X, formerly Twitter, doubles Premium+ plan after Grok 3 release | Are Indians affected?

Access to all models of Grok are limited to Premium and Premium+ subscribers of X. The price for the top-tier plan has been almost doubled, from $22 per month to about $50 per month.

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This is the second increase in the plan’s pricing over the past couple of months. X had hiked the price of the Premium+ plan in December last year, increasing it from $16 per month to $22 per month.

According to TechCrunch, the pricing on the social media platform’s website is not uniform. The plan shows it’ll cost about $40 per month (about $478 per year) but the final check-out page showed that it’d eventually cost $395 for a year.

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Also, while X’s support page says a monthly subscription costs $50, the sign-up page lists a $48.40 per month price, and the check-out page is charging $40 a month.

Are Indians affected by X’s price hike?

According to the pricing of Premium+ plan for Indian users, the amount remains the same. On a monthly basis, the plan will cost ₹1,750 and it will cost ₹18,300 on an annual basis.

The basic plan will cost ₹243.75 per month or ₹2,590.48 per year while the mid-tier Premium plan has been priced at ₹650 per month and ₹6,800 per year.

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Thus, all in all, the pricing across the three tiers of plans seems to remain unchanged for Indian users for now.

Grok 3 launch

Grok 3 uses 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to provide 200 million GPU-hours for training which exceeded Grok 2 by ten times. The large-scale installation of more computational power in Grok 3 enables it to run big datasets in a shorter time frame while providing enhanced accuracy.

Elon Musk called Grok 3 the “smart AI on Earth” and said he thinks it is “scary smart”.