Find and cancel subscriptions you forgot about with Grok Bot

1. Workflow

1. Write down what you think you pay for and set the rules before you open Grok Bot: which email gets your receipts, what you must keep, how far back to look, and that nothing is cancelled until you pick it.

   Tool

   Grok (any chat; Claude or ChatGPT also fine)

   Why

   xAI's Subscription Cleaner example says the Bot collates receipt and newsletter mail, suggests what to kill and unsubscribes what you approve, and xAI's docs say to tell the Bot which actions it can take and where it must stop, with purchases and financial changes named as places to set a boundary (xAI Bot use cases and docs: Approvals, security, and privacy, checked Oct 29, 2026). A short brief sets both before the Bot sees your inbox.

   Cost

   $0 on Grok Free (limited chat requests).

   Copy prompt Paste into any free chatbot. You'll paste the first request it writes into Grok Bot in Step 3.

   Preview prompt: Subscription audit brief

   ROLE You are a careful household-budget coach who helps people find subscriptions they forgot about without cancelling anything by mistake. GOAL Help me write a short subscription audit brief and the first request I will send my Grok Bot, so it finds what I still pay for and changes nothing on its own. WHAT THE NEXT STEP NEEDS For Steps 2 and 3: which email account the receipts arrive in, which subscriptions I already know about, which ones I must keep, a monthly price above which something is worth questioning, and the rules the Bot must follow (look only, list, wait for my pick). HOW TO WORK WITH ME Do not write the deliverable yet. Interview me first. - Ask your questions ONE AT A TIME and wait for my answer before asking the next. (If I ask for speed, you may ask a short numbered batch of at most 5 questions instead.) - With every question, offer 2-3 sensible example answers or a default, so I can reply "default" or pick one. - If an answer is vague, ask one follow-up. If I don't know, choose a sensible default and tell me what you chose. - Do not generate the deliverable until I have answered every question. When you have enough, give me a 3-5 line summary of what you understood and ask me to confirm. - Do not invent facts about me, my accounts or my subscriptions. If something is missing, ask. QUESTIONS TO COVER (in a sensible order, skip any I already answered above) 1. Which email address do most receipts and renewal notices go to? Examples: my personal Gmail, a work Outlook, two accounts. (Default: one personal Gmail.) 2. Which subscriptions do you already know you pay for? Rough is fine. Examples: a music app, a cloud storage plan, a streaming service, an AI tool. (Default: I'm not sure, find them.) 3. Which ones must never be cancelled, even if they look unused? Examples: phone plan, password manager, work software. (Default: anything work-related.) 4. How far back should the Bot look for receipts? Examples: 3 months, 6 months, 12 months to catch annual plans. (Default: 12 months.) 5. Above what price should something get a closer look? Examples: anything over $5/month, anything annual, everything. (Default: everything, sorted by price.) 6. What counts as "unused" for you? Examples: I haven't opened it in 60 days, I forgot I had it, a duplicate of something else. (Default: I'll decide per item from the list.) 7. Any free trials running right now that you want to stop before they bill? (Default: none I know of, but flag any trial emails.) THE DELIVERABLE (only after I confirm) 1. AUDIT BRIEF: the email account and time window, my known subscriptions, my keep list, my price threshold and what "unused" means to me. 2. FIRST REQUEST FOR GROK BOT: one message that starts "Find the subscriptions I still pay for" and asks for a table with name, price, billing period, next renewal date, the email it found it in, and a "keep / question / cancel?" column, sorted by yearly cost. It must say: "Look only. Don't cancel, change, sign in to buy, or unsubscribe from anything until I pick items and approve each one. If you can't find a price or renewal date, write 'not found' instead of guessing." 3. CHECKS: 3 things I should look at when the table comes back. Put everything I should copy inside one clearly delimited block that starts with a line "=== COPY START ===" and ends with a line "=== COPY END ===", with no commentary inside the block. Put any notes outside it. AFTER THE DELIVERABLE Ask me: "Anything to tweak?" If I ask for changes, revise and give me the full updated block again between the same markers. Repeat until I say it is good. FINISH When I'm happy, end with one line telling me what to do next: update Grok Bot and connect only the email account on the brief (Step 2), then paste the first request into the Bot (Step 3).

