Every bundle you’ve ever bought had tools you never opened. That’s the annoying part of fixed plans, you pay for the whole list to get the six things you actually need. The Custom Plan flips that. You choose a pack size, hand-pick your tools from 90-plus options, and pay for that. Fifteen tools at ₹999 up to fifty at ₹1,899. Here’s exactly how to build one, what the premium add-ons cost, and which size gives the best value.
By GroupToolz Team Updated: August 2026
| ₹999 15 tools | ₹1,899 50 tools | 90+ Tools to pick from | ₹38 Lowest per tool |
Let me describe a familiar frustration. You buy a bundle because it has Semrush and Canva in it. It also has thirty other things, four of which you try once and the rest you never touch. You’re paying for all of them. Meanwhile the one tool you really wanted, maybe Jasper or Envato, sits in a different plan entirely.
That’s the problem the Custom Plan solves. Instead of taking someone else’s list, you build your own. Pick your pack size, tick the exact tools you want from the full catalogue, pay in rupees. A Custom Plan group buy suits people who know precisely what they need, and this post walks through the whole build so you can do it in five minutes.
How the Custom Plan Works
The idea behind a Custom Plan group buy is simple. You’re not buying a fixed list, you’re buying a number of slots. Choose how many tools you want access to, then fill those slots with whatever you like from the catalogue.
| Pack | Tools | Price | Per tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium Pack | 15 | ₹999/mo | ₹67 |
| Heavy Pack | 25 | ₹1,299/mo | ₹52 |
| Mega Pack | 35 | ₹1,499/mo | ₹43 |
| Mega Combo Pack | 50 | ₹1,899/mo | ₹38 |
Note what happens to the right-hand column. Medium works out around ₹67 a tool, Mega Combo around ₹38. So the bigger the pack, the cheaper each slot becomes, which is the usual bulk logic. That said, cheap slots you don’t fill with anything useful are still wasted money, so don’t let that column alone decide your Custom Plan group buy.
There are also discounts running on all four: Medium is 50% off ₹1,999, Heavy 43% off ₹2,299, and Mega 46% off ₹2,299. Worth checking those are still live when you buy, since promotional pricing moves.
How to Build Your Custom Plan, Step by Step
The Custom Plan group buy builder walks you through three numbered steps and shows a running total at the bottom. Here’s the whole flow.
1. Open the Custom Plan tab
On the pricing page you’ll see three tabs: Monthly, Custom Plan and Single Tools. Pick Custom Plan. It’s the middle one and carries a “Save More” flag. That takes you to the Build Your Custom Plan screen where everything happens.
2. Choose your pack size
Step one on the builder is Choose Your Pack. Four cards: Medium at ₹999 for 15 tools, Heavy at ₹1,299 for 25, Mega at ₹1,499 for 35, and Mega Combo at ₹1,899 for 50. Click one and a tick appears on it. You can change this later if you find you need more slots.
3. Pick your tools
Step two is Select Your Tools, showing the full grid of 90-plus options with logos. Click any tool and a blue tick appears on its corner. A counter in the top right tracks progress, “Selected: 0/15 tools” and counting up as you go. There’s a search box too, which is faster than scrolling if you already know the names you want.
4. Watch your picks appear as chips
Every tool you select gets added as a small chip below the grid, each with an x to remove it. That list is your plan in summary form, and it’s the quickest way to check you haven’t accidentally picked something twice or missed an obvious one. Once you hit your limit, the remaining tools grey out so you can’t over-select.
5.Choose payment and build
Step three is Payment Method, with two options: Stripe for any credit or debit card, international or Indian, and Swiftpe for UPI through PhonePe, GPay, Paytm or your bank app. The bar at the bottom shows your maths in the open, Base plus Extras equals your monthly total. Hit Build My Plan and you’re done.
| The greying-out behaviour is helpful, not a bug Worth knowing before it surprises you. When you’ve filled every slot, say all 15 on a Medium Pack, the tools you haven’t picked fade to grey and stop responding to clicks. People sometimes think something’s broken. It isn’t, it’s the builder telling you you’re full. If there’s something else you want at that point, either remove a chip to free a slot or step up to a bigger pack. That constraint is actually the useful part of a Custom Plan group buy, because it forces you to decide what you’d actually use rather than grabbing everything in sight. |
What Tools Can You Pick From?
