Ivideon alternative for business cameras, with Ivideon pricing and cost per camera compared
- Ivideon prices from its own US store and a US reseller
- Written by one of the alternatives
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Sets the luma delta threshold and the smallest region that counts.
Kills the one frame flicker that no operator wants paged about.
Exclude zone
Put it over the road, the tree, the neighbour's window. Events inside it stop alerting.
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Get these alerts from your own cameras.
Ivideon sells three things per camera. Know which one you are replacing.
Most business accounts pay for the first two and wish the alerts were better.
Remote viewing
The Online plan: live video and events, no cloud archive
Ivideon connects existing cameras and recorders through its $99 Bridge, its free Ivideon Server software or cameras with Ivideon built in, and shows them in one app. At $42 a camera a year from Ivideon's US store, live viewing is cheap.
Cloud recording
A yearly plan per camera, priced by retention
Cloud 3, Cloud 7 and Cloud 14 keep 3, 7 or 14 days of video in Ivideon's cloud, triggered by the camera's detectors or continuous, at $90, $126 and $156 a camera a year. This is where an Ivideon bill grows, one camera at a time.
Knowing what moved
Person and vehicle alerts instead of every pixel change
Ivideon's alerts come from motion, sound and sensor detectors, several of them depending on the camera model. Its paid analytics are faces, plates, people counting and queues. We found no Ivideon plan that labels a motion event person or vehicle to cut false alerts.
Ivideon charges a yearly plan per camera priced by cloud retention.
Ivideon.com has no public pricing page. These are the one year per camera licenses on Ivideon's own US store and the plans a US reseller lists.
Online
- Cloud archive
- None. Live video, events and local archive viewing
- Per camera per year
- $42
Cloud 3
- Cloud archive
- 3 days, detector triggered or continuous
- Per camera per year
- $90
Cloud 7
- Cloud archive
- 7 days, detector triggered or continuous
- Per camera per year
- $126
Cloud 14
- Cloud archive
- 14 days, detector triggered or continuous
- Per camera per year
- $156
| Ivideon US store plan | Cloud archive | Per camera per year |
|---|---|---|
| Online | None. Live video, events and local archive viewing | $42 |
| Cloud 3 | 3 days, detector triggered or continuous | $90 |
| Cloud 7 | 7 days, detector triggered or continuous | $126 |
| Cloud 14 | 14 days, detector triggered or continuous | $156 |
Cloud 10
- What it records
- Detector triggered only, 10 days
- Per camera per year
- $85.50
- Monthly list price
- $9
Cloud 10 Pro
- What it records
- Detector triggered or continuous
- Per camera per year
- $142.50
- Monthly list price
- $15
Cloud 30
- What it records
- Detector triggered only, 30 days
- Per camera per year
- $182.40
- Monthly list price
- $19
Cloud 30 Pro
- What it records
- Detector triggered or continuous, 30 days
- Per camera per year
- $236.55
- Monthly list price
- $25
| Reseller plan (Network Camera Store) | What it records | Per camera per year | Monthly list price |
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| Cloud 10 | Detector triggered only, 10 days | $85.50 | $9 |
| Cloud 10 Pro | Detector triggered or continuous | $142.50 | $15 |
| Cloud 30 | Detector triggered only, 30 days | $182.40 | $19 |
| Cloud 30 Pro | Detector triggered or continuous, 30 days | $236.55 | $25 |
The structure matters more than any single number. Every camera is its own license, paid a year up front, and the reseller lists no refunds. Reseller plans allow up to 50 cameras per account and share access with 25 other users. The Ivideon Bridge, $99 on Ivideon's store, connects up to 16 existing cameras or NVR channels over RTSP or ONVIF and needs a paid cloud plan. Analytics are yearly add-ons per camera on top: Faces from $513, license plates from $94.05, people counting from $133.95 and queues from $136.80 at the reseller.
Ivideon cost, 15 cameras, US store prices
Cloud 14 on every camera: 15 x $156 = $2,340 a year, plus a $99 Bridge.
Cloud 7 on every camera: 15 x $126 = $1,890 a year, plus a $99 Bridge.
Online, live view only: 15 x $42 = $630 a year.
Before any analytics add-on, and with alerts still coming from motion and sound detectors.
Five products that work with the business cameras you already own.
Every row accepts third party IP cameras, which is why most businesses chose Ivideon. They differ on where the video lives, how detection is sold and whether a price is published.
