Camio vs Frigate

Camio is a video surveillance platform that uses AI and machine learning to search camera video and alert users to events. People can enter natural-language queries and turn searches into automatic alerts. The platform accepts H.264 streams from IP cameras, NVRs and VMSs; human and vehicle motion events stream continuously for triage in a web browser. Object classification can identify people, vehicles, PPE and other objects, while custom classifiers can be trained from as few as 500 examples. Alerts can be sent by email, voice, Slack or webhooks, and audit logs can go to Google BigQuery or Splunk. Camio says cloud video history can be stored for 30 days or more. Its hybrid deployment includes a Camio Box gateway and a containerized processing pipeline that can run across platforms and chipsets. It is available on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, web, API and self-hosted deployments. Pricing is on request, with usage-based plans and service levels matched to needs; a free 7-day trial is offered.

Frigate is an open-source network video recorder for IP cameras that performs real-time AI object detection locally on the user’s hardware. Its maker says camera feeds do not leave the home. With a supported AI accelerator, detection can distinguish people and cars from motion; the site says Frigate can process 100+ object detections per second with such an accelerator. It tracks objects and lets users refine notifications by location. Recording supports both 24/7 capture and retention settings based on detected objects. Frigate runs in a Docker container on a Docker host, including as a Home Assistant App, and integrates with Home Assistant, OpenHab, NodeRed and MQTT-supporting systems. The free Frigate plan is an open-source NVR. Frigate+ Subscription costs $50 a year, billed annually, and includes model access, up to 12 fine-tuned models and AI-suggested labels for uploads. Windows is not officially supported. Frigate does not implement OIDC, SAML or LDAP natively, though upstream authentication proxies can provide those protocols.