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Milestone XProtect pricing
Milestone XProtect publishes 5 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 1 September 2026, Milestone XProtect pricing is free, then $109/one-time across 5 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free, then $109/one-time
- Model
- One-time purchase per device licence, plus annual Care Plus
- Tiers
- 5
- Free tier
- Yes
Milestone XProtect plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| XProtect Essential+ | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| XProtect Express+ | $109/one-time | 4 | +$109/one-time, 4 more features |
| XProtect Professional+ | $177/one-time | 4 | +$68/one-time, 2 more features |
| XProtect Expert | $282/one-time | 4 | +$105/one-time, 2 more features |
| XProtect Corporate | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
XProtect Essential+
FreeThe entry tier. It covers free for up to 8 cameras, no recording time limit, no vendor support included, single server only.
XProtect Express+
$109/one-timeOver XProtect Essential+, this tier adds:
- Perpetual device licence, distributor list price
- Single site, single server
- Care Plus purchased separately per device per year
- Basic device and user management
XProtect Professional+
$177/one-timeOver XProtect Express+, this tier adds:
- Multiple recording servers
- Edge storage retrieval
XProtect Expert
$282/one-timeOver XProtect Professional+, this tier adds:
- Failover recording servers
- Advanced video wall and evidence handling
XProtect Corporate
On requestOver XProtect Expert, this tier adds:
- Perpetual device licence, quoted through distribution
- Federated multi-site architecture
- Highest availability and scale tier
Where Milestone XProtect stops being free
XProtect Essential+, Free
- Free for up to 8 cameras
- No recording time limit
- No vendor support included
- Single server only
XProtect Express+, $109/one-time
The first thing you pay for:
- Perpetual device licence, distributor list price
- Single site, single server
- Care Plus purchased separately per device per year
- Basic device and user management
What the product covers
The full Milestone XProtect feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Open device support
- Perpetual device licences
- Federated architecture
- Failover recording
- Evidence export
- Smart Map
- Integration platform
- Video summarisation
People bring Milestone XProtect in for a city or transport operator running tens of thousands of cameras across federated sites, an enterprise with mixed legacy camera brands that refuses to standardise on one manufacturer, a critical infrastructure site needing failover recording servers and tamper-evident evidence export, an integrator building a bespoke security application on top of an open vms platform. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Milestone XProtect are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Cybersecurity
Too few cybersecurity tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milestone XProtect (this page) | Free, then $109/one-time | One-time purchase per device licence, plus annual Care Plus | - | |
| Hanwha Vision | On request | One-time purchase | - | vs Milestone XProtect |
| BeyondTrust | On request | quote | - | vs Milestone XProtect |
| Feedzai | On request | quote | - | vs Milestone XProtect |
| IDnow | On request | quote | - | vs Milestone XProtect |
| Eagle Eye Networks | On request | Per camera per month | - | vs Milestone XProtect |
| iDenfy | On request | Per verification | - | vs Milestone XProtect |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Milestone XProtect badges page.
Before you pay for Milestone XProtect
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 5 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Milestone XProtect runs on windows, web, ios, android, and is published by Milestone Systems, a Canon company of Brøndby, Capital Region, Denmark. The full record is on the Milestone XProtect review, and the rest of the category is under best cybersecurity tools.
Milestone XProtect pricing questions
- How much does Milestone XProtect cost?
- Milestone XProtect publishes 5 tiers, from Free for XProtect Essential+ up to On request for XProtect Corporate. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Milestone XProtect have a free plan?
- Yes. The XProtect Essential+ tier costs nothing and covers free for up to 8 cameras, no recording time limit, no vendor support included. Paying starts at $109/one-time for XProtect Express+.
- What is the difference between XProtect Essential+ and XProtect Express+ on Milestone XProtect?
- XProtect Express+ costs $109/one-time against Free, and adds perpetual device licence, distributor list price, single site, single server, care plus purchased separately per device per year, basic device and user management.
- Is the XProtect Corporate plan on Milestone XProtect worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is perpetual device licence, quoted through distribution, federated multi-site architecture, highest availability and scale tier. It costs On request against $109/one-time for XProtect Express+. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which cybersecurity tools can I use without paying?
- 1 of the 8 cybersecurity tools listed alongside Milestone XProtect have a free tier: Google Authenticator.
- What am I actually paying for with Milestone XProtect?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a city or transport operator running tens of thousands of cameras across federated sites, an enterprise with mixed legacy camera brands that refuses to standardise on one manufacturer, a critical infrastructure site needing failover recording servers and tamper-evident evidence export.
- Does Milestone XProtect charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Milestone XProtect prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Milestone XProtect against before paying?
- The closest cybersecurity tools in this directory are Hanwha Vision, BeyondTrust, Feedzai, IDnow. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Milestone XProtect covering price, platforms and features.