{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "grok-bot", "name": "Grok Bot", "vendor": "SpaceXAI and Cursor (Anysphere, Inc.)", "vendorUrl": "https://x.ai/bot", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Hosted assistant from SpaceXAI and Cursor. Named Bots work on a persistent cloud computer with a browser, files and terminal, reached from desktop and mobile apps, Slack and X, with routines that run on a schedule.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/grok-bot.json", "license": "Proprietary", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "A person signs in with a Cursor account in the browser, or with Sign in with Grok for a Grok Business seat. SAML 2.0 single sign-on applies to teams, and SCIM is Enterprise only. Connectors are added from Connect apps and authenticated in the browser by OAuth, or configured with a key or token. OAuth tokens stay on Cursor's backend. For passwords, passkeys, two-factor codes, CAPTCHAs and payment confirmations the Bot hands the computer to the owner, and a secure secret request masks a value and keeps it out of the transcript and away from the model. Browser sessions then persist on the cloud computer shared by all of the user's Bots (https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/security; https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/approvals-security-and-privacy; https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/team-bots). No API key or public API for the assistant was found. An Admin API for team settings is linked from the docs and was not read.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No separate subscription. Grok Bot is included with every paid individual Cursor plan (Pro, Pro+, Ultra) and with Cursor Teams, or through a linked individual SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, SuperGrok Heavy or X Premium+ subscription, or a seat on a self-serve Grok Business plan. Cursor's pricing page shows Individual at $20 a month and Teams at $40 a user a month. The Pro+ and Ultra prices sit behind tabs our reader did not see. Each tier includes weekly usage with no amount published, metered by agent steps and tokens. After that, on-demand usage is billed through Cursor up to a monthly limit the owner sets, which is not a hard stop in the middle of a run. A free trial is a usage credit with a 7-day window and never becomes a paid plan. SuperGrok Lite is not included, and a SuperGrok link cannot be undone or moved (https://cursor.com/help/grok-bot/plans; https://cursor.com/pricing; checked 2026-10-12).", "priceSummary": "$20 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Grok Bot docs, the plans page or the Grok Bot Terms (checked 2026-10-12).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.x.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "assistant.messaging", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "desktop-app", "mobile-app", "computer-use", "scheduled-routines", "slack", "status-page", "iso27001", "soc2", "llms-txt", "paid" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 45.2, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 893, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 986, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 50, "maintenance": 20, "payments": 25, "reliability": 40, "schema": 40, "security": 68, "transparency": 66 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Connector tokens stay on Cursor's backend and each user gets a separate microVM, with approvals, drafts and a review model before risky actions. All of a user's Bots share one computer and its sign-ins, the review model skips memory writes, and the status page shows seven major Grok Bot incidents since 3 September 2026.", "bestFor": "A person or team already paying for Cursor or SuperGrok who wants named assistants that keep working on a cloud computer, with routines and Slack or X entry points, and who will write approval rules.", "strengths": [ "Connector OAuth tokens stay on Cursor's backend. Bots call tools without receiving them, and tokens are never stored on the cloud computer", "Each user's work runs in a dedicated Firecracker microVM. A Bot has no identity of its own and holds no more access than the signed-in member", "Approvals from routines, triggers or other Bots expire after about 10 minutes and the action does not run", "Email and Slack messages can appear as editable drafts with Send and Discard buttons, and passwords, two-factor codes and payment confirmations are handed to the owner", "Markdown copies of every docs page and an llms.txt, with a security page that states what the controls do not cover" ], "weaknesses": [ "All of one user's Bots share one cloud computer, with its files, browser sessions and command-line credentials. The docs say separate Bots are not a security boundary", "The review model does not check memory writes or most settings changes, and the Grok Bot Terms call approval controls aids only", "Deleting a Bot leaves shared files and browser sessions on the computer. No way to view or delete single memories was found in the docs read", "Seven incidents marked major named Grok Bot on status.cursor.com between 3 September and 6 October 2026, the longest about six and a half hours", "Audit logs, Action Recording, network allowlists and enforced review rules are Enterprise only. Other teams default to allow-all network access", "Cursor chooses the model with no picker and no fixed set of model vendors, and no Grok Bot changelog was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "State in each request what the Bot may change and where it must stop. Which actions pause for approval depends on the tool, the risk and the owner's Auto-review rules", "Add narrow Ask first rules for sending, publishing, purchasing and deleting. Ask first wins over Allow automatically when both match", "Treat any sign-in or file on the cloud computer as available to every Bot on the account. Give a workload its own Cursor user when it needs separate credentials", "Run Test run with safe inputs. A test run performs real work and can call connected tools", "To remove access, pause routines, sign out of sites on the computer, uninstall connectors and revoke them at the source service. Deleting the Bot is not enough" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 45.