Arlo has once again raised the monthly subscription price for its smart home cameras. Arlo Secure Cloud Storage Plan. The company now charges $9.99 per month (up from $7.99) to store recordings from a single camera and $19.99 per month (up from $17.99) for unlimited cameras. And instead of calling the cheaper plan Arlo Secure, both are now called Secure Plus.
At $9.99 per month, the cheapest Secure plan now costs more than three times the $2.99 per month that Arlo previously charged to store video for a single camera in the cloud. The company raised that price to $4.99 in early 2023 and then to $7.99 last year. With annual billing, the single camera plan still costs $7.99 per month, while the unlimited camera plan is effectively $17.99 per month when you pay for a year in advance.
This latest round of price increases comes after Arlo announced a new set of ai-powered features in September. Features include allowing users to name specific people or vehicles the camera sees and receive notifications about them, or training their cameras to detect and notify them of events such as a sprinkler turning on or a garage door opening. The company has also doubled the number of days of recordings it will store, from 30 to 60 days.
Arlo has offered at least some users the chance to keep their old tariff by switching to an annual plan, according to a screenshot. posted on the Arlo subreddit.
Users can still get free storage using Arlo Base Stations and SmartHub Devices that are compatible with your cameras. However, going that route also means missing out on certain subscription-only features that make smart cameras attractive, like package detection.
