Nest Aware and Ring Home no longer exist

Open Ring's own support page for one of its plans and read the whole thing. There is no price on it. Not a figure, not a dollar sign, nothing — just a list of features and a Subscribe button.

That is a small thing, and it turns out to be the tidy version of a larger one. In the space of a few months the two biggest names in home security cameras both retired the name of the subscription you were told to buy.

What happened to Nest Aware?

It was renamed. Google's own store now carries the line “Nest Aware is now Google Home Premium”, and the two tiers are called Standard and Advanced rather than Nest Aware and Nest Aware Plus.

The service did not disappear and existing subscribers keep their access. What changed is the word you would search for. Every comparison table, review and forum answer that says “Nest Aware” is now describing a product under a name Google has stopped using — and there are a great many of them.

What happened to Ring Home?

The same thing, on a date Ring publishes itself: 14 January 2026. Its support pages state plainly that Ring Home plans were renamed Ring Protect plans, and that Ring Home Standard is now Ring Multi.

Ring has now been through this twice in about eighteen months. Ring Protect became Ring Home, and Ring Home has become Ring Protect again with different tier names underneath. If you find that confusing, that is not you.

What do these plans cost now?

Below is every figure we could read from the company's own page, with the date we read it. Nothing here comes from a review site, and where we could not reach the source we have said so rather than filling the gap.

Two patterns worth noticing. The cheap tier is almost always one camera — Wyze Cam Plus is $2.99 a month for a single device, and covering a whole house means Cam Unlimited at $9.99. And retention is the real product: what you are buying is how far back you can look, which is 14 days at Wyze, 30 at Tapo and Google's Standard tier, and 60 at Google's Advanced.

Is the headline price the price you pay?

Usually not, because the cheapest tier almost always covers one camera. The number on the marketing page is a per-device price, and almost nobody buys one device — the front door leads to the back door, which leads to the driveway.

Wyze makes the arithmetic unusually clear, so use it as the worked example. Cam Plus is $2.99 a month for a single camera. Three cameras is $8.97, which is within pennies of Cam Unlimited at $9.99 for as many as you like. The break-even is between three and four devices, and the plan that looks four times more expensive is the cheaper one the moment you add a doorbell.

The annual toggle is the other adjustment. Google's own listing offers $100 a year against $10 a month — two months free, in effect — and $200 against $20 for the Advanced tier. That is a real discount and also a twelve-month commitment to a service that, as this article demonstrates, may not have the same name by the time it renews.

Why is a subscription price this hard to look up?

Because a good deal of it is not published where a person would look for it. That is worth saying plainly, because the difficulty is not accidental and it is not evenly distributed.

Google, Wyze and TP-Link put current pricing on a page anyone can open and read. Ring's support page for an individual plan carries no price at all. Arlo's pricing sits behind a consent dialog. Blink, eufy and Reolink have each moved their pricing URL recently enough that links published a few months ago now go nowhere.

None of that is illegal or even unusual. It does mean that the honest answer to “what does this cost?” is often “it depends on the day you asked”, which is precisely why the table above carries a date.

Which cameras charge nothing at all?

Three brands record to storage you own, with no plan of any name. Reolink, eufy and TP-Link Tapo write to a card in the camera or a hub in the house, and a rename cannot reach them because there is nothing to rename.

That is the subject of which cameras work without a subscription, and it is the one structural defence against everything on this page: a plan you never bought cannot go up in price or change its name. If you rent, there is a second question before any of it — what your lease says about fitting one.

How often will this change?

Often enough that we will re-read every page on this list each quarter and re-date the table. Wyze raised its annual price in March 2026; two brands renamed their subscriptions within months of each other.

A confident undated number is worth less than a modest dated one. This page is maintained rather than published and forgotten, and when a figure moves the date moves with it.

Cameras with no plan to rename

Specifications as published by each maker, read on 13 August 2026. Nothing here was tested and nothing is ranked — these record without a subscription, which is the point of the section above.

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How this was checked

Every price and retention period above was read on 13 August 2026 from the company's own pages: the Google Store's Google Home Premium listing at https://store.google.com/us/product/nest_aware, Wyze's service plans page at https://www.wyze.com/pages/service-plans, Tapo Care at https://www.tapo.com/us/tapocare/, and Ring's plan support pages at https://ring.com/support/plans for the rename and its date. Those URLs were added on 28 August 2026, when a sitewide check found this page had named its sources in prose and cited only the bare domains wyze.com and tapo.com — neither of which carries a price.

Arlo, Blink, eufy and Reolink are deliberately absent from the price table. Their current figures could not be read from source at the time of writing — Arlo behind a consent dialog, the others at URLs that have moved — and quoting them from a third party would defeat the purpose of the table. They will be added when they can be read directly. No cameras or subscriptions were purchased for this article.

Corrections

If a price here is wrong or has moved, tell us and it is corrected with the new date noted. That is the whole promise of a dated table.