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 50, "maintenance": 20, "payments": 25, "reliability": 40, "schema": 40, "security": 68, "transparency": 48 }, "provenanceScore": 84 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/grok-bot" }, "sameCompany": [ "cursor-cli" ], "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Cursor Individual plan, as shown on the pricing page", "unit": "month", "usd": 20, "note": "Includes Grok Bot with weekly usage. On-demand usage extra" }, { "item": "Cursor Teams plan", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 40, "note": "Includes Grok Bot for every member. On-demand usage on by default" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Anysphere, Inc.", "domain": "cursor.com", "domainRegistered": "1995-12-20", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://cursor.com/en-US/terms/grok-bot", "privacy": "https://cursor.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.cursor.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "The Grok Bot Terms (last updated 3 September 2026) supplement the agreement that governs the customer's use of the Services and define the Provider as the entity under that agreement. For a Cursor account that agreement is Cursor's Terms of Service (last updated 3 September 2026), which name Anysphere, Inc., 2261 Market Street STE 86466, San Francisco, CA 94114 (https://cursor.com/terms-of-service).", "The product docs are on docs.x.ai, titled SpaceXSI Docs, and name SpaceXAI. The Grok Bot Terms say they create no contractual relationship between the customer and any affiliate of the Provider. No page read states how the two companies are related.", "The privacy policy (last updated 11 October 2026) is Anysphere's and says it does not apply where Anysphere processes data for commercial customers as a processor.", "cursor.com/.well-known/security.txt gives a GitHub security page and security-reports@cursor.com as contacts and has no Expires field.", "The docs name api2.cursor.sh and *.cursorvm.com as the hosts the app and the cloud computer use. There is no endpoint an outside agent calls.", "RDAP for cursor.com gives a registration date of 1995-12-20.", "No changelog for Grok Bot was found. Cursor's changelog entries from 29 July to 6 October 2026 do not mention it.", "docs.x.ai's robots.txt allows every path with Content-Signal ai-input=yes. x.ai's robots.txt does the same, but x.ai/bot and status.x.ai answered HTTP 403." ], "score": 84 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot.json", "live": { "slug": "grok-bot", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.cursor.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-12T18:56:36.692375788Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-12T18:56:36.692375788Z" } }, "answer": "Grok Bot scores 45.2 (E) on agent readiness against Dots's 28.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Dots leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "openai-dots", "name": "Dots", "vendor": "OpenAI", "vendorUrl": "https://chatgpt.com", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Dots is OpenAI's always-on agent inside ChatGPT, in beta. Each dot has a cloud computer and browser, keeps notes, works between conversations across connected apps, and answers in ChatGPT, by voice call, Slack and Teams.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-dots", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-dots.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-dots.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openai-dots.json", "license": "Proprietary hosted service. The governing terms were not read", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "A person signs in to ChatGPT on an eligible plan and creates a dot in the mobile app, desktop app or a desktop browser. No API key or other credential for outside programs was found. Apps are reached through plugins connected to the ChatGPT account, each with its own connected account and allowed actions. Website logins go through a private form to the cloud browser outside the conversation, sessions last until sign-out or expiry, and reusing a saved login needs confirmation. A local computer is connected with Allow access and removed with Revoke access. Where tokens and saved passwords are stored is not stated (https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/dots/computers-and-apps; https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/dots/getting-started).", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Included with ChatGPT Pro at $100, $200 or $500 a month, Business Premium (price not found on the pages read) and Enterprise through sales. Conversations with a dot do not count towards ChatGPT usage limits. Tasks it starts in ChatGPT Work or Codex count towards those limits. The plan includes an allowance for deeper work with no figure given, extended for the first month after launch. No free tier or trial for dots was found (https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/dots#access; https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/pricing, checked 2026-10-12).", "priceSummary": "$100 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Dots docs, the admin guide or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-12).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "docsUrl": "https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/dots", "llmsTxt": "https://learn.chatgpt.