Buy a reviewable unit of research
Research pricing and capacity
A research pack is a one-time purchase that adds its price to your shared Vidbyte API balance as credit, with no expiry. Runs are billed from that balance by measured usage, so a pack's Research Summary count is an estimate, not a quota.
Starter
$29
One-time credit, about 90 Research Summaries.
Pro
$148
One-time credit, about 520 Research Summaries.
Scale
$49
One-time credit, from about 100 Research Summaries up to custom amounts.
Section 1
Public packs
| Pack | Price | Estimated output | Examples of included capability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $29 | About 90 Research Summaries | Research Summaries · Research Deep Dives |
| Pro | $148 | About 520 Research Summaries | Everything in Starter |
| Scale | Capacity-sized or custom | About 100–50,000 Research Summaries, set on the slider; larger amounts are quoted by the team | Everything in Pro · Research Boost: 50% more parallel source extraction |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom capacity agreed with the team | Everything in Scale · Live spend |
Scale is listed up to about 50,000 Research Summaries; larger purchases are arranged with the Vidbyte team. Every pack is a one-time credit to the same API balance.
Section 2
What a Research Summary estimate means
One Research Summary is one structured evidence artifact produced from one source. It includes the source and metadata, a link, a summary, relevance to your question, recommendations, and provenance/completeness information.
Packs are sized in Research Summaries to show roughly what the credit buys, but you are not charged per summary. Each run is billed by its measured usage, and a short article and a difficult paper do not cost the same work to discover, retrieve, validate, and explain, so the real count can be higher or lower.
Section 3
How a run is billed
- A run needs at least $5.00 spendable in your API balance to start.
- While it works, the run reserves credit from your balance in 25¢ steps, enough to cover each billable model, search, or fetch step before it runs.
- Your run cap, up to $25 ($5 by default), limits what the run is charged, including the run fee and margin; the run stops before the next operation that would pass it. A cap too small for discovery to start is refused, and the error names the minimum.
- When the run ends, it is charged its measured usage plus a 5¢ run fee and a 25% margin on both. Any part of the fee and margin that would take the run past its cap is not charged, and a run that produces no artifacts is not charged the fee or margin.
- Completed artifacts and durable progress remain saved when a run stops. A run that ran out of balance resumes its pending work after a top-up rather than starting the research from scratch; a run stopped at its cap keeps that cap when continued, so raise it with a new prompt to the thread instead.