FutureSearch
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveAI research agents that forecast real-world questions and research lists row by row, billed by usage with optional monthly plans.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $20/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Free tier with $20 of credit and no card. Analyst Starter is $20/month (15% off usage rates), Research $99/month and Expert $500/month (30% off); usage is still metered per question or row, about $0.25 to $5 per forecast. Top-up credit lasts a year; the monthly plan allowance resets.
Use tool ↗About FutureSearch
FutureSearch runs teams of AI research agents that answer forecasting questions - probabilities, numbers, dates, which-one choices and conditional scenarios - and can also add a researched column to every row of a list. Each forecast costs roughly $0.25 to $5 depending on effort and difficulty, charged on tokens used, and monthly plans lower those rates and raise how many researchers run at once. It was founded in 2023 by Metaculus alumni and connects to Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT Codex and Cursor through an API and MCP. The company publishes its standing in Metaculus and ForecastBench tournaments and its positions on Kalshi, Polymarket and the S&P 500.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing page lists Free with $20 credit and no card, Analyst Starter $20/month (15% off usage), Research $99/month and Expert $500/month (30% off usage), and typical costs of $0.25 to $5 per forecast (15 October 2026)futuresearch.ai ↗
- Home page quotes $0.25 to $5 per question by effort and cites #2 of 284 on Metaculus FutureEval and #5 of 427 on ForecastBench, with live positions on Kalshi, Polymarket and the S&P 500 (15 October 2026)futuresearch.ai ↗
Is FutureSearch legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Nov 23, 2023 (2 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Cloudflare, Inc, looked up Sep 17, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Dec 11, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2023The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- FutureSearch, Inc., United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of FutureSearch
Built by people who ran forecasting at Metaculus, and it backs that pedigree with a public accuracy record against live prediction markets and bot tournaments rather than just claiming to be good at forecasting. Usage pricing is fair for occasional questions, and the new monthly plans only discount the meter, so costs still scale with how many forecasts you run through the API.
Pros
- Publishes accuracy track record against real markets like Kalshi and Polymarket
- Handles multiple question types: probability, numeric, date, category, conditional
- MCP connector for Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, and ChatGPT Codex
- Founders previously built forecasting tools at Metaculus
Cons
- Token-metered pricing makes total cost hard to predict at scale
- Monthly plans discount usage rather than include unlimited forecasts
- High-effort forecasts run up to about $5 per question, which adds up on multi-part questions
Best for
- Teams that need a probability estimate on a specific question rather than a broad research report
- Developers wiring forecasting into Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor via API/MCP
- Anyone who wants a forecaster with a published track record
Not for
- Users who want a flat fee with no metered usage on top
- General web research unrelated to forecasting a specific question or list
Watch out: The per-question figures on the pricing page are typical ranges; you are charged for tokens actually consumed, so a hard question can cost more than the range shown.
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