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How much does DataEase AI cost?

Every account starts with 100 free credits. After that you choose: Pay As You Go at $50 per 100 credits with no subscription, Growth at $249/mo for 600 credits, or Business at $449/mo for 1500 credits. Yearly billing drops those to $208 and $374.

Is there a free tier or free trial?

There is no perpetual free tier. Every new account gets 100 free credits - enough to run real deep scans of how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini see your brand. No credit card is required to start, and you only pay when you want more credits or a plan.

What is Pay As You Go, and who is it for?

Pay As You Go is $50 for 100 credits with no subscription and nothing that renews. It covers 1 brand, 1 seat, 3 models (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini), 50 pages per audit, 5 competitors, and 25 keywords. It fits solo founders who scan before a launch, where an idle month costs $0.

Pay As You Go exists because most AI visibility tools make you commit before you know whether the data changes anything. Here the smallest real commitment is one credit pack. Nothing auto-renews, so there is no cancel-before-the-30th anxiety and no forgotten subscription draining a founder's card between fundraises. When you go quiet for two months, you pay nothing for those two months, and the credits sitting in your balance are still there when you come back.

It also has no ceiling on when you use it. A pre-launch founder can burn a pack in one afternoon auditing 50 pages against 5 competitors, then not touch the account until the launch week retest. A consultant can buy a pack per client engagement instead of carrying a monthly plan between projects. The tradeoff is honest: at $0.50 a credit it is the highest per-credit rate, and it caps you at 1 brand and 1 seat, so it stops paying once you scan every week or bring a teammate in.

Should I choose Pay As You Go or a monthly plan?

Pay As You Go costs $0.50 a credit. Growth gives 600 credits for $249, about $0.41 a credit, so it wins above roughly 500 credits a month. Business gives 1500 credits for $449, about $0.30. Yearly Business is $0.25 a credit - half the Pay As You Go rate.

The simple rule: if you scan on a schedule, a plan is cheaper and adds what Pay As You Go leaves out - scheduled scans, reports, more brands, more seats, deeper audits. If you scan in bursts, Pay As You Go is cheaper because you skip the months you do not use. Growth is the middle for a founder tracking 3 brands with a team of 5. Business is for agencies and multi-brand operators who need every engine, unlimited brands and seats, advanced reports, and MCP access.

Scan history is unlimited on every plan, as long as the account has been active in the last 3 months.

Which AI engines and models does each plan monitor?

Pay As You Go and Growth monitor 3 engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Business monitors 5, adding Claude and Grok. Every plan tracks the same brand, competitor, and citation data on the engines it covers, so the difference is coverage breadth, not depth.

Three engines cover most of where buyers actually ask. ChatGPT is the volume leader, Perplexity is where research-heavy comparison questions land, and Gemini carries Google's AI answers. That set is enough to see whether you are in the answer for your category and who gets named instead of you. Claude and Grok matter once your buyers are developers, technical teams, or X-native audiences - Claude skews toward technical and enterprise research, Grok toward real-time X discussion. If either is where your category argues, Business is the tier that sees it. Engine coverage is per plan, not per credit, so adding engines does not change what a scan costs you in credits.

How much do I save with yearly billing?

Yearly billing gives you 2 months free - you pay for 10. Growth is $2,490 a year instead of $2,988, saving $498 and working out to $208/mo. Business is $4,490 a year instead of $5,388, saving $898 and working out to $374/mo.

Two months free also drops the effective credit price, which is the number that matters if you scan every week. Yearly Growth lands at about $0.35 a credit and yearly Business at about $0.25 - half the $0.50 Pay As You Go rate for the same credit. For context, enterprise brand monitoring commonly runs $30,000 a year, so yearly Business at $4,490 is roughly 15% of that.

What is a credit, and what does a scan cost?

A credit is the single usage unit across DataEase AI. Deep AI presence and visibility scans consume credits based on depth - how many engines, queries, competitors, and pages you audit. Your 100 free credits are enough to run your first real scans and see value before paying anything.

What happens when I run out of credits mid-month?

You buy a credit pack without changing plan. Plan credits refresh every billing cycle - 600 a month on Growth, 1500 on Business - and a pack tops up the same single balance. There is no throttling, no forced upgrade, and no surprise overage bill at month end.

Do unused credits roll over to next month?

Two different rules. Your monthly plan allowance does not roll over - unused Growth or Business credits reset at each billing cycle. Credits you buy in a pack do roll over and stay in your balance until you spend them, on Pay As You Go and on plans alike.

That split is worth planning around. If you regularly finish a month with 200 unused Growth credits, you are paying for capacity you never claim, and the cheaper setup is a smaller commitment plus packs on the months you spike. If you regularly run dry before the cycle ends, the opposite is true and the next plan up costs less per credit than topping up. Packs are the safety valve either way: because pack credits carry over, buying one late in a cycle is never wasted money.

Which plan includes MCP access and advanced reports?

Business. It adds MCP access so your own AI tools query your brand presence data directly, plus advanced reports, all 5 models (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok), 500 pages per audit, 20 competitors, 100 keywords, unlimited brands and seats, and Slack support.

Can I switch plans or cancel anytime?

Yes. Upgrade, downgrade, or cancel from the plans screen in the app, and switch between monthly and yearly billing whenever you want. Pay As You Go has nothing to cancel because nothing renews, and credits you already bought in a pack stay in your balance.

Where are credits used across the platform?

Credits are the single currency across DataEase AI. The headline use is deep AI presence and visibility scans in Brand Intelligence - the core BPI surface. The same balance powers other credit-based actions across the platform, so one wallet covers everything. The daily Founder Digest that summarizes your agents' work costs no extra credits - reporting is always included.

Last updated: August 4, 2026