Scoutee, the alternative to Patterno that does not sell Europe as an upgrade

About Patterno

Patterno is a German AI tender platform. It matches public notices against a company profile and qualifies them with a language model, and it prices that in four tiers published on its site: Starter at 99 euros a month for one user, two German regions and three AI qualifications a month; Team at 299 for three users, one country and twenty qualifications; Scale at 499 for five users, EU-wide coverage and fifty qualifications; Enterprise at 2,499, with an individual scope, the API, single sign-on and a custom service level. Extra users cost 29 euros a month each, and annual or two-year billing takes ten or twenty per cent off. The price page shows no free plan and no trial.

Why companies move from Patterno to Scoutee

Reason 1: the map is the price ladder

At Patterno, geography is what you climb. Starter at 99 euros a month covers two German regions, Team at 299 covers one country, and the EU only arrives with Scale at 499. A company that wants to see a Dutch or Polish notice pays five times the entry price for the privilege. Scoutee has no ladder: more than 100 official sources in more than 30 countries of Europe and North America are in the free plan, in Pro at 49 euros and in Team at 149, deduplicated into one row per tender.

Reason 2: three AI qualifications a month, or a hundred

Patterno's Starter includes three AI qualifications a month, Team twenty, Scale fifty, and the price of one extra qualification is not published. On Scoutee the free plan runs two analyses a month, Pro 100 and Team without a limit, and ten more cost ten euros, a figure printed on the pricing page. Each analysis fetches the tender documents from the buyer's platform and returns the deadlines, the budget, the requirements and the exclusion criteria, for the whole workspace to read.

Reason 3: the API at 49 euros, not 2,499

Patterno keeps the API for Enterprise, at 2,499 euros a month, which is the only published supplier API price in the German-speaking market. Scoutee includes the API and an MCP server in Pro at 49 euros a month, so a company can put its tender feed in its own CRM or let an assistant query it without changing tier. A public MCP server also answers without an account at all, for anyone who wants to test the index first.

Reason 4: no per-seat fee, and a free plan that stays

Every user beyond the ones included costs 29 euros a month at Patterno, and the price page offers neither a free plan nor a trial, so evaluation starts at 99 euros. Scoutee's free plan never expires: search every source, save searches, one daily alert, two analyses a month. Team at 149 euros carries ten users with no per-seat supplement, unlimited analyses and the award history, and both paid plans are cancelled at any time.

Where Patterno is strong

• A published four-tier price ladder, with users, qualifications and scope written next to each figure.
• AI qualification of notices against the company profile, which is the core of the product, not an add-on.
• A named account manager from Scale, for teams that want a person alongside the tool.
• Single sign-on and a custom service level at Enterprise, which larger German buyers of software ask for.

FAQ

Does Patterno cover tenders outside Germany?

Only from Scale, at 499 euros a month, where the site promises EU-wide coverage. Starter covers two German regions and Team one country, so everything beyond Germany is an upgrade rather than an inclusion. Scoutee searches more than 100 official sources in more than 30 countries of Europe and North America on every plan, the free one included.

How much does Patterno cost?

Prices are published, read on 14 September 2026: Starter 99 euros a month, Team 299, Scale 499, Enterprise 2,499, with 89, 269, 449 and 2,249 respectively on annual billing. Each extra user costs 29 euros a month. Scoutee is free, 49 euros a month for Pro or 149 for Team with ten users.

Can I try Scoutee before paying?

Yes. Patterno's price page shows no free plan and no trial. Scoutee's free plan never expires: it searches every source, saves searches, sends one daily alert and runs two tender analyses a month, with no card. Pro and Team are monthly and cancellable at any time.

Does Scoutee qualify notices with AI, like Patterno?

Yes, in two places. Keywords are proposed from the company profile and translated into the 24 languages of the sources, so a saved search matches foreign wording. The analysis then reads the tender documents and returns deadlines, budget, requirements and exclusion criteria. Free runs two a month, Pro 100, Team without a limit.

Is Scoutee's coverage really included in every plan?

Yes. Free, Pro and Team search the same index of more than 100 official sources in more than 30 countries, collected every night and deduplicated. No region, country or EU option exists to buy. The plans differ by alerts, analyses, users and the award history on Team.

Sources

• Patterno, prices, tiers and scope, read on 14 September 2026: patterno.de.
• Patterno, product pages, read on 14 September 2026: patterno.de.
• Scoutee, pricing and coverage: scoutee.org/en/pricing and scoutee.org/en/sources.