apple runs it, and it becomes a paid Apple subscription unless you cancel in Apple’s subscriptions before it ends. Cursor’s page says Cursor cannot cancel or refund that Apple charge for you. Android, on that page, has no in-app trial. Canceling in Apple is not the same button as Cancel Trial on the plan screen, and neither button is documented as a wipe of the cloud computer.

Which clocks are not the subscription ending?

Deleting the account is the one that names the computer. Cursor’s delete-account help says to cancel the subscription first if it is active, then delete the account from the dashboard. That deletion includes Grok Bot agents, chats, computers, and connected plugins, and the page says all of that data is removed within 30 days. Files on your own computer stay on your machine. A linked SuperGrok or X Premium+ subscription is separate, and you cancel those where you bought them if you still want them gone. “Within 30 days” is a deletion window for an account you asked to destroy. It is not a sentence about a Pro plan that failed to renew.

An admin terminate is the one that says running work stops. On a team, Manage Bot Computers can terminate a member’s computer. The computers page says terminate deletes the computer, running or hibernated, and running work stops. The computer does not restart on its own. The member’s next message starts a fresh one on the same durable disk. Terminating does not remove access. Automatic termination of computers that go 30 days without use is a separate switch, off until an admin turns it on. There is no grace period for computers already past 30 days, and the member loses the apps they installed themselves. The durable disk stays, with Bots, files, and logins. That 30 days is inactivity under an admin setting. It is not what a lapsed personal subscription is documented to do. If a blog tells you the computer always dies 30 days after you cancel, it is describing this switch, or the account-deletion window, and calling it the plan.

Deleting one Bot is smaller still. The FAQ says deletion removes that Bot’s active profile, conversation, and routines. Because Bots share a computer, files and logins on that computer may remain. Backend retention follows Cursor’s terms. The FAQ does not publish the number. A routine you left scheduled is not canceled by a usage screen going red, on any page I found. Pause or delete the routine if you do not want it to fire the next time the account can run.

What should you do before the plan actually ends?

Finish or stop the job while you can still open the computer, and copy anything you need off the shared machine. I cannot point you at a page that promises the files survive a lapsed Pro plan, and I cannot point you at one that promises they vanish the same hour. The documented preserve-the-disk behavior belongs to terminate, which is an admin action, and to “files may remain” after you delete a Bot. The documented destroy-the-computer behavior belongs to deleting the Cursor account, measured in a 30-day removal window. A subscription that simply ends is neither of those procedures in the pages I read.

If the thing running out is weekly usage and on-demand is off, expect Grok Bot to stop, and expect the usage-limit screen rather than a mystery. If the thing running out is the on-demand monthly limit, expect a bot already working to be allowed to finish that run, and expect the next one to wait. If the thing ending is the trial, expect the credit to disappear immediately, and do not expect a published fate for the job that was mid-click. If you still have the other grant, Cursor or the link, you have not ended payment yet.

Until Cursor or xAI writes the lapse behavior down, the safe reading is the narrow one. The subscription is what lets new work run. The in-progress job’s survival, and the lifetime of the cloud computer after the last paid day, are not in the billing article. Copy the files while the computer still opens. Then cancel the bill that is actually the one in use.