ZeroEyes Cost & Pricing (2026): What the Public Data Shows

ZeroEyes publishes no list prices. Its official pricing page (verified July 7, 2026) says agreements are tailored “based on camera streams, contract duration, and the flexibility your organization needs across one site or many.” Two of the company’s own publications do put numbers on it. Its customer portal FAQ (verified July 7, 2026) states that “the majority of ZeroEyes customers pay less than $50 per camera each month,” that per-camera cost falls as more cameras are added, and that discounts are available for longer contracts. A ZeroEyes blog post (verified July 7, 2026) cites “an annual fee of less than $500 per digital camera stream” and gives an internal cost example of $20–60 per camera stream per month, with a $40 monthly average. Those are the vendor’s own numbers — the public record below is how they play out in signed contracts.

The best independent data comes from invoices obtained through public-records requests, reported by StateScoop (Aug 21, 2024; verified July 7, 2026), which found ZeroEyes “costs school districts as much as $130,000 per year, depending on how many cameras are used.” The individual contracts in that reporting: Mount Pulaski CUSD No. 23 (IL) — five-year contract at $38,280/year for up to 116 cameras, about $330 per camera per year, setup fee waived. Michigan State Capitol — $396 per camera per year for 100 cameras. SEPTA (Philadelphia transit) — $420 per camera for up to 300 cameras during a yearlong pilot. Park City School District (UT) — $109,200/year for 650 cameras, which works out to roughly $168 per camera per year. East Union School District (IA) — a one-year contract at $27,500, comprising $22,500 in monitoring for up to 38 cameras plus a $5,000 one-time setup fee, about $592 per camera per year for monitoring alone. Iberville Parish School District (LA) — a five-year contract totaling $687,000: $134,400/year for up to 800 cameras plus a $15,000 setup fee, roughly $168 per camera per year at full camera count. Note: the ≈$168, ≈$330, and ≈$592 figures are our arithmetic from the reported totals, not quoted rates. Taken together, the verifiable real-world range is roughly $168–$592 per camera per year, and camera count is clearly the biggest lever — the largest deployments land near the bottom of the range.

From ZeroEyes’ own pages (verified July 7, 2026), five factors move the number. (1) Camera stream count — per the company’s portal, “the more cameras added to the platform, the lower the individual camera cost.” (2) Contract duration — the same page offers discounts for longer terms, extensions, and growing camera scale over time. (3) Site structure — the pricing page prices flexibility “across one site or many.” (4) Camera types — panoramic and fisheye cameras carry an additional de-warping fee (the fee’s existence is stated on the portal; the amount is not published). (5) One-time setup fees — the StateScoop-reported contracts show $5,000 and $15,000 setup fees, and that they are sometimes waived, as at Mount Pulaski. Underneath all of it, remember what the fee funds: this is a managed service in which every detection is reviewed by human analysts before an alert goes out — you are paying for staffed monitoring, not just software.

ZeroEyes’ model is a per-camera, per-year subscription for one analytic — brandished-firearm detection — bundled with 24/7 human verification from the vendor’s operations center. Cost scales with every camera you add and continues for as long as you want coverage; stop paying and the service stops. An on-premise platform like NeueCode’s takes the other structural path: a license running on hardware you own, with video processed on your own network, and multiple analytics — weapon detection, face recognition, license-plate recognition, activity detection — on one platform rather than a separate per-camera subscription for each capability. Neither model is automatically cheaper, and we won’t invent a per-camera number to claim otherwise: which wins depends on your camera count, your time horizon, whether you need vendor-staffed monitoring or already run your own security operations, and how many analytics you actually need. NeueCode quotes per deployment, like most of this market. The honest comparison is the model — a perpetual single-purpose subscription with monitoring staff included, versus owned infrastructure covering a broader capability set with no per-camera cloud subscription dependency.

A cost guide is worthless if it hides the value side, and ZeroEyes has real, verifiable advantages. It holds a DHS SAFETY Act Designation — its certifications page and homepage (both verified July 7, 2026) describe it as the first AI visual detection technology granted one — which brings federal liability protections that most video-analytics vendors, including NeueCode, do not have. (Note it is a SAFETY Act Designation, not a “Certification.”) Every detection is reviewed by trained analysts in its US-based ZeroEyes Operations Center before any notification is sent, with 24/7 coverage and staff that include military veterans and former law-enforcement professionals — buyers get monitoring staff without hiring any. Its certifications page also lists SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, and hosting in a FedRAMP Moderate Authorized environment (verified July 7, 2026). The company reports deployments across 40+ U.S. states and, per its January 2026 press release, 1,000 verified alerts of confirmed gun detections since 2023. And it runs as a software overlay on existing IP cameras — no proprietary hardware. If your only requirement is brandished-firearm detection with third-party human verification and SAFETY Act liability cover, ZeroEyes is the category-defining incumbent, and the subscription may be exactly what you should buy.

Six questions get you from marketing ranges to your actual number. First, get the per-camera rate at your exact camera count in writing — the public record shows a 3.5× spread ($168–$592/camera/year, computed from StateScoop’s reported contracts, Aug 2024) driven mostly by scale. Second, ask about one-time setup fees and whether they can be waived. Third, if you run panoramic or fisheye cameras, get the de-warping fee quoted — it exists but isn’t published. Fourth, model the full term: a five-year, per-camera subscription is a five-year operating commitment, so compute total cost of ownership, not year one. Fifth, price what you’re actually buying — if you already staff a security operations center, you may be paying for monitoring labor you have; if you don’t, that labor is a genuine part of the value. Sixth, compare scope: a single-purpose gun-detection fee against the cost of a platform that covers weapon detection alongside face recognition, LPR, and activity detection on infrastructure you own. The right answer differs by buyer — the wrong answer is signing a multi-year per-camera commitment without doing this math.