Remind pricing: what a district actually gets quoted
There is no published price for Remind's district product, and there has not been one for years. This page sets out where the free tier stops, what a quote is built from, and how to find real figures for districts your size without waiting on a sales cycle.
| Capability | Free teacher tier | District agreement |
|---|---|---|
| Teacher creates a class and texts families | Included | Included |
| Two-way messaging with translation | Included | Included |
| District-wide announcement to every family | No | Yes |
| Roster sync from the SIS | No | Yes |
| Central administration of every channel | No | Yes |
| Message retention and records access | Teacher-controlled | District-controlled |
| Voice calls | No | Varies by agreement |
| Named support and SLA | No | Yes |
| Published dollar figure | $0 | None published |
The boundary that matters is row three. The moment a district needs to send to everyone, or to see what its staff sent, it is in a paid conversation.
Why we are not publishing a table of contract amounts
A page like this is usually padded out with a table of district names and dollar figures scraped from somewhere. We are not doing that, because we do not hold verified copies of those contracts, and a fabricated procurement figure is exactly the sort of thing that would destroy the only asset a pre-launch vendor has.
What we can do is tell you precisely how to obtain real numbers in an afternoon, which is more useful than a table you would have to verify anyway:
- Your own board's agenda archive. Approved contracts appear in board packets, usually as PDFs, usually searchable. Start with districts in your own state and enrolment band.
- State contract and co-operative purchasing databases. Many states publish awarded vendor agreements including unit pricing.
- A public records request. A one-paragraph request to a peer district for its executed agreement and current-year invoice is routine, free, and usually answered within statutory time.
- Your regional service agency. Whoever runs your co-op or consortium generally knows the going per-student rate across their member districts and will tell you.
Ask for the invoice as well as the contract. The contract holds the unit rate; the invoice holds what actually happened, including metered overages and professional-services lines that never appear in a proposal.
What drives the number
Quotes in this category are assembled from a small number of levers, and knowing them lets you predict roughly where a proposal will land before it arrives.
- Enrolment. Per-student pricing with volume breaks is the norm. The break points are usually around 5,000 and 15,000.
- Modules. Voice, forms, e-signature and any analytics layer are frequently separate lines rather than included capability.
- Metered usage. Voice minutes and SMS segments may be bundled with an allowance and billed above it. Ask what happens in a snow week when you send four district-wide voice broadcasts.
- Term and escalator. A three-year term at a lower year-one rate with an uncapped annual increase can cost more over three years than a flat rate. Model the total, not the headline.
- Implementation. One-off onboarding, data migration and training frequently appear as a separate first-year figure.
Our number, for arithmetic. $3.50 per student per year under 5,000 students, $3.25 from 5,000 to 14,999, $3.00 at 15,000 and above. One tier. Every feature included — no modules, no add-ons, no per-message fees. Fixed for 36 months under §3.2, with year four onwards capped at the lesser of CPI-U or 5%. A 6,000-student district pays $19,500 a year and knows that figure before speaking to anyone.
The question the ownership change adds
Remind is owned by ParentSquare, which sells a district platform of its own. That does not make a Remind quote worse, but it changes what you should ask.
Three questions, in the order they matter:
- "Which product are we buying the roadmap of?" If the answer involves an eventual migration into the parent platform, that migration is a cost and a project, and it should be priced into your comparison now rather than discovered in year two.
- "What is your maximum annual increase, as a number, written into the agreement?" One sentence to answer if the answer is yes.
- "What are our rights if ownership changes again?" It already changed once. Ask for a 90-day termination right with export and a prorated refund. That is §11.2 in our agreement and there is no good reason for a vendor to refuse it except the obvious one.
On export specifically, be precise with any vendor about what is being promised. Ours is a contract right at §7.1 — you may demand your complete data in machine-readable form at any time, without notice and without fee. It is not a self-serve button in the product today; we run the export on request. We would rather state that plainly than let "one-click export" sit on a pricing page where it is not true.
Questions people actually ask
How much does Remind cost for a school district?
No district price is published. Expect a per-student rate with volume breaks, potentially separate lines for voice and any analytics module, and an implementation fee in year one. The reliable way to find a real figure is a public records request to a peer district for its executed contract and current-year invoice.
Is Remind still free for teachers?
A free teacher tier exists and individual teachers continue to use it. What is not free is anything the district needs: roster sync, district-wide sending, central administration of every channel, and access to message history for records purposes.
What is Remind Hub and what does it cost?
Remind's district-level offering bundles central administration, roster integration and district-wide messaging on top of the classroom product. No price is published for it. It is quoted per student, and the quote depends on enrolment, which modules are included, and term length.
Will Remind's pricing change now that ownership has changed?
We cannot predict it and neither can anyone outside the company. What you can do is make the answer not matter: ask for a written maximum annual increase and a change-of-control termination right before you sign. Both are ordinary requests and both are answerable in a sentence.
One price. Every feature. Locked for three years.
$3.50 per student per year under 5,000 students. No tiers, no add-on modules, no per-message fees. Published on the site because you should not have to book a call to learn a price.