Grok Bot vs Muse: which personal AI agent should you use?

Grok Bot and Meta's Muse compared: price, the apps they connect to, browser, memory and safety. And how to use both with the same apps and memory.

Updated October 10, 2026

Short answer

Both are agents that keep working on a computer in the cloud after you close the app. Muse is Meta's agent for everyday life. It's free to start, you can use it on your phone, on the web and in WhatsApp, and it connects to consumer and small-business apps, but it's only available in the US and Canada. Grok Bot is SpaceXAI's (formerly xAI's) agent, included with paid Cursor and SuperGrok plans. It has desktop apps, and several Bots can share one cloud computer with a browser and a terminal. Choose by where you live, what you'll hand off and what you already pay for, or use both with the same apps and memory.

Grok Bot and Muse at a glance

Checked October 10, 2026. Both change often.

	Grok Bot	Muse
Maker	SpaceXAI (formerly xAI). Bots run on Cursor's cloud.	Meta
Launched	August 11, 2026, in beta (announcement)	September 8, 2026 (announcement)
Price and plans	No separate price. It comes with Cursor Pro, Pro+, Ultra, Teams or Enterprise, or with a linked SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, SuperGrok Heavy, X Premium+ or Grok Business seat. Not SuperGrok Lite. Usage resets weekly, and the free trial is a usage credit (plans). Cursor's paid plans start at $20 a month (pricing).	Free with a weekly limit. Power is $20 a month and Maximum is $100 a month, and both add weekly usage (Meta). You add a payment card to start (TechCrunch).
Where it runs	Desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux, plus iPhone, iPad and Android (docs). You can also tag @bot on X.	iOS, Android, muse.ai and WhatsApp. An iPad app arrived October 7 (TechCrunch), and a Mac app opened by waitlist on September 17 (iPhone in Canada).
Built-in connectors	Plugins from its Marketplace, including Gmail (it drafts and sends, one mailbox at a time), Google Calendar, Drive, Sheets, Slack, Notion and Zoom (Cursor help). Outlook, Outlook Calendar and OneDrive came on September 2 (forum). An Email plugin gives your Bots an address of their own (Cursor help).	Gmail and other Google services, Notion, Slack, Asana, Box, Canva, Dropbox, Figma, Granola, HighLevel, QuickBooks, Klaviyo, Lovable, Shopify, Stripe and Zoom, plus Facebook, Instagram and Threads (Meta). OpenTable and Spotify too (Engadget). Checkout runs through Link by Stripe.
Custom connectors (MCP)	No settings form. You tell a Bot in chat to add an MCP server at a public HTTPS address (Cursor staff).	You ask Muse in chat to create a custom connector. It may ask you for API details. Meta doesn't review custom connectors (Meta).
Browser and computer	One always-on cloud computer per account, with a browser, files and a terminal, shared by all your Bots. Each Bot gets its own screen, and you can take over for sign-ins and CAPTCHAs (docs).	"Muse Secure VM": a virtual machine of your own with a browser. A separate Sentinel agent has to approve what Muse sends to the internet.
Memory	Each Bot keeps its own preferences, role and summaries of past work.	One Muse remembers across your chats. You can tell it to forget things.
Approvals	Prompts with Allow once, Always allow or Deny. An Auto Review model checks risky actions, but not every side effect (security).	Asks before sensitive actions like sending email or buying, by default. You choose how often it asks.
Region and age	The docs list no country limits for the app. Its computers run in the US, and tagging @bot on X isn't available everywhere.	US and Canada only, for adults: 18 or the local age of majority.

Safety notes

Muse

Meta doesn't review custom connectors or how they use your data. It also says data Muse already used may stay in its memory after you disconnect an app.
Amazon started blocking Muse from Amazon.com on September 20. It said third-party shopping agents should operate openly and asked Meta to remove Amazon from Muse (Bloomberg via The Star).
Meta's own help warns that Muse "may take unexpected actions", so watch what it does. Meta's launch post says it keeps a full audit trail.

