Weekly Bot Scorecard
Week ending November 1, 2026: here is how the ten bots we track every day stack up on new features, list prices and where you can run them.
This is our first Weekly Bot Scorecard. It rolls up the week's What's New in Bots issues (Oct 27, Oct 28, Oct 29, Oct 30 and Oct 31) into one table. The list is the same ten bots the daily tracker follows: Grok Bot, Slackbot, Dots, Claude Duet (Anthropic's newest consumer agent) and Muse, plus the five that showed up most this week, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Cursor, Perplexity and Google Gemini.
Prices are public list prices in US dollars from each maker's own pricing or help pages, checked on Nov 2. More and more, the bot comes bundled in a bigger plan, so most rows list the plans that include it. If a cell ever says UNKNOWN, we could not find it on the maker's site.
The Scorecard
Bot | Maker | Standout features this week | Pricing / cost (list, US$) | Platforms | Notes / changes since last scorecard |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Grok Bot | SpaceXSI (x.ai) | v0.77.0 (Oct 26) added a Vault Payments tab, per login 1Password approval and Import Memory. v0.78.1 (Oct 27) added shopping product cards, Shop Pay and subscription templates that cancel trials and unused plans. | Included from Premium $30/mo; Super $100/mo; Ultra $200/mo; Teams from $30 per user/mo (x.ai pricing). | Mac, Windows and Linux desktop apps, mobile, and Slack for Team Bots. | First scorecard. |
Slackbot | Slack | Oct 28 update: Event-Triggered Tasks (ask me first or auto-approve), Slackbot Mini, My skills and Discover views, a Slackbot skills API, and audio or video transcription up to 100 MB. | Ongoing access on Business+ ($18 per user/mo paid monthly, $15 paid annually) and Enterprise+ (contact sales); a limited trial is coming to Free and Pro (Slack pricing). | Inside Slack, plus the new Slackbot Mini floating window and menu bar icon. | First scorecard. |
Dots | OpenAI | Text your dot over iMessage or RCS (US preview for Pro, Oct 28). On iOS, a Your dot Home Screen widget and an Open your dot action in Apple Shortcuts. | Pro plans only: Pro 100 $100/mo, Pro 200 $200/mo, Pro 500 $500/mo (ChatGPT pricing and OpenAI Help Center). | Inside ChatGPT on Pro, iOS widget and Shortcuts, and texting (US preview). | First scorecard. |
Claude Duet (Anthropic's newest consumer agent) | Anthropic | Waitlist research preview. All US Max subscribers are coming off the waitlist first, US Pro next. Lead Karan Ahuja shared a walkthrough of Tasks and Channels. Anthropic also renamed Max 5x to Max and Max 20x to Ultra. | Included at no extra cost with Pro ($20/mo, or $17/mo billed annually), Max ($100/mo) and Ultra ($200/mo), US only during the preview (Claude pricing and Claude Help Center). | iOS, Android and claude.ai. | First scorecard. |
Muse | Meta | Launched in Singapore (Oct 27) with local connectors such as Shopee, Grab and Singapore Airlines. Meta research introduced Muse Realtime Avatar. Forbes reported more than ten million users. | Free with a weekly usage limit; Power $20/mo; Maximum $100/mo (Meta Help Center). | iOS, Android, muse.ai and WhatsApp (per Meta). | First scorecard. |
ChatGPT | OpenAI | GPT-6.1 Terra in ChatGPT Work and Codex, Oracle apps and data in ChatGPT, doubled Work and Codex usage on Pro (Oct 29), and account switching on iOS and Android for up to two accounts (Oct 30). | Free; Plus $20/mo; Pro 100 $100/mo, Pro 200 $200/mo, Pro 500 $500/mo (OpenAI Help Center). | Web, iOS and Android, plus ChatGPT Work on desktop. | First scorecard. |
Cursor | Cursor (plans sold through X Subscription Corp.) | Agent SDK generally available: an agent is a folder of Markdown prompts and TypeScript tools with built in evals. Oct 29 security notice: a malicious Claude Code extension (2.1.313) sat in its marketplace; move to 2.1.314. | Free; Plus $8/mo (Grok models only); Premium $30/mo; Super $100/mo; Ultra $200/mo; Teams from $30 per user/mo; third party models billed at API list price (Cursor pricing). | Desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux; web; CLI; Slack, GitHub and Linear. | First scorecard. |
Microsoft Copilot | Microsoft | Dropbox integration on every Dropbox plan, the Copilot harness opened up through Microsoft Foundry, and 25+ finance skills and partner plugins in Excel and Cowork. Office in Copilot starts rolling out worldwide in mid November. | Microsoft 365 Copilot Business add-on $21 per user/mo paid yearly (promo $18 through Dec 31, 2026); Business Standard with Copilot $23.50; Business Premium with Copilot $32; Cowork and Autopilot billed by usage (Microsoft Copilot pricing). | Copilot app on web, desktop and mobile; Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams; Edge. | First scorecard. |
Perplexity | Perplexity | Upgraded voice mode in the Mac app and on the web for Pro and Max. Perplexity Computer can now drive your own Chrome (or another Chromium browser) through an extension (Oct 30). | Pro $17/mo billed annually; Max $200/mo or $2,000/yr; Enterprise Pro from $40 per seat/mo (Perplexity Pro and Perplexity Max pages). | Web, Mac and Windows apps, Comet, and a Chromium browser extension. | First scorecard. |
Google Gemini | Generate, preview and edit files right in the Gemini app: Docs, Sheets, slide decks, PDFs, Markdown and code. PDFs work on web and mobile; the other formats are web only. | Free; Google AI Plus $4.99/mo; AI Pro $19.99/mo; AI Ultra $99.99/mo (5x) or $199.99/mo (20x) (Google AI plans). | Gemini app on web and mobile, plus Gmail, Docs and Chrome on paid plans. | First scorecard. |
What Stood Out
Money was the theme of the week. Grok Bot got a payments tab and product cards, and Perplexity Computer can now work inside your own signed in browser. Proactive agents kept spreading too, with Claude Duet invites going out to US Max subscribers and Slackbot learning to act the moment something happens. Bots that can buy things and act on their own are exactly where you want a human in the loop, and a good reason to run your own bot vs. bot bake off before you pick one. (Our tip on how to publish a weekly scorecard for your own bots is here too.)
Sources
Pricing comes from the SpaceXSI (x.ai) pricing page, Slack pricing, ChatGPT pricing, the OpenAI Help Center articles on Pro tiers and ChatGPT Plus, Claude pricing, the Claude Duet help article, Meta's Muse subscriptions page, Cursor pricing, Microsoft Copilot pricing, Perplexity Pro, the Perplexity Max help article and Google AI plans. Platforms also draw on the Cursor download page, the Grok Bot changelog and Meta's Introducing Muse post. Features come from the daily issues linked above. Want more detail on any of these bots? Browse the directory.
See you next week.