What your budget actually buys.
Pay only for what you use. No seats, no subscriptions. Set a budget and Webhound works within it — showing every search, every page visited, every dollar spent. Same pricing for Reports, Datasets, Chains, and Ask.
One model, budget controls depth
Webhound runs on Hound 1.0. Your budget controls research depth: more budget means more time to search, read, write, verify, and assemble. As a rule of thumb, $1 buys about 15 minutes of research.
Report
A cited document with working notes, source trails, and a final synthesis. Use it for memos, market maps, due diligence, strategy docs, and questions where the answer should be prose.
- Reads sources, writes topical working docs, then assembles
- Every meaningful claim is tied back to sources
- $1 buys about 15 minutes of research on average
Dataset
A sourced spreadsheet of rows that match your schema. Use it for company lists, vendor maps, product catalogs, people rosters, and structured market research.
- Finds candidates, fills schema fields, and verifies rows
- Best when the answer should be a list or table
- $1 buys about 15 minutes of extraction on average
Times are a planning heuristic, not a guarantee. Your run will vary with query breadth, source availability, and how much verification the task needs.
Turn on Deep read when precision matters more than breadth — it lets Webhound hold much more of each page in context per pass so it can reason over more material at once. Catches buried details that smaller-chunk reads miss; multiplies both cost and runtime.
Minimums at a glance
Every session has a floor so the agent has enough budget to produce something useful. You can always top up a running session.
| Session type | Mode | Minimum |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Standard | $1 |
| Report | Deep read | $5 |
| Dataset | Standard | $1 |
| Dataset | Deep read | $5 |
What each dollar breaks down into
Session cost is the sum of LLM token usage plus every scrape and search the agent made. Here's what everything costs at the margin.
LLM tokens
Most of a session's cost is tokens. Every page the agent reads, every task it plans, every verification pass, and every assembly step passes through the LLM.
Search & scrape
A single $10 report typically runs 50–200 of these operations depending on depth. Failed scrapes don't cost anything.