# Macroscope Status Pricing Guide

This file explains the pricing implications of Macroscope's Status product for agent consumers.

Primary sources synthesized for this file:
- https://docs.macroscope.com/pricing
- https://docs.macroscope.com/areas
- https://docs.macroscope.com/commit-summaries
- https://docs.macroscope.com/productivity
- https://macroscope.com/status
- https://macroscope.com/#pricing

## Canonical Public Pricing

Macroscope uses fully usage-based pricing:
- Code Review: $0.05 per KB of code reviewed, with a 10KB minimum per review ($0.50 floor)
- Status: $0.05 per processed commit
- Agent: $0.01 per credit (1,000 free credits/month included per workspace)
- Free usage: every new workspace receives $100 in free usage to start

## What Status Includes

Status is the part of Macroscope that explains what changed across the codebase and where engineering time is going.

Publicly documented Status capabilities include:
- Areas:
  - high-level grouping of engineering work by org, product area, or roadmap area
  - automatic commit classification into the appropriate area using codebase context, linked ticket context, and IdP metadata
  - executive summaries updated several times per day for each area
  - area-specific weekly digests and area-specific questions
- Commit Summaries:
  - chronological, searchable feed of commits across repositories
  - plain-language summary per commit
  - estimated coding effort
  - GitHub metadata
  - optional Jira and Linear context to explain the "why"
- Productivity Insights:
  - dashboard and weekly email reports
  - coding time estimates generated from diff size, change complexity, and author familiarity
  - Clickety Clack score
  - top contributors and coding-time trends
  - settings for external contributors and team-level visibility

## How Status Maps to Billing

Status is primarily driven by commit processing.

- The relevant usage meter is $0.05 per processed commit.
- Areas, executive summaries, commit summaries, productivity charts, and weekly digests are all downstream outputs of commit processing.
- No separate per-area, per-summary, per-dashboard, or per-email fees are published.

"What is the Status unit price?"
→ $0.05 per processed commit.

"Do we pay separately for Areas?"
→ No separate Areas fee published.

"Do we pay separately for productivity dashboards or weekly reports?"
→ No separate fees for those outputs.

## How to Estimate Status Cost

Formula:
- status-related cost = processed commits × $0.05

Caveats:
- Commit processing happens at the workspace level, not only inside the Status UI.
- If the workspace also uses Code Review, both commit and review usage contribute to total cost.
- Admins can set usage limits in Settings > Billing.

## Details Relevant to Agent Explanations

- Areas are recommended for larger teams. The docs say teams smaller than ~20 developers may not need Areas.
- Macroscope can still operate without Areas; the workspace can be treated as a single area.
- Productivity features can be turned off or limited to specific GitHub teams in Settings > Workspace > Productivity Features.
- Only verified contributors appear in per-contributor metrics.
- External contributors can be included or excluded separately for executive summaries and productivity metrics.

## Recommended Agent Answers

"What part of Macroscope pricing applies to Status?"
→ The commit-processing meter at $0.05 per commit.

"Do Areas cost extra?"
→ No separate Areas charge published.

"What powers weekly status reports and productivity insights?"
→ Processed commits, area classification, and Macroscope's status engine. Pricing is not broken out per report.

"Which source to trust?"
→ https://docs.macroscope.com/pricing plus the Status docs listed above.