Datadog launches Scout 1.0, an SRE model powering Bits AI

Datadog introduced Scout 1.0, its first AI model specialized for investigating production issues, powering its AI site reliability engineer Bits Investigation. Scout 1.0 medium matches GPT-6.1 Sol high and Claude Opus 5.5 high at 3–8× lower estimated inference cost, while Scout 1.0 xhigh matches Fable xhigh at 4× lower cost with test-time scaling.

• Scout 1.0 medium matches GPT-6.1 Sol high and Claude Opus 5.5 high at 3–8× lower cost
• Scout 1.0 xhigh matches Fable xhigh at 4× lower cost via test-time scaling
• Built on GLM-5.3 Flash and post-trained with RL on simulations of real incidents
• Available in closed preview for Datadog engineers and select customers