Qognify VMS license price per camera, with Ocularis VMS cost and what Coda Video changes

Qognify sells video management licenses as a base license per server plus one license per camera, with a yearly support and maintenance agreement (SMA) on top. For Ocularis, a US reseller lists the Professional base at $449 and cameras at $139 each, Enterprise at $999 and $189, and Ultimate at $1,999 and $299. The SMA is 18% of the license list price every year, and new licenses must be ordered with the first year of it.

Fifteen cameras on Ocularis Professional come to about $2,971 to $3,291 in year one with SMA, and Enterprise to about $4,499 to $4,978, before the server and the installer. Qognify does not publish prices, so every number below is a named reseller list or a dealer price list, and the rules come from Qognify's own SMA policy and licensing guide. We sell person and vehicle alerts for cameras that already record, so the last section says where a Qognify license is the right purchase and where it is not.

Qognify, Ocularis, Coda Video and who sells what

The name on your quote depends on when your system was bought, which is why searches for Qognify VMS pricing turn up three product names. Hexagon announced it was buying Qognify in December 2022 and closed the deal in April 2023. In April 2024 Qognify took the Hexagon identity, and Qognify VMS (the former SeeTec Cayuga) was later renamed HxGN dC3 Video. Hexagon then spun the business off as Octave, listed in New York from May 2026, and the same product is now sold as Coda Video, "formerly HxGN dC3 Video" on Octave's site.

For a US owner that means two practical questions. If you run Ocularis, you are buying more of a product with an announced migration path, so ask the dealer what the upgrade to Coda Video will cost before you add cameras. If you are buying new, you are buying Coda Video, and the Qognify VMS prices below are its closest public reference.

Ocularis license price by edition

Ocularis 6.3 comes in three editions. Clients are license free and unlimited in all of them, so you only count servers and cameras. Professional holds up to 128 cameras per recording server, Enterprise and Ultimate up to 500, and a system can grow across as many servers as you need. A free 30 day trial covers every edition; after that an unlicensed recorder stops working.

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The Unisol column is the list price on Unisol International's store in Miami, which notes that discounted pricing is available on request. The MSRP column is Qognify's Platinum Premier partner price list effective December 9, 2022, published by a New Jersey dealer, where Platinum partners paid 60% of MSRP. A real project quote usually lands between the partner price and the list. The same 2022 list also shows yearly subscription versions of the licenses (OC-PRO-1C-S at $51 a camera, OC-ENT-1C-S at $69) for buyers who prefer an operating expense.

Paid options sit on top of the edition. The 2022 list prices the analytics interface for third party analytics at $77 a camera, BriefCam integration at $3,299 for the base, and the video wall module at $1,099. Ocularis itself includes server side motion and tamper detection and accepts analytics events from cameras.

The SMA you pay every year

The license is only part of the bill. Qognify's SMA policy, dated April 2025 and covering Ocularis, Qognify VMS and HxGN dC3 Video, sets Enterprise Support at 18% of the license list price a year, and the enhanced and extended levels at 24%. The rules that change a budget:

• New licenses and expansions are ordered together with one year of support, and every license in one installation must sit on the same support level.
• The SMA renews automatically every 12 months unless cancelled with 90 days' written notice. Longer prepaid terms get no discount under the policy.
• Patches and software updates need a valid SMA, according to the Ocularis licensing guide.
• Let it lapse for less than a year and you pay back to the lapse date with a two year order. Lapse for more than a year and you buy a GetCURRENT reinstatement (Unisol lists $39 a Professional camera and $53 an Enterprise camera) plus a new SMA.

The 90 day notice is the clause most owners miss. If the renewal date is not in a calendar, it is worth putting it into a contract management system with a reminder a month before the cancellation window closes, because a missed notice commits you to another year.

