Best Grok Prompts

What Grok does that other chatbots do not

Most prompts written for ChatGPT run in Grok unchanged, and the ones on our ChatGPT and Claude pages are worth trying there. The prompts on this page are different: each one is built around something Grok has and the others do not, or has in a different shape.

• Live posts from X. Grok can search public posts on X, read whole threads and follow particular accounts. No other assistant has that data built in, which is why most prompts here start with «search X».
• A blunter default voice. Grok takes instructions about tone and bluntness readily and leans witty when left alone. That makes it good for honest feedback and bad for neutral copy unless you ask for neutral.
• Grok Imagine. Images and short videos with sound, in the same app. The image model handles text inside the picture well, which suits posters, product shots and icons.
• Build mode and Automations. Build makes small sites, tools and games from a description; Automations runs a prompt on a schedule. Both need a prompt written for them, not a chat message.

Pick the mode before you paste

The mode picker in the Grok app decides how hard the model thinks, and it matters more than the wording of most prompts. As of October 2026 the app offers these modes:

The X prompts on this page work in Fast for a quick look and give fuller, better-sourced answers in Expert. The Cited Research Brief is written for Expert or Heavy. Older guides tell you to press Think or DeepSearch; those buttons are no longer in the picker, and Expert and Heavy do that job now.

How to ask Grok to search X

Grok decides on its own whether a question needs a search. Ask about a news story without saying so and it may answer from what it already knows, which stops at its training date. Four habits make the answers current and checkable.

1. Say «search X and the web now». It removes the guess about whether to search.
2. Give a time window. «In the last 24 hours» or «from March 3 to March 10». Without one, an old viral post can outweigh today's news.
3. Name the accounts when you know them. «Only posts from @company and @founder» turns a noisy search into a precise one. The Competitor Watch prompt is built on this.
4. Ask for links and for what is unconfirmed. A link per claim lets you check the answer in a click, and a separate «not yet confirmed» section stops a rumour from sounding like a fact.

Put together, a question you can type from memory:

Search X and the web now. What are people saying about [topic]
in the [last 24 hours]? Give the facts several sources agree on,
the main points of view with one linked post each, and a separate
list of claims you could not confirm.

Counts are the place to be careful. Grok reads a sample of posts, not all of them, so «most people are angry» means «most of the posts it read». The Brand Mention Monitor asks it to say how many posts it read, which tells you what every number rests on.

Prompting Grok Imagine

Grok Imagine makes images and videos from text or from your own picture. Two of the prompts on this page, the Imagine Image Prompt Writer and the Imagine Video Prompt Writer, have Grok write those prompts for you in the shape below.

Images

Describe the picture in plain sentences: the subject and what it is doing, the setting, the framing and camera angle, the light, the style, the colours. Text that must appear goes in quotation marks, spelled exactly, with where it sits, because the current image model renders words well and will use what you give it. Choose the shape before you generate: the app offers 2:3, 3:2, 1:1, 9:16 and 16:9.

A ceramic coffee mug on a pale oak table by a window, morning
light from the left, shallow depth of field, eye-level close-up,
warm muted colours. The mug is printed with the words "First, coffee"
in a simple black serif. Product photo style.

Video

A text-to-video clip is made in two steps: Grok draws an opening frame, then animates it. So describe the opening frame first, as a still picture, then one continuous motion, then one camera move. Clips come with sound, so say what it should sound like. Fit the action to the length: a 6-second clip holds one action, not three. When you start from your own photo, describe only the motion, camera and sound, and leave the picture alone.

Opening frame: a paper boat on a rain puddle in a city street at
dusk, neon reflections in the water. The boat drifts slowly toward
the camera as raindrops ripple around it. Slow push-in, low angle.
Sound: soft rain and distant traffic. 6 seconds.

Every image and video carries a Grok watermark. Video is part of the paid plans; the free plan includes images.

What you will not find here

A lot of what people share as «Grok prompts» is about adult content or about getting around Grok's filters. We do not publish either, on this page or anywhere on the site. The filters also change from week to week, so a prompt that depends on slipping past one tends to stop working. Everything here is meant for work and stays useful when the rules move.

Grok plans, briefly

Prices as listed by xAI in October 2026. xAI also lists Lite and Heavy tiers, and X Premium+ includes SuperGrok. Paid plans draw from one weekly allowance shared by chat, Imagine, voice and Build, so a few long videos use up the same budget as a day of research. Our Grok review keeps the full price table and how Grok compares with other assistants.