Licensing
Licensed per channel, quoted per site
One base licence per system, then one channel per camera, and you buy the number of channels you have. The licence is perpetual — yours once off, and the system keeps recording whether or not you renew anything. No recording server needs a licence of its own, on either tier, so adding a recorder costs hardware and nothing else.
A channel is one video stream we record independently — so a camera's high and low resolution streams together are one channel, not two. We use the low-resolution stream to run AI detection without touching the recording, which is how a single GPU covers 150 cameras, and charging for it would be charging you for our own architecture. A fisheye is one channel however many dewarped views an operator opens, because that is still one recording. Where the count does go up is a multi-lens camera, which is one channel per lens, and an encoder, which is one per analogue camera plugged into it — each of those is a separate recording and a separate detection stream. Some vendors licence those by the device instead, so on a site built from multi-imagers or encoders it is worth putting the two quotes side by side.
Like every other enterprise VMS, we quote rather than publish a rate card — because the number depends on the camera count, which analytics you actually want and on how many years of updates you take up front. Tell us the site and you get a real figure, usually the same day.
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Demo licence
7 days · 10 cameras · no cost
The whole product, nothing switched off — AI detection, plate recognition, appearance search, the alarm manager and the mobile apps. Run it on your own hardware against your own cameras. If a week is not enough, or ten cameras is not enough to prove it, say so and we will issue a licence that fits the evaluation.
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Professional
Per channel, perpetual · from 16 channels
The VMS doing its job, on as many cameras as you have: AI object detection and tracking, motion, heatmaps, the alarm manager with procedures and notifications, PTZ and CCTV keyboard control, interactive maps, camera tamper and lens checks, role-based access, the mobile apps and the REST API.
- One base licence per system, and no recording-server licence at all
- As many recording servers as the camera count needs
- Two years of Ividiyo Current included
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Enterprise
A system licence plus the same per-channel rate
Everything in Professional, plus what spans more than one box: multi-server distributed recording, federated multi-site, and automatic server failover that moves cameras to a surviving server and keeps them recording. Then SSO and Active Directory, POPIA and GDPR anonymisation, white-label branding and on-site installation.
- Channels cost the same as Professional — capacity is capacity
- No per-server licence, however many recorders it takes
- 24/7 support with a one-hour response available
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Security and bug-fix updates are free to everyone, for the life of the generation you own, whether you hold a subscription or not. Each generation is supported for four years. Nobody runs an unpatched recorder because of a lapsed invoice.
Ividiyo Current is the only thing we charge annually, and the first two years come with the licence. It covers the next generation of the software, remote access through our relays, and priority during business hours. It is optional: the alternative is a once-off upgrade whenever you choose to move forward, and whatever generation you are entitled to stays yours for good. Multi-year terms carry a discount.
Premium 24/7 adds round-the-clock remote support with a one-hour response on critical faults, per site on Professional and per server on Enterprise. On-site callouts are billed separately at after-hours rates.
Integration work is quoted with the project — but the generic event intake is free and always will be. Anything that can send an authenticated webhook, publish MQTT or close a dry contact is integrated today, and it lands in the alarm manager with its own procedure and cooldown.
Analytics
Detection is in the licence. The specialist analytics are per camera.
AI object detection and tracking is part of the VMS, on every camera, at no extra cost — charging for detection itself would be charging for the product. What is licensed separately is the specialist work on top, and it is per camera, because only some cameras need it: a gate needs plate recognition, a reception needs faces, and the other thirty cameras need neither. Everything runs on your own hardware and is off by default, switched on per camera by you. No video ever leaves your premises.
Per channel
Plate Recognition
Read plates on your own GPU from any camera, or take them from an ANPR camera that reads them itself. Watchlists, visitor management and make/model where the camera reports it.
Per channel
Face Recognition
Enrolment, search and alerts, running alongside the rest of the detection pipeline on your hardware. Priced for the enrolment points, not for every camera on site.
Scales with the site
Investigate
Video synopsis, appearance search in plain language, forensic colour filtering and person attributes — the review tools that turn hours of footage into a few minutes. One licence for the site, sized to it.
Included in every licence, never charged for: object detection and tracking, motion, heatmaps, colour extraction, line crossing, loitering and tripwire rules, package detection, camera tamper and lens checks, the alarm manager and notifications, interactive maps, role-based access and the mobile apps. Anonymisation for POPIA and GDPR is part of Enterprise.
Comparison
What the same site costs elsewhere
We will not publish a rate card, but we are happy to publish theirs. Every figure below is from a real South African distributor quote or a vendor's own published list price, and the multiples are a 32-camera site with plate recognition and forensic analytics — the same scope, both sides.
Milestone XProtect
R1,575/camera
Professional+ device licence on an SA distributor quote, plus a R4,661 base licence and 18.67% a year for Care Plus. Without Care there are no version upgrades at all.
XProtect LPR
R21,419/camera
Their own published list: $300 base plus $1,295 per camera, and extra country modules on top. Plate recognition alone costs more per camera than most VMS licences cost in total.
BriefCam forensics
100 channel minimum
$250 to $500 a channel at a hundred channels minimum, on its own GPU servers — so a 32-camera site buys a hundred channels or none.
A 32-camera site with plate recognition, face recognition and full forensic review comes to roughly a tenth of the same scope from Milestone and BriefCam — licence, analytics and the first two years of updates included. At 200 cameras it is still 4.5×. On their side the analytics alone cost nine times their own VMS licence; on ours they are a fraction of it. Send us a camera count and we will put the two quotes side by side.
Competitor figures are converted from published USD list prices at R16.54 to the dollar, October 2026, before tax. Ividiyo figures include VAT, so the real gap is wider than it looks. Milestone, XProtect and BriefCam are trademarks of Milestone Systems A/S; we are not affiliated with them.
