exacqVision SSA and exacqVision license pricing: what an exacq license costs per camera, and what renewal adds

An exacqVision Professional camera license sells for roughly $156 to $198 a camera at US resellers, Enterprise for roughly $168 to $296, and the yearly SSA that keeps you on current software runs about $30 a camera on Professional and $37 to $53 on Enterprise. Exacq stopped printing dollar figures in its own catalog, so every number here is a reseller listing, named as such, and every rule about what a license includes comes from Exacq's catalog and SSA pages.

This is written by a competitor in the analytics half of the market, not the recording half, and the last two sections say where that matters. If you already run exacqVision and you are pricing more cameras or a lapsed renewal, the first four sections are the whole answer.

The short answer

exacqVision is licensed per camera, once, and the license keeps working forever. What expires is the Software Subscription Agreement, the SSA, which is your right to install new versions. A camera license bought for a third party server includes one year of updates; bought with an exacqVision recorder it includes several years, and several current recorder models ship with lifetime SSA. Exacq states plainly that an SSA is not required for continued operation. You pay for it when you want new features, new camera support or security patches, and you need it current before Exacq will move a license to a new server.

exacqVision license price per camera

These are the part numbers you will see on a quote. Prices are single unit listings from four US online resellers. A dealer quoting a whole project may come in lower, and prices move, so treat these as a budget range rather than a rate card.

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Two things catch people out. The license is bound to the recorder's MAC address, so a replacement server is a transfer, not a reinstall, and the transfer only goes through with a current SSA. And the older exacqVision Start tier has dropped out of the current catalog, so a Start system that needs more cameras is really an upgrade conversation rather than a matter of buying one more Start license.

exacqVision SSA: what renewal actually costs

Exacq sells updates two ways, and the one you need depends on whether your SSA is still live.

If it is current, you extend it per camera per year: about $30 a camera on Professional and $37 to $53 on Enterprise. Buying several years at once is allowed, and Exacq's SSA calculator will pick the cheapest combination for your server. A fifteen camera Professional system therefore renews for about $450 to $460 a year.

If it lapsed, you first buy a per server catch up to the current version, $260 to $354 on Professional and $428 to $475 on Enterprise, then carry on with yearly per camera renewals from there. Letting it lapse for two or three years and catching up once is sometimes cheaper than renewing throughout, which is a legitimate choice on a stable system. The costs of running old software are real, though: no support for newly bought cameras, no security fixes, and no transfer if the server dies.

Recorders change the picture. The catalog lists several current exacqVision recorders with lifetime SSA pre-installed, and others with three or five years. If your server is due for replacement anyway, price a recorder with lifetime SSA against five years of renewals on your existing box before you pay either. It is worth putting the renewal on a card you actually watch, too, because a budget alert on the card that pays for software renewals is how a surprise four figure SSA invoice gets noticed the day it posts rather than at quarter end.

exacqVision Professional or Enterprise: which license you need

Most single site businesses need Professional. It runs on Windows or Linux, includes the desktop, browser and mobile clients, and handles the integrations and analytics events a mid size commercial building asks for.

Enterprise earns its premium when there is more than one server. Exacq's catalog lists Active Directory and LDAP sign in, and single page administration of cameras, storage and users across multiple servers, as what Enterprise adds. It is also restricted to Exacq's Select and Elite dealers, so check that whoever quotes it is one. If you run one server today and might add a second, Professional now plus the $82 upgrade later lands at about the same per camera cost as Enterprise bought today, and you only pay the premium on the cameras that actually end up on a multi server system.

Whichever license you buy, a dealer's technicians will be in your server room to install it. Ask for their certificate of insurance before the work order is signed, and if you manage a lot of contractors, software that tracks certificates of insurance and flags the ones about to expire saves chasing a PDF on install day.

What fifteen cameras cost over five years

Software only, on a server you already own, at single unit reseller prices, with the SSA kept current from year two. No server hardware, storage, cameras or installation labor.

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Read that honestly. exacqVision Professional is inexpensive recording software, around $5 a camera a month over five years, and nothing on this site replaces it. We do not record video. The bottom row is there because it answers a different question, which the next section explains, and because a comparison that hides the rows where the other product is cheaper is not worth reading.

When a renewal is the wrong fix

People often price an SSA renewal because something about the system annoys them, and the assumption is that the newer version fixes it. Sometimes it does. But if the complaint is alerts, the renewal usually does not.

exacqVision raises alarms on motion, on events sent by the camera, and on analytics from AI capable cameras and third party integrations, some of which carry their own license. On a system full of older cameras, that means motion alarms from headlights, rain and swaying trees, and a renewal leaves those cameras exactly as blind as they were. The real options are replacing cameras with AI models, adding an analytics integration, or running classification on the video stream the recorder already pulls.

The third option is what we sell. It reads the RTSP sub stream alongside exacqVision, finds real motion, labels each event person, vehicle, animal or package, and sends only the classes you picked, by email, webhook or Slack. The recorder keeps recording and nothing about the exacq license changes. Our video analytics software price page lists every tier, and the CCTV video analytics software page covers what works on installs that are ten years old. If you are weighing exacqVision against the other recording platforms rather than adding to it, our page on video management software for IP cameras compares license models across Milestone, Genetec, Avigilon, Eagle Eye and Nx Witness, and the Camcloud alternative comparison covers the cloud recording route. For the two perpetual licenses with no yearly fee at all, see DW Spectrum license pricing and the Wisenet WAVE license price, both priced from the same US resellers.

Questions buyers ask

How much is an exacqVision license?

A single exacqVision Professional IP camera license, part EVIP-01, sells for about $156 to $198 at US resellers, and an Enterprise license, EVENIP-01, for about $168 to $296. Each is a one time, per camera purchase that includes one year of software updates on third party hardware, or more when bought with an exacqVision recorder. Exacq does not publish dollar prices in its current catalog.

Is SSA required for exacqVision?

No. Exacq states that an SSA is not required for exacqVision to keep running, and your licensed cameras keep recording after it expires. The SSA only buys the right to install newer software versions. You do need a current SSA to transfer a license to a new server, and to get support for cameras released after your version.

What happens when exacqVision SSA expires?

The system keeps working on the version installed on the day it expired, with every camera still licensed. You cannot install later releases until you renew. Renewing a lapsed Professional server starts with a per server update to the current version, about $260 to $354, followed by yearly per camera renewals of about $30.

How do I add a camera license to exacqVision?

Buy the additional EVIP-01 or EVENIP-01 licenses for the recorder's MAC address from a reseller or dealer, then load the new license file on the server. Exacq's documentation notes that a new license can expand the camera count, raise the feature level or extend updates, without reinstalling software or restarting the server. Your SSA end date has to cover the version you run.

Can I transfer an exacqVision license to a new server?

Yes, with the EVIP-TRANSFER part, which moves a server license to a new MAC address and sells for about $127 to $166. Exacq requires the SSA to be current at the time of transfer, so a system with a lapsed SSA needs the catch up update first. Price both together when you budget a server replacement.

Does exacqVision have AI person detection?

It can, through AI capable cameras that send person and vehicle events and through analytics integrations, some licensed separately. Older cameras without on board AI give exacqVision only motion to work with. Classification software that reads the camera's RTSP stream adds person and vehicle alerts to those cameras without replacing them or touching the exacq license.