ScoutMesh
MCP gateway that connects Claude or ChatGPT to 15 recruiting data sources at provider prices.
Free MCP server API
Bottom line
MCP gateway that plugs 15 recruiting data sources, including People Data Labs, Lusha, ContactOut, prog.ai, GitHub and Bouncer verification, into the Claude or ChatGPT you already use, so one request searches, enriches and verifies across all of them. The account is free with $5 of credit, then you pay each provider's own unit price with no subscription or markup. Best for recruiters who source through an AI assistant and want several databases without several contracts.
Stands out for: It resells many recruiting databases at their own list prices rather than as a bundle: People Data Labs at $0.28 a record, Lusha at $0.125 a credit, Hunter at $0.025 an email, Bouncer at $0.008 a check, with GitHub and Hugging Face searches free. The gateway itself stops and asks before any request over about $5, so an assistant cannot quietly run up a bill.
Watch out for: It is new and small, with no Capterra or G2 reviews yet, and the proof on its site is a few LinkedIn posts. Every source is a third party, so the privacy and LinkedIn terms questions that come with People Data Labs, ContactOut and Lusha come with ScoutMesh too. The salary and review data is listed as Glassdoor, but no Glassdoor partnership is described. There is no search screen: everything happens through an AI assistant.
Overview
ScoutMesh is an MCP gateway: one connector that gives Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP client access to recruiting databases and tools. You paste a personal server URL into the assistant once, and the sources appear as tools it can call in a normal conversation. The vendor describes it as a connector rather than an app like Juicebox, so you build your own workflow around your brief, outreach and ATS.
The people sources are People Data Labs, Lusha, prog.ai, GitHub, Hugging Face, ContactOut, Findymail, Hunter and EnrichLayer. Market sources are salary and employer review data listed as Glassdoor, TheirStack and Akta for hiring and company signals, and Exa and Parallel for web research. Bouncer verifies emails. One search fans out across them and returns a single deduplicated list.
Beyond finding people, it can benchmark a role's budget by title, location and experience, brief you on an employer's ratings and interview experience, map who else is hiring the profile, and size a talent pool, with sources and dates on each finding. The same gateway finds companies with live hiring signals and the people who run the team, which covers agency business development.
Pricing is pay as you go. The account is free with $5 of credit, and after that each paid tool costs the provider's published unit price with no markup, subscription or seats. Small calls run without asking, and requests over about $5 pause for your approval; you can also set a standing budget or block paid sources.
ScoutMesh also publishes free Claude skills for recruiters (role briefs, Boolean strings, sourcing plans, outreach, interview plans, candidate summaries, employer research and a pipeline dashboard) that work without an account.
Who it's for
Best for
- Recruiters who source in Claude or ChatGPT and want contact data and verification there
- Solo and agency recruiters who need several data sources but not several subscriptions
- Sourcers working technical roles who want GitHub, Hugging Face and prog.ai code signals
- Agencies checking a client's budget and employer reputation before a search
Not ideal for
- Recruiters who want a point and click search screen and sequencing
- Teams whose privacy rules bar resold third party contact data
- Buyers who need an established vendor with reviews and an SLA
Key features
One connection, 15 sources. People sources (People Data Labs, Lusha, prog.ai, GitHub, Hugging Face, ContactOut, Findymail, Hunter, EnrichLayer), market sources (salary and review data listed as Glassdoor, TheirStack and Akta hiring and company signals, Exa and Parallel web research) and Bouncer email verification, all on one key and one balance.
Deduplicated search. One request fans out across the relevant sources and returns a single list with duplicates merged, so the assistant can cross check one source against another.
Spending check. Cent level calls run without interrupting, and the gateway asks the assistant to show you the plan and its total before anything over about $5. You can also set a standing budget or hold paid sources entirely.
Market research. Salary benchmarks by title, location and experience, employer reputation briefs, who else is hiring the profile, and client prospecting from live hiring signals.
AI features
| What the AI does | Plan |
|---|---|
| Hosted MCP server that lets Claude or ChatGPT search, enrich and verify across 15 sources | Pay as you go |
| Fans one request out across sources and returns a single deduplicated list | Pay as you go |
| Pauses the assistant to show the plan and total before spending more than about $5 | Pay as you go |
Only features named in the vendor's own documentation. Anything sold separately is marked as an add-on.
MCP server
https://mcp.getscoutmesh.com/mcp
First-party MCP at mcp.getscoutmesh.com/mcp, hosted by the vendor. After sign up the setup page issues a personal URL with the API key in the path, which you paste into Claude or ChatGPT as a custom connector with authentication set to none; treat that URL like a password. A client that reaches the bare URL without a key gets an OAuth sign in instead. A public, unauthenticated REST catalog and an OpenAPI 3.1 file describe the product and live sources, but candidate search runs through MCP.
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Pricing
The account is free with $5 of credit and no card. After that there is no subscription, seat fee or markup: you pay each provider's published unit price only when a paid tool runs. Listed rates include People Data Labs $0.28 a record, Lusha $0.125 a credit, prog.ai $0.15 a profile, ContactOut $0.05 a profile or $0.20 a reveal, Hunter $0.025 and Findymail $0.02 an email, EnrichLayer $0.02 a personal email, TheirStack $0.04 a job or $0.12 a company, Akta $0.05 a credit, Bouncer $0.008 a check, Exa $0.007 a search, and Glassdoor data and Parallel $0.005 a call. GitHub and Hugging Face searches are free. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.
Checked 6 Oct 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.
Is ScoutMesh expensive?
ScoutMesh starts at Free. We list 133 sourcing tools in total. 21 have a free tier, and those with a public price typically start around $99 a month.
- 51 quote-based
- 21 free tier
- 71 public price
Worked out automatically from every sourcing listing, so it updates as the directory changes.
Pros and cons
Pros
- 15 recruiting data sources on one key and one balance
- Provider list prices with no subscription, seats or markup
- Built in pause before any request over about $5
Cons
- New vendor with no review site track record
- All data is resold from third party providers
- No search interface, only an AI assistant
Integrations
Claude ChatGPT People Data Labs Lusha ContactOut Hunter GitHub Bouncer
How ScoutMesh compares
See all ScoutMesh alternatives, with what each one does differently and a head to head for every pairing.
| Tool | Free tier | From | MCP | API | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | – | Free | ✓ | ✓ | |
| | – | $49/mo | ✓ | ✓ | Compare |
| | – | $39/mo | ✓ | ✓ | Compare |
| | ✓ | $99/mo | ✓ | – | Compare |
$49/mo MCP API
One MCP server built around 52 LinkedIn data tools at $0.009 a call plus a workspace database, on plans from $49/mo, where ScoutMesh has no subscription and spreads searches across 15 contact and people databases.
$39/mo MCP API
Live profile and company data API with its own MCP from $39/mo, fetching each profile at request time, where ScoutMesh resells several stored databases plus email verification on pay as you go.
$99/mo Free tier MCP
A finished sourcing app with its own natural language search screen and outreach, where ScoutMesh has no interface and runs inside the AI assistant you already pay for.
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