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Rails and Django Application Monitoring built for engineers

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Scout APM - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: March 2026

Scout APM overview

What is Scout APM?

Scout APM cuts through the noise by helping developers find & fix performance issues before customers ever see them. With real-time alerting, an simple and fast setup & tracing logic that ties bottlenecks directly to source code, it’s easy to find, prioritize, and resolve queries. Access features such as: Flexible charts and alerting, 90-day lookback window, deployment in five minutes or less, product support from real engineers and no ugly configuration syntax to memorize.

Key benefits of using Scout APM

N+1 Query insights, Memory profiling, solve for slow queries, Product support from the engineers behind Scout, Flexible pricing

Starting price

161flat rate /
per month

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Overall rating

4.8

/5

4

Positive reviews

100

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9/10
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Scout APM's features

Features rating:

Diagnostic tools
Monitoring
Root cause analysis

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Pricing plans

Pricing details:

Free plan
Free trial
Subscription

Basic

161

Per month

Features included:

  • Alerting
  • Daily Digest Emails
  • Github Integration
  • Background Job Monitoring
  • Detailed Transaction Traces
  • Deploy Tracking
  • Slow Query Database Monitoring

Plus

249

Per month

Features included:

  • Alerting
  • Daily Digest Emails
  • Github Integration
  • Background Job Monitoring
  • Detailed Transaction Traces
  • Deploy Tracking
  • Slow Query Database Monitoring

Pro

499

Per month

Features included:

  • Alerting
  • Daily Digest Emails
  • Github Integration
  • Background Job Monitoring
  • Detailed Transaction Traces
  • Deploy Tracking
  • Slow Query Database Monitoring
  • Dedicated Account Manager
  • SAML Support

Enterprise

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Features included:

  • Alerting
  • Daily Digest Emails
  • Github Integration
  • Background Job Monitoring
  • Detailed Transaction Traces
  • Deploy Tracking
  • Slow Query Database Monitoring
  • Dedicated Account Manager
  • SAML Support
  • PII Audits
  • Product SLA Reporting
  • Product Training

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Scout APM support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Knowledge Base
FAQs/Forum
Email/Help Desk

Training options

Documentation
Live Online
Videos
Webinars

Scout APM FAQs

Q. Who are the typical users of Scout APM?

Scout APM has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business

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Q. What languages does Scout APM support?

Scout APM supports the following languages:
English


Q. Does Scout APM offer an API?

No, Scout APM does not have an API available.


Q. What level of support does Scout APM offer?

Scout APM offers the following support options:
Knowledge Base, FAQs/Forum, Email/Help Desk

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