RapidAI Pricing and Cost for Hospital Stroke Programs From VA Awards

The short answer: RapidAI does not publish a price list, so RapidAI pricing has to come from a written quote. The best public benchmark is the VA record. A USAspending.gov search for RapidAI on October 30, 2026 returns 12 federal prime awards worth $1,769,834 in total, and the single-site license blocks inside it run from $42,000 to $180,480 for terms of one to four years. Treat those as reference points for your own quote, not as a rate card.

Sources are USAspending.gov prime award records (award types A to D, keyword RapidAI, collected October 30, 2026) and the openFDA 510(k) database. Award values are obligated or ceiling amounts as recorded, not confirmed spend. Product capabilities are described as the vendor states them.

This guide is for stroke program directors, imaging administrators and value analysis committees who have a RapidAI proposal on the desk and want to know whether the number is reasonable. For the product comparison itself, see RapidAI alternatives, and for the other two acute triage platforms, Aidoc vs Viz.ai vs RapidAI.

How much does RapidAI cost?

No public figure sets a RapidAI price per hospital. What exists is a set of Department of Veterans Affairs purchases that name RapidAI software, licenses or scanners. They show the order of magnitude a large federal buyer paid, through the vendor and through resellers.

Nine of the 12 awards are shown. The remaining three are smaller licensing and maintenance actions. Keep the descriptions attached to the amounts. The $999,999 enterprise award covers a national program implementation and cannot be divided into a per hospital price.

What does a single-site RapidAI license cost per year?

Dividing the awards by their stated terms gives rough annual figures. The $42,000 order runs twelve months, the $42,750 option year runs twelve months, the $96,876 award runs 24 months (about $48,400 a year), and the $180,480 award runs 48 months (about $45,100 a year). These sit in a band of roughly $42,000 to $48,000 a year.

That band is a pattern in federal purchases, and the awards do not state the module list, the scanner count or whether the term includes support. A community hospital with one CT scanner and a comprehensive stroke center with several will not land on the same number. Use the band to spot a quote that is far outside it, then ask why.

Which RapidAI modules could be in your quote?

The openFDA database lists 26 clearance records under the Ischemaview and iSchemaView applicant names, from the original RAPID in 2013 to Rapid ICH v4.0 on October 9, 2026. That includes Rapid LVO, Rapid ICH, Rapid ASPECTS, Rapid NCCT Stroke, Rapid CTA 360, Rapid SDH, Rapid Aneurysm Triage and Notification, Rapid PE Triage and Notification, Rapid RV/LV, Rapid Aortic Measurements and Rapid Obstructive Hydrocephalus.

Twenty-six records is not a menu of 26 products. Many are later versions of the same module. What it tells you is that a proposal can bundle stroke, hemorrhage, aneurysm, pulmonary embolism and aortic modules, and that the price should change when you add or drop one. Ask for each module on its own line with the clearance it relies on.

What should a RapidAI quote itemize?

• Modules. A line for each module, with the FDA record, so you can see what is core and what is optional.
• Footprint. The number of hospitals, CT scanners and perfusion or MR sources covered, and the price for adding a spoke hospital later.
• Term and renewal. The length, the renewal uplift cap, the notice deadline and the termination rights.
• Services. Implementation, interface work, training, support hours and who pays when a scanner is replaced.
• Reseller or direct. Federal buyers bought both ways. Ask who invoices, who supports and who holds the renewal.

The renewal line is where cost drifts. Platform licenses, maintenance and module add-ons often renew on different dates. Reading the clauses before a quote is signed is easier with AI contract clause review than with a skim of the order form, especially on auto-renewal and price escalation language.

Does Medicare offset a stroke AI purchase?

Not for RapidAI. CMS granted a New Technology Add-on Payment to Viz LVO, up to $1,040 per eligible patient, and no equivalent payment is published for RapidAI. Do not model one in the business case unless the vendor shows you the CMS determination for the specific module you are buying.

Where does a reading assistant fit in the budget?

RapidAI is a triage and perfusion platform. It sends the team an alert and a result, and it does not write the radiology report. Radiological.ai is a decision-support assistant that flags suspected findings, prioritizes the worklist, compares the prior and drafts the structured report into your template. The radiologist reviews, edits and signs every report.

Practice includes X-ray and CT at $199 per reading radiologist per month billed annually, or $399 month to month. Budget it as a separate line from the stroke platform, because it removes reporting time rather than shortening the time to the stroke team. Reporting plans are on the Radiological.ai pricing page, and the Viz.ai side of the same question is covered in Viz.ai pricing and what a quote should itemize.