Some Grok users burned most of a week's allowance in an hour

Users found their allowances gone with no warning and no announcement; TechSpot reported some saw their effective limit cut roughly in half, and TechCrunch characterized the change as deliberate throttling rather than a glitch.

The math is structural: flat monthly fees — $30 Premium, $100 Super, $200 Ultra — don't scale with an agent that makes repeated model calls, searches, and computer actions per task. Musk offered no figures, no timeline, and no fix.