# ChatGPT Dots vs Meta Muse vs Grok Bot: $100, $0, or $20 to Start > ChatGPT dots need a $100 Pro plan, Grok Bot comes with $20 Cursor Pro, and Meta Muse starts free in the US and Canada. Your plan and region narrow it first. - URL: https://blog.laozhang.ai/en/posts/chatgpt-dots-vs-meta-muse-vs-grok-bot - Published: 2026-10-01 - Updated: 2026-10-01 - Author: LaoZhang AI Team (https://blog.laozhang.ai/en/about) - Category: AI Tools - Tags: ChatGPT dots, Meta Muse, Grok Bot, personal AI agents --- Start with the one your current subscription already includes. As of October 1, 2026, ChatGPT dots are included with ChatGPT Pro, which starts at $100 a month. Grok Bot is included with every paid individual Cursor plan, starting with Cursor Pro at $20 a month. Meta Muse is free with a limited allowance in the US and Canada. If you pay for none of these, Muse costs nothing to try and Grok Bot has a free trial credit. The three are built for different work. A dot lives inside ChatGPT and hands work to Codex and ChatGPT Work. Grok Bot gives you several named Bots with separate jobs. Muse is aimed at personal errands, shopping, and messaging through WhatsApp. Everything below comes from the vendors' published documentation. No public test has run the same tasks on all three: Kingy AI describes its own comparison as "not a hands-on three-way performance test," and Every writes, "We have not run the same jobs on every product." Dots are also still rolling out, so terms can change within days. A note on the name: OpenAI's help center writes the product in lowercase as "dots" and calls a single agent "your dot." "ChatGPT Dots," "OpenAI Dots," and "ChatGPT Dot" all refer to the same product. ## Who can use dots, Muse, and Grok Bot today: plan, region, device Your plan and country rule products in or out before any feature does. The table lists the conditions each vendor publishes. | | ChatGPT dots | Meta Muse | Grok Bot | |---|---|---|---| | Launched | September 29, 2026 | September 8, 2026 | August 11, 2026 (beta) | | Cheapest way in | ChatGPT Pro, $100/month | Free, limited allowance | Cursor Pro, $20/month, or a free trial credit | | Plans that include it | Pro, Business Premium; Enterprise beta if an admin turns it on | Free, Power, Maximum | Cursor Pro, Pro+, Ultra, Teams; or a linked SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, SuperGrok Heavy, or X Premium+ | | Plans that do not | Plus, Go, and Free are not listed | None | SuperGrok Lite, SuperGrok Team, SuperGrok Enterprise | | Region | Pro: not in the EEA, Switzerland, or the UK. Business Premium: all supported ChatGPT regions | US and Canada; not yet open in other regions | No country list published; eligibility shows in your account | | Where you set it up | ChatGPT desktop app or desktop web only | iOS, Android, or muse.ai | Grok Bot app with your Cursor sign-in | | Where you talk to it | ChatGPT (text and voice), Slack, Teams; mobile app after setup | Muse app, WhatsApp | Desktop app for macOS, Windows, or Linux; iPhone, iPad, and Android companion apps | Sources: OpenAI's [dots help page](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001530-getting-started-with-your-dot), Cursor's [Grok Bot plans page](https://cursor.com/help/grok-bot/plans), xAI's [Grok Bot FAQ](https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/faq), and Meta's [Muse launch post](https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-muse-personal-ai-agent/) and [subscriptions help page](https://www.meta.com/help/subscriptions/1021145227643680/). Three conditions in that table catch people out. **ChatGPT Plus does not get a dot.** OpenAI lists Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise. Even on Pro, OpenAI says "access may take several days to reach your account." **You cannot create a dot on a phone.** Dots are not supported on mobile web, and the mobile app only works after you have set the dot up on a desktop. If you live on your phone, Muse and its WhatsApp channel fit better. **Muse is limited to two countries.** Meta's launch post names the US, and its September 29 small-business post says "available in the US and Canada." Meta's help page adds that you must be in a country where Muse is available to subscribe. ## Pricing: what "$100 vs free vs $20" leaves out The shorthand is accurate for the entry price, and each number carries a condition. **Dots, $100.** ChatGPT Pro has three monthly tiers: Pro 100 at $100, Pro 200 at $200, and Pro 500 at $500, billed monthly only ([OpenAI's Pro tiers page](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pro-tiers)). The dot itself adds nothing: "Your first dot is included in your Pro or Business Premium plan at no extra cost." Conversations with the dot do not count against your ChatGPT usage. Tasks the dot starts in Codex or ChatGPT Work do count against your usual allowances. The plan includes an allowance for deeper work with extended limits for the first month after launch. OpenAI has not published the size of that allowance or the terms after the first month. If you are weighing the upgrade for other reasons too, see [ChatGPT Pro vs Plus: Which Plan Is Worth It in 2026?](https://blog.laozhang.ai/en/posts/chatgpt-pro-vs-plus) **Grok Bot, $20.** There is no separate Grok Bot subscription. [Cursor Pro costs $20 a month](https://cursor.com/pricing) and includes weekly Grok Bot usage that resets every week. Usage is measured by agent steps and tokens, so one long task costs more than many short messages. When the weekly usage runs out, work continues as on-demand usage billed through Cursor if you have on-demand enabled, up to the monthly limit you set. With on-demand off, Grok Bot stops until the weekly reset. Cursor does not publish the weekly allowance as a number. A linked SuperGrok or X Premium+ subscription grants usage instead of a Cursor plan, and the two do not stack. Linking on top of Cursor Pro adds nothing. The link is also permanent and cannot be moved to another Cursor account, so sign in to the right account first. **Muse, $0.