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Video analytics software price, per camera and per month

Four tiers, priced per camera, readable without talking to anyone. Every tier is paid. The demo is the free part, and it is the whole detection loop with nothing held back.
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  • Published, no sales call
  • No card to run the demo
  • Annual billing is 20 percent lower
01 Pick by camera count, not by feature chart

Count your cameras. The tier follows from that number, and everything else is a detail.

Annual billing takes 20 percent off every tier. There is no setup fee, no per event charge, no per user charge inside the tier, and no hardware to buy.

Watch

One site, a handful of cameras

$49 per month

$39 a month billed annually, $468 a year

4 cameras

$12.25 per camera

  • 1 site
  • 7 day event history
  • Person, vehicle, animal, package
  • 2 zones per camera
  • Email alerts
  • 1 user
  • Email support
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Operate

Our pick

The operations manager

$149 per month

$119 a month billed annually, $1,428 a year

15 cameras

$9.93 per camera

  • 3 sites
  • 30 day event history
  • Custom classes
  • Unlimited zones
  • Email, webhook and Slack
  • 5 users, Viewer and Operator roles
  • 30 day audit log
  • DPA available
  • Support inside 1 business day
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Multi-Site

Multi-site facilities

$499 per month

$399 a month billed annually, $4,788 a year

60 cameras

$8.32 per camera

  • Unlimited sites
  • 90 day event history
  • Alert schedules and escalation
  • 25 users, custom roles
  • SSO with SAML and OIDC
  • 1 year audit log
  • DPA and security review
Get started

Enterprise

Unlimited cameras and sites, a custom retention policy, SIEM and syslog delivery, an on-premise connector, a custom MSA, purchase order and invoice billing, and a named contact with an SLA. Priced against your camera count, and quoted in writing.

There is no free plan, by design. A free tier of a security product is a tier that gets deployed and then forgotten, and we would rather sell you the smallest paid tier and have you notice whether it works. The demo on the homepage is ungated and complete.

02 Every line, including the ones that say no

The whole table, with the gaps left visible.

Monthly

Watch
$49
Operate
$149
Multi-Site
$499
Enterprise
Quoted

Annual, per month

Watch
$39
Operate
$119
Multi-Site
$399
Enterprise
Custom

Annual, billed

Watch
$468 a year
Operate
$1,428 a year
Multi-Site
$4,788 a year
Enterprise
Custom

Cameras

Watch
4
Operate
15
Multi-Site
60
Enterprise
Unlimited

Effective per camera

Watch
$12.25
Operate
$9.93
Multi-Site
$8.32
Enterprise
Custom

Sites

Watch
1
Operate
3
Multi-Site
Unlimited
Enterprise
Unlimited

Event history

Watch
7 days
Operate
30 days
Multi-Site
90 days
Enterprise
Custom retention

Classes

Watch
person, vehicle, animal, package
Operate
Plus custom classes
Multi-Site
Plus custom classes
Enterprise
Plus custom classes

Zones per camera

Watch
2
Operate
Unlimited
Multi-Site
Unlimited
Enterprise
Unlimited

Alerts

Watch
Email
Operate
Email, webhook, Slack
Multi-Site
Plus schedules and escalation
Enterprise
Plus SIEM and syslog

Users

Watch
1
Operate
5
Multi-Site
25
Enterprise
Unlimited

Roles and permissions

Watch
no
Operate
Viewer, Operator
Multi-Site
Plus Admin and custom roles
Enterprise
Custom roles

SSO with SAML and OIDC

Watch
no
Operate
no
Multi-Site
yes
Enterprise
yes

Audit log

Watch
no
Operate
30 days
Multi-Site
1 year
Enterprise
Custom

Support

Watch
Email
Operate
Email, 1 business day
Multi-Site
Priority, 4 hours
Enterprise
SLA, named contact

DPA and security review

Watch
no
Operate
DPA
Multi-Site
DPA and security review
Enterprise
Plus custom MSA

Purchase order and invoice billing

Watch
no
Operate
no
Multi-Site
Annual only
Enterprise
yes

On-premise connector

Watch
no
Operate
no
Multi-Site
no
Enterprise
yes

Watch says no four times. It is a real tier for a real four camera site, and dressing that up would only cost you a refund later. What Watch does include is the same detection and the same classification as every tier above it.

03 Against the number you are comparing us to

Put your own camera count in. The arithmetic is the whole argument.

Enterprise camera platforms are positioned publicly at roughly $100 per camera per month, plus hardware, on a multi-year term, after a sales call. We have not seen your quote and we are not claiming to know it. What we can do is put the published positioning next to a published price, let you set the camera count, and let you check both.

The estimator picks the cheapest tier that covers the count you set, so it also answers the only question the table above leaves open: which tier is yours. Above 60 cameras it stops doing arithmetic, because that is where we quote too.

The part that is not arithmetic: an enterprise platform replaces your cameras and carries the hardware warranty. If that is what you need, buy that. This is for the site where the cameras are fine and the software is not.

A fuller comparison, naming real products and real public prices, is in the best video analytics software roundup.

1 to 120 on the slider, more in the field.

A second site is what moves a small camera count up a tier.

Your tier
At cameras, Per month Per year
Motiondetection, monthly billing
Motiondetection, annual billing
Enterprise platform at about $100 a camera
New camera hardware, one time, at $500 to $1,500 each n/a

The two lower rows are that market's published positioning, not a quote we have seen, and the hardware row is a one time cost rather than a recurring one. Put your own quote in its place: the point of publishing our number is that you only have to find one of the two.

04 Asked before signing

What people ask about the price itself.

01

Is there a free plan?

No. Every tier is paid. The demo on the homepage is free, ungated and complete: it runs the real detection in your browser and classifies the events it finds, with no account and no limit. What we do not offer is a free production tier, because a security tool nobody pays for is a security tool nobody checks.

02

Do I pay per event or per alert?

No. The price is per tier, and the tier is defined by cameras and sites. Events, alerts, zones within your tier, and API calls are not metered.

03

What happens if I go over my camera count?

You move to the next tier. Nothing stops working first and nothing is billed by surprise, because the camera count is something you set, not something we discover.

04

Can I pay annually by invoice?

Annual invoicing and purchase orders are on Multi-Site and Enterprise. Watch and Operate are card only, which keeps them self serve.

05

Is there a contract?

Monthly plans are monthly. Annual plans are a year, at 20 percent less. Enterprise terms are whatever the MSA says, negotiated in writing.

06

What do I actually get on the day I sign up?

The console, the moment the card goes through: cameras up to your tier, exclude zones, the classified event timeline and alerts, and the billing portal to change tier or cancel. Signing up confirms your email with a 6 digit code, and nothing is charged until you pick a tier.

Pick by camera count. Pay by card.

Pick the tier, pay in Stripe's own checkout, and the console opens as soon as the card goes through. You change tier or cancel from the console itself.