2. Update Grok Bot to 0.78.1 or later, connect only the email account that gets your receipts (Connect apps in the sidebar), and start the Find unused subscriptions template if your account shows it. Otherwise, add the Subscription Cleaner from xAI's use cases page or just use your own Bot.

   Tool

   Grok Bot app

   Why

   The Grok Bot changelog for v0.78.1 (Oct 27, 2026) says the Find unused subscriptions template cancels plans you pick from the ones you still pay for, Watch subscription prices checks renewal prices, and Bots can cancel a subscription or look up its price and renewal date and confirm with you before changing anything (checked Oct 29, 2026). xAI's use cases page lists a Subscription Cleaner with an Add to Grok Bot button (checked Oct 29, 2026). The changelog doesn't say where the template appears in the app.

   Cost

   Grok Bot is listed from Premium ($30/month); it is not listed on Free or Plus.

3. Run the audit: paste the first request from Step 1 (or the prompt below) and let the Bot build a numbered table of what you still pay for, with prices and renewal dates. It should only look in this step.

   Tool

   Grok Bot

   Why

   Per the v0.78.1 changelog, Bots can look up a subscription's price and renewal date (checked Oct 29, 2026). xAI's docs say Auto-review counts what you asked for in your own messages, and that text from an email or a web page doesn't count as your request (xAI docs: Approvals, security, and privacy, checked Oct 29, 2026). A look-only instruction in your own words keeps the audit from turning into changes.

   Cost

   Uses your plan's shared weekly usage; xAI doesn't publish a cost per task.

   Copy prompt Paste into a one-to-one chat with the Bot you set up in Step 2, after the email account shows Connected.

   Preview prompt: Find what I still pay for (look only)

   ROLE You are my Grok Bot, acting as a subscription auditor who looks, lists and explains, and never changes anything on its own. GOAL Find every subscription I still pay for, using the email account I connected, and give me one clear table so I can decide what to cancel. WHAT THE NEXT STEP NEEDS For Step 4: a numbered list of subscriptions with name, price, billing period, next renewal date, where you found it, and anything that suggests I'm not using it, so I can pick items by number. HOW TO WORK WITH ME Do not write the deliverable yet. Interview me first. - Ask your questions ONE AT A TIME and wait for my answer before asking the next. (If I ask for speed, you may ask a short numbered batch of at most 4 questions instead.) - With every question, offer 2-3 sensible example answers or a default, so I can reply "default" or pick one. - If an answer is vague, ask one follow-up. If I don't know, choose a sensible default and tell me what you chose. - Do not generate the deliverable until I have answered every question. When you have enough, give me a 3-5 line summary of what you understood and ask me to confirm. - Do not invent facts about me, my accounts or my subscriptions. If something is missing, ask. - Look only during this step. Do not cancel, change, buy, sign in to pay, or unsubscribe from anything. QUESTIONS TO COVER (in a sensible order, skip any I already answered above) 1. Do you have my audit brief from Step 1? Paste it, or answer the next questions. (Default: I'll paste it.) 2. Which connected account and how far back? (Default: my connected Gmail, last 12 months.) 3. Should newsletters and marketing emails be listed too, separately from paid plans? (Default: yes, in a second short list, so I can unsubscribe later.) 4. Which items are on my keep list? (Default: none beyond what's in the brief.) THE DELIVERABLE (only after I confirm) 1. Search the receipts, renewal notices and trial emails in that window. Then give me a numbered table sorted by yearly cost: name, price, billing period, next renewal date, the email (sender and date) it came from, a usage hint if one exists, and your suggestion (keep / question / cancel?). Write "not found" for anything you couldn't confirm, and never guess a price. 2. A second short list of free trials that will bill soon, with the date they bill. 3. The yearly total of the paid items you found, labelled as your arithmetic. 4. Anything you couldn't check, such as plans billed through an app store or by phone. Put everything I should copy inside one clearly delimited block that starts with a line "=== COPY START ===" and ends with a line "=== COPY END ===", with no commentary inside the block. Put any notes outside it. AFTER THE DELIVERABLE Ask me: "Anything to tweak?" If I ask for changes, revise and give me the full updated block again between the same markers. Repeat until I say it is good. FINISH When I'm happy with the table, end with one line telling me what to do next: reply with the numbers I want cancelled (Step 4), and you will confirm each one with me before changing it.

4. Pick what goes: reply with the numbers to cancel, approve each cancellation on its card, and keep the cancellation log. Anything that needs a phone call or an app store setting, do yourself from the page the Bot gives you.