The Custom Plan group buy catalogue runs to 90-plus tools, covering most categories. Here’s the shape of it.
| Category | Examples in the builder |
|---|---|
| SEO | Semrush, Moz Pro, Majestic, Serpstat, SpyFu, KWFinder, Ubersuggest, Seobility, Keywordtool.io, Woorank, AnswerThePublic |
| AI writing | Jasper AI, WriteSonic, Copymatic, Writecream, Hix AI, WordHero, WordAI, Jenni AI, CloserCopy, Rewritify, Smodin |
| Editing | Grammarly, QuillBot, Wordtune, Paperpal, GPT Zero |
| Content SEO | Frase.io, Neuronwriter, WriterZen, Nichess, RivalFlow |
| Design & stock | Canva, Envato Elements, Storyblocks, Vecteezy, Freepik, Epidemic Sound, Pikbest, Lovepik, Creative Fabrica, Motion Array |
| Design tools | Glorify, Vista Create, Kittl, Placeit, Flaticon, Icons8, UIzard, Relume, SketchGenius |
| Video | CapCut, InVideo Studio, Vimeo, VidiQ, FlexClip, Renderforest, Fomoclips, Submagic, Videoexpress AI |
| AI assistants | ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity AI, Monica, You AI, Gamma AI, Ocoya |
| AI image | Flux 1.1, Leonardo AI, Ideogram AI, Artisly AI, Katalist AI |
| E-commerce | Helium 10, Sell The Trend, Zonguru, CrazyEgg, Spamzila |
| Learning | Skillshare, Udemy, Coursera, LinkedIn Learning, Scribd, Codecademy, Blinkist, Educative, Shortform |
| Entertainment | Netflix, Prime Video |
That breadth is the whole point of a Custom Plan group buy. On a fixed plan you take the categories someone else grouped together. On a Custom Plan group buy you can put Semrush next to Jasper next to Envato next to Helium 10, which no standard bundle does, because those normally live in four separate plans.
The Premium Tools and Their Add-On Cost
Now the bit I want to be completely straight about, because it affects what your Custom Plan group buy actually costs. A handful of tools in the builder carry a PREMIUM badge and an extra monthly charge on top of your pack price.
| Premium tool | Extra cost |
|---|---|
| Artlist.io | +₹199/mo |
| Copymatic AI | +₹199/mo |
| Ideogram AI | +₹199/mo |
| Freepik | +₹99/mo |
| Netflix | +₹99/mo |
| Prime Video | +₹99/mo |
| How the extras show up in your total Here’s why this matters and why it’s fine. Those tools cost more to provide, so they carry a surcharge rather than being quietly excluded or bundled into everyone’s price. Pick three of them and your total rises accordingly. The good news is the builder is honest about it: the bar at the bottom reads Base plus Extras equals total, live, as you tick things. Select nothing premium and Extras stays at ₹0. So you’ll never be surprised at checkout, which is more than can be said for a lot of subscriptions. Just glance at that bar before you hit Build My Plan on your Custom Plan group buy. |
Which Pack Size Should You Pick?
Let me give you a straight framework for sizing a Custom Plan group buy, rather than pushing you upward.
Medium, 15 tools at ₹999
Right if you have a focused workflow and already know your list. A freelance SEO writer might need Semrush, Grammarly, QuillBot, Frase, Canva and a few others, and comfortably fit inside fifteen. If you can name your tools without thinking hard, this is your pack.
Heavy, 25 tools at ₹1,299
Right if you wear two hats. Someone doing SEO plus design, or writing plus video, tends to need tools from two or three categories, and fifteen slots gets tight fast. Twenty-five gives you room in both without paying for slots you’d leave empty.
Mega, 35 tools at ₹1,499
Right for small agencies and people who really do everything. Note the pricing here, it’s only ₹200 more than Heavy for ten extra slots, which is the sharpest jump in value across the four. If you’re hovering between Heavy and Mega, Mega usually wins on maths.
