Pricing
Pay only for what you use, priced before every call. Monthly plans for ongoing monitoring. Free Hacker News alerts, no credit card needed.
What you pay for
Everything discatch charges for falls into five categories. You can buy a single search with no subscription.
| Unit | Consumed when | From |
|---|---|---|
| search | a one-off search runs across the waterfall | $0.002 |
| capture | a page or post is fetched with content and thread context | $0.002 |
| result | a matched item is returned or delivered | $0.0005 |
| alert | a catch fires; its re-runs consume no search units | $0.001 |
| classify | discatch judges relevance, sentiment, or intent on a result | $0.001 to $0.005 |
You see the price before anything runs
Every call is priced first. Before anything runs, discatch tells you the most it can cost, and you never pay more than that number.
What moves the quote
- Sources requested
- Free sources are cheaper than waterfall sources.
- Coverage
- deep lets the waterfall spend more.
- Interval
- Tighter catch intervals are pricier.
- Provider availability
- If a cheaper provider is up, the quote is lower.
Your balance is tracked per account. If a request would cost more than you have left, or more than the budget_usd you set, the call is refused before anything runs. Nothing is ever charged past what you approved.
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A monthly plan for ongoing monitoring, with a bundle of searches and alerts included. Go past the bundle and you pay per use.
Enterprise is custom: SLA, workspaces, unlimited history, invoicing, custom providers. The anchor is Octolens Pro at $199 monthly ($159 annual) and Scale at $599 monthly ($499 annual), read from octolens.com/pricing on 2026-09-10. Starter and Pro should each feel like a fraction of the tier they replace.
Free tier
Enough to run real monitoring for a real product.
- Hacker News alerts at 1h or slower, free
- A daily unit allowance across free sources
- A small allowance on waterfall sources so the difference is visible
- No credit card. Trial keys need no email
What we will not do
- Charge per keyword. Octolens does; it punishes curiosity.
- Charge for catches that fire nothing.
- Hide the price until after the call.
Questions
Are these the real prices?
No. The model is decided; the numbers are placeholders until provider costs and terms are settled. The quote at call time is the real price.
What is a quote?
A ceiling with locked unit prices, valid for a short window. The charge is actual units at those prices and never exceeds the ceiling. If the ceiling exceeds your remaining allowance or the budget_usd you set, the call is refused before anything runs.
Can an agent buy one search?
Yes. Units need no subscription. An agent can be told "you have $5 of discatch" and reason about it.
What does the free tier include?
Free Hacker News alerts at 1h or slower, a daily unit allowance across free sources, and a small allowance on waterfall sources. No credit card.
What is the classify surcharge?
Modeled on the search APIs that charge a little more for a summary than for raw results. The classify unit is sized to the expected LLM cost for the tier you pick, fast, balanced, or best, plus margin.
Do you charge per keyword?
No. Catches are not priced by keyword count. Octolens charges $10 per extra keyword on Pro and $5 on Scale, read from octolens.com/pricing on 2026-09-10. discatch does not because it punishes curiosity.
What does social listening cost?
The category ranges from free (Google Alerts, F5Bot) to $199 a month (Octolens Pro, Brand24 Individual) to $599 and above (Octolens Scale, Brand24 Business, Mention). discatch starts free on free sources, then charges per unit at fractions of a cent. A quote tells you the exact cost before each call.
Is discatch the cheapest social listening tool?
For a developer or an agent that runs a handful of queries a day, the free tier and per-unit pricing are cheaper than a monthly seat. For a team that needs 50,000 mentions a month across every source, run a quote and compare it to Octolens Scale at $599 monthly or Brand24 Business at $599 monthly. The answer depends on volume.
How does a quote compare to a seat?
A seat is a fixed monthly price for a set of features. A quote is the exact cost of one request before it runs, with locked unit prices and a ceiling the charge never exceeds. An agent can reason about a quote. It cannot reason about a seat.
Last reviewed by Parsa Khazaeepoul, founder, dcouple. Copy from docs/pricing.md.