Needle offers Solo, Growth, and Scale plans. This page summarizes current pricing and limits. For live numbers, use the Pricing page.
Pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Solo | $15/mo | $150/yr |
| Growth | $49/mo | $490/yr |
| Scale | $149/mo | $1490/yr |
3-day free trial on all plans (Solo, Growth, and Scale). Card required at checkout; one trial per account. Cancel before the trial ends to avoid charges. Promo codes apply to your first paid invoice after the trial.
Core usage limits (summary)
| Limit | Solo | Growth | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual search runs (daily) | 5 | 30 | 150 |
| Manual search runs (monthly) | 300 | 1,800 | 9,000 |
| Max results / manual search | 50 | 200 | 500 |
| Brand profile (Auto Search) | 1 per account on every plan | 1 per account on every plan | 1 per account on every plan |
| How often Auto Search runs (for your brand) | Every 8 hours · Daily · Weekly | Every 4 hours · Every 12 hours · Daily · Weekly | Every hour · Every 4 hours · Every 6 hours · Every 12 hours · Daily · Weekly |
| How far back Auto Search looks (rolling window per pass, after the first run) | 24 hours | 12 hours · 24 hours | 1 hour · 4 hours · 12 hours · 24 hours |
| AI reply drafts (daily) | 25 | 90 | 300 |
| AI reply drafts (monthly) | 450 | 900 | 3000 |
Limits note: Manual searches count toward the search-run counters above. Automatic Auto Search runs do not use those manual quotas.
Before a paid plan (none)
- Homepage preview - Anonymous sample from a website URL (marketing site).
- Welcome scan - One-time 7-day scan on Auto Search after brand onboarding (subset of communities).
- Manual search and scheduled Auto Search - Require starting a trial or paid subscription.
Search networks (summary)
One manual search can query 10+ communities on Growth and Scale (every network your plan includes at once). Solo includes a smaller set.
| Network | Solo | Growth | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Stack Overflow | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hacker News | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| GitHub | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lobsters | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mastodon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bluesky | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| YouTube | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Tumblr | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Forums | ✓ | ✓ | |
| X (Twitter) | ✓ |
Forums is a single network in Search (not a host picker). Each run searches a curated set of public product forums (Growth: 15 per run; Scale: 30 per run; 50 in Needle’s registry). The source site appears when you open the post link.
Confirm live caps on the Pricing page.
Feature differences
- Exports - Solo: none. Growth: PDF + CSV. Scale: PDF + CSV + Excel + JSON.
- White-label reports - Scale only (see Pricing).
- Search timeframes - Solo: up to 24 hours. Growth: up to 7 days. Scale: up to 30 days (see Pricing).
- Digest / chat channels for brand digests - Vary by plan (see Pricing); configure in Settings.
Reply drafts (Manual & Auto)
Draft reply on a result: two AI suggestions from your brand profile; you paste on the platform yourself. Counts toward reply-draft limits above.
- Limits and pricing may change over time - Pricing page wins if this doc drifts.
- Search (Manual & Auto) - how the dashboard maps to these limits.