The X Subscription in Canada: X Premium, Grok and Cursor in One Plan

The X Subscription is here, and it collapses three bills into one: X Premium, the Grok AI assistant and Cursor, the AI coding tool, bundled in plans running from CA$9.99 to CA$279.99 per month in Canada. Announced October 12 with a global rollout over the following days, the bundles put a blue checkmark, an AI chatbot with image and video generation, and a professional AI coding agent inside one subscription, with a shared pool of Grok model usage spanning all of them. Existing subscribers keep their current plan, price and features; switching is optional.

Our team broke down every Canadian tier, what each actually includes, and the backstory that explains why a social network now ships with a coding tool: SpaceX paid roughly US$60 billion for Cursor’s maker, the largest startup acquisition ever recorded.

What The X Subscription is

One plan, four products. X Premium brings the checkmark, creator tools, longer posts, Articles, Media Studio, analytics and reduced ads, with higher tiers removing timeline ads entirely. Grok is the AI assistant: chat, voice, image generation through Imagine, video generation, and an API. Grok Bot is the newer piece, described as AI teammates that get work done proactively. And Cursor, previously a standalone subscription developers paid for separately, brings local and cloud coding agents, code hosting and AI code reviews.

The mechanic that ties it together is a shared pool of Grok model usage on every paid plan, covering the Grok apps, the Grok tab on X, and Cursor. You are not buying separate AI allowances per product; you buy one pool and spend it where you like. Each plan also includes at least twice the coding usage of the comparable standalone Cursor plan, per the announcement, which is the clearest sign this is meant to undercut buying the pieces separately.

Every plan price in Canada

One honest note about those numbers: Premium, Super and Ultra come with 50 percent off the first month, and the cards above show that intro rate. From month two you pay CA$41.99, CA$139.99 and CA$279.99 respectively. There is also a free tier with daily Grok access and a starter Cursor allowance, so you can try the AI side before paying anything.

Why Cursor comes with a social network

The backstory explains the bundle. In June 2026, SpaceX agreed to acquire Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, in an all-stock deal reported around US$60 billion, completed in August. It is widely described as the largest startup acquisition ever, and it happened just days after Anysphere’s IPO priced. The coding gap between Grok and rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI was the stated reason; Cursor’s engineers gained access to SpaceX’s compute, and SpaceX gained the most popular AI coding tool on the market.

The X Subscription is the first consumer product of that merger. A social network, an AI assistant and a professional IDE-grade coding tool in one bill is not a bundle anyone else can currently assemble, and it turns every one of X’s hundreds of millions of users into a Cursor trial just one click away.

Existing subscribers: nothing changes unless you want it to

If you already pay for X Premium, SuperGrok or Cursor in Canada, your current plan, price and features stay as they are. Switching is optional, handled through your billing settings on the web when it becomes available, and switchers get limited-time offers plus a prorated refund on the old plan. Cursor users can merge accounts through a combining tool, and Teams plans get matching per-seat pricing with three times the coding usage of the older Cursor Teams, plus SSO and admin controls.

Which plan makes sense in Canada

• Plus at $9.99: the checkmark and light Grok use. Fine if X is the product and AI is the garnish.
• Premium at $41.99: the rational pick for anyone who uses Grok and Cursor weekly; ad-free scrolling and 4x usage make it the first tier that feels like an AI subscription.
• Super at $139.99: for developers living in Cursor daily who also want 1080p video generation and priority access.
• Ultra at $279.99: for power users who max out pools; the 50x multiplier and earliest model access are the whole pitch.

This lands in the same month as Google AI Ultra’s Canadian pricing, and the two now sit side by side at $279.99: Google’s pitch is worlds, video and workspace AI, X’s is social reach plus a coding agent. The proactive-agent wave adds the same lesson from another direction: 2026 is the year AI subscriptions stopped being one product per bill.

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