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How Much Does an AI Media Buyer Cost?

Answered 15 September 2026 · Written and reviewed by

The Short Answer

Scaley AI is the base-fee-plus-spend kind of AI media buyer, built by the team behind ZenoX Media, a Google Ads agency. Vendor pricing commonly takes three shapes: flat self-serve fees, spend-tiered plans and managed service. Scaley Suite costs $199 a month plus 4% of spend.

What the Market Charges

How much does an AI media buyer cost? Our dated research snapshot found more than one pricing shape. There is no single trustworthy market price.

Flat monthly fees cover self-serve tools such as Soku, Ryze and AdTurbo. Spend-tiered plans, such as AdAmigo's, rise with the account. Managed services, such as Groas, add a human layer and quote on a different basis. Check each vendor's current page before budgeting, because those terms can move.

AI media buyer pricing is the smaller question. The bigger one is what the money buys. Ryze describes approval mode and autonomous operation. AdTurbo describes manual approval and automated implementation. Soku describes a require-approval mode. Similar labels can hide very different control models.

What Scaley Charges, and How the Price Grows

Scaley Suite costs $199 a month plus 4% of ad spend. Both parts apply at every spend level.

Work it for the store we build for: one that runs its own Google Ads. Take a $20K/mo account as the worked example. We typically find $2-4K leaking there, from our own agency work. It is search terms that never converted, and products that spend and return nothing. An agency running the same account charges $3-8K/mo, from our own agency work. Against a leak that size, the fee is the smaller number. That is the whole pitch.

The base fee stays in every bill and the percentage grows with the account, so the price should be compared with the waste the audit actually finds.

Every level starts with a 3-day free trial. Card required. Your first paid month starts on day 4, charged at the end of that month. If that is more than you want to commit yet, start with Scaley Consultant. It is a flat $99 a month, no percent of spend, and it graduates into the Suite whenever you want it to. It lives at scaleyai.com/gpt-for-google-ads.

When the Honest Answer Is Do Not Buy

Skip the tool when the math does not work.

The $199 base fee is part of every Suite bill. If the audit cannot find much waste, the AI media buyer cost can sit above the saving. Do that sum before you subscribe.

Your account is small and tidy. Google's free automation with clean conversion tracking covers a lot. That is operating judgement from running accounts. Nobody published a threshold for it.

You want rules you own, or a person to argue with. A workbench for the first. An agency or a senior buyer for the second. Our ranked list of Google Ads tools sorts the kinds of tool. What an AI media buyer is in the first place is its own answer. Prices and the chat-to-Suite ladder live on scaleyai.com/ai-media-buyer.

Now There Is Somebody Qualified to Ask

The search terms report is open and the money already moved. Start the 3-day trial and ask where it went.

3-day free trial. Card required. Cancel anytime