Dscout runs usability tests, diary studies, field studies, interviews and media rich surveys, and recruits participants from its own panel of verified Scouts or from a team's own users. The pricing page names three tiers, Core, Select and Enterprise, and prints no dollar figure for any of them. Every tier is reached the same way, a button that says discuss pricing or get an estimate, and the page sorts the tiers by seats, activity credits and the level of support rather than by price.
Every current figure here was read on dscout.com/pricing on 5 October 2026 as served, from the three plan cards and the additional pricing considerations section beneath them, and every older one on the Internet Archive's copies of the same page.
What does Dscout cost?
| Core | Select | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Discuss pricing | Discuss pricing | Discuss pricing |
| Who it is for | Lean teams just getting started | Growing teams looking to scale | Enterprise organizations with extensive custom needs |
| Studies and methods | Access to Dscout AI Studio, unlimited concurrent studies | Everything in Core, plus real time rich media Intercept studies, question banks, multiple interview moderators | Everything in Core and Select, plus advanced custom features |
| Recruiting | Recruit from Dscout's panel or bring a team's own users, with access to behavioral recruiting data | Same as Core | Same as Core and Select |
| Privacy and access | Privacy and security compliance, SSO sign in | Custom informed consent and NDAs, advanced privacy and security features including PII settings, custom blur and data deletion, password protected share links | Flex seats, advanced custom integrations |
| Support | Unlimited study strategy sessions and project feedback, onboarding, incentive payments | Project design and delivery services on up to three concurrent projects, specialized global study management and recruiting | Product shipping, mission summaries, typing tool support, stimuli testing, international recruitment |
The pricing page lists no seat count, no activity credit count and no dollar rate for any of the three tiers. It lists its "additional pricing considerations" as three questions instead of a rate card: how many seats a team needs, among admin, researcher, collaborator and viewer; how much research a team plans to run, against a changing need for activity credits; and how a team wants to compensate participants, since Dscout lets a team set its own incentive amount for each study rather than charging a fixed incentive fee.
Is there a free plan or a trial?
The pricing page lists no free plan and no trial period. Every tier is reached by a discuss pricing or get an estimate button, and the page lists no refund terms.
How has Dscout's price changed?
| Archive copy | Plans and prices |
|---|---|
| January 2013 | Pay as you go at $20 a scout a mission, billed monthly, with scouts and incentives brought by the team ("We don't include scouts or incentives (yet). So it's BYOS!"); a budget calculator showing $400 by default; a Starter Plan by credit card at $10 to $20 a scout mission depending on plan level; five free scout missions preloaded on every account; plans active for one year |
| March 2014 and March 2015 | $6 a scout a mission, pay as you go, with a sign up offer of $90 worth of missions free; an interactive calculator for scouts and missions with no rate printed beyond the $6 headline |
| January 2016 | dscout.com/pricing returned a redirect rather than a priced page |
| October 2023, February 2024 and January 2025 | Seats, Activity Credits and Support named as the three things a plan is sized by, with no tier names and no dollar figure; every path led to a "get an estimate" button |
| January 2026 | Core, Select and Enterprise named for the first time among the copies read, each with its own feature list and a "discuss pricing" button; no dollar figure |
| October 2026, the live page | Core, Select and Enterprise, same structure as January 2026, slightly different feature lists in each card; no dollar figure |
The priced years ran from 2013 through 2015, at $20 and then $6 a scout a mission. The copies read between 2023 and 2025 named no tiers and no price, and the copies from January 2026 and the live page name Core, Select and Enterprise but print no figure.
Does Dscout run a feature voting board?
No. The footer's "People Nerds Community" link opens a Slack workspace invite, not a public board of requests and votes.
What this costs
Lite
$9 /mo
Pro
$39 /mo
Lifetime
$999 once
Fourteen day trial of Pro, card asked for at signup. Nothing here counts the people who vote, so the bill does not move when the board starts working. The long version, with what happens if you stop paying.
VoteFirst is a feature request board: customers post requests, vote on each other's and follow a public roadmap, at $9 a month for one project or $39 for unlimited projects and colleagues, with no seat type to choose and no activity credit to spend. Dscout runs moderated and unmoderated research studies and recruits and pays its own panel of Scouts, and VoteFirst does none of that; it collects and ranks what customers want built next. User Interviews and Respondent price the same kind of outside panel recruiting by the session, Lookback sells a yearly allowance of research sessions, the participant recruitment shortlist sets them side by side, and the pricing hub groups every vendor by what it meters.
How were these prices read?
The current plans come from dscout.com/pricing, read on 5 October 2026 as served, from the Core, Select and Enterprise plan cards and the additional pricing considerations section beneath them. feedback.dscout.com and community.dscout.com did not resolve, and dscout.com/ideas, dscout.com/feedback and dscout.com/roadmap each returned a 404. The history comes from the Internet Archive's copies of the same address taken on 31 January 2013, 30 March 2014 and 15 March 2015, read as served and stripped of HTML comments, and from the copies taken on 25 October 2023, 26 February 2024, 18 January 2025 and 11 January 2026, read the same way. The archive's copy of 8 January 2016 returned a redirect rather than a priced page. Prices are in US dollars.
14 days, a card at signup, then $9 or $39 a month.