EVAC · Pricing

Free for the mandate.
Paid for the proof.

Every building is free, forever, with unlimited people in it — the drill loop, the alerts, the confirm link and a compliance report. You pay only when you need the tamper-evident signed archive, SMS, or the wider Duress platform. There are no per-person fees, ever.

What you are never billed for

The line that never moves

You are never billed for the people you protect. Students, patients, shoppers, visitors, followers and everyone an organisation looks after are counted in the drill and never counted on the bill. Per-person pricing would give an admin a reason to leave someone off the roster — and that person is exactly the one who ends up unaccounted for. So the meter is capability and workforce seats, never reach.

Three tiers

Free covers what the law already requires of a building. Pro adds the audit trail and the external cascade. Platform pulls in the rest of the Duress safety modules. Buildings are unlimited on every tier; paid plans are priced per workforce seat — the admins and staff who operate EVAC — never per person served.

EVAC Base

Free

Free foreverUnlimited buildings · unlimited people · no card to start

For any building that owes a drill — schools, offices, clinics, venues, warehouses.

  • Evacuation, lockdown, invacuation and shelter procedures
  • The live drill loop — a count that climbs as people answer
  • Area sweeps and the two-person authorisation for a live alert
  • Alerts to the Duress app, Slack and Microsoft Teams
  • The zero-install confirm link — "I am safe" from any message
  • Public follow, unlimited followers per place
  • A standard compliance report (PDF)
  • SSO sign-in and reconciling CSV roster import
  • Up to 5 zones and assembly points · 30-day retention
Set up my building

Free is not a trial. It never expires and is never nagged into an upgrade during an event.

Duress Platform

Platform

Contact usScoped to your organisation

For organisations bringing EVAC together with the wider Duress safety platform.

  • Everything in Pro
  • Duress 24/7 Operations Centre (ASIAL A1 monitoring)
  • On-site staff duress, lone-worker and fall detection
  • Customer monitoring-centre integration
  • Full audit trail with long-term retention
  • A dedicated customer success manager
Talk to sales

The Platform tier layers EVAC into the rest of Duress. We scope it with you.

What is in each tier

The full breakdown. Anything on the path from "something is happening" to "everyone is accounted for" is in the free tier and stays there — the meter never touches the alerting path.

Capabilities by tier
Capability Base (Free) Pro Platform
Buildings (sites)UnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
People per buildingUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
Activation capNoneNoneNone
Evacuation, lockdown, shelter-in-placeYesYesYes
Alerts to the Duress app, Slack and TeamsYesYesYes
"I'm safe" without installing an app (confirm link)YesYesYes
Everyone on-site alerted (staff, visitors, public)YesYesYes
Public app alerting and public followYesYesYes
SSO sign-in (SAML, OIDC, Entra)YesYesYes
Reconciling CSV roster importYesYesYes
Zones and assembly pointsUp to 5UnlimitedUnlimited
SMS alert deliveryNoYesYes
Off-site staff notified and accounted forNoYesYes
Signed, tamper-evident compliance reportStandard PDFSigned & exportableFull audit trail
External cascade (police, fire, hospitals, neighbours)NoYesYes
Drill scheduling and remindersManualAutomatedAutomated
SCIM provisioning · SIS/EHR integrations · APINoYesYes
Duress 24/7 Operations Centre (ASIAL A1)NoNoYes
Staff duress, lone worker, fall detectionNoNoYes
Dedicated tenancy (own database / compute)NoAdd-onAdd-on
Retention30 days7 years7 years
SupportEmailPriority, 24h SLADedicated CSM

How the bill is calculated

Buildings are free and never metered. Saturating a building — getting everyone in it covered — is the number the whole product optimises for, so it is always free and always encouraged. What a paid plan meters is the workforce: the admins and staff who operate EVAC. The people an organisation serves — students, patients, visitors, followers, anyone checked in as an occupant — are never counted.

Over-committing a seat count is never a wall. If more staff join than were contracted, nobody is blocked from a roster and no dialog interrupts an emergency — it is a fact the billing screen states and the renewal reconciles, not a refusal.

A failed card never stops an evacuation

Billing state can freeze administration. It can never touch alerting. A school whose finance officer left and whose card expired has not stopped being a school with children in it — so activation, delivery, the confirm link and the all-clear read no billing state at all. A lapsed payment blocks new sites, reports and integrations; it never blocks an alert. Downgrading never deletes a compliance report you have already been issued.

Dedicated tenancy is an add-on, never a refusal

Every tier runs on shared infrastructure with database-enforced tenant isolation — row-level security, a non-owner database role, and a cross-tenant leak test that gates every release. That is the default, and we stand behind it. Some buyers still require their own tenancy; that is a priced deployment add-on on Pro and Platform — most often a dedicated database on shared compute — never free and never a "no". How we isolate tenants →

The Duress evidence platform — early access

For police, security firms and government buyers who need a full digital-evidence platform — immutable storage, chain of custody, read-audit and lawful disposal — Duress is building a dedicated evidence service alongside EVAC. It does not have a published price yet.

If evidence management is what you are here for, talk to us about early access rather than a plan. Contact us about the evidence platform, and read how it is being built on our Trust & security page.

Start free

Set up a building in about five minutes. No sales call, no card, no paperwork to begin. Upgrade only when you need the signed archive or the wider platform.