// pricing
Pay in credits.
Scout bills in credits, not tokens. Every call spends a fixed, predictable number of them - a search costs one, an extract two, a deep research task around forty. You never reverse- engineer a token invoice or guess what a request will cost.
Start free with 1,000 credits every month. When you outgrow it, pick the plan that fits - and use the estimator below to turn your real expected volume into a real monthly number before you commit a cent.
Free
Kick the tires. Renews every month, no card required.
- >1,000 credits / month
- >All six endpoints
- >Community support
- >Fair-use rate limits
Builder
For shipping a real product on Scout.
- >4,000 credits / month
- >Async runs, monitors & webhooks
- >Overage at $0.009 / credit
- >Email support
Studio
Higher volume and priority throughput for growing teams.
- >15,000 credits / month
- >Priority throughput
- >Overage at $0.008 / credit
- >Priority support
Enterprise
Volume pricing and controls for scaled deployments.
- >Volume credit pricing
- >SLAs & uptime guarantees
- >Bring-your-own-cloud
- >Dedicated support
// estimate your cost
What will Scout actually cost you?
Punch in a month of expected usage. The estimator converts it to credits, picks the cheapest plan that covers it, and shows your blended cost per call - so there are no surprises on the invoice.
Estimate a month of usage. Enter how many of each call you expect - the numbers update live.
Estimates use list credit rates. Agentic calls (task, findall, chat) bill by real research depth and vary run to run - treat those rows as typical figures.
// the rate card
What a credit buys.
One credit has a $0.01 face value; bulk plans bring the effective rate lower. Commodity calls stay cheap; agentic calls carry their real research cost.
| Operation | Credits | Billed |
|---|---|---|
| Searches | 1 | per query |
| Extracts | 2 | per URL |
| Schema extracts | 5 | per URL, structured |
| Research tasks | 40 | per task |
| FindAll runs | 60 | per run |
| Monitor checks | 1 | per scheduled check |
| Chat completions | 12 | per message |
Agentic endpoints (Task, FindAll, Chat) bill by actual research depth - a quick lookup costs less than a deep multi-source run. The figures above are typical; the API returns the exact credit cost on every response.
// questions
The fine print, in plain words.
Do unused credits roll over?
Monthly plan credits reset at the start of each billing cycle and do not roll over. Top-up credit packs, where offered, do not expire.
What happens when I run out?
On a paid plan, additional usage is billed as overage at your plan's per-credit rate. On the Free plan, requests pause until your monthly credits renew - nothing is charged automatically.
Is there really a free tier?
Yes. Every account gets 1,000 credits a month at no cost and no card on file - enough to build and test a real integration before you pay anything.
Can I change plans later?
Anytime. Upgrades apply immediately; downgrades take effect at the next billing cycle. Reach out and we will sort it the same day.