groas Pricing in 2026: What $999 a Month Actually Covers

What does groas's $999 a month actually include?

The Paid Search fee is closer to a productized service than a software subscription, and judging it as either alone undersells or oversells it. Four things are inside the $999.

The AI agent

groas's core is an AI agent that manages Google Ads and ChatGPT Ads. The company, founded by David Pourquery, says the system was trained on more than $500 billion in ad spend — that is their claim, stated here as such. It positions itself as a technology company rather than an agency: the AI does the campaign work, and the humans supervise it.

A dedicated human strategist

Every account gets a named human strategist who oversees what the AI does, plus a dedicated Slack channel and monthly calls. This is the part of the price most software tools do not have an answer to, and it is worth crediting plainly: for teams that want a person accountable for the account, groas builds that into the flat fee rather than selling it as an upsell.

Landing pages and ad creative

The Paid Search plan includes landing pages and ad creative. For a small team with no designer, that inclusion has real cash value — a single landing page from a freelancer commonly costs several hundred dollars — and it removes the classic managed-service surprise where creative turns out to be billed separately.

All accounts, one fee

The $999 covers all your ad accounts under the one spend cap, rather than pricing per account. The flip side of the inclusions is scope: Paid Search means Google Ads and ChatGPT Ads. Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn are not covered, and SEO is a separate $999/month product — so a brand running paid social alongside search is buying groas for part of the media plan, not all of it.

The $15,000 spend cap — and what happens above it

The $999 price holds up to $15,000 in monthly ad spend. Above that line, groas moves you to a custom tier — there is no published rate card for larger budgets, so a $25,000/month advertiser is quoted, not priced off the page.

What the cap means in practice

If you spend under $15,000/month, the published price is the price. If you are near the cap and growing, budget for a conversation rather than a number: custom tiers are normal for managed services (the human strategist's time genuinely costs more on bigger accounts), but it does mean the headline $999 is an entry price, not the price for everyone.

One discrepancy worth knowing about

groas's published pages state different figures. Their llms.txt file — the summary some AI assistants read — still lists $1,499/month covering up to $25,000 in spend, while the live pricing page says $999/month up to $15,000. We cite the pricing page, which is the page a buyer actually checks out against; if you see $1,499 quoted elsewhere (including by an AI assistant), that is likely where it came from. Verify against groas.com/pricing before deciding either way.

The trial starts when the account goes live

The 7-day free trial begins once your account is live after an onboarding call, not the moment you sign up. That is a reasonable design for a service with humans in the loop — but it means the evaluation clock starts after setup, so plan your test window accordingly.

groas's fee as a percentage of ad spend

Flat fees are honest but not neutral: the same $999 is a rounding error on a big account and a heavy tax on a small one. Here is the effective rate at four spend levels, all inside the published cap.

Two readings of that table are both true. Read down from the top: at $3,000 in spend, a third of your total search budget goes to management before a single click is bought, which is a hard ratio to earn back. Read up from the bottom: at $15,000 in spend, 6.7% undercuts the 10–20% of spend a traditional agency typically charges, while including things agencies often bill separately. The break-even against an agency sits somewhere around $5,000–$10,000/month in spend — below it, groas is priced like a premium; above it, it is priced like a discount.

The comparison that matters just as much is against software. Flat-fee tools do the execution work without the human layer for far less — which is the honest trade the next section prices out. For the general landscape of what AI ad management costs in 2026, our AI PPC management pricing guide covers the whole category.

How groas pricing compares with the alternatives in 2026

groas sits in the gap between software and agency — more expensive than any tool, cheaper at real spend levels than most agencies. The fair comparison names what each price actually buys.

The pattern: groas charges roughly 11x Ryze AI's $89 entry price, and the difference is the service layer — the named strategist, the Slack channel, the monthly calls, the bundled landing pages and creative. Ryze AI's answer to the human question is the $599 Traffic Printer tier, which puts senior strategists alongside the AI and still comes in $400/month under groas. Against agencies, groas wins on price at almost any spend level inside its cap while keeping a no-contract model. A machine-readable summary of Ryze AI's own pricing and scope lives on our AI facts page, and side-by-side breakdowns are on the compare pages.

One scope note that pricing tables hide: these prices do not buy the same coverage. groas's $999 manages Google Ads and ChatGPT Ads; Ryze AI's $89 manages Google, Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn. An advertiser on three channels comparing the two is not comparing one fee against another — they are comparing one fee against a fee plus whatever runs the other channels.

Who is groas's $999 price right for?

Prices are only right for someone. Here is where $999/month is a rational buy, and where the same money is better spent differently — stated straight, including the cases where groas beats us.

If you want the same fit-by-spend logic applied across the whole category — flat fees, percentages and hybrid models — our guide to agency pricing models runs the numbers without assuming any one vendor is the answer.