Credits and plans - Scout

Scout meters usage in credits. Plans have a fixed, published number of credits, never “unlimited.”

Plans

Plan	Price	Credits	Notes
Free	$0	5,000 one-time	Public free tier, the acquisition hook.
Beta	$0	10,000 / 30 days	Existing beta cohort allowance.
Monthly	$12/mo	50,000 / month	The hero plan. Resets each billing cycle, hard-stops at the cap.
Pay-go packs	$10 /$ 25 / $100	10,000 / 30,000 / 150,000	One-time, never expire. Secondary to Monthly.

What a credit buys

Action	Cost
Scrape one page, crawl one page, or one product/record	1 credit
Screenshot	3 credits
Browser render	5 credits
Browser minute	10 credits
Company dossier (representative crawl, varies by site size)	≈ 200 credits

A useful way to think about the Monthly plan’s 50,000 credits: roughly 20,000 pages, or 10,000 product records, or 100 dossiers, or any mix of the three.

Checking your balance

curl "$SCOUT_HOSTED_BASE_URL/v1/hosted/me" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCOUT_HOSTED_API_KEY"

The response includes balance.standard_credits_remaining, balance.browser_credits_remaining, and your plan’s limits (max pages per run, and so on). See Account for the full usage and purchase history endpoints.

Standard actions (scrape, crawl page, map URL, product record, destination push) draw from the same standard-credit pool. Screenshots and browser-rendered work draw from a separate browser-credit pool.