Grok Memory (xAI)
https://x.com/grok/status/1912670182012801156
Extracts and persists facts from past conversations; applies them to future responses. Per-memory deletion UI; user can also clear all. Announced by xAI's official Grok account on 2025-04-17 ('Grok now remembers your conversations').
Active · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 61 cited facts, 23 with a third-party source · 2 recorded changes · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Preference-distillation + user-deletable third-party fix
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Platform-provider memory
- Created
- 2025-02-17 (Grok 3 launch with memory) third-party fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- Free; The X Subscription (Grok + Cursor + X): Plus $8/mo, Premium $30/mo, Super $100/mo, Ultra $200/mo (annual discounts; team seats on Premium/Super/Ultra); existing SuperGrok plans continue vendor fix
- Funding
- xAI raised $20B Series E (Jan 2026; Valor, StepStone, Fidelity, QIA, Nvidia, Cisco), ~$230B valuation; merged into SpaceX (announced 2026-02-02, combined ~$1T) third-party fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-29 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
Memory taxonomy
- storage
- kv
- retrieval
- injection
- persistence
- long-term
- update
- extraction
- unit
- fact
- governance
- user-controllable
- conflict
- llm-arbitrate
When to use
Optimised for: preference distillation + user-deletable
Anti-fit: not for enterprise programmatic use
Pros & cons
Pros
Tied to X timeline data — a corpus no other vendor has access to.
Cons
Privacy framing is weakest of the major platforms; corpus quality varies sharply by user activity.
Claims & capabilities
Beta on grok.com + iOS/Android. Not available in EU or UK. Launched April 2025, expanded 2026.
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — consumer feature
- Backend storage
- custom (xAI-managed)
- Deployment
- Managed-only
- Embedding model
- not applicable — consumer feature
- Multi-tenancy
- hard-isolation
- MCP
- searched not found
- A2A
- not supported
- OpenTelemetry
- no — consumer product
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- Vertex AI Memory Bank (now Agent Platform Memory Bank) T2
Google Cloud managed memory service, now 'Agent Platform Memory Bank' in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. LLM-based memory extraction/consolidation from sessions (background, multimodal, custom topics), per-identity isolation, similarity search, TTL, revisions; used from ADK via VertexAiMemoryBankService.
- Anthropic Claude Memory T1
Memory tool API + consumer "Memory" feature + Auto Dream consolidation. Document-as-memory rather than extracted-fact-as-memory.
- Anthropic Managed Agents — Memory T3
Public-beta memory stores for Claude Managed Agents: workspace-scoped collections of text documents mounted into the session sandbox as a directory the agent reads and writes with its file tools; every change is versioned for audit and point-in-time restore, and memories can also be managed via API/Console.
- Cloudflare Agent Memory T2
Managed persistent memory service for AI agents on Cloudflare's edge. Private beta announced 2026-04-17. Sits alongside Workers AI / Vectorize as the memory tier of the Cloudflare agent stack.
- Google Gemini Memory T1
Gemini app learns from past chats via the Personal context setting (on by default, can be disabled; temporary chats excluded). Users can import memories and full chat history from ChatGPT, Claude and other assistants (18+, personal accounts, not EEA/CH/UK).
Sources (60 cited facts, 23 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is Preference-distillation + user-deletable third-party
- What it does & what's distinct Extracts and persists facts from past conversations; applies them to future responses. P… vendor
- Claims / benefits Beta on grok.com + iOS/Android. Not available in EU or UK. Launched April 2025, expanded… third-party
- Modalities text third-party
- Created 2025-02-17 (Grok 3 launch with memory) third-party
- Mindshare Grok Wikipedia article maintains a dedicated section; ongoing X / mainstream press cover… third-party
- Funding xAI raised $20B Series E (Jan 2026; Valor, StepStone, Fidelity, QIA, Nvidia, Cisco), ~$2… third-party
- Customers / scale 201-500 ppl No named enterprise customers on memory feature third-party
- Pricing Free; The X Subscription (Grok + Cursor + X): Plus $8/mo, Premium $30/mo, Super $100/mo,… vendor
- Data handling By default does not use conversations for training; private chat mode available; data de… vendor
- Deployment Managed-only vendor
- HQ US third-party
- Founders / pedigree xAI; founded by Elon Musk with ex-DeepMind and ex-OpenAI researchers including Igor Babu… third-party
- Memory volume / scale internal — undisclosed third-party
- Backend storage custom (xAI-managed) vendor
- Multi-tenancy hard-isolation vendor
- Encryption at-rest + in-transit vendor
- Tombstoning hard-delete supported third-party
- Schema evolution free-form / no schema third-party
- Contradiction handling LLM resolves and overwrites third-party
- Forgetting policy user-controlled forget third-party
- A2A support not supported third-party
- OTel no — consumer product third-party
- Webhooks / events no third-party
- Import / export no export (consumer product) vendor
- Validated verticals consumer / individual (X / Grok users) vendor
- Time to running <10min (X / Grok sign-up) vendor
- Anti-fit not for enterprise programmatic use vendor
- Optimised for preference distillation + user-deletable vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure self-contained xAI / X vendor
- Pros Tied to X timeline data — a corpus no other vendor has access to. third-party
- Cons Privacy framing is weakest of the major platforms; corpus quality varies sharply by user… third-party
- Project & sources launch coverage third-party
- obs-langsmith yes third-party
- obs-helicone yes third-party
- obs-langfuse yes third-party
- obs-custom xAI exposes OpenAI-compatible endpoints; OpenAI-proxy observability tools work vendor
- cost-token-budget no vendor
- cost-prompt-caching no vendor
- cost-semantic-caching no vendor
- cost-batching no vendor
- cost-model-routing no vendor
- cost-streaming-only no vendor
- cost-observability-cost-attribution no vendor
- eval-langsmith-evals no vendor
- eval-braintrust no vendor
- eval-weights-and-biases-agent no vendor
- eval-helicone-evals no vendor
- eval-custom-test-harness no vendor
- eval-human-loop no vendor
- eval-production-traffic-replay no vendor
- cost-input-usd-per-mtok 0 vendor
- cost-output-usd-per-mtok 0 vendor
- cost-tier free vendor
- cost-pricing-model free-tier vendor
- cost-last-verified 2026-06-29 vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
What changed
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- 2026-10-29
- Homepage “https://www.maginative.com/article/xai-upgrades-grok-with-personalized-memory-and-custom-workspaces/” → “https://x.com/grok/status/1912670182012801156”
- Pricing “Free; SuperGrok ~$30/mo (higher limits, multi-agent)” → “Free; The X Subscription (Grok + Cursor + X): Plus $8/mo, Premium $30/mo, Super $100/mo, Ultra $200/mo (annual discounts; team seats on Premium/Super/Ultra); existing SuperGrok plans continue” source
- 2026-10-22
- Pricing “Free + paid” → “Free; SuperGrok ~$30/mo (higher limits, multi-agent)” source
- Funding / ownership “xAI $22.1B+ total raised; valuation ~$50B (2025 round)” → “xAI raised $20B Series E (Jan 2026; Valor, StepStone, Fidelity, QIA, Nvidia, Cisco), ~$230B valuation; merged into SpaceX (announced 2026-02-02, combined ~$1T)” source
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References (1)
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