Pricing
OpenAlarm is an alarm alerting platform for the security system you already own. Two plans, no contract, cancel whenever. Free is not a trial - it does one complete thing reliably, forever.
Your three people, told at once. One alarm, one single-level policy - the moment your alarm trips, everyone gets their text, email or voice call at once.
Free for 14 days for all new users.
Escalation that keeps going until someone answers - and keeps ringing until they do.
Everything in Free, plus:
No card needed. Then $6.99 a month, or stay on Free.
All prices USD.
| What You Get | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Locations | 10 | 10 |
| Alarms | 1 | 25 |
| Panic Buttons | - | 25 |
| Contacts | 3 | 100 |
| Escalation Policies | 1, single level | 50 · up to 5 levels · repeat |
| Channels | Email, SMS, Voice | Email, SMS, Voice |
| Acknowledgment | Yes | Yes |
| False Alarm Delay | Yes | Yes |
| API Keys | 25 | 25 |
| Usage | 5 incidents a month | 250 incidents a month |
Fair questions
You can build the trigger - that part stays yours. What you'd still be building is reliable SMS and voice delivery, escalation with acknowledgment, a false alarm delay, and consent handling - and then maintaining it forever. We manage that layer so a real emergency never hits a bug you shipped at 1am.
It's your people, not a call center - alerted in seconds, escalated if the first person misses it. That is deliberately different from monitoring: the people who actually know your home decide what happens next.
Open ecosystem: it works with any hardware and nothing locks you in. The Home Assistant integration and SDKs are open source; the hosted service is the paid part.
Test it tonight. Test mode runs your real policy on its real timeline and records exactly who would have been reached - then flip to live and trip it once for real. Your own phone ringing is the proof.
No. Alerts arrive as normal texts, calls, and email, and acknowledging is one tap on a link. Every contact consents before they can be alerted, and they can always opt out.
Email reaches them anywhere. SMS and voice calls are available in select countries - see supported countries. For anyone outside that list, add an email address so they still hear about it.
Nothing breaks and nothing is deleted. Upgrade when one round of texts and calls to three people stops being a response plan - that is usually the moment you want escalation that keeps going until someone answers.
You keep Pro to the end of what you paid for; there are no refunds for the remainder. Then the account drops to Free's limits. When you downgrade you choose which alarm, policy and contacts stay; everything else is locked, not deleted, and upgrading brings it all back. A lapsed card works the same way, keeping the oldest of each. Locked items stay in your account, read-only, for as long as the account is open, and you can delete any of them yourself whenever you like. Incident history is never touched.
No card for Free, no contract for Pro, and your setup carries over untouched.