Grok Bot

All your Bots share one computer, with its files, browser sessions and logins. Grok Bot's docs say each Bot's screen is not a security boundary, so treat anything on that computer as available to every Bot.
Users on Cursor's forum have reported:
- A second Gmail account that showed "Added", then went back to "Authorize" (thread).
- Google's "This app is blocked" on personal Gmail, which the reporter said an August 29 update fixed (thread).
- Notion's "Invalid redirect_uri for OAuth client", fixed by re-authenticating the plugin (thread).
- Microsoft 365 lockouts after Bots signed in to Outlook in the cloud browser. Staff advise using the Outlook plugins instead (thread).

Which should you use?

There's no winner for everyone. By use case:

You live outside the US and Canada: Grok Bot. Muse isn't offered there yet.
Errands, shopping and bookings: Muse. It checks out through Link by Stripe and works with retailers like Best Buy, Gap, Sephora, Walmart and Wayfair. It can't shop on Amazon.
Talking to it from WhatsApp: Muse. Grok Bot's docs don't mention WhatsApp.
Paying nothing: Muse's free tier. After its trial credit, Grok Bot needs a paid Cursor, SuperGrok or X Premium+ plan.
Long jobs, routines, a team of agents, or code: Grok Bot. You can run many Bots, put them in group chats, and save a job you showed one Bot as a routine it repeats (SpaceXAI). Its computer has a terminal.
You already pay for SuperGrok or Cursor: Grok Bot is included.
More than one Gmail account: neither does this out of the box. Grok Bot's Gmail plugin holds one mailbox at a time, and Meta doesn't document a second account. Upsy fills this gap: see multiple Gmail accounts in Muse.

What about ChatGPT dots?

OpenAI launched dots on September 29, 2026: always-on agents with their own cloud computer, for ChatGPT Pro and Business Premium. They're not available to Pro subscribers in the EEA, Switzerland or the UK. A dot uses the plugins you've added in ChatGPT, and its app access is read-only while it works on its own (SiliconANGLE). If you already pay for ChatGPT Pro, read how to connect apps to your ChatGPT dot.

Use both with the same apps, memory and history

Muse and Grok Bot share nothing: not connectors, memory or history. Upsy is one place both connect to, as a remote MCP server (a connector that gives an assistant your apps).

Sign up free at upsy.ai and connect your apps on the Apps page, up to five accounts each, for example a work and a personal Gmail.
On the Assistants page, click Add assistant and choose Muse. Paste the prompt Upsy shows into a Muse chat, open the sign-in link and choose what Muse can use.
Click Add assistant again and choose Grok. Paste the prompt into a Grok Bot chat, approve, and sign in. In later Bot chats, type @ and pick Upsy.

What you get:

The same apps, with separate access. For example, Muse gets Full access to Gmail and Grok Bot gets Read-only. Each app can be set to Full access, Read-only, Pick actions or No access, per assistant.
One memory. You write one document about yourself, and both assistants read it. They can only suggest additions, which you accept or reject in Upsy. See sharing memory between assistants.
One history. Every action is in Upsy's History, under the assistant that did it.
One logged-in browser. Sign in to your sites once in Upsy's cloud browser. Each assistant works in its own labelled tabs, and you can watch or take over at any time, for a payment or a CAPTCHA.
Files. Both can read the documents you keep in Upsy. Each saves its own files to its own folder.
Alerts and an off switch. Upsy emails you when one assistant deletes, sends or reads a lot at once, and one click turns either assistant off.

Upsy doesn't add approval prompts of its own. Muse's and Grok Bot's own approvals still decide when they ask you first. Upsy is free for personal use.

FAQ

Is Grok Bot better than Muse?

Neither, for everyone. Muse suits everyday tasks and shopping in the US and Canada. Grok Bot suits longer work with several agents, and comes with Cursor and SuperGrok plans.

Is Muse free?

Yes, with a weekly usage limit. Power ($20 a month) and Maximum ($100 a month) add more usage.

Can I use Muse or Grok Bot outside the US?

Muse is available in the US and Canada only. Grok Bot's docs list no country limits for the app, though its cloud computers run in the US.

Not directly. Through Upsy, both read the same memory document, and you approve anything they suggest adding to it.

Grok Bot vs Muse vs ChatGPT dots: which runs all the time?

All three keep working on a cloud computer while you're away. Dots come with ChatGPT Pro and Business Premium, Grok Bot with paid Cursor and SuperGrok plans, and Muse is free to start. See the Muse and Grok connector lists.