Pricing, published
No licence fee. No per-student charge.
Free for the first hundred schools, for five years from the day the school goes live: the software and its hosting, with no licence fee and no per-student charge. You pay the message and AI providers for what you use, at the rates below, itemised on your invoice. Onboarding and support are priced separately.
What the providers charge — read on 27 Sep 2026
| Channel | Provider · unit | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| SMS | Amazon SNS per SMS — India, transactional, local DLT route read on 27 Sep 2026 ↗ | $0.004 |
| SMS | Amazon SNS per SMS — India, international route, no DLT sender id read on 27 Sep 2026 ↗ | $0.071 |
| SMS | Twilio per SMS segment — India, outbound, failover only read on 27 Sep 2026 ↗ | $0.0832 |
| Meta — WhatsApp Business Platform per utility template message — India, INR account read on 27 Sep 2026 ↗ | ₹0.115 | |
| Meta — WhatsApp Business Platform per authentication template message — India, INR account read on 27 Sep 2026 ↗ | ₹0.115 | |
| Meta — WhatsApp Business Platform per marketing template message — India, INR account read on 27 Sep 2026 ↗ | ₹0.8631 | |
| Meta — WhatsApp Business Platform per free-form reply inside a 24-hour window — India, from 1 Oct 2026 read on 27 Sep 2026 ↗ | ₹0.115 | |
| Amazon SES per 1,000 outbound emails — Essentials plan read on 27 Sep 2026 ↗ | $0.16 / 1,000 | |
| AI | OpenRouter — openai/gpt-4o-mini per 1M input tokens read on 27 Sep 2026 ↗ | $0.15 / 1M |
| AI | OpenRouter — openai/gpt-4o-mini per 1M output tokens read on 27 Sep 2026 ↗ | $0.60 / 1M |
Estimate what the providers would bill your school.
Arithmetic on the rates in the table, nothing else. The message counts are an example — change them to your school.
| Per student, each month | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| attendance alerts, fee reminders, gate notices · $0.004 | ₹767 | ₹9,205 |
| the same notices as utility templates · ₹0.115 | ₹920 | ₹11,040 |
| receipts, circulars, reports · $0.16 / 1,000 | ₹61.37 | ₹736 |
| Total, all three channels | ₹1,748 | ₹20,982 |
SMS (USD) and Email (USD) converted to INR at ₹95.89 to the US dollar (RBI reference rate, read on 25 Sep 2026 ↗, indicative); the provider bills in its own currency. These are the providers’ published rates; you pay nothing above them. Giiki’s margin is the providers’ bulk discount, not an addition to your bill. Every message is itemised on your invoice.
AI is billed at the model’s token rate, itemised; a typical month for a school of your size will be shown here once we have measured it.
Where the rates come from. Each figure was read off the provider’s own price page on the date shown and is linked so you can check it. Providers change their prices — Meta on the first day of a quarter, AWS whenever it likes — and your invoice carries what the provider actually charged, message by message. The estimator is arithmetic on this table; it is not a quote.
Honest answers
What does “free” mean?
For the first hundred schools, the software and its hosting cost nothing for five years from the day the school goes live — no licence fee, no per-student charge, backups included. Onboarding and support are priced separately. Messaging and AI are the providers’ charges, below.
Who pays the message and AI providers?
You do, as used, at the rates in the table: the providers’ published rates, and nothing above them. Giiki’s margin is the volume discount the providers give us for buying in bulk, not an addition to your bill. Every message is itemised on your invoice.
Why does SMS in India need a DLT registration?
Indian carriers only deliver transactional SMS from a sender registered on a TRAI DLT platform — your school registers its entity, its sender-id header and each message template, using its PAN, TAN and GSTIN. Giiki sends only through a registered sender. Without it, messages go by the international route at the higher rate in the table, or are dropped by the carrier.
How is AI billed?
At the model’s token rate, itemised — the two AI rows in the table. Giiki meters every call per school. A typical month for a school of your size will be shown here once we have measured it.
Can I cap what my school spends on messages?
Not today. The product meters every message and AI call per school and shows you the meter; it does not yet stop sending at a limit you set.
What happens after the first hundred schools?
Planned. No date, no price — this site never attaches a date to Planned, and pricing is no exception.
Is anything extra?
Hardware — readers, cameras, barriers — is quoted separately, with your vendor, because we will not commit to a date or price we do not control.