Ivideon
- Stores your video
- Yes, cloud per camera, 3 to 30 days
- How person and vehicle detection is sold
- Not found. Motion, sound and sensor alerts; faces, plates, counting and queues as add-ons
- Published price
- $42 to $156 a camera a year on its US store, $99 Bridge
Angelcam
- Stores your video
- Yes, cloud add-on per camera, 3 to 60 days
- How person and vehicle detection is sold
- Real-Time Security and custom plans, quoted
- Published price
- $4 to $99 a month platform, plus $6.99 to $29.99 a camera a month to record
Camcloud
- Stores your video
- Yes, cloud, 7 to 30 days on self service plans
- How person and vehicle detection is sold
- Cloud AI add-on labels the camera's own motion events
- Published price
- $6 to $15 a camera a month, Cloud AI quoted
Arcules (Milestone)
- Stores your video
- Yes, cloud or on a Husky gateway on site
- How person and vehicle detection is sold
- People and vehicle detection on cloud storage channels only
- Published price
- US reseller listings $9.95 to $81 a camera a month, plus a $1,995 and up gateway
MotionDetection
- Stores your video
- No, your existing recorder keeps the video
- How person and vehicle detection is sold
- Its own detection on the stream, then classification of every event, in every plan
- Published price
- $49 to $499 a month, $8.32 to $12.25 a camera, on the pricing page
| Product | Stores your video | How person and vehicle detection is sold | Published price |
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| Ivideon | Yes, cloud per camera, 3 to 30 days | Not found. Motion, sound and sensor alerts; faces, plates, counting and queues as add-ons | $42 to $156 a camera a year on its US store, $99 Bridge |
| Angelcam | Yes, cloud add-on per camera, 3 to 60 days | Real-Time Security and custom plans, quoted | $4 to $99 a month platform, plus $6.99 to $29.99 a camera a month to record |
| Camcloud | Yes, cloud, 7 to 30 days on self service plans | Cloud AI add-on labels the camera's own motion events | $6 to $15 a camera a month, Cloud AI quoted |
| Arcules (Milestone) | Yes, cloud or on a Husky gateway on site | People and vehicle detection on cloud storage channels only | US reseller listings $9.95 to $81 a camera a month, plus a $1,995 and up gateway |
| MotionDetection | No, your existing recorder keeps the video | Its own detection on the stream, then classification of every event, in every plan | $49 to $499 a month, $8.32 to $12.25 a camera, on the pricing page |
Read the second column first. Three of these replace Ivideon like for like, storage included. We store no video, so we only replace Ivideon at a site that already records on an NVR, a DVR or VMS software. The Angelcam numbers come from our page on the Angelcam alternative and Angelcam pricing, the Camcloud figures from the Camcloud alternative and Camcloud pricing page, and the Arcules ones from our breakdown of Arcules pricing per camera channel. Videoloft, which bills per camera per month and publishes its whole grid, is totaled on our Videoloft pricing per camera page.
Four reasons an Ivideon account ends up in a comparison, and how much each one matters.
The bill grows with every recording camera
Ivideon is cheap per camera and easy to start. Fifteen cameras on Cloud 14 is $2,340 a year, every year, and a site that also runs an NVR is paying to store the same footage twice.
Matters most at sites with a working recorder and more than ten cameras.
Alerts are motion alerts
Ivideon notifies on motion, sound, temperature and alarm inputs, tuned by zone, sensitivity and threshold. Shadows, rain, insects and headlights all move pixels, so a busy outdoor camera sends a busy inbox.
Matters most on outdoor cameras and parking lots.
Analytics are priced for retail, not security
The paid analytics count people, measure queues, read plates and recognize faces. Those are useful in a store. None of them is a person or vehicle filter on ordinary motion events.
Matters most when the only goal is fewer false alerts.
Procurement asks where the company comes from
US customers contract with Ivideon LLC in Irvine, California, and its privacy policy says US account data is kept in US data centers. The company started in Russia, which IPVM reported on in 2022, and some security and IT policies ask about that.
Matters most in regulated, public sector and enterprise purchasing.
Where Ivideon is genuinely the right answer
A shop, café or small office with a handful of cameras and no recorder is well served by Ivideon. The per camera price is low, the Bridge takes almost any camera, clips export easily, and a public stream can go on a website. Retailers who actually want to count visitors, watch queues or read plates get those analytics in the same app. Nobody in that position should swap it for a detection tool that stores nothing. This page is for the other buyer: a recorder full of footage and a phone full of alerts about moving shadows.
Classification on the stream you already record, with no new box and no cloud archive.
Connect
Give it the RTSP URL your recorder already uses, or let it find the camera over ONVIF. It reads the low resolution sub stream, so the recorder keeps the main stream and nothing on the camera changes.
Detect
Our own background model finds regions that really moved and joins them into events. Sensor noise, compression shimmer and single frame flicker are removed before anything is classified.
Classify
Crops from each event are labelled person, vehicle, animal, package or other motion, with a confidence value. Continuous video never leaves your network.
Alert
Only events outside your exclude zones, longer than your minimum duration and in a class you chose reach you, by email, webhook or Slack.
For a site coming from Ivideon, two things change. Upload drops from continuous or triggered video to small event crops. And the alert is about what moved, not that something moved, whatever brand the camera is. The RTSP camera software page covers stream URLs, sub streams and codecs, and person detection camera software covers the one class most businesses actually need alerts for. Sites recording on their own server can compare the cost against the analytics add-on in our Luxriot EVO S pricing breakdown.
What the same fifteen camera business costs, and what each number buys.
Ivideon US store prices and our published yearly price, one Bridge, no cameras and no installation labor. The rows do not buy the same thing, and the last column says so.
Ivideon Online, live view only
- Per year
- $630
- Five years
- $3,150
- What it includes
- Remote viewing and motion events on 15 cameras. No cloud archive, no classification.
