Tracerfy charges $0.02 per successful skip-trace hit on pay-as-you-go — $0.04 when you supply only the address and $0.30 for an Enhanced Trace — as publicly advertised on Tracerfy’s own pricing page as of October 2026. Everything on the rate card is denominated in credits at $0.02 each, misses are free, and monthly plans bring a credit down to $0.01. That is a cheap, clearly published price. The questions worth a call center’s time are what a hit is, and which of the three trace types a homeowner file actually needs.
Disclosure: Scout Data is our product; treat that entry as a maker’s pitch and the rest as our honest read.
The rate card
All figures below are from Tracerfy’s public pricing page as read on 4 October 2026. One credit is $0.02 at pay-as-you-go.
| Product | You supply | Credits | Pay-as-you-go price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normal Trace | Owner name + address | 1 per hit | $0.02 per hit |
| Advanced Trace | Address only | 2 per hit | $0.04 per hit |
| Enhanced Trace | Address (name optional; required in bulk) | 15 per hit | $0.30 per hit |
| Instant trace lookup (single record) | One address | 5 per hit | $0.10 per hit |
| Parcel (APN) Trace | Parcel ID | 5 per hit | $0.10 per hit |
| Phone Intelligence | A phone number | 5 per hit | $0.10 per hit |
| DNC Scrubbing | A phone number | 1 per phone | $0.02 per phone, charged on every check |
| Property Data + TraceAI | Search criteria | 5 per record | $0.10 per delivered record, contacts best-effort |
Pricing on this page is as publicly advertised at the time of writing — confirm current pricing with each vendor, and with our sales team for Scout Data.
What “misses are free” does and does not cover
Tracerfy’s pricing FAQ is specific: skip tracing, property lookup and parcel trace charge only when contact information is returned. That is a fair model, and better than vendors who bill every submitted row. But the billing event is contact info returned, not the homeowner’s working mobile returned. A row that comes back with one email and no phone is a hit. So is a row whose only number belongs to the previous owner.
Two other products on the card do not follow the misses-free rule, and the page says so. DNC Scrubbing bills $0.02 for every phone checked, because the check is the product. Property Data + TraceAI bills $0.10 per delivered record whether or not any contact data is found for that owner. Neither is hidden; both are easy to miss when you are modelling a budget off the $0.02 headline.
Tracerfy states that customers report 70 to 95 percent match rates depending on input quality. Treat that as a vendor-reported range, not a measurement on your file — our guide to what a phone match rate means explains why a reported match rate and a dialer’s right-party rate are different numbers.
Normal or Advanced: who decides who the owner is
The 2-cent gap between the first two rows is not a feature upgrade. It is the difference between two operations. A Normal Trace takes a name you supply and attaches contacts to it — mechanically, a data append. An Advanced Trace takes a bare address and decides for you who owns it before attaching anything, which is a skip trace in the strict sense.
For a call center the choice comes down to where the owner name on your file came from. If it was resolved recently against the deed, Normal Trace at $0.02 is the right buy and Advanced Trace pays twice for work already done. If the name came off an aged list, an old CRM export or a county roll that has not refreshed since the house sold, the cheap option faithfully appends phones to the wrong person, and the error does not show up until agents start logging wrong-party dispositions.
When a monthly plan is worth it
Tracerfy publishes three self-serve monthly plans. Each buys a block of credits at a discount, and the credits reset at the end of the billing cycle. The useful number is the break-even: how many credits you have to actually use before the plan beats paying $0.02 a credit as you go.
| Plan (as of October 2026) | Monthly price | Credits | Per credit | Break-even vs pay-as-you-go |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Growth | $700 | 50,000 | $0.014 | 35,000 credits used |
| Scale | $1,500 | 125,000 | $0.012 | 75,000 credits used |
| Business | $3,000 | 300,000 | $0.010 | 150,000 credits used |
Break-even is the plan price divided by $0.02. A floor that traces 20,000 addresses a month with Advanced Trace spends at most 40,000 credits, which clears the Growth break-even only if more than 87.5% of those rows hit. Seasonal volume is the usual trap: a plan sized to the storm months is paid in the quiet ones too, and unused credits do not carry forward. Pay-as-you-go credits do not expire, which makes them the safer default until your monthly volume is steady.
Putting it next to the rest of the market
At two to four cents a hit, Tracerfy sits at the bottom of the published price range for bulk traces, alongside other per-hit vendors such as BatchSkipTracing and well below per-search investigative tools. Per-hit prices this low mean the rate is rarely what decides cost per appointment; the share of hits that reach the right person is. The wider field is compared in best skip tracing software, API rate cards side by side in skip tracing API pricing, and the skip tracing cost calculator turns any per-hit rate into a cost per dialable contact.
Where Scout Data fits
Tracerfy is built first for real estate investors, agents and contractors who bring their own list. Scout Data starts a step earlier, for call centers that need the list itself: homeowner audiences built from live property signals such as storm exposure, permit activity, roof age and ownership change, each resolved to the current owner of record, with phones matched to that owner by name, scrubbed against the federal do-not-call registry, and dead numbers replaced. Pricing is per delivered record rather than per credit. The same data is available per property through the API, and homeowner phone lists for call centers covers what a floor should demand from any file it buys.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Tracerfy charge per skip trace?
As publicly advertised on Tracerfy’s pricing page in October 2026, one credit costs $0.02 on pay-as-you-go. A Normal Trace (you supply the owner’s name and address) is 1 credit, or $0.02 per hit; an Advanced Trace (address only, Tracerfy finds the owner) is 2 credits, or $0.04 per hit; an Enhanced Trace is 15 credits, or $0.30 per hit. Misses are not charged.
What counts as a hit on Tracerfy?
Tracerfy’s pricing FAQ says skip tracing charges only when contact information comes back. That means a row bills if it returns a phone or an email; it does not mean the row returned a working mobile that belongs to the homeowner. A call center should count a hit as the upper bound of what it pays, and measure dialable right-party numbers separately.
Is the Tracerfy API more expensive than the web app?
No. As of October 2026 Tracerfy states that every account includes REST API access at the same per-hit pricing as the web app. The thing that changes price is the endpoint: a bulk Normal Trace is 1 credit, while an instant single-record lookup is 5 credits ($0.10 at pay-as-you-go).
Do Tracerfy monthly plan credits roll over?
No. Credits bought pay-as-you-go never expire, but credits on the Growth, Scale and Business monthly plans reset each billing cycle, according to Tracerfy’s pricing page as of October 2026. A plan only saves money in months you actually use most of it.