xAI launched Grok Business and Grok Enterprise in early January 2026 to move Grok from individual use into team and enterprise work. In simple terms, these plans are designed for companies that want stronger admin control, better security options, and practical integrations, not just a chat tool for one person. Anyone trying to understand workplace AI plans like this benefits from a structured foundation such as an AI Course because the same ideas show up across every serious business rollout: governance, data boundaries, identity, and how teams actually adopt tools.
xAI Grok Business and Enterprise Plans
xAI introduced two workplace tiers:
- Grok Business, positioned as a team plan that can be started through self-serve signup
- Grok Enterprise, positioned for larger deployments with deeper identity, governance, and security controls
The core positioning is consistent across the descriptions: these tiers are meant to give teams access to advanced Grok models with centralized administration, integrations, and stronger controls around security and data handling.
Who these plans are for
Grok Business is aimed at teams that need:
- A shared workspace
- Admin and seat management
- Consolidated billing
- Clear roles and access control
- Security claims appropriate for professional use
- Basic governance features without a long procurement cycle
Grok Enterprise is aimed at organizations that need:
- Enterprise identity and provisioning support
- Central governance across multiple teams
- Organization-level security enforcement
- Advanced audit and security controls
- Optional high-security isolation via an add-on called Enterprise Vault
- A sales-led purchase path rather than pure self-serve
This split is common in workplace software. Business plans usually solve the first wave of adoption. Enterprise plans focus on identity, governance, and risk management once usage is widespread.
Pricing
The plans differ clearly in purchase path and pricing structure.
Grok Business pricing is presented as:
- $30 per seat per month as the headline price
- Available via self-serve signup and team creation
- Commonly described as supporting up to 150 seats in marketplace style listings
Grok Enterprise is presented as:
- Custom pricing
- Typically sales-led, often framed as “contact us”
- Intended for large deployments and more complex controls
This structure matters because it tells a team what kind of rollout is realistic. A self-serve plan can be deployed quickly. A sales-led plan usually implies more procurement steps, security review, and internal approvals.
Model access and usage posture
A major differentiator xAI highlights is access to advanced Grok models and more generous usage.
The Business plan is described as providing increased access to advanced models, specifically including:
- Grok 3
- Grok 4
- Grok 4 Heavy
Multiple descriptions also tie these tiers to higher rate limits and broader model access compared with consumer tiers. In practice, “rate limits” usually becomes one of the first pain points for teams, especially when Grok is being used across marketing, support, operations, and leadership at the same time.
What Grok Business includes
Grok Business is presented as a team workspace with a set of admin and collaboration features that make it workable in a professional environment.
Team controls
Business includes core team administration features such as:
- Team and seat management
- Consolidated billing
- User analytics
These capabilities matter because a company needs a clear way to add and remove people, see usage patterns, and keep billing under control instead of letting expenses spread across personal accounts.
Role-based access control
Role-based access control is listed as part of the Business capabilities. This typically means:
- Different permission levels for admins versus regular users
- Ability to control who can manage seats and billing
- Ability to limit who can change certain settings
Even for smaller teams, role-based access becomes important quickly, especially when the tool touches internal documents or workflows.
Security and privacy claims
xAI lists “enterprise-grade security” elements for Business, including:
- SOC 2
- Encryption at rest and in transit
- No training on your data
- Compliance claims such as GDPR and CCPA
For a beginner reading this, the practical meaning is straightforward: the plan is marketed as suitable for business use, with standard security language and a promise that the company data used in the workspace is not used to train models.
Data retention controls
Business includes custom data retention as a listed feature. This matters because different organizations have different needs:
- Some want conversations retained for knowledge continuity
- Some want short retention to reduce risk
- Some need retention policies aligned with internal compliance rules
Custom retention is often one of the first requirements that shows up when legal, IT, or compliance teams review an AI tool.
What Grok Enterprise adds
Grok Enterprise builds on Business, and the described additions cluster into three areas: identity, centralized governance, and advanced security controls.
SSO and SCIM
Enterprise includes:
- Custom SSO
- Directory Sync (SCIM)
In simple terms, these features allow Grok access to match the company’s identity system. That usually means:
- Employees sign in using the same corporate login they already use
- Access can be controlled centrally
- When someone joins or leaves, accounts can be provisioned or removed automatically
This reduces manual admin work and is a major requirement for larger organizations.
Organizations for centralized governance
xAI documentation describes Organizations as a governance layer that applies across multiple console teams, and it is described as being available only to Enterprise tier subscribers.
