Electricity Bench

Cursor Pro vs SuperGrok

SuperGrok costs $30/mo; Cursor Pro costs $20/mo. More usage is expected from the more expensive plan; the question is whether it buys anything else.

Cursor Pro vs SuperGrok: choose Cursor Pro. Measured on Cursor Pro, one pass of our fixed task set fits about 220 tasks a week with Composer 2.5. SuperGrok costs $30/mo; Cursor Pro costs $20/mo. Prices are the providers' own list prices, and the verdict is ours rather than a score.Measured

Our verdict

Choose Cursor Pro. It costs less, includes the IDE, and already gives you a larger included pool for Grok alongside Composer and other frontier models.

Paying more for SuperGrok leaves you with Grok 4.7 as the coding agent and no Cursor IDE. That is a worse deal.

Cursor

Cursor Pro

$20/mo per cursor.com/pricing, 2026-09-24

Cursor Pro lets you switch between providers. Its agent runs inside the editor, which suits people who still read and edit the code themselves. Composer 2.5 is not capable enough for serious work. OpenAI plans to leave Cursor on November 12, 2026, which will narrow the model choice.

Pros

  • Agent built into the IDE
  • Models from several providers

Cons

  • Composer 2.5 is weak
  • OpenAI plans to leave Cursor on November 12, 2026

Best for People who still read their code and want to switch between models.

How far it goes: about 50 times a month

Our whole real-world issues and spec planning pass runs about 50 times a month on this plan.

That works out at about 41c of the subscription per run, at the list price.

Measured on this plan, at 2.0%/1m of its allowance per run. A share belongs to the plan it was measured on, so we never subtract one plan's from another's.

xAI

SuperGrok

$30/mo per x.ai/grok, 2026-09-24

Grok 4.7 is too slow for routine work and not capable enough for hard work. That leaves no good coding use for the $30 plan. Its chat, image and video tools do not change our recommendation. Skip it.

Pros

  • Grok chat, images and video in one product

Cons

  • Too slow for routine work
  • Not capable enough for hard work

Best for Nobody.

How far it goes: we have not measured this plan

We grade Grok CLI on the $100 SuperGrok Plus plan - its scorecard is the closest evidence.

The leaderboard lists every plan we do grade.

Verdicts and prices are the quiz's versioned editorial catalog, last reviewed 2026-10-01. The plan cards keep measured evidence separate from the recommendation. Any other pair composes on the subscription comparison, and the quiz turns your answers into a recommendation.