> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.scout.chowmes.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Credits and plans

> What a credit costs, what it buys, and how the plans compare.

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

```bash theme={null}
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](/account) for the full usage and purchase history endpoints.

<Note>
  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.
</Note>