   Tool

   Grok Bot

   Why

   The changelog says Bots confirm with you before changing anything (v0.78.1, checked Oct 29, 2026). Grok Bot's help says an approval card's Allow once runs the action without saving a rule, Deny stops it, and some cards warn This can't be undone (Cursor help: Approvals and Auto-review, checked Oct 29, 2026). xAI's Vault docs say a Bot never sees a saved password or card number (checked Oct 29, 2026).

   Cost

   Uses your plan's shared weekly usage. The money you save depends on what you cancel and isn't priced here.

   Copy prompt Paste into the same chat as Step 3, so the Bot can see the numbered table.

   Preview prompt: Cancel only what I pick

   ROLE You are my Grok Bot, cancelling only the subscriptions I pick, one at a time, with my OK before each change. GOAL Cancel the subscriptions I choose from the Step 3 table, safely, and keep a record of every cancellation. WHAT THE NEXT STEP NEEDS For Step 5: a cancellation log with each item's name, what was done, the date it ends, the confirmation email or page, and anything I still have to do myself. HOW TO WORK WITH ME Do not write the deliverable yet. Interview me first. - Ask your questions ONE AT A TIME and wait for my answer before asking the next. (If I ask for speed, you may ask a short numbered batch of at most 4 questions instead.) - With every question, offer 2-3 sensible example answers or a default, so I can reply "default" or pick one. - If an answer is vague, ask one follow-up. If I don't know, choose a sensible default and tell me what you chose. - Do not generate the deliverable until I have answered every question. When you have enough, give me a 3-5 line summary of what you understood and ask me to confirm. - Do not invent facts about me, my accounts or my subscriptions. If something is missing, ask. - Before every cancellation, tell me exactly what you will do and wait for my approval. Never cancel more than I picked. QUESTIONS TO COVER (in a sensible order, skip any I already answered above) 1. Which numbers from the table should be cancelled? (Default: none until I say.) 2. For each one, cancel now or at the end of the period I already paid for, if the service offers both? (Default: end of the paid period.) 3. If a service offers a discount to stay, should you tell me about it or just decline? (Default: tell me and wait.) 4. If a service needs a phone call, an app store setting or a chat with support, should you skip it and tell me how? (Default: skip it and give me the exact page to use.) THE DELIVERABLE (only after I confirm) 1. For each picked item, in order: look up the current price and renewal date, describe the cancellation you're about to make, wait for my approval, then cancel it. Use logins from my Vault or ask me with a Secure Form; never ask me to paste a password in chat. 2. After each one, check for a confirmation email or page and save it. 3. A CANCELLATION LOG: name, done / skipped / needs me, effective end date, confirmation (email subject and date, or page), and what I must do myself for anything skipped. Don't promise refunds; only report what the service says. Put everything I should copy inside one clearly delimited block that starts with a line "=== COPY START ===" and ends with a line "=== COPY END ===", with no commentary inside the block. Put any notes outside it. AFTER THE DELIVERABLE Ask me: "Anything to tweak?" If I ask for changes, revise and give me the full updated block again between the same markers. Repeat until I say it is good. FINISH When I'm happy, end with one line telling me what to do next: set up the monthly check in Step 5 so new subscriptions and price rises don't slip past me again.

5. Stop it happening again: set up a monthly report-only routine (or the Watch subscription prices template) that flags new charges, price rises and trials about to bill. Run one Test, then leave it.

   Tool

   Grok Bot (routines)

   Why

   The v0.78.1 changelog lists Watch subscription prices, which checks renewal prices, and Try it, don't pay for it, which starts a free trial and cancels it, or reminds you, before it bills (checked Oct 29, 2026). xAI's routines docs say to confirm the schedule and time zone, the input source, the approval boundary and what happens when a source is missing, and that routines run in the cloud while your laptop is closed (xAI docs: Skills and routines, checked Oct 29, 2026).

   Cost

   Each run uses your plan's shared weekly usage; xAI doesn't say how many runs a plan covers.

   Copy prompt Paste into the same Bot chat once your cancellations are done.

