County Pricing Calculator

Why residents don't pay.
A life-safety alert is the wrong thing to charge residents for. Charging residents would force YANA-IGY to verify payment before sending a disaster alert, would create a consent-and-billing surface under TCPA/FCC that could delay an alert by seconds that matter, and would exclude exactly the residents who are most at risk. The county-paid model keeps delivery time constant regardless of a resident's financial status or billing state.

Why the fee is flat, not per-resident.
The county pays one annual fee. Residents are not billed, and they are not counted as line items. The integrity checks run once per alert, not once per person. Weather and hazard feeds run all year. Text-message delivery does grow with the number of messages sent, and that cost is included in the annual fee instead of being charged per resident.

What one annual fee covers.
Unlimited disaster alerts for that county's subscribers for the year, including the text-message bill. The detection, reasoning, integrity, and delivery pipeline. Ripple Mesh Relay when cellular is down. Vibe Text for residents who need a second way to receive the alert. A record of each alert that the county can pull for after-action review. No per-alert surcharge. No card-processor markup.

How pricing works:
Counties pay a flat annual fee based on population tier.
These prices cover multiple disasters per year including all SMS fees.

Small County (under 30,000): $5,999/year → $1,500 quarterly
Medium County (30,000–149,999): $11,999/year (negotiable $10,999–$13,999) → $2,750 – $3,500 quarterly
Large County (150,000–499,999): $22,999/year (negotiable $19,999–$25,999) → $5,000 – $6,500 quarterly
Mid-Metro (500,000–999,999): $39,999/year (negotiable $34,999–$49,999) → $8,750 – $12,500 quarterly
Extra Large / Metro (1,000,000–4,999,999): $69,999/year (negotiable $59,999–$79,999) * → $15,000 – $20,000 quarterly *
Mega Metro (5,000,000+): $300,000/year (negotiable $250,000–$400,000) * → $62,500 – $100,000 quarterly *

* Additional fees may apply for high-volume usage, custom integrations, dedicated support, or specialized onboarding.

No Stripe. No third-party payment processor markup. 100% in-house, fair pricing. All county pricing can be paid in quarterly payments.

Procurement notes.
YANA-IGY is a supplemental alerting service, not a replacement for WEA, EAS, or AMBER. Messages are alert-to-move only, enforced in code by MSAD; guidance, routing, and evacuation instructions are out of scope by design and cannot be turned on. The county receives: a subscriber-roster tool and an audit log for every alert sent. Research-backed justification for the detection methodology and the component-by-component architecture are maintained internally and available to authorized procurement reviewers on request.