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "assistant.messaging" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "beta", "chatgpt", "slack", "teams", "voice", "cloud-browser", "approvals", "paid", "llms-txt" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-09", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 28.3, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 973, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 986, "categoryRank": 17, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 22, "maintenance": 38, "payments": 10, "reliability": 3, "schema": 41, "security": 58, "transparency": 31 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Actions that affect accounts or share information pass an automatic review, and custom rules can require approval or a hand-off. Dots is a beta on Pro plans from $100 a month, and no status page, terms, privacy policy or way to delete individual saved notes was found in the pages we could read.", "bestFor": "A ChatGPT Pro or Enterprise user who wants ongoing work tracked across mail, documents, code and Slack with approval before sends.", "strengths": [ "An automatic review checks each action that could affect accounts or share information against instructions, permissions and custom rules before it runs", "Custom rules have four settings, from acting without asking to handing the step to the owner, and app permissions can allow reading mail without sending", "Proactive research uses tools that cannot send messages, change app content or control a browser or computer, per the docs", "Website passwords are entered in a private form outside the conversation, and reusing a saved login needs the owner's confirmation", "Six docs pages with Markdown twins listed in llms.txt, and a dated release note for dots on 9 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "Beta. The admin setting is labelled Use dots (Beta), access is rolling out gradually, and Teams access is an invite-only alpha", "No way to view or delete individual saved notes is documented. The admin guide's link to reset options lands on the section for deleting the whole dot", "Custom rules are described as instructions the dot tries to follow and can get wrong, and an authorised write can run without a prompt where policy allows", "Pro consumer accounts in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are excluded, and the plan's allowance for deeper work has no published figure", "No status page, service terms or privacy policy is linked from the Dots docs, and openai.com and help.openai.com refused our reader", "No API, MCP endpoint or other documented way for an outside program to message a dot was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Say what may be sent. Asking a dot to draft replies does not permit sending them, and an action outside a stated scope needs another decision", "Stop three things separately. Pause stops the main task only, delegated tasks stop in Activity and recurring tasks in Scheduled, and completed actions are not undone", "Connect each thing separately. A messaging channel grants no access to an inbox, an app or a computer", "Sign out of websites and disconnect apps yourself when removing access. Revoking dots access or disconnecting an app does not delete information already obtained", "Keep the connected computer online with the ChatGPT app open for local work. Only one personal computer can be connected at a time" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 28.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 22, "maintenance": 38, "payments": 10, "reliability": 3, "schema": 41, "security": 58, "transparency": 26 }, "provenanceScore": 36 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/openai-dots" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Pro 100", "unit": "month", "usd": 100, "note": "ChatGPT Pro plan, includes dots with an allowance for deeper work that has no published figure" }, { "item": "Pro 200", "unit": "month", "usd": 200, "note": "ChatGPT Pro plan" }, { "item": "Pro 500", "unit": "month", "usd": 500, "note": "ChatGPT Pro plan" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "chatgpt.com", "domainRegistered": "2022-11-30", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/whats-new", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "No page we read names the legal entity or the documents that govern Dots. The docs footer links https://openai.com/policies, which answered 403 to our reader, so `terms` and `privacy` are left out. OpenAI's other listings here link https://openai.com/policies/services-agreement/ and https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/. Neither was read today, and whether the consumer Terms of Use govern Pro accounts was not established.", "No status page is linked from the Dots docs, the admin guide, the pricing page or the release notes we read.", "learn.chatgpt.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404. chatgpt.com is closed to Anthropic agents by its robots.txt and openai.com answered 403 on the one page requested, so neither host's security.txt was requested.", "The .com registry's RDAP record gives 30 November 2022 as the registration date of chatgpt.com, registrar MarkMonitor Inc.", "learn.chatgpt.com/robots.txt answered 200 and allows every path. help.openai.com/robots.txt allows the article paths, and four linked articles answered 403 with a JavaScript check. cdn.openai.com/robots.txt answered 404." ], "score": 36 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-dots.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Platform", "b": "Platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "SpaceXAI and Cursor (Anysphere, Inc.)", "b": "OpenAI", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary", "b": "Proprietary hosted service. The governing terms were not read", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2026-10-09", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-09-03", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-09-29", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Grok Bot scores 45.2 (E) on agent readiness against Dots's 28.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Dots leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Grok Bot or Dots?