The practical benefit is centralized management, including security features like SSO, across teams that might otherwise operate separately. This matters when different departments want their own spaces but the company still needs consistent security enforcement.
Domain association and enforcement behavior
Enterprise governance also includes domain association behavior. The concept is:
- Users can be associated automatically based on email domain
- Organization-wide SSO enforcement can be applied
For example, if a company owns a domain, access can be tied to that domain’s identity policy. This is the kind of control IT teams expect for tools that may touch internal documents.
Advanced audit and security controls
Enterprise is described as adding advanced audit and security controls. Even without listing every possible audit feature, the intent is clear: Enterprise customers want better visibility and stronger monitoring around how the tool is used.
In workplace AI, “audit” usually connects to questions like:
- Who accessed what
- When it was accessed
- Whether settings were changed
- How usage aligns with policy
This becomes especially important once document connectors are enabled.
Enterprise Vault for high-security setups
xAI also highlights an add-on called Enterprise Vault for customers who need stronger isolation and key control.
Vault is described as providing:
- A dedicated data plane
- Application-level encryption
- Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK)
The simplest way to understand this is: Vault is positioned for organizations that want tighter separation of their data from other customers and want encryption keys controlled by the customer, not only by the vendor.
This type of add-on is typically relevant for:
- Highly regulated industries
- Large enterprises with strict data policies
- Teams handling sensitive internal material like legal, M&A, or security operations
Integrations and apps support
A major focus of the workplace launch is connecting Grok to company tools and documents so that answers can be grounded in internal content, not only public knowledge.
Google Drive connector
xAI emphasizes a Google Drive connector as an early integration path.
The integration is described in a practical way:
- Grok can connect to Google Drive so teams can search and use company documents inside chat
- The connector respects Drive permissions
- It retrieves only content the user is allowed to view
This matters because document access is the fastest route to value in enterprise AI, but it is also a major risk area. Permission-aware retrieval is the baseline expectation for any serious connector.
Collections API and Projects
xAI also references “agentic search” via the Collections API through Projects, positioned for larger document stores such as data rooms.
In everyday language, this signals:
- Grok is being positioned not only as a chat tool, but also as a system that can search and work across large sets of internal documents
- Projects act like a structured workspace for specific initiatives
- Collections API is described as a mechanism supporting that document retrieval and organization
This is the direction many workplace AI tools take once basic chat is solved: the real value comes from workflow plus internal knowledge access.
Licenses and admin workflow
xAI documentation describes license purchase and assignment flows inside the console, including license types such as:
- SuperGrok
- SuperGrok Heavy
It also describes admin actions such as:
- Invite users
- Assign licenses
- Revoke licenses
- Cancel licenses
- Perform these actions based on role permissions
This matters because licensing and seat control is how a company keeps an AI rollout sustainable. Without clear admin flows, usage becomes messy and costs become unpredictable.
Business vs Enterprise
Here is the simplest practical way to frame the difference.
Grok Business focuses on:
- Team workspace
- Seat management and billing
- Role-based access control
- Security and privacy claims for professional use
- Custom retention controls
- Increased access to advanced Grok models and higher usage limits
Grok Enterprise focuses on:
- Custom SSO and SCIM for identity and provisioning
- Organization-level governance across multiple teams
- Domain association and organization-wide SSO enforcement
- Advanced audit and security controls
- Optional Enterprise Vault for dedicated data plane and customer-managed keys
- A sales-led purchase path and custom pricing
How teams should think about rollout
A clean rollout decision usually comes down to three questions.
Identity needs
If a company needs SSO and SCIM from day one, Enterprise is usually the path. If a team can start with admin controls and grow into deeper identity requirements later, Business can be a starting point.
Data sensitivity
If the team plans to connect internal document systems like Google Drive and handle sensitive material, the governance and security posture becomes more important. For higher-risk environments, Vault-level controls and key management can become decisive.
Scale and governance
If the plan is to deploy Grok across multiple departments with consistent enforcement, centralized governance via Organizations becomes a practical requirement.
Conclusion
Grok Business and Grok Enterprise are part of a broader shift: workplace AI is moving away from individual “chat access” and toward managed systems that can integrate with company knowledge and still meet enterprise expectations for identity, security, and governance.
Teams that want to evaluate these tools properly often build two parallel skill tracks:
- A technical foundation for understanding security, systems, and integrations through Tech Certification
- A practical business framework for adoption, governance, and organizational rollout through Marketing and Business Certification
The outcome is simple: better decisions, cleaner deployments, and fewer pilot projects that stall after early excitement.