Agentic Index
Grok Bot vs Pine AI (2026)
Both give an agent a computer of its own, and they point it at different work. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Grok Bot, from SpaceXAI and sold with Cursor and Grok plans, gives each user a team of Bots that share one persistent cloud computer, sign in to tools such as Zendesk, run routines on schedules and events from Slack, GitHub, Linear, Sentry or PagerDuty, pass work between themselves in a thread, and answer to approval prompts and an Auto Review model, with SSO, SCIM and audit logs for teams. Pine reaches outward to companies. It calls them, waits on hold, negotiates and emails, works forms on its own computer, and runs batch jobs of calls and browser tasks for individuals and small businesses. Choose Grok Bot for a team of agents working inside your company's software, and Pine for phone calls and follow up with the businesses you deal with.
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Grok Bot and Pine AI are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 974 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Grok Bot if
- Several agents should each own a job, such as sales outbound or account health, and hand work to one another.
- Routines should start on Slack messages, GitHub, Linear, Sentry or PagerDuty events, email or webhooks.
- You want to teach a workflow once by doing it while a Bot watches.
- Your team needs SAML or OIDC single sign on, SCIM, audit logs and admin enforced review.
- One person should be able to publish a Team Bot that every colleague chats with privately.
- You already pay for Cursor or SuperGrok, which include Grok Bot.
Choose Pine AI if
- The agent must place phone calls, hold, and negotiate on your behalf.
- You want hundreds of calls or browser tasks run in parallel as a batch.
- A household or a small business, not an engineering team, is the buyer.
- Answering business calls and texting back missed callers is part of the job.
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
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Grok BotIntegrations & Tool Calling Plugins connect Gmail, Notion, Slack and other services under the account used to sign in, added from Connect apps in the desktop sidebar, the mobile app or an in chat card. Beyond plugins, a Bot logs in once to tools such as Zendesk on its own computer and works inside them the way a person would, including tools that are hard to navigate. Bots can also claim their own address on mail.grokbot.com to receive, search and send email. Sourcecursor.com/help/grok-bot/connect-pluginsread 2026-10-12 |
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Pine AIIntegrations & Tool Calling Instead of connectors, Pine acts through its own phone calls, email and a computer of its own, and Pine Work needs no connector setup, integration map or handoff from tool to tool. It also dials into Zoom or Meet, follows the discussion, captures decisions and returns minutes and actions. Pine names no connector catalog or custom tool support. SourcePine AI, 19pine.ai/work and pine.im/features/phoneread 2026-10-06 |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
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Grok BotWorkflow Orchestration A user creates several Bots, one per project or function, and gathers them in a group chat, where they answer in the thread, take requests addressed to one Bot with an @mention, and message each other directly to hand off work. Bots carry a project from start to end, launch subagents and cloud agents, and run routines a user can teach by doing a workflow once while a Bot follows along. Because all of a user's Bots share one computer, files, browser and logins, a handoff keeps its context. Sourcex.ai/botread 2026-10-12 |
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Pine AIWorkflow Orchestration One agent carries a task through calls, emails, follow ups and computer steps, and tasks can be saved and reused. Batch jobs take a list and a goal and coordinate phone calls, browser tasks and email requests in parallel, up to more than 1,000 concurrent voice calls, keeping context for retries, recovering from failures automatically and flagging the exceptions that need the user. There is no workflow model with branching or deterministic steps for the customer to design. SourcePine AI, pine.im/features/batch-jobs and 19pine.ai/workread 2026-10-06 |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
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Grok BotTriggers & Channel Coverage A routine tells a Bot when to run a workflow, either on a schedule or when something happens, such as a Slack message, a GitHub, Linear, Sentry or PagerDuty event, an email or a webhook call. Routines run in the cloud while the user's laptop is closed and can be paused or resumed from the Bot's details. Users also message Bots from macOS, Windows and the iOS app, talk to them by voice, and email them at their own address. Sourcecursor.com/help/grok-bot/routinesread 2026-10-12 |
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Pine AITriggers & Channel Coverage Tasks in Pine Work can be saved, scheduled and reused, with recurring scheduled tasks shown such as a weekly Monday 9:00 industry brief. Inbound calls start work too, since Pine Phone answers, screens intent, routes the caller and escalates only what matters, and requests also come from the web, mobile and desktop apps and from MCP clients. SourcePine AI, 19pine.ai/work and pine.im/features/phoneread 2026-10-06 |
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
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Grok BotKnowledge Grounding & RAG Bots work from the files on their shared computer, the services connected through plugins and the tools they sign in to, reading what each task needs as it runs, and a Team Bot can carry a description and secrets its owner sets up for the whole team. There is no curated knowledge base or search index that a team maintains for its Bots. Sourcex.ai/botread 2026-10-12 |
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Pine AIKnowledge Grounding & RAG Provider guides route a request to the right job, such as a cancellation or a refund with a particular company. There is no retrieval over the customer's own documents or knowledge base, and no way to load a company's own files, policies or records for the agent to draw on. SourcePine AI, 19pine.ai/llms.txt and /workread 2026-10-06 |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
