How overnight price checks work
Scheduled checks that run overnight go through a nightly batch window, so fresh alerts and recommendations are waiting for you at the start of the day instead of trickling in while you sleep.
What you get
- Overnight schedules that finish before your morning check-in, not at some unpredictable hour.
- The same accuracy and coverage as an on-demand run — the batch window changes when results land, not what gets checked.
- A lower cost per research unit on platform-funded overnight runs, so scheduling overnight is the efficient choice, not just the convenient one.
Why overnight checks work differently
An on-demand run — one you trigger yourself or that a daytime schedule fires — starts working right away. An overnight run submitted through a scheduled cadence is queued into a batch window instead: the check is grouped with other overnight work and processed as a batch, then the results come back and your run finishes. That window is what lets overnight runs cost less per research unit than an on-demand one.
What this means for timing
Because overnight runs wait for the batch window, don't expect the run to complete the instant it's queued — it's designed to be done by morning, not in the next few minutes. If you need results right now, use Run now or a daytime schedule instead; overnight batching is specifically for checks that don't need to land before you're back at your desk.
Go further
- Put checks on a schedule — set up the cadence that decides which runs go through the overnight window.
- Why a scheduled check can sit in "collecting" — what a run looks like while it's in progress.
- Understand credits & overage — how research-unit usage is tracked either way.
- Cost per research unit — how the overnight discount is measured.