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 40 against 3", "Agent ergonomics, 50 against 22", "Security \u0026 auth, 68 against 58", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 10", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 66 against 31" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "A person or team already paying for Cursor or SuperGrok who wants named assistants that keep working on a cloud computer, with routines and Slack or X entry points, and who will write approval rules.", "slug": "grok-bot", "watchFor": "All of one user's Bots share one cloud computer, with its files, browser sessions and command-line credentials. The docs say separate Bots are not a security boundary" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Maintenance \u0026 community, 38 against 20" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "A ChatGPT Pro or Enterprise user who wants ongoing work tracked across mail, documents, code and Slack with approval before sends.", "slug": "openai-dots", "watchFor": "Beta. The admin setting is labelled Use dots (Beta), access is rolling out gradually, and Teams access is an invite-only alpha" } ], "job": { "capability": "assistant.proactive", "name": "Assistant proactive" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-grok-bot.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Grok Bot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-grok-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-grok-bot.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Grok Bot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-grok-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-grok-bot.json", "title": "GAIA vs Grok Bot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-grok-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "GAIA vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-grok-bot.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Grok Bot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-grok-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-haven.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Haven", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-haven" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-hermes-agent.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Hermes Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-hermes-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-ironclaw.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs IronClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-ironclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-leon.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-nanobot.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs nanobot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-nanobot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-nanoclaw.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs NanoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-nanoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-picoclaw.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs PicoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-picoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-poke.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-qwenpaw.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs QwenPaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "Haven vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "Instinct vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "IronClaw vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "Leon vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "Lindy vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "nanobot vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "NanoClaw vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Dots vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": 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trust", "openai-dots": 31, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Grok Bot scores 45.2 (E) on agent readiness against Dots's 28.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Dots leads on maintenance \u0026 community. Both do assistant proactive.", "verdicts": { "grok-bot": "Connector tokens stay on Cursor's backend and each user gets a separate microVM, with approvals, drafts and a review model before risky actions. All of a user's Bots share one computer and its sign-ins, the review model skips memory writes, and the status page shows seven major Grok Bot incidents since 3 September 2026.", "openai-dots": "Actions that affect accounts or share information pass an automatic review, and custom rules can require approval or a hand-off. Dots is a beta on Pro plans from $100 a month, and no status page, terms, privacy policy or way to delete individual saved notes was found in the pages we could read." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openai-dots", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openai-dots.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openai-dots.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openai-dots.min.md" }, "markdown": "Grok Bot scores 45.2 (E) on agent readiness against Dots's 28.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Dots leads on maintenance \u0026 community. Both do assistant proactive.\n\n- Grok Bot: grade E, 45.2/100, rank #893 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/grok-bot.json\n- Dots: grade F, 28.3/100, rank #973 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-dots.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openai-dots.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 190 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Grok Bot (E)\n\nGood for: A person or team already paying for Cursor or SuperGrok who wants named assistants that keep working on a cloud computer, with routines and Slack or X entry points, and who will write approval rules.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 40 against 3\n- Agent ergonomics, 50 against 22\n- Security \u0026 auth, 68 against 58\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 10\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 66 against 31\n\nWatch for: All of one user's Bots share one cloud computer, with its files, browser sessions and command-line credentials. The docs say separate Bots are not a security boundary\n\n### Dots (F)\n\nGood for: A ChatGPT Pro or Enterprise user who wants ongoing work tracked across mail, documents, code and Slack with approval before sends.