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They didn't talk at all about costs which is odd for such a feature.

I think it's free (for now) like the emergency SOS. Well not free, you pay for it when you buy the phone.

the emergency SOS was only promised to be free for two years, which is coming to an end soon for iPhone 14.

i suspect adding iMessage to the service is an effort to make it valuable enough to start charging for it.