Mega Combo, 50 tools at ₹1,899
Right for agencies and teams needing near-total coverage. At roughly ₹38 a tool it’s the cheapest per slot by a distance. But fifty is a lot, so be honest about whether you’d fill it, since an unused slot is worth nothing no matter how cheap it looked.
| A method that stops you over-buying Do this before you open the builder. Write down every tool you used in the last two weeks, and every tool you wanted but skipped because of cost. Not tools that sound useful, tools you actually reached for. Count them. If the number is under 15, take Medium. Under 25, take Heavy. Over 25, look at Mega, and the ₹200 gap from Heavy makes that easy. This takes five minutes and it beats picking a Custom Plan group buy on price then discovering you needed three more slots, or paying for fifty and filling twenty. |
Custom Plan vs the Fixed Plans
Being fair here matters, because a Custom Plan group buy isn’t always the right answer. Sometimes a fixed plan is cheaper for the same job.
| Plan | Price | When it beats a custom build |
|---|---|---|
| Pro Plan | ₹399/mo | You need SEO and design basics, nothing unusual |
| Advanced Plan | ₹499/mo | You want breadth cheaply and its list already fits |
| Designer’s Pack | ₹449/mo | You want stock libraries and design apps, deeply |
| Writer’s Pack | ₹799/mo | You want AI writing depth, eleven writers |
| Custom Plan | ₹999+/mo | Your list crosses categories no fixed plan combines |
Read that honestly. If the Advanced Plan’s list already covers what you need at ₹499, building a custom pack at ₹999 to get roughly the same tools makes no sense. Fixed plans are cheaper because they’re standardised. The Custom Plan group buy earns its higher price in one specific situation: when the tools you need sit across categories that no single fixed plan puts together.
An example makes it concrete. Say you need Semrush for SEO, Jasper for copy, Envato Elements for assets, Helium 10 for your Amazon listings, and Udemy for learning. Those five live in different plans. No fixed bundle gives you all five, so a custom build really is your only route, and that’s when it’s worth it.
| Custom Plan, your list ₹999 – ₹1,899 15 to 50 tools, hand-picked from 90+ · Stripe or UPI · running total shown live · instant activation |
Two Real Builds
Let me show you what a sensible Custom Plan group buy actually looks like, since abstract advice helps nobody.
The Amazon seller, Medium at ₹999. Fifteen slots covering the whole operation: Helium 10 and Zonguru for product research, Sell The Trend for sourcing, Semrush and Ubersuggest for keywords, Canva and Glorify for listing images, Vecteezy and Icons8 for graphics, CapCut for video, Grammarly and QuillBot for listing copy, WriteSonic for descriptions, and CrazyEgg for the site. That’s a full e-commerce toolkit no fixed plan combines, which is exactly the case for a Custom Plan group buy.
The content agency, Mega at ₹1,499. Thirty-five slots because three people work across everything. SEO: Semrush, Moz Pro, Serpstat, SpyFu, KWFinder, Majestic. Content: Frase, Neuronwriter, WriterZen, Jasper, WriteSonic, Hix AI. Editing: Grammarly, QuillBot, Wordtune, Paperpal, GPT Zero. Design: Canva, Envato Elements, Storyblocks, Freepik, Kittl, Placeit, Flaticon. Video: InVideo, CapCut, VidiQ, Submagic. Plus ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gamma and a few learning tools. Buying those individually would be a five-figure monthly bill.
Can You Change Your Tools Later?
This comes up a lot, so let me address it. A Custom Plan group buy is a monthly arrangement, which means your selection isn’t a life sentence. If your work shifts, say you take on video clients and suddenly need InVideo and Submagic rather than the SEO tools you picked in March, you can rebuild for the next cycle.
That’s worth factoring into your first build. Don’t agonise over the perfect fifteen, because you’re choosing for the next month, not forever. Pick what you need now, use it, notice which slots went untouched, and swap those out next time. After two cycles most people land on a list that fits properly.
It also means you can size up or down. Start on Medium, find yourself constantly wishing for more slots, and moving to Heavy or Mega on your next Custom Plan group buy is straightforward. Starting small and growing into it is a perfectly sensible way to do this.
Mistakes People Make Building a Custom Plan
Filling slots for the sake of it
Your Custom Plan group buy has fifteen slots so you feel obliged to use all fifteen, and the last four become random picks you’ll never open. Leave a slot empty rather than wasting it, or drop to thinking harder about what you’d swap in.
