# Grok Bot vs Dots

> Grok Bot scores 45.2 (E) to Dots's 28.3 (F) for assistant proactive. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-12

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 & community. Both do assistant proactive.

- 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
- 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
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 190 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Grok Bot (E)

Good 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.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 40 against 3
- Agent ergonomics, 50 against 22
- Security & auth, 68 against 58
- Payments & pricing, 25 against 10
- Transparency & trust, 66 against 31

Watch 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

### Dots (F)

Good for: A ChatGPT Pro or Enterprise user who wants ongoing work tracked across mail, documents, code and Slack with approval before sends.

Ahead on:
- Maintenance & community, 38 against 20

Watch for: Beta. The admin setting is labelled Use dots (Beta), access is rolling out gradually, and Teams access is an invite-only alpha


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Grok Bot | Dots | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 3 | Grok Bot +37 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 40 | 41 | Dots +1 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 50 | 22 | Grok Bot +28 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 58 | Grok Bot +10 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 10 | Grok Bot +15 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 20 | 38 | Dots +18 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 66 | 31 | Grok Bot +35 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **45.2 · E** | **28.3 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Grok Bot | Dots |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | SpaceXAI and Cursor (Anysphere, Inc.) | OpenAI |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary | Proprietary hosted service. The governing terms were not read |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-09 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-03 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-29 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |

## 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.

**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.

## Before you call either

### Grok Bot

1. 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
2. Add narrow Ask first rules for sending, publishing, purchasing and deleting. Ask first wins over Allow automatically when both match
3. 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
4. Run Test run with safe inputs. A test run performs real work and can call connected tools
5. 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

### Dots

1. 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
2. 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
3. Connect each thing separately. A messaging channel grants no access to an inbox, an app or a computer
4. Sign out of websites and disconnect apps yourself when removing access. Revoking dots access or disconnecting an app does not delete information already obtained
5. Keep the connected computer online with the ChatGPT app open for local work. Only one personal computer can be connected at a time

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Grok Bot or Dots?

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 & community.


## For agents

- 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
- 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`
- 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

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