Bosch BVMS license price per camera for BVMS Lite, Plus and Professional

One base package per system, one expansion per extra camera.

Every BVMS edition includes eight cameras in its base license. The edition sets the base price, the camera price and the ceiling.

Bosch Video Management System, BVMS, is sold as an e-license in four editions: Lite, Plus, Professional and Enterprise. You buy one base license for the management server, which already covers eight camera or decoder channels and a set number of workstations, then one camera expansion license for every camera beyond those eight. Bosch does not publish a price list, so the figures on this page come from Network Camera Store, a US reseller that lists every BVMS part number with a price.

The second line on a BVMS quote is software assurance. Bosch calls the yearly part an SMA license, and you buy one for the base and one for each camera expansion, per year. Skip it and the system keeps recording, but you cannot install a BVMS version released after your SMA end date.

For fifteen cameras on your own server the licenses come to $883.06 on Lite, $2,966 on Plus and $7,169 on Professional. Five years of SMA adds $1,418.65, $1,908.65 or $4,595.

Which BVMS edition your site needs.

Limits from the BVMS Lite, Plus and Professional 13.1 datasheets. The camera ceiling is the number most sites hit first.

Lite fits a single building under 42 cameras, and it is the cheapest by a wide margin. Plus is the step for sites that will pass 42 cameras or need more than five operator stations. Professional is for 256 cameras and up, or for a site that needs up to 100 workstations on one server. Enterprise sits above all three: it ties several Lite, Plus, Professional or DIVAR IP systems together under one login, up to 200,000 cameras and 10,000 per operator, and is priced through the subsystem expansions in the table above.

BVMS license cost for fifteen cameras, once and over five years.

Reseller prices from the tables above, with the 8 cameras in the base and 7 expansions. Server hardware, Windows licenses and labor are separate lines.

Two things move the total more than the edition. Workstations: Lite includes two, Plus and Professional five, and each extra operator seat is another expansion with its own SMA. And the upgrade schedule: a site that buys no SMA pays nothing after year one, but it is stuck on its current BVMS version until it buys assurance again. For a side by side with DW Spectrum, Wisenet WAVE, AXIS Camera Station and exacqVision on the same per camera basis, see the video management software comparison.

How to order BVMS licenses without overpaying.

1. 1

   Count channels and seats

   Every camera and every decoder output takes a channel. Subtract the eight in the base, then count operator workstations against the two or five included.

2. 2

   Pick the edition by ceiling

   Under 42 cameras and 5 workstations, Lite costs a fraction of Plus. Plan the edition for where the site will be in three years, since moving up means a new base.

3. 3

   Decide the SMA term now

   SMA ordered with the licenses sets the end date from activation. Order the years you expect to upgrade through, rather than catching up later.

4. 4

   Check the part numbers on the quote

   Ask for BVMS 11 and later parts, not -100 or -101 parts, and compare FM parts with plain parts plus SMA for the same term.

One more thing to know before you call a dealer. Bosch's video, access, intrusion and communication product business moved to Triton on July 1, 2025 as Keenfinity Group, and the video unit is being renamed IQSIGHT. The BVMS 13.1 datasheets still carry the BVMS name and point support questions to the Keenfinity Knowledge Base, so expect both names on quotes for a while. If you also run Avigilon or Axis sites, our Avigilon camera license cost page prices those licenses on the same basis.

Bosch BVMS license questions buyers ask before ordering.