Pricing
The map itself is free — CityAlert normalizes 262 public feeds across 74 focus cities and the whole planet, and that stays open. Paid plans fund the pipeline: more watch areas and real-time delivery for residents, higher request volumes for developers, and white-label deployments for municipalities.
Free
$0 forever
- Live map with every feed layer — no account needed
- All 74 city pages and category maps
- 4 watch areas with a daily digest email (~8am your timezone)
- Real-time email alerts on your first watch area
- 1 shareable dashboard
Pro
$7.99/moor $59/yr (save 38%)
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited watch areas and shareable dashboards
- Real-time alerts on every area, not just the first
- Browser push alerts (rolling out)
- Cancel any time via the Stripe billing portal
Developer API
$0–499/mo
- Free key — $0: 60 requests/day on the live endpoints
- Developer — $99/mo: 5,000 requests/day plus the
/api/archivehistory endpoint - Pro — $499/mo: 50,000 requests/day plus MCP historical tools
- Business: higher volumes or SLAs — contact us
Municipal
From $1,500/yr CAD
- White-label public incident dashboard for Canadian municipalities — your name, colours and boundary
- Geofenced resident email alerts, embeddable widget and shareable dashboards
- Flat annual license — no per-message or per-resident fees
- English and French deployments; Canadian data residency on request
Frequently asked questions
Is the live map really free?
Yes — the map, every feed layer and all city pages are free with no account. You only need an account to save watch areas and receive alerts; the free plan covers 4 areas with a daily digest email.
How do I cancel Pro?
Any time, from your account page — the Stripe billing portal handles cancellations, plan switches and receipts. Cancelling keeps Pro until the end of the paid period; your watch areas stay saved on the free plan.
How do I get an API key?
Email contact@cityalert.live (or use the contact page) with a sentence about your use case — keys are issued per plan within a day. The free tier needs no sales call; it exists so researchers and hobby projects can build on the same feed the map uses.