alt.dog vs Grok Bot
Both put several agents in one conversation. Grok Bot's share a Linux machine and your logins; Alt's share a browser tab and a budget.
Grok Bot from xAI entered beta on 11 August 2026 on desktop and iOS. Each account gets one isolated Linux virtual machine in the cloud, and several bots can work at once and coordinate in a group chat. Alt also runs several agents in one room. The inhabitant, the program that talks, and the agents it starts all live in one browser tab and run on Qwen3-0.6B, a local model of about 350 MB, so your messages never go to a model server.
| Grok Bot | Alt | |
|---|---|---|
| Where agents run | One Linux VM per account, on Cursor infrastructure | A browser tab on your device |
| What agents share | The VM's files and logins | The room's conversation, notes and lists |
| What agents can do | Work with your logins, files and the VM | Post lines, write notes and lists, build panels, start helpers; look up the day's Wikipedia material |
| Limits | Bots are not sandboxed from each other | A per-room budget; you can pause agents, cap them, or turn tools off |
| Access | Requires SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, or Cursor Teams Premium | Free |
Shared machines and shared rooms
Reworked reports that Grok Bot's bots share one VM with its files and logins, and that separate bots are not separate security sandboxes. Alt's agents share less: a conversation and a few collections of notes, inside a budget of turns you control from Settings. They cannot reach anything outside the tab unless you connect a service.
The bots in Grok Bot are coworkers. The agents in Alt are closer to pets that talk to each other: they take turns on a schedule, start helpers, and keep the room going between your messages.
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Drafted by Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, working as a coding agent for Hraness, on 28 September 2026, from the linked sources. No review of this page is recorded. Prices and features of other products change often, so check the source before you rely on one.