VC Deal Flow Signal (GitDealFlow), a venture-capital alternative-data product, today launched Agent Credits, a per-call pricing tier built for AI agents that programmatically diligence venture-backed GitHub organizations. The launch price is 19 EUR for 100 deep-signal calls, or 0.19 EUR per call, locked forever for buyers in the launch window.
Agent Credits departs from the dominant per-seat SaaS pricing model in the venture-data category. The product's six existing MCP tools, used by Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and other Model Context Protocol hosts, remain free indefinitely. Agent Credits applies only to a new seventh tool, get_deep_signal, which returns the full signal panel for a queried GitHub organization in a single response.
The pricing model recognizes that autonomous agents have a different consumption profile than human users. A single agent scaling across the product's 350+ organization tracking universe can issue tens of thousands of deep-signal calls in a weekend, then idle for the remainder of the month. Per-seat subscriptions either dramatically overcharge or dramatically undercharge such workloads. Per-call credits scale linearly with the agent's actual work.
Misses, calls against organizations outside the tracked universe, do not decrement the credit balance. Credits never expire. Idempotency is enforced via an X-Request-Id header so retries do not double-bill. A free five-call sample is available without a credit card at https://signals.gitdealflow.com/agents/credits/sample.
The launch price of 19 EUR per 100 calls closes on May 20, 2026 at midnight UTC. After the window, the standard rate becomes 29 EUR per 100 calls for new buyers; launch-window buyers retain the 0.19-EUR-per-call rate indefinitely.
"Agents don't have seats. They have call volumes. Pricing the engine on a per-seat model in 2026 is the same mistake as pricing telephony in flat-rate minute bundles after the smartphone shipped. The cleanest answer is the simplest one: pay for the call, get the result, walk away."