Ivideon Cloud 7
- Per year
- $1,890 + $99 Bridge once
- Five years
- $9,549
- What it includes
- Cloud recording, 7 days, on 15 cameras. Motion and sound alerts.
Ivideon Cloud 14
- Per year
- $2,340 + $99 Bridge once
- Five years
- $11,799
- What it includes
- Cloud recording, 14 days, on 15 cameras. Motion and sound alerts.
MotionDetection, Operate tier
- Per year
- $888
- Five years
- $4,440
- What it includes
- Classified alerts on 15 cameras, 30 day event history, 5 users, 3 sites, webhook and Slack. No video storage.
| Option | Per year | Five years | What it includes |
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| Ivideon Online, live view only | $630 | $3,150 | Remote viewing and motion events on 15 cameras. No cloud archive, no classification. |
| Ivideon Cloud 7 | $1,890 + $99 Bridge once | $9,549 | Cloud recording, 7 days, on 15 cameras. Motion and sound alerts. |
| Ivideon Cloud 14 | $2,340 + $99 Bridge once | $11,799 | Cloud recording, 14 days, on 15 cameras. Motion and sound alerts. |
| MotionDetection, Operate tier | $888 | $4,440 | Classified alerts on 15 cameras, 30 day event history, 5 users, 3 sites, webhook and Slack. No video storage. |
The honest reading: if remote viewing is all you use, Ivideon Online is cheaper than we are, and we will not pretend otherwise. If you pay for Cloud 7 or Cloud 14 while an NVR in the back room records the same cameras, and the reason you are unhappy is the alerts, the bottom row is the whole cost of that fix, published, with no footage paid for twice. The video analytics software price page lists every tier and the per camera arithmetic.
Four things Ivideon does that this product does not.
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No live view
Ivideon shows every camera live in its apps and in a browser. Here you get the event list and the crops, and you open the footage in the recorder you already have.
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No cloud recording
We keep events and their crops, not continuous video. If the only copy of your footage sits on a recorder in the building, a stolen recorder takes it with it, and Ivideon's cloud archive protects against exactly that.
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No retail analytics
Ivideon counts visitors, measures queues, reads license plates and recognizes faces. We classify motion events for alerts and do none of those four.
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No public broadcasting
Ivideon can put a live stream on a website or a social page. We do not publish video anywhere.
Ivideon questions that come up while you are comparing.
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How much does Ivideon cost?
Ivideon charges a yearly license per camera. On its US store, Online is $42 a camera a year with no cloud archive, Cloud 3 is $90, Cloud 7 is $126 and Cloud 14 is $156. A US reseller also lists Cloud 10 at $85.50, Cloud 30 at $182.40 and Pro plans with continuous recording up to $236.55. The Bridge is $99 once.
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What is the best Ivideon alternative for a business?
It depends on which part you are replacing. For cloud recording like for like, Angelcam, Camcloud and Arcules are the main options, each with a per camera price. If a recorder already keeps the footage and the alerts are the problem, a detection layer such as MotionDetection costs less than a recording plan and stores nothing twice.
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Does Ivideon have person detection?
Ivideon alerts on motion, sound, temperature and alarm inputs, and some detectors depend on the camera model. Its paid analytics cover face recognition, license plates, people counting and queues. We found no Ivideon plan that classifies an ordinary motion event as a person or vehicle to filter false alerts.
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Does Ivideon work with any IP camera?
Mostly. The Ivideon Bridge connects up to 16 cameras or NVR channels over RTSP, ONVIF and Hikvision or Dahua protocols, and Ivideon says it works with 98 percent of cameras. Ivideon Server software does the same from a Windows, Mac or Linux computer, and some cameras ship with Ivideon built in.
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Is Ivideon a Russian company?
Ivideon started in Russia, and IPVM reported on its Russian backing in 2022. US customers contract with Ivideon LLC in Irvine, California, and Ivideon's privacy policy says data for US accounts is stored in US data centers, with data for CIS users stored in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
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Can I keep my NVR and get person alerts without Ivideon?
Yes. A detection layer reads the RTSP sub stream the NVR already pulls, classifies each real motion event as a person, vehicle, animal or package, and alerts only on the classes you pick. The NVR keeps recording. MotionDetection works this way from $49 a month for four cameras, with no new box and no cloud archive.
Related pages
Videoloft pricing per camera
Every US cloud plan by retention and resolution, Smart Motion at $1.79, and the Cloud Adapter.
Angelcam alternative and Angelcam pricing
The other cloud platform for existing cameras, with its recording add-on priced per camera.
Camcloud alternative and Camcloud pricing
Per camera cloud recording with a Cloud AI add-on, explained.
Arcules pricing per camera
Every Arcules channel SKU at US reseller prices, the gateway, and a fifteen camera total.
Video management software for IP cameras
Recording platforms on license model and published price.
Video analytics software price
Four tiers, the per camera arithmetic, and no sales call attached.
Person detection camera software
Person alerts on the cameras you already own.
Keep the recorder. Fix the alerts.
One field, one 6 digit code, and your console opens on that address. Pick the tier by camera count and pay by card, with no quote to wait for.