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Grok BotMemory & State Persistence Each Bot keeps context on how its user works and updates its own memory as it learns, such as noting that a customer only signs annual contracts and who approves them, and a user can make a standing rule by asking a Bot to remember it. Bots also learn from one another, and the shared computer keeps files, browser state and logins between runs while chats are stored separately. A user gets no retention period for a Bot's memory and no way to review or remove a single entry. Sourcex.ai/botread 2026-10-12 |
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Pine AIMemory & State Persistence Pine Work turns a user's working context, routines and standards into a workflow Pine can run again and again, and conversation history is retained. On the computer, Safe Session Memory keeps a login so Pine can reuse the session for monthly statements, weekly exports and routine account chores, and batch jobs keep context for retries. Pine does not say what this memory covers, how long it lasts or how a user reviews and deletes it. SourcePine AI, 19pine.ai/work, pine.im/features/computer and /features/batch-jobsread 2026-10-06 |
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
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Grok BotHuman Oversight & Guardrails When an action needs approval, the conversation shows the proposed operation and its inputs, and the user picks allow once, always allow, which can save a matching rule, or deny, with the same controls on iPhone. Auto Review, an independent review model, checks risky actions before they run, covering shell commands, plugin calls, computer use, changes to routines and triggers, and subagent launches, and it lets them proceed, holds them for approval or stops them. Members can add their own check first rules, and Enterprise admins can enforce Auto Review with team rules members cannot switch off. Sourcecursor.com/docs/grok-bot/securityread 2026-10-12 |
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Pine AIHuman Oversight & Guardrails Before actions with high impact, Pine shows the user what it plans to send, and the user can approve, edit, pause or take over at any time. On the computer it shows the plan before sensitive actions, and one click hands control back for a password, a 2FA prompt, a purchase or a final submission. The user decides what Pine may do, users may need to approve actions or information a task needs, and calls use sensitive data only as needed, temporarily and with approval. In Pine Work the user can watch the agent's computer and take control at any time. There is no separate setting for which actions need approval, since the approval moments are built into how Pine works. SourcePine AI, pine.im/features/phone, /features/computer and 19pine.ai/ai-information-pageread 2026-10-06 |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
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Grok BotSecurity, Identity & Governance Grok Bot uses Cursor's sign in, auth and Privacy Mode, with SAML or OIDC single sign on on Teams Premium, and SCIM, the MCP allowlist and organization computer management on Enterprise. Admins control network destinations, team secrets, setup scripts, sudo on Bot computers and action recording, and API keys go into masked secret cards that keep the value out of chat and files. Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, holds ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 certification from Schellman with Grok Bot in the current scope, and data is deleted or returned within 30 days of written direction under the DPA. Sourcecursor.com/docs/grok-bot/securityread 2026-10-12 |
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Pine AISecurity, Identity & Governance SOC 2 work is in progress, and Pine invites contact about report availability, so no certification is held yet. Data is encrypted with TLS 1.3 in transit and AES-256 at rest. Neither Pine staff nor its agents can see plaintext passwords, because models work with masked placeholders and the real credentials are supplied only when a task needs them, and Pine does not store or see full payment card numbers or keep call recordings. Data is deleted within 30 days of a request, and neither Pine nor its AI providers train models on customer data. Pine names no roles, SSO or other access model for the customer's own organization. SourcePine AI, 19pine.ai/security and /trust-center; 19pine.ai/trust-centerread 2026-10-06 |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
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Grok BotObservability & Auditability Enterprise teams get audit logs and OpenTelemetry export of Bot activity, and admins can switch on action recording for team computers. In every plan, the conversation shows each operation awaiting approval with its inputs, and Teams plans add shared usage analytics. Usage and spending views count Bot work as Grok Bot usage, without naming the model behind each request. Sourcecursor.com/docs/grok-bot/securityread 2026-10-12 |
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Pine AIObservability & Auditability The work stays visible in Pine Work, where the user sees the agent's computer and task progress, and conversation history is retained. Batch jobs bring together summaries, each task's status and supporting records, offer structured exports, and show retry progress and which jobs need the user's input. There is no trace or audit log of the agent's own steps. SourcePine AI, 19pine.ai/work and pine.im/features/batch-jobsread 2026-10-06 |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
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Grok BotDeployment & Data Residency Each member gets one hosted microVM in the US, reached through Cursor's servers, with internet traffic leaving through static egress addresses shared across customers. Enterprise teams can route a computer's traffic through a member's desktop, install their own networking client or set proxies and TLS inspection, which connects the cloud computer to private networks without moving it. There is no region choice or deployment inside a customer's own environment. Sourcecursor.com/docs/grok-bot/securityread 2026-10-12 |
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Pine AIDeployment & Data Residency Pine runs as a hosted service reached through web, mobile and desktop apps for macOS and Windows. Production hosting is on Google Cloud in Iowa (us-central1), and transactional email runs on AWS in the US. There is no region choice, self hosting or private deployment. SourcePine AI, 19pine.ai/trust-center/subprocessors and /workread 2026-10-06 |
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
