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Arlo has 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 single-camera recordings 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 a month, the cheapest Secure plan is now more than three times the $2.99 a month Arlo once charges to store video for a single camera in the cloud. The company hit that at $4.99 in early 2023, after $7.99 last year. With annual billing, the single camera plan still works out at $7.99 per month, while the unlimited camera 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 that the camera sees and receive notifications about them, or to train their cameras to detect and notify events such as a sprinkler turning on or the garage door opener. The company has also doubled how many days of recordings it will keep, from 30 to 60 days.
Arlo has offered at least some users the ability to keep their old rate 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 which are compatible with their cameras. However, going that route also means giving up some of the subscription-only features that make smart cameras attractive, like packet detection.
