Signal is a nonprofit, but we’re playing in a lane dominated by multi-billion-dollar corporations that have defined the norms and established the tech ecosystem, and whose business models directly contravene our privacy mission. So in order to provide a genuinely useful alternative, Signal spends tens of millions of dollars every year. We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.

• Talent: $19 million dollars per year
• Infrastructure: $14 million dollars per year
• Storage: $1.3 million dollars per year.
• Servers: $2.9 million dollars per year.
• Registration Fees: $6 million dollars per year.
• Total Bandwidth: $2.8 million dollars per year.
• Additional Services: $700,000 dollars per year.