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Grok BotPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs A marketplace offers ready made Bots, each built for one role, among them Sales Outbound, Talent Scout, Paid Media, Expense Manager, Product Performance, Bug Reproduction, Account Health and Chief of Staff. Sales Outbound, for one, researches accounts overnight, ranks contacts by intent and drafts email and LinkedIn messages in the user's voice for review. A Bot's identity, skills and routines can be shared as a public link for others to copy, owners can publish a Team Bot that every teammate chats with privately, and Teams plans add a team marketplace for skills and plugins. Sourcex.ai/botread 2026-10-12 |
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Pine AIPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs The product's named parts are Pine Phone, a voice assistant, Pine Computer, Pine Email, Pine Finance for tracking spending, batch jobs and Pine MCP. Pine also speaks to owner operated businesses such as cleaning, HVAC and remodeling companies, auto shops, pool companies and online shops, around converting demand, removing blockers and growing repeat revenue. Consumer task categories (lower bills, cancel subscriptions, complaints, refunds) and provider specific guides route a request to the right job. All of these run on the same agent, with no separate agents or templates to adopt. Plans run from Plus at $99.90 a month billed annually through Max and Team to a custom Enterprise plan, with batch calling of up to 5, 10 or 20 calls by plan. SourcePine AI, pine.im, 19pine.ai/llms.txt and /pricingread 2026-10-06 |
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
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Grok BotModel Flexibility & Routing For each task, Grok Bot picks the model most likely to do it well, an xAI model or a third party model from a provider on the subprocessor list, and the choice can change from one request to the next. Users cannot see, choose or block a model, there is no model picker, and a team's Cursor model allowlist does not apply to Grok Bot. Sourcecursor.com/help/grok-bot/modelsread 2026-10-12 |
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Pine AIModel Flexibility & Routing Google's Gemini API handles the language and audio processing behind the agent, and Pine names no other model provider. Customers get no model choice. SourcePine AI, 19pine.ai/trust-center/subprocessorsread 2026-10-06 |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
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Grok BotAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Outside systems reach a Bot through a routine started by a webhook call, with the routine's own URL and key shown on its details. That is the one inbound path. There is no public API or SDK for creating Bots, sending them work or reading their results, and MCP plugins point outward to other services. Sourcecursor.com/help/grok-bot/routinesread 2026-10-12 |
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Pine AIAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility The MCP server at https://mcp.pine.im/mcp is Pine's own. It signs in by OAuth (or an access token), and the tools in its repository, linked from pine.im, create, list, get and delete Pine sessions and tasks for calls, emails and computer work. Install guides cover Claude Code and Codex as plugins, Cursor from a clone of the repository, and other clients that support remote MCP with browser sign in. SourcePine AI, pine.im/features/mcpread 2026-10-06 |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
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Grok BotTesting, Debugging & Optimization Auto Review judges each risky action as it happens, a guardrail on behavior, and a taught routine is saved from a single demonstration. Neither tests a Bot's output. There are no test cases, quality checks or comparisons of a Bot's results before or after a change. Sourcecursor.com/docs/grok-bot/securityread 2026-10-12 |
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Pine AITesting, Debugging & Optimization By its own figures, Pine has a 93% success rate in negotiation, saves 270 minutes on average and has saved more than $3 million, and it promises twice the leads for local businesses. There is no evaluation harness, test case set or quality gate for a customer to run. SourcePine AI, 19pine.ai/pricing and pine.imread 2026-10-06 |
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
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Grok BotBrowser & Computer Use Bots share a persistent cloud computer with files, a browser, installed apps and saved logins, sign in to a team's apps and websites and use them the way a person does, including tools that are hard to navigate. When a site blocks cloud traffic, the Bot hands the step to the user or routes its traffic through the user's desktop, and with permission it can run commands on that desktop, asking before each one by default. Settings can update, recover or reset the cloud computer, keeping saved Bots, files and logins. Sourcex.ai/botread 2026-10-12 |
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Pine AIBrowser & Computer Use Pine Work gives the agent a computer of its own that it operates to complete forms, research and move work across websites and software while the user watches, and consumer Pine uses a computer to log into service sites and submit forms. Pine Computer is a private cloud browser that navigates websites, fills forms, downloads files and finishes online chores, and batch jobs run more than 2,000 cloud browsers in parallel. SourcePine AI, 19pine.ai/work, pine.im/features/computer and /features/batch-jobsread 2026-10-06 |
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Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
From $20 a month with Cursor Pro | Free tier, Pro from $30 a month |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, partial | Public, exact |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
subscription with weekly usage, extra usage at token cost | credits |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | High variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
No free tier
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Mixed | Mixed |
Grok Bot is a SpaceXAI product sold and supported through Cursor, which became part of SpaceX's AI unit in August 2026. Grok Bot picks among xAI and third party models for each task, with no picker. Pine runs on Google's Gemini API and has no SSO or roles for a team.
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