Introducing Scout 1.0: A new SRE model powering Bits AI with frontier performance at a fraction of the cost

Datadog has introduced Scout 1.0, its first AI model specialised for investigating production issues. Scout powers Bits Investigation, Datadog’s AI site reliability engineer (SRE). The company trained Scout to reduce inference cost so that investigations are cheap enough to run an order of magnitude more often and earlier in an incident’s lifecycle.

Scout achieves a better price-performance curve on Datadog’s target scenarios when compared with general-purpose frontier models. Scout 1.0 medium matches GPT-6.1 Sol high and Claude Opus 5.5 high at 3-8× lower estimated inference cost, and performs comparably to Fable medium and Astra medium at 12× and 19× lower cost, respectively. With test-time scaling, Scout 1.0 xhigh matches Fable xhigh at 4× lower cost.