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Camio
AI video search that runs on cameras you already own, starting near five dollars per camera per month
As of 1 September 2026, Camio starts at $4.99/month. Turns existing network cameras into searchable, alerting video without replacing them. Softwr lists it under Cybersecurity. Camio is made by Camio, Inc., available on Web, iOS, Android, Linux.
Overview
What Camio does
Camio applies computer vision to video from network cameras you already have. A Camio Box gateway sits on the same local network as the cameras, pulls their streams, and either processes locally or sends to the cloud so that video becomes searchable in plain language: a person in a restricted area after hours, a vehicle of a given colour, a door propped open, a queue longer than a threshold. It is sold to retail, logistics, manufacturing and offices that want detection and search rather than a full video management system. The commercially useful fact is that Camio publishes a starting price and works with existing hardware. Usage-based plans start at 4.99 US dollars per camera per month, and the Camio Box software can be downloaded free onto hardware you already own rather than requiring a purchased appliance, though Camio sells Box and Box Pro units for sites that need more processing capacity. That combination makes a pilot cheap in a category where most competitors require both a camera replacement and a multi-year contract. The cost discipline comes later. Camio Flex add-on services run from 1 to 89 US dollars per stream per month, and high-traffic cameras with detailed labelling such as vehicle make and model sit at the expensive end while a quiet back-door camera sits at the cheap end. So the effective price per camera varies by an order of magnitude across a single site, and a buyer who budgets from the headline rate will be wrong. Camio is also a small California company competing with Verkada, Eagle Eye and the analytics built into the major VMS platforms.
What people use it for
- A warehouse that needs an alert when a trailer door opens outside scheduled hours rather than a recording nobody watches
- A retailer investigating a shrink pattern who needs to find every instance of a behaviour across a month of footage
- A manufacturer wanting a safety alert when a person enters a machine zone during a run
- A property manager who wants search and alerting on an existing camera estate without replacing recorders
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The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Camio.
- The 4.99 US dollars per camera per month starting rate is genuinely a starting rate: Flex add-ons run from 1 to 89 dollars per stream per month, so a busy camera with detailed vehicle labelling can cost more than fifteen times a quiet one and a site budget built on the headline number will be badly wrong.
- Camio is analytics and search, not a full video management system, so most sites still need a recorder or VMS alongside it and end up with two products and two bills.
- The Camio Box gateway must sit on the same local network as the cameras, which means a device, power and network port at every site, and multi-site estates multiply that install work.
- It is a small private company against Verkada, Eagle Eye and the analytics bundled free into major VMS platforms, so it is structurally exposed to an incumbent bundling equivalent capability at no extra charge.
- Analytic accuracy depends heavily on the existing cameras’ placement, resolution and lighting, and cameras installed years ago for recording rather than for computer vision often produce detection rates that disappoint against the demo.
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What people choose instead of Camio
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- CamiovsEnvysion
Envysion: Managed video with human loss-prevention analysts rather than self-serve AI
- CamiovsGenetec Security Center
Genetec Security Center: Full enterprise video management if you need access control and evidence chain of custody too
Pricing
What Camio costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Camio usage-based plan
$4.99 /mo
- Starting rate per camera per month
- Scales with search, storage and feature use
- Works with existing ONVIF and RTSP cameras
- Camio Box gateway software free on your own hardware
Camio Flex add-ons
On request
- Optional services from 1 to 89 USD per stream per month
- High-traffic cameras and detailed vehicle labelling at the expensive end
- Priced per stream rather than per site
Capabilities
Features
Natural language video search
Queries such as a person in an aisle after hours returned without scrubbing timeline
Works with existing cameras
Camio Box gateway pulls streams from ONVIF and RTSP cameras already installed
Free Box software
Gateway software downloadable onto hardware you own, with purchased Box and Box Pro units for more capacity
Zone and schedule rules
Alerts scoped to specific areas and times rather than whole-frame motion
Vehicle and person attributes
Colour, type and, on higher add-ons, vehicle make and model labelling
Retail and queue analytics
Dwell, queue length and traffic counting for merchandising decisions
Alerting integrations
Notifications into email, mobile and third-party incident systems
Camio Flex add-ons
Per-stream optional services from 1 to 89 USD per month by capability
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Do I have to buy Camio cameras?
No. Camio works with ONVIF and RTSP cameras you already have, which is the main reason to choose it over camera-bundled AI platforms.
Do I have to buy the Camio Box?
Not necessarily. The gateway software can be downloaded onto hardware you already own; Box and Box Pro units are for sites needing more processing capacity.
What does it really cost?
Plans start at 4.99 US dollars per camera per month, but Flex add-ons run from 1 to 89 dollars per stream per month, so per-camera cost varies enormously by traffic and labelling detail.
Does Camio replace my recorder?
No. It adds search and alerting. Continuous recording and evidence retention usually still need a VMS or recorder.
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