| Pro | Scale | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $199/mo | $599/mo |
| Annual | $159/mo | $499/mo |
| Mentions a month | 15,000 | 50,000 |
| Keywords | 10 | 40 |
| Extra mention | $0.013 | $0.01 |
| Extra keyword | from $5/mo | from $5/mo |
| History | 2 years | unlimited |
| Refresh | hourly | real time |
| Seats | unlimited | unlimited |
| Podcasts, news, web, newsletters | no | yes |
| API, webhooks, MCP | yes | yes |
| Free agent tier | 50 searches, no card | 50 searches, no card |
How prices moved since 2024
| Period | Pro (annual) | Pro (monthly) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | ~$59/mo | not checked | third-party pricing pages |
| March 2026 | ~$119/mo | not checked | Mentionkit teardown (2026-07-05) |
| July 2026 | $159/mo | $199/mo | octolens.com/pricing, octolens.com/llms.txt |
| September 2026 | $159/mo | $199/mo | octolens.com/pricing, octolens.com/llms.txt |
Pro was about $59 a month in 2024, about $119 by March 2026, and $159 on annual billing by July 2026. The monthly price is $199. Mentionkit’s teardown, dated 2026-07-05, documents the March-to-July increase and notes Pro rose about 34 percent and Scale about 56 percent.
Third-party pricing pages still quote each of those older numbers. At least four distinct price points for Octolens Pro appear across the web as of September 2026. That is why this page carries a date and a source on every figure.
Scale followed a similar path. It is $499 a month on annual billing or $599 monthly as of 2026-09-10.
What each tier gates
Pro covers all social and community platforms: Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, GitHub, Stack Overflow, DEV, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, and Mastodon. It refreshes hourly and keeps two years of history. API, webhooks, and MCP are included.
Scale adds four source types that Pro does not include: podcasts, news, web, and newsletters. It also adds real-time refresh instead of hourly, unlimited history instead of two years, and 50,000 mentions instead of 15,000. The "15+ platforms on every plan" claim that appears on several Octolens pages counts only the platforms available on Pro. Scale adds sources, not just capacity.
Enterprise is custom pricing with unlimited mentions, unlimited keywords, an SLA, and a dedicated account. No public pricing exists for Enterprise.
The free agent tier offers 50 searches with no credit card and a key that never expires. It does not include standing alerts, mention quotas, or any of the paid sources. It is a one-off search tool for agents evaluating the product. A search returns up to 10 mentions by default.
The 7-day trial includes all Pro features with 5,000 mentions. CTA options are "Start free trial" and "Book a call." There is no month-to-month option for a trial.
Overages are metered, not capped. A Pro account that exceeds 15,000 mentions pays $0.013 per extra mention. A Scale account pays $0.01. There is no hard limit; billing continues until the account is paused. Extra keywords start at $5 a month regardless of plan.
What third-party pages get wrong
Four different price points for Octolens Pro appear across third-party pages as of 2026-09-10.
| Price quoted | Where it appears | Status |
|---|---|---|
| $59/mo | Redreach alternative page (undated) | stale: the 2024 price |
| $119/mo | multiple third-party pages (undated) | stale: the March 2026 price |
| $159/mo | octolens.com/pricing (annual toggle default) | current annual price |
| $199/mo | octolens.com/llms.txt and agent-permissions.json | current monthly price |
The pricing page shows the annual toggle by default. A visitor who does not toggle sees $159. The llms.txt, agent-permissions.json, and SnitchFeed’s compare page show $199, which is the monthly price. Redreach’s alternative page still quotes $59 to $359. These are not different products. They are the same plan at different points in time, quoted by pages that do not carry dates.
The same problem affects Scale. Third-party pages quote $359 (stale, 2024), $499 (current annual), and $599 (current monthly). Only $499 and $599 are correct as of 2026-09-10.
Octolens itself hard-codes prices in its llms.txt and agent-permissions.json. Those files will drift the next time pricing changes. The llms.txt already includes the note "check octolens.com/pricing for the latest."
Other things to know
The /agents FAQ says the Octolens CLI and MCP server are open source on GitHub. The npm package’s repository field points to github.com/octolens/octolens, which returns 404 as of 2026-09-10. The public GitHub organization has no CLI repository.
G2 has two product slugs for Octolens: crowdlens-octolens and octolens. Both show pricing and review pages. This is a messy listing, not two products.
There are no reddit.com or news.ycombinator.com threads about Octolens in the top results for "octolens review" or "is octolens worth it" as of 2026-09-10. Community proof does not rank. The results are vendor pages and rival-authored reviews.
The same workload on discatch
discatch does not sell seats, keywords, or mention quotas. A standing catch is a query plus a destination. It costs one alert unit when it fires and one result unit per item delivered. A catch that fires nothing costs nothing. Ten keywords are ten catches. The quote endpoint prices each search or catch before it runs, and the quote is a ceiling.
To compare: a workload equivalent to Octolens Pro’s 15,000 mentions a month and 10 keywords would be 10 standing catches and however many results they deliver. At the placeholder rates in the docs, 15,000 result units cost $7.50 and 10 catches firing daily cost about $0.30 a month. Those numbers will change before launch, but the shape is different: usage-based with a quoted ceiling, not a tiered seat with overage charges.