\n\nAhead on:\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 38 against 20\n\nWatch for: Beta. The admin setting is labelled Use dots (Beta), access is rolling out gradually, and Teams access is an invite-only alpha\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Grok Bot | Dots | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 3 | Grok Bot +37 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 40 | 41 | Dots +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 50 | 22 | Grok Bot +28 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 58 | Grok Bot +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 10 | Grok Bot +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 20 | 38 | Dots +18 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 66 | 31 | Grok Bot +35 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **45.2 · E** | **28.3 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Grok Bot | Dots |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Platform |\n| Vendor | SpaceXAI and Cursor (Anysphere, Inc.) | OpenAI |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary | Proprietary hosted service. The governing terms were not read |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | none | 2026-10-09 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-03 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-29 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Grok Bot.** Connector tokens stay on Cursor's backend and each user gets a separate microVM, with approvals, drafts and a review model before risky actions. All of a user's Bots share one computer and its sign-ins, the review model skips memory writes, and the status page shows seven major Grok Bot incidents since 3 September 2026.\n\n**Dots.** Actions that affect accounts or share information pass an automatic review, and custom rules can require approval or a hand-off. Dots is a beta on Pro plans from $100 a month, and no status page, terms, privacy policy or way to delete individual saved notes was found in the pages we could read.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Grok Bot\n\n1. State in each request what the Bot may change and where it must stop. Which actions pause for approval depends on the tool, the risk and the owner's Auto-review rules\n2. Add narrow Ask first rules for sending, publishing, purchasing and deleting. Ask first wins over Allow automatically when both match\n3. Treat any sign-in or file on the cloud computer as available to every Bot on the account. Give a workload its own Cursor user when it needs separate credentials\n4. Run Test run with safe inputs. A test run performs real work and can call connected tools\n5. To remove access, pause routines, sign out of sites on the computer, uninstall connectors and revoke them at the source service. Deleting the Bot is not enough\n\n### Dots\n\n1. Say what may be sent. Asking a dot to draft replies does not permit sending them, and an action outside a stated scope needs another decision\n2. Stop three things separately. Pause stops the main task only, delegated tasks stop in Activity and recurring tasks in Scheduled, and completed actions are not undone\n3. Connect each thing separately. A messaging channel grants no access to an inbox, an app or a computer\n4. Sign out of websites and disconnect apps yourself when removing access. Revoking dots access or disconnecting an app does not delete information already obtained\n5. Keep the connected computer online with the ChatGPT app open for local work. Only one personal computer can be connected at a time\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Grok Bot or Dots?\n\nGrok Bot scores 45.2 (E) on agent readiness against Dots's 28.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Dots leads on maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openai-dots.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openai-dots.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"grok-bot\", \"b\": \"openai-dots\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare grok-bot openai-dots`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/grok-bot.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openai-dots.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Grok Bot or Dots\n\n- [AstrBot vs Grok Bot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-grok-bot.md)\n- [AstrBot vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Grok Bot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-grok-bot.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [GAIA vs Grok Bot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-grok-bot.md)\n- [GAIA vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs Grok Bot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-grok-bot.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Haven](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-haven.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-hermes-agent.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-leon.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-nanobot.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs NanoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-nanoclaw.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-picoclaw.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-poke.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [Haven vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [Instinct vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [Leon vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [Lindy vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [nanobot vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [NanoClaw vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [Dots vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Dots vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-picoclaw.md)\n- [Dots vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-poke.md)\n- [Dots vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Dots vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Dots vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-zo-computer.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-12", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Grok Bot vs Dots", "url": "" } ], "description": "Grok Bot scores 45.2 (E) to Dots's 28.3 (F) for assistant proactive. 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