   Preview prompt: Monthly subscription check

   ROLE You are my Grok Bot, setting up a monthly subscription check that reports to me and never changes anything without my OK. GOAL Create one routine that checks my subscriptions every month and warns me about new charges, price rises and trials that are about to bill. WHAT THE NEXT STEP NEEDS A saved routine (schedule, time zone, source, report format, approval rule) that I can Test once and then leave running, plus my keep list. HOW TO WORK WITH ME Do not write the deliverable yet. Interview me first. - Ask your questions ONE AT A TIME and wait for my answer before asking the next. (If I ask for speed, you may ask a short numbered batch of at most 4 questions instead.) - With every question, offer 2-3 sensible example answers or a default, so I can reply "default" or pick one. - If an answer is vague, ask one follow-up. If I don't know, choose a sensible default and tell me what you chose. - Do not generate the deliverable until I have answered every question. When you have enough, give me a 3-5 line summary of what you understood and ask me to confirm. - Do not invent facts about me, my accounts or my subscriptions. If something is missing, ask. QUESTIONS TO COVER (in a sensible order, skip any I already answered above) 1. When should it run, and in which time zone? Examples: the 1st of every month at 9:00 AM, every Monday at 8:00 AM. (Default: the 1st of every month at 9:00 AM in my time zone.) 2. What should it flag? Examples: new subscriptions, price increases at renewal, trials billing in the next 7 days, annual renewals in the next 30 days. (Default: all four.) 3. Where should the report go? (Default: this chat.) 4. What should happen if my email account is disconnected or a source can't be read? (Default: tell me it failed instead of using old data.) THE DELIVERABLE (only after I confirm) 1. Show me the routine first: name, schedule and time zone, source, what it flags, the report format (a short table compared with last month, with the email each item came from), and the rule: "Report only. Never cancel, buy, sign up for or change a subscription without my approval in chat." 2. After I approve, save it, then run one Test with a safe, read-only check and show me the result. 3. Remind me where to pause or delete the routine. Put everything I should copy inside one clearly delimited block that starts with a line "=== COPY START ===" and ends with a line "=== COPY END ===", with no commentary inside the block. Put any notes outside it. AFTER THE DELIVERABLE Ask me: "Anything to tweak?" If I ask for changes, revise and give me the full updated block again between the same markers. Repeat until I say it is good. FINISH When I'm happy, end with one line telling me what to do next: add an Ask first rule for cancelling and buying in Settings (Step 6).

6. Lock it down: in Settings → General → Auto-review, add Ask first rules for cancelling subscriptions and for purchases, and don't press Always allow on a cancellation card.

   Tool

   Grok Bot settings

   Why

   Grok Bot's help says an action that matches one of your Ask first rules always gets a card, that Always allow saves a rule so similar actions run on their own, and that cards raised by a routine or other background work expire after 30 minutes (Cursor help: Approvals and Auto-review, checked Oct 29, 2026).

   Cost

   $0.

2. Recommended tool chain

1. Grok (any chat; Claude or ChatGPT also fine)
2. Grok Bot app
3. Grok Bot
4. Grok Bot
5. Grok Bot (routines)
6. Grok Bot settings

3. Total cost

Unpriced items are left out of the total (marked “cost not sourced”), so the real total is higher. All totals are our arithmetic from sourced unit prices.

4. Current promos

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5. Learn it

Last verified Oct 29, 2026. Items older than 30 days are marked.

6. Caveats and assumptions

• Grok Bot 0.78.1 is rolling out. If you don't see the subscription templates after updating, the same steps work with your own Bot and the prompts above; xAI doesn't say where the templates appear in the app.
• The Bot only finds what it can read. Plans billed through an app store, a phone bill or a card that never emails you may be missing, so check your card or bank statement too.
• We couldn't confirm which services the Bot can cancel on its own. Some only let you cancel by phone, in their own app or in an app store's subscription settings; the Bot should skip those and tell you how.
• A cancellation often keeps the plan running until the end of the period you already paid for. Don't count on a refund; xAI's changelog says the Bot cites only protections it has read and doesn't promise refunds.
• Try it, don't pay for it starts a free trial for you. Trials often need a card and bill automatically, so set the reminder and check the service's own terms.
• Approve each cancellation yourself. Don't press Always allow on a cancellation card, because that saves a rule that lets similar actions run without asking.
• Connect only the email account you need, and remove access afterwards if you don't want the monthly check.
• Plan features and prices are from xAI's pricing page on the verified date and can change; costs are our arithmetic, one month unless stated.

Last verified Oct 29, 2026.