Forgetting the premium extras
Tick Ideogram, Artlist and Copymatic and you’ve added ₹597 to your monthly Custom Plan group buy bill. That may be worth it, but notice it. The total bar tells you, so read it.
Building custom when a fixed plan fits
The commonest error. If your list looks a lot like the Advanced Plan’s, just buy Advanced at ₹499. A Custom Plan group buy is for unusual combinations, not for recreating a plan that already exists.
Undersizing to save ₹300
Picking Heavy over Mega on your Custom Plan group buy to save ₹200, then wishing you had ten more slots, is a false economy. Look at the per-tool column before deciding.
Payment and What Happens Next
Your Custom Plan group buy has two payment routes, and both are straightforward. Stripe takes any credit or debit card, Indian or international. Swiftpe handles UPI, so PhonePe, GPay, Paytm or your own bank app, which is what most people in India use. Either way you’re paying in rupees, no forex conversion.
Activation is immediate, so you’re using the tools the same day rather than waiting on manual setup. Payments run over SSL through established processors, and support is available if a tool gives you trouble. The platform reckons a full custom build can save up to ₹50,000 a month against retail subscription prices, and with 10,000-plus creators using it, that’s a claim with some volume behind it.
The Bottom Line
Here’s where I land. A Custom Plan group buy exists for one reason: fixed bundles group tools by category, and plenty of real jobs don’t respect those categories. An Amazon seller needs product research and design and copywriting. An agency needs SEO and content and video. Buying three separate plans to cover that is daft, and a custom build fixes it.
Size your Custom Plan group buy honestly, using the two-week test rather than optimism. Fifteen at ₹999 if your workflow is focused, twenty-five at ₹1,299 if you wear two hats, thirty-five at ₹1,499 which is the best value jump of the four, or fifty at ₹1,899 for near-total coverage at ₹38 a tool. Watch the extras bar, don’t fill slots for the sake of it, and check whether a ₹499 fixed plan would do the job first. Do those things and a Custom Plan group buy is the most efficient way to buy tools in 2026, because you’re paying for your list rather than someone else’s.
Questions People Actually Ask
What is a Custom Plan group buy?
On a Custom Plan group buy, instead of buying a fixed list of tools, you buy a number of slots and fill them with whatever you want from the catalogue of 90-plus tools. Four sizes: Medium at ₹999 for 15 tools, Heavy at ₹1,299 for 25, Mega at ₹1,499 for 35, and Mega Combo at ₹1,899 for 50. You pick, you pay, you use.
How do I build a Custom Plan?
Open the Custom Plan tab on the pricing page, choose your pack size from the four cards, then click tools in the grid to select them. A counter tracks your progress (Selected: 0/15 and up), and each pick appears as a removable chip below. Then choose Stripe for card or Swiftpe for UPI, check the total bar, and hit Build My Plan.
Which tools cost extra?
Six carry a PREMIUM badge and a surcharge on top of your pack price. Artlist.io, Copymatic AI and Ideogram AI are +₹199 a month each. Freepik, Netflix and Prime Video are +₹99 each. The bar at the bottom of the builder shows Base plus Extras equals your total, live, so you always see the real figure before paying.
Which pack size gives the best value?
Per tool, Mega Combo is cheapest at roughly ₹38 a slot, against ₹67 on Medium. But the sharpest jump is Heavy to Mega: only ₹200 more for ten extra slots. Value only counts if you fill the slots though, so size to the tools you’d actually use, not to the lowest per-tool figure.
Should I choose Custom or a fixed plan?
Fixed plans are cheaper when their list already fits, Pro at ₹399 or Advanced at ₹499 for instance. A Custom Plan group buy is worth its higher price when your tools cross categories no single fixed plan combines, like needing Semrush plus Jasper plus Envato plus Helium 10 together. Check the fixed plans first.
Can I pay with UPI?
Yes. The builder offers Swiftpe for UPI payments through PhonePe, GPay, Paytm or your bank app, or Stripe for any Indian or international credit and debit card. Everything is billed in rupees with no forex conversion, payments run over SSL, and activation is immediate once you’ve paid.
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