Why we're introducing consumption-based pricing
We've been thrilled at how valuable Scout has become in our customer's daily workflows, and it's clear to us that Scout can be doing so much more. Providing Scout's level of intelligence requires combining the top frontier models, our proprietary dataset and the data you bring to Scout. Our roadmap is focused on making Scout more automated, agentic, and embedded in wherever you work.
Absent consumption pricing, shipping this roadmap could expose us to unlimited compute costs, so we need to limit customers at reasonable per-user consumption levels and provide the option to pay for increased use.
How it works
Every query sent to Scout is measured in tokens at a rate comparable to frontier models, priced at $5 per million Input tokens and $25 per million Output tokens.
| Input tokens | Output tokens |
Scout | $5/M | $25/M |
Claude Opus 4.6/4.7 | $5/M | $25/M |
Tokens aren't user friendly, so we convert all token use into dollar amounts called "Usage Credits" and provide visibility and control around your credits consumption.
Token use varies a lot based on the query, and you should base assumptions off of your own queries, but we did run some tests to give you a sense of the credits required to do different things in Scout today. For example:
Founder screener or meeting prep ~$1-2
Company / people search: ~$2-3
Deep talent bench analysis: ~$3-5
Complex market map / landscaping: ~$3-7
Credit Limits Per User
Each Harmonic user currently can use up to the below limits for free:
$250 of credits per day
$500 of credits per week
$750 of credits per month
We set this budget by picking a number that no users hit in the initial months after we launched Scout 2.0 with highly agentic reasoning, but before we enabled automated Scouts. We're not saying it's impossible to hit these limits without automated Scouts, but it's extremely rare.
Credit Limits on Scout via API
Anyone can test the endpoint and use up to $250 of credits for free. If you want to use more than the free allotment you can buy Usage Credits.
Purchasing Usage Credits
Today, we cannot accept pay-as-you-go via Credit Card, because we don't have the systems to automate this. We plan to implement more flexible and automated options before we go to general availability.
Till then, we can only sell Usage Credits up front, and our minimum purchase is $10,000 credits annually, which can be purchased at a uniform 20% discount. Fortunately, we plan to:
Prorate Usage Credits to your renewal term within reason.
Rollover unused Credits if you renew the same products you purchased in the prior year.
If we reduce the price for tokens, we'll automatically apply the new rates to your usage credits.
For questions or inquires on purchasing Usage Credits, please reach out to your Account Manager.