** The free tier has a limited allowance that refreshes. Power costs $20 a month with 500 million Muse tokens per week. Maximum costs $100 a month with 3 billion Muse tokens per week. Meta publishes no conversion from Muse tokens to tasks, so the only way to learn what the free tier covers is to use it. Meta also notes that benefits "may vary by region and account." For a single person starting from zero, the monthly cost in order is Muse at $0, Grok Bot at $20, and dots at $100. The two paid figures do not buy the same amount of work, and none of the three vendors publishes numbers that would let you compare. ## How they work: one dot, one Muse, or a team of Bots The designs differ most in how many agents you get and where they run. ![One dot on its own cloud computer, one Muse on a dedicated VM reached by app or WhatsApp, and several named Grok Bots sharing one computer](https://blog.laozhang.ai/posts/en/chatgpt-dots-vs-meta-muse-vs-grok-bot/img/agents-and-computers.webp) **A dot is one agent with its own cloud computer inside ChatGPT.** [OpenAI's announcement](https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/) describes it as powered by GPT-6 Astra, with its own browser and connections to more than 4,000 apps through ChatGPT plugins. You start with one dot, which can work on several projects at once. Teams of dots are a stated future plan, not something you can use now. The dot receives your existing ChatGPT memories. Access to your own computer is optional and starts turned off. When you turn it on from the ChatGPT desktop app, the dot can create Work or Codex tasks and use your local browser when its cloud browser is blocked. **Grok Bot is a set of named Bots on one shared computer.** xAI's docs call them "AI teammates with names, jobs, and context that compounds over time." Bots run in parallel, message each other, run routines, and can learn a workflow from a demonstration. The catch is isolation. All Bots in your account share one persistent cloud computer with its files, browser sessions, and app logins. xAI's wording is direct: "treat anything placed on it as available to every Bot you run." A Bot's role name separates conversations, not data. The details are in [Grok Bot's Cloud Computer: What Persists, What Is Shared, and What to Approve](https://blog.laozhang.ai/en/posts/grok-bot-cloud-computer). **Muse is one agent on a dedicated cloud VM, reached by chat.** Meta says Muse Secure VM holds both the agent and your data, and that you talk to Muse in its app or in WhatsApp. It keeps working after you close the app and returns when something changes or it needs approval. Payments go through Link by Stripe with a one-time-use card. Its connectors lean toward consumer and small-business tasks: Meta has announced Shopify, QuickBooks, Canva, Stripe, Slack, and Notion for small businesses. Public opinion so far splits the field the same way. In an X post, user petergyang framed dots and Grok Bot as going after work tasks and Muse after personal ones, and said a dot juggling several projects was harder to follow than Grok Bot's one-Bot-one-job conversations. That is one person's view, and it names the thing to watch for in your own trial. ## Which to try first: decide by your subscription and your work Use the first rule that matches you. ![Which agent to try first by current subscription: a dot on ChatGPT Pro, Grok Bot on Cursor or SuperGrok, free Muse in the US or Canada, and no upgrade from Plus just for a dot](https://blog.laozhang.ai/posts/en/chatgpt-dots-vs-meta-muse-vs-grok-bot/img/which-to-try-first.webp) 1. **You already pay for ChatGPT Pro, outside the EEA, Switzerland, and the UK.** Try a dot first. It costs nothing extra and it starts with your ChatGPT memory. Switch if you find you want separate agents for separate jobs, which a single dot does not offer yet. 2. **You already pay for Cursor, or for SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, SuperGrok Heavy, or X Premium+.** Try Grok Bot first. Setup is covered in [Getting Started with Grok Bot: Install, Sign In, and Create Your First Bot](https://blog.laozhang.ai/en/posts/grok-bot-getting-started). Switch if you need agents that cannot see each other's files and logins, because Bots share one computer. 3. **You pay for neither and you are in the US or Canada.** Try Muse on the free tier. Switch if your work is mostly code, documents, or tools Muse does not connect to. 4. **You are on ChatGPT Plus.** Do not upgrade to Pro only for a dot until you have a specific recurring job for it. A $20 Cursor Pro month or the free Muse tier tests whether an always-on agent fits you at all, for $80 to $100 less than Pro 100 ($100 − $20 = $80; $100 − $0 = $100). 5. **Your tasks are errands, shopping, bookings, and messages.** Muse is the one designed for them, with checkout and WhatsApp built in. 6. **Your tasks run through Slack or Teams at work.