Qognify VMS and Coda Video license price

Qognify VMS, now Coda Video, has three editions. Basic covers up to 50 cameras on one server with 5 clients. Advanced and Infinity have no camera, server or client limits, and Infinity adds the large system features. The clearest public prices come from a European distributor, NetcamCenter, in euros before VAT, where the first year SMA per camera works out to exactly 18% of the license.

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In the US, Gemini Computers lists Qognify VMS SKUs it describes as subscriptions: Advanced core $367.35 and Advanced camera $81.37, Infinity core $666.65 and Infinity camera $114.95, with a one year Infinity camera SMA at $71.30. Treat those as a sign of the US range and confirm with the dealer whether each line is yearly or one time, because the listing does not say. A 30 day test license is free.

What fifteen cameras cost

One recording server, fifteen cameras, list prices, no server hardware and no installation labor. Five year totals assume the SMA is renewed at the year one price every year.

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The rows do not buy the same thing. Ocularis records, stores and plays back video on your server; we do not record at all. Our row only belongs in the table for one buyer: a site whose video is already recorded and whose real complaint is the alerts. The same arithmetic for other platforms is on our pages for exacqVision license price and SSA cost, the AXIS Camera Station license and the DW Spectrum license price, and the video management software guide compares them by license model.

If you are pricing licenses because of bad alerts

Many Ocularis renewals are opened because the motion alerts are useless: wind, headlights and shadows all trip server motion detection. Another camera license or a higher edition will not change that, because the detection is the same. Qognify's route to person and vehicle classification is Coda Video Analytics, a server based add on with a human and vehicle mode, quoted per channel and run on its own analytics server, or analytics on newer cameras fed through the analytics interface.

There is a lighter route when the recording side works. A detection layer reads the RTSP sub stream your cameras already send to the recorder, classifies each real motion event as a person, vehicle, animal or package, and alerts only on the classes you choose, by email, webhook or Slack. That is what we sell, on a published price: $49 a month for four cameras or $888 a year for fifteen, with no server and no license key. The person detection camera software page shows how it works on cameras you already own, and you can try it on your own clip in the demo at the top of this page.

Questions buyers ask

How much does a Qognify VMS license cost?

A Qognify license is a base per server plus one license per camera, plus an SMA of 18% of list a year. Ocularis cameras list at $139 (Professional), $189 (Enterprise) and $299 (Ultimate) at a US reseller, with bases from $449 to $1,999. Qognify VMS, now Coda Video, lists at EUR 82 to EUR 237 a camera in Europe.

Is the Qognify SMA required?

For new licenses, yes. Qognify's SMA policy says expansion licenses are ordered together with one year of support, and the 2022 price list says the first year SMA must be bought with any new Ocularis system or expansion. After that it renews yearly, and you need it for patches and software updates.

What happened to Qognify VMS?

Qognify VMS was renamed HxGN dC3 Video after Hexagon bought Qognify, and is now sold as Coda Video by Octave, the security software business Hexagon spun off in 2026. The editions, Basic, Advanced and Infinity, carried over, and existing licenses keep working under the new name.

Is Ocularis being discontinued?

Not yet. Ocularis 6.3 was released in July 2024 and the US Department of Veterans Affairs technology list shows vendor desupport on July 31, 2028. Octave runs an upgrade program that moves Ocularis customers to Coda Video, so plan the migration cost into any large Ocularis expansion.

Does Qognify have person and vehicle detection?

Yes, as an add on. Coda Video Analytics, formerly HxGN dC3 Video Analytics, has a human and vehicle classification mode on standard, thermal and embedded cameras, licensed per channel and quoted by partners. Ocularis also takes analytics events from cameras through a $77 per camera analytics interface on the 2022 list.

Can I keep Ocularis and still get person alerts?

Yes. A detection layer reads the same RTSP streams Ocularis records and sends alerts only for people or vehicles, without touching the VMS. MotionDetection does this from $49 a month for four cameras, or $888 a year for fifteen, with no server, no license key and no SMA.