Blink vs Ring: what each costs once the subscription starts
Both are Amazon's. Blink publishes its plan prices on its own support site; Ring's pages return 406. That gap is the comparison.
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Amazon owns Blink and Amazon owns Ring. Open Blink's support site and the plan prices are in a table, along with a second table showing what they were before October 2025. Open Ring's plan page and the server returns 406 — the status a site sends when it will not serve you at all.
That is the honest shape of this comparison, and it is worth more than a verdict: one of these two tells you what it charges before you buy, and the other does not.
Both of them cost more the second year than the first. The third option is a camera whose plan is genuinely optional, so the comparison never starts.
Check the price on AmazonReolink Argus 4 Pro(paid link)What does a Blink subscription cost?
Basic is $3.99 a month or $39.99 a year for one device. Plus is $11.99 a month or $119.99 a year for unlimited devices. Blink publishes both on its own support site, which is where these came from.
Every Blink camera keeps live view, motion notifications and manual thumbnail refresh with no plan at all — Blink lists those under "no-cost features". The plan buys cloud storage for up to 60 days, person and vehicle detection, Blink Moments, photo capture and live view recording.
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly | Devices | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $3.99 | $39.99 | One | Up to 60 days |
| Plus | $11.99 | $119.99 | Unlimited | Up to 60 days |
| No plan | $0 | $0 | Any | Live view only |
Should I take Blink Basic or Blink Plus?
Basic below four devices, Plus from four up — and at three the difference is two cents. This is the one piece of arithmetic in the comparison that can be done completely, because Blink publishes both numbers.
Basic is charged per device. Three of them is $11.97 a month against $11.99 for Plus, which covers as many as you like. The fourth device takes Basic to $15.96 while Plus does not move. If you own three Blink cameras and are thinking about a fourth, you are already at the crossover.
| Item | Per month | $ |
|---|---|---|
| Basic — 1 device | $3.99 | |
| Basic — 2 devices | $7.98 | |
| Basic — 3 devices | $11.97 | |
| Basic — 4 devices | $15.96 | |
| Plus — any number | $11.99 |
Blink's own figures, read 15 August 2026. At three devices the two plans are two cents apart; the fourth decides it.
Did Blink put its prices up?
Yes, on 8 October 2025, in the United States only. Blink publishes the before-and-after itself, which is more than most makers do.
Basic went from $3 to $3.99 a month, a rise of 33%, and from $30 to $39.99 a year. Plus went from $10 to $11.99 and from $100 to $119.99, both almost exactly 20%. Blink's stated reason is the first price change since 2021 and the features added since.
Notice what the annual option is worth after that change: $47.88 paid monthly against $39.99 for the year on Basic, a saving of 16.5%, and 16.6% on Plus. Wyze's annual discount is 16.4%. Three tiers, two companies, within a fifth of a percentage point — annual is roughly ten months' money for twelve months of service, and it is remarkably consistent across brands that do not otherwise agree on anything.
What does a Ring subscription cost?
Ring does not publish it anywhere a reader — or a program — can reliably reach. We checked six addresses on 15 August 2026: ring.com/plans and ring.com/pages/plans both return HTTP 406, and four support paths return 404.
The Ring support article that does load is about the renaming, and it carries no prices at all. Ring Home Basic is now Ring Solo. Home Standard is now Ring Multi. Home Standard with 24/7 professional monitoring is now Ring Pro. Ring says videos and settings are unaffected by the change, which is the reassurance a customer wants and not the number a buyer wants.
This is the second time the same wall has come up. It is the subject of Nest Aware and Ring Home no longer existing, where Ring's own support page for an individual plan turned out to carry no price at any point.
| Blink | Ring | |
|---|---|---|
| Plan prices on its own site | Yes | Not reachable |
| Previous prices after a rise | Yes | — |
| Retention period | Up to 60 days | Not on the page |
| Plan page status, 15 Aug 2026 | 200 | 406 |
| Owned by | Amazon | Amazon |
So which one is cheaper?
We are not going to tell you, because we cannot check it. Ring's prices are widely reported by review sites and we are not repeating them here — the entire value of this page is that its figures come from the company that charges them.
What can be said without guessing is narrower and more useful. If knowing the price before you commit matters to you, Blink publishes it and Ring does not. If you already own Blink cameras, the Basic-to-Plus crossover is at four devices. And if a subscription is the part you object to, neither answer helps, because both are subscriptions.
Cheaper still is the one with no plan behind it at all.
Check the price on AmazonReolink Argus 4 Pro(paid link)Is there a third answer?
A camera that records to a card or a hub you own has no plan on either side to compare. Nothing to rename, nothing to re-price, and nothing to look up on a page that returns 406.
That is the subject of which cameras work without a subscription. The trade is real: no cloud history unless you build it, and the backups become yours to remember.
Cameras with no plan on either side
Specifications as published by each maker, read on 15 August 2026. Nothing here was tested and nothing is ranked — these record to storage you own, which is the point of the section above.
- Form
- Outdoor camera on a bracket
- Power
- 5000 mAh battery, optional 6W solar panel
- Video goes to
- microSD in the camera, up to 512 GB
- Subscription
- Not required for local recording
- Form
- Base station for eufy cameras and sensors
- Storage
- 16 GB built in, expandable to 16 TB
- Expansion
- 2.5" SATA drive, 5V — 12V drives unsupported
- Subscription
- No monthly fee for local storage
- Form
- Small cube on a magnetic base — stands on a shelf
- Power
- Mains, 5V adapter — needs a socket
- Video goes to
- microSD in the camera, up to 512 GB
- Resolution
- 2560 × 1440 (2K QHD, 4MP)
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How this was checked
Blink's prices, the October 2025 increase and the before-and-after figures were read on 15 August 2026 from https://support.blinkforhome.com/en_US/subscriptions/blink-subscription-plan-changes. The free and paid feature lists, including the 60-day retention, come from https://support.blinkforhome.com/en_US/subscription-features/subscription-plan-features, read the same day.
Ring's plan renaming comes from https://ring.com/support/articles/v5hc7/introducing-ring-plans, read the same day. Ring's prices are deliberately absent: ring.com/plans and ring.com/pages/plans returned HTTP 406 on 15 August 2026, and four support paths returned 404. No Ring price is quoted here from any third party.
The percentages are ours, computed from the figures above: $3.99 × 12 = $47.88 against $39.99 is 16.5%; $11.99 × 12 = $143.88 against $119.99 is 16.6%. No cameras or subscriptions were purchased for this article.
Corrections
If Ring publishes a price at an address that loads, tell us and this page gets the figure and a new date. That is the correction we would most like to make.