** A dot answers in both. Grok Bot's Slack access applies to team Bots. On Business Premium, dots are available in all supported ChatGPT regions, including the ones excluded for Pro. If what you want is a desktop agent that finishes a job on your files while you watch, none of these three is the closest match. That comparison is [Grok Bot vs Claude Cowork vs ChatGPT Work: Choose by the Job](https://blog.laozhang.ai/en/posts/grok-bot-vs-claude-cowork-vs-chatgpt-work). ## Approvals and data: what each agent asks before it acts All three stop for some actions, and all three vendors say the controls are not a guarantee. | | ChatGPT dots | Meta Muse | Grok Bot | |---|---|---|---| | Rules you set | Four behaviors per action: take action without asking, take action if pre-approved, ask before taking action, hand off to you | Choose which apps connect and how much access, such as reading mail versus also sending it | "Ask first" rules always stop matching actions and override allow rules | | Automatic check | Sensitive actions go through automatic review; some, like changing a password, are always left to you | A separate Sentinel agent must approve anything that reaches the internet | Auto Review evaluates tool calls and computer actions with a model | | What you can inspect | Activity view (In progress, Scheduled, Completed); you can open the dot's computer | Audit trail of what Muse has done and plans to do | The proposed operation and its inputs at each approval | | Training on your content | Personal plans: your data setting decides. Business, Enterprise, Edu: not used by default | You can opt out | Follows your Cursor account and privacy settings | | When you stop | Reset deletes the dot with its conversations, memories, and scheduled tasks | You can disconnect services and tell Muse to forget specific things | Deleting a Bot leaves shared files and sign-ins on the computer | The vendors' own caveats are worth reading as written. OpenAI says a dot "can make mistakes, including when following your rules." xAI's [security docs](https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/approvals-security-and-privacy) say Auto Review "should complement, not replace, least privilege and explicit approval boundaries," and that an approval "does not reverse work already" done. Meta states that Muse does not share conversations or VM data with its ad systems; that is Meta's claim, not an independent audit. One detail about dots matters before you connect anything. Disconnecting an app does not delete what the dot already obtained from it. Only deleting the dot does. ## A one-week trial: three tasks and the results that mean stop A week is enough to tell whether an agent fits, if you choose the tasks before you start. **Before day one** - Confirm the product actually appears in your account. Dots can take several days to arrive. - Connect one or two apps with the narrowest access offered. Read-only first. - Set the approval rule for sending, buying, and deleting to "ask." - On Grok Bot, decide whether on-demand usage is on and set the monthly limit. On the free trial, start with a small task: the credit has a 7-day window, one long task can use all of it, and it is not refilled. **Three tasks to run** 1. A recurring read-only job, such as a morning summary from your calendar and inbox. This tests whether it keeps working between conversations. 2. A multi-step job that ends in an approval, such as drafting a reply or filling a cart and stopping before it sends or pays. This tests the controls. 3. A job that spans several days and needs one correction from you midway. This tests whether feedback sticks. **Results that mean this one is not for you** - It sends, buys, or changes something that your rule said to ask about. - You cannot reconstruct what it did from the activity view, audit trail, or approval history. - The included usage runs out before the week does, on tasks this small. - The correction you gave on day three is gone by day five. - Checking its work takes longer than doing the task yourself, three days in a row. Either of the first two is enough to stop. The other three are reasons to try a different product from the list above before paying for a higher tier. ## When none of the three fits yet Waiting is the right call in four situations. - **You are a ChatGPT Pro subscriber in the EEA, Switzerland, or the UK.** Dots are not rolling out to Pro there. Business Premium is the documented route, and it is a workspace plan. - **You are outside the US and Canada and wanted Muse.** Meta has published no date for other countries. - **You need more than one isolated agent.** Dots give you one agent today, and Grok Bot's Bots share a computer. - **You are waiting on an announced feature.** More dots per account, Muse on Meta AI glasses, Muse's own email address, and Muse Confidential VM with a key only you hold are all announced, not available. Do not pay now for any of them. ## Questions about dots, Muse, and Grok Bot ### Can I use ChatGPT dots on a Plus plan? No. As of October 1, 2026, OpenAI lists dots for Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise workspaces where an admin enables the beta. Plus, Go, and Free are not listed. The cheapest personal plan with a dot is Pro 100 at $100 a month. ### Are ChatGPT dots a Grok Bot killer? Nothing published supports that. No one has run the same tasks on both. The designs also differ: dots give you one agent tied to your ChatGPT memory, Codex, and ChatGPT Work for $100 a month, and Grok Bot gives you several named Bots on a shared computer starting at $20 a month through Cursor Pro. ### Does Meta Muse compete with dots and Grok Bot at all? Only partly. Muse is built around personal tasks such as email, bookings, and purchases, and it runs in a phone app and WhatsApp. Dots and Grok Bot connect to work tools such as Codex, Slack, and a persistent cloud computer. Someone could reasonably use Muse for errands and one of the other two for work. ### Is Muse Spark the same thing as Muse? No. Muse is the agent you talk to. Muse Spark is the Meta model that powers it. ### Is Grok Bot available in my country? xAI and Cursor publish no country list for Grok Bot. Whether you can use it shows on the Grok Bot plan screen after you sign in with your Cursor account.