TechFides · July 2026
Government pricing usually hides behind a discovery call. We're going to do the opposite, because a number a mayor can see is worth more than a proposal a mayor has to chase. The full FidesGov program is $500,000. Here's exactly what that buys, and how it compares to what a city already spends on systems it will never own.
What does the $500,000 include?
All five core FidesGov systems: Desk, InterOps, Fleet, Inspect, and Shield. Plus the integration to make them work together, the training to get city staff running them, and three years of support. It's a fixed, published program price, not a starting point that grows on a call.
Two things are quoted separately, on purpose. The infrastructure, meaning the hardware the city will own, is scoped in a short assessment, because the right build for a town of eight thousand isn't the right build for a city of eighty thousand. And the Health and Growth add ons are priced on top for the cities that want them. Everything in the core program, though, is the published number. We publish the price because trust should start before the contract, not after it.
How does that compare to what a city already pays?
This is the part that surprises people. A single legacy municipal platform, like a dispatch and records system, an ERP, or a permitting suite, routinely runs from the mid six figures into the millions once you count the license, the implementation, and the years of maintenance that follow. And at the end of all of it, the city owns nothing. The data lives on the vendor's cloud, the price resets at renewal, and walking away means walking away from everything.
A city can spend more on one system it rents than on an entire suite it would own. That isn't a rhetorical flourish. It's the comparison a CFO makes the moment the numbers land on the same page.
Why does ownership change the math?
Because rent never ends and ownership does. A subscription is a cost that recurs forever and rises on someone else's schedule. An owned system is an asset. The hardware is the city's, the models run locally, and the recurring cost is support, not a license the city is hostage to. Over a ten year horizon, the horizon a city actually plans on, owning isn't just cheaper. It's the difference between a line item that compounds and one that ends.
Ownership also buys something that never shows up on the invoice. Sovereignty. When the city owns the hardware and the data, the internet can drop and the city keeps working, a vendor can raise prices and the city doesn't flinch, and an auditor can ask where the data lives and the answer is a room in City Hall.
Is this only for big cities?
The opposite. FidesGov was built for small cities precisely because they're the ones this math punishes hardest. A large city can absorb a seven figure platform and a team to run it. A town of thirty thousand can't, so it either goes without or signs a contract it can't really afford. A fixed $500,000 program the city owns outright is built for exactly that town.
Own Your AI
FidesGov is the public sector version of the idea TechFides was built on. Own your AI instead of renting it. Five sovereign systems, a published price, and an asset the city keeps, for less than many cities already pay to rent a single one.
To see the program built on your city's own operations, start at techfides.com/government.
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