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Congestion Pricing

Charging more for a resource when demand is high and less when it is low, so price rather than refusal allocates scarce capacity.

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Scry's congestion pricing turns an agent's retry into a purchase

Scry's MCP search API prices an over-quota query instead of refusing it. That moves congestion control into the agent's retry loop, where a backoff timer cannot see the quote and the budget arbiter is the orchestrator's problem.

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