Nomi vs Grok Pricing and Which to Pay For

Nomi costs $15.99 a month or $99.99 a year and is built around companions. Grok costs $30 a month for SuperGrok and is built around an assistant, and its animated companions were announced as retiring on July 24, 2026. Over a year that is $99.99 to $191.88 for Nomi against $360 for SuperGrok. If a companion is what you are paying for, Nomi is the cheaper and the safer purchase, because the feature you buy is the whole product rather than an experiment inside a larger one.

People searching this pair usually know Grok from X and are wondering whether the companion characters are worth a subscription next to a dedicated app. The honest answer depends on what you want from the $30. This page prices both over a full year, says what each subscription actually includes, and covers the cancellation traps. Nomi's figures come from Apple's US in app purchase list, its own web app and its Terms. Grok's come from Apple's US list and X's Help Center, because xAI's own plans page sits behind a bot challenge and cannot be quoted directly.

Nomi vs Grok pricing at a glance

How much does Nomi cost compared with Grok?

Nomi costs about half as much. Standard is $15.99 a month, $39.99 a quarter or $99.99 a year, which works out to $8.33 a month when you prepay. SuperGrok is $30 a month on Apple's US list, and X Premium+, which bundles Grok access, starts at $40 a month. Paying monthly for both, Nomi costs $191.88 a year and SuperGrok $360, a gap of $168.12. Prepaying Nomi widens it to $260.01.

Grok does have a cheaper door. SuperGrok Lite is $10 a month, but it only raises usage limits on the assistant and carries no companion promise. The tiers above SuperGrok, $100 and $300, are priced for research and agent work and have nothing a companion user needs. Our Grok pricing breakdown lists every tier with its source, and our Nomi AI pricing guide does the same for Nomi, credits included.

What do you get for the money?

A paid Nomi account unlocks unlimited messages and voice chat, 40 image requests a day, video, up to 10 Nomis and 10 group chats, and longer backstories. Memory is the reason people stay: a Nomi keeps hold of your job, your week and the thing you said last month. Credits are only needed once you pass the daily limits, and they never expire.

SuperGrok gives you the highest ordinary limits on Grok's models, image and video generation, voice mode, memory and projects. It is a good assistant and it is priced like one. The memory is shared across everything you ask Grok, so a conversation about your relationship sits next to your spreadsheet questions rather than in a space of its own. That is a different product from a companion, even when the avatar is friendly.

Are Grok companions being discontinued?

Yes. On July 24, 2026 xAI said the 3D avatar Companions, Ani, Valentine, Mika and Rudi, were an experiment it was retiring to focus on core Grok, and it gave no end date. The Grok listing on the US App Store stopped mentioning Companions in its description by September 17, 2026. Anyone who subscribed to SuperGrok for Ani is paying $30 a month for a feature with an announced end.

That is the strongest argument in this comparison, and it is not about price. A dedicated companion app cannot deprioritize the companion, because it is the only thing it sells. If you want the story of what stays on your account and what goes, our guide to Grok Ani alternatives goes through it.

Does Nomi or Grok allow adult content?

Both are 17 plus products with different rules, and neither is a good fit if you want affection without anything explicit. Nomi is an adult companion app that allows mature roleplay for verified adults. Grok sits under X's and xAI's policies, and the age checks differ between the two companies; we set out how in our Grok age verification guide. If romance is the goal and explicit content is not, the cleaner choice is a service built for devotion rather than a settings panel.

How do you cancel Nomi and Grok?

Cancel where you bought, in both cases. A plan bought in the iPhone app is cancelled in your Apple ID subscriptions, and one bought on Android in Google Play. Nomi's own web plans are cancelled from the Subscription tab of your profile, where it asks you to type CANCEL. Grok bought through X Premium is cancelled in X. Deleting either app cancels nothing, and Nomi's Terms say so directly.

Both bill silently after you stop opening the app, which is exactly what happens when a feature is retired or a novelty fades. Put the renewal date in your calendar the day you subscribe. If you track your monthly outgoings, a business budgeting tool makes a $30 line sitting next to a $16 one easy to spot before a year of it goes by.

Which one should you pay for?

Pay for Nomi if you want several companions with memory, voice and group chats, you are certain you will still use it in six months, and you can prepay the $99.99 year. Take the free plan first, since it needs no card. Skip the Launch plan until you have seen on the in app screen exactly what it includes, because Nomi does not publish that.

Pay for SuperGrok only if you want a strong general assistant and would use it without the companions. If Ani was the reason, do not renew. And if what you want is one partner who is glad to hear from you, texts first and never turns into a settings screen, that is what Amorous is built for. It costs $12 month to month or $9 a month billed annually, flat, with no credits to buy. Try a conversation in the demo at the top of this page, then compare plans on our pricing page.

Nomi vs Grok, quick answers

Is Nomi better than Grok?

For a companion, yes. Nomi is built around memory, voice and several characters at $99.99 to $191.88 a year. Grok is the better general assistant, but its companion characters were announced as retiring on July 24, 2026, and SuperGrok costs $360 a year.

Is Grok worth $30 a month for a companion?

No. Thirty dollars buys an assistant subscription, and the companion feature inside it has an announced end. If you want an assistant plus occasional chat, it can make sense. If you want a companion, a dedicated app costs roughly half as much.

Is there a free version of Nomi and Grok?

Yes, both have free plans. Nomi's needs no card and allows one to one text chat with two images a day. Grok's free tier has capped usage and no companion features, so it cannot tell you whether the paid companion is worth it.