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Unmanned aerial vehicles, popularly known as UAVs, have been used in many applications in the recent past. UAVs have also been recently used to provide security as a service (SECaaS). SECaaS involves technical solutions, like antivirus and antispam software, firewalls, using secure operating systems, etc. UAVs are resource-constrained entities, and thus, they avail the computational facilities of the base station (BS) to serve the users in their range. At times, several UAVs cooperatively come together to serve a given region, and such a group of UAVs is called a swarm of UAVs. Generally, a group/swarm of UAVs connect themselves to the BS through cluster head (CH) UAVs, which are intermediary nodes. In real-world scenarios, many stakeholders come together to form a UAV swarm configuration providing services to users. Each stakeholder wants to maximize gains. This work proposes a pricing …