The Arlo subscription cost, from the page Arlo redirects you away from

$9.99 a month for one camera, which is the most expensive entry plan of any brand on this site. Arlo publishes that figure, and the three tiers above it, on a page you will almost certainly never reach by typing what you would expect to type.

We had Arlo recorded as publishing nothing until this week. That was our error, and correcting it turned up the more useful fact: the prices are public, and every obvious route to them is a dead end.

What does an Arlo subscription cost?

$9.99 a month for one camera, or $19.99 a month for unlimited cameras, paid month to month. Two higher tiers add professional monitoring at $29.99 and continuous recording at $49.99. Paying annually brings those to $7.99, $17.99, $24.99 and $39.99 a month.

All four carry 60 days of event history, which is the longest retention of any plan we track and the honest part of what the money buys.

Why is the Arlo subscription cost so hard to find?

Because every URL that should carry it sends you somewhere else. arlo.com/en-us/secure answers with a 301 to the homepage, and so does arlo.com/en-us/subscription-plans. The prices are on Arlo's storefront, on a different subdomain.

Arlo's knowledge base used to carry a dated notice for each price change. Those articles still return HTTP 200 — and 578 bytes of JavaScript that redirects to the support page. The knowledge base is retired, and the price history with it.

To be exact about what this is and is not: the storefront page is in Arlo's sitemap, has a normal title and sets no noindex. It is a perfectly indexable page. Nothing is hidden. What is broken is every path a person walks to reach it — which is why the figure most people quote for Arlo comes from a review site rather than from Arlo.

Does Arlo publish a yearly price?

No. Arlo prices its annual plans as a monthly rate and never states a yearly total. Every other brand we track that offers annual billing publishes the yearly figure as well as the monthly one.

So the tracker carries a dash in Arlo's yearly column, and that dash is accurate rather than missing. We could multiply $7.99 by twelve, but $95.88 is a number we would have invented — and publishing a derived annual total as though a company had printed it is a mistake this site has already made once.

It also makes Arlo hard to compare at exactly the moment comparison matters. Every rival prints one number you can hold against another. Arlo prints a rate and leaves the arithmetic to you — so here it is, done, and labelled as ours.

Which turns up something the plan page does not say out loud. The discount for paying a year up front is 20% on single-camera Plus, 10% on unlimited Plus, 16.7% on Premium and 20% again at the top. Same commitment, four different rewards for it, and the tier most people start on is the one where committing is worth least.

How does Arlo compare with the other brands?

Arlo sells the most expensive single-camera plan we track and the most expensive plan of any kind. At $9.99 a month it is more than three times Wyze's $2.99, and its $49.99 top tier is two and a half times Google Nest's dearest.

Retention is the fair defence and it is a real one: Arlo keeps 60 days where Wyze keeps 14. Set that aside by comparing only the 60-day plans and Arlo is still 1.7 times Lorex and 2.5 times Blink for one camera.

What do Arlo's footnotes take back?

Two of the features you are paying for come with conditions printed at the bottom of the page. 24/7 Professional Monitoring requires an Arlo Home Security System, sold separately, and the continuous recording on the top tier is kept 30 days rather than 60 and cannot be downloaded.

What Arlo's small print qualifies

• The monitoring needs hardware you may not own. 24/7 Professional Monitoring is a headline feature of the $29.99 tier. Its footnote reads, in full: "Requires an Arlo Home Security System."
• The continuous recording cannot be saved. "24/7 Recording gives 30 days of continuous video history on up to three cameras per paid subscription. Recordings cannot be downloaded."
• Emergency Response is not everywhere. "24/7 Emergency Response feature available for select service plans and countries."
• Fire detection is not a smoke alarm. Arlo says so itself: it "is a supplementary tool and should not replace standard fire detection systems such as smoke detectors".

The numbered footnotes under Arlo's plan matrix, read 26 August 2026. Each attaches to a feature named in the tier above it.

The second one deserves reading twice. The $49.99 tier exists to sell 24/7 continuous recording. Arlo's own footnote says those recordings cannot be downloaded — so the most expensive plan on this site produces footage you can watch and cannot keep. Cancel, and there is no refund and no copy.

So is an Arlo plan worth paying for?

Only at the bottom tier, and only if 60 days of history is the thing you actually want. That is what the extra money buys against Blink or Tapo, and for some people it is worth $6 a month. Nothing above Secure Plus survives its own footnotes so cleanly.

The $29.99 tier is priced for professional monitoring that needs a security system you have to buy first. The $49.99 tier is priced for recordings you cannot download. Both are defensible products; neither is what the tier name suggests you are getting.

And if the reason you are reading this is that you could not find out what Arlo charges — that is the finding. A company's willingness to put a number on a page anyone can open is not a small thing to weigh before you commit to paying it every month.

What $9.99 a month buys elsewhere

Specifications as published by each maker, read 26 August 2026. Nothing was tested and nothing is ranked. No Arlo camera is linked: this page's finding is about the plan, and the honest comparison for someone balking at $9.99 a month is hardware whose plan is optional or absent.

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How this was checked

Every figure was read on 26 August 2026 from https://us.arlo.com/pages/arlo-secure, which is Arlo's own plan matrix on its United States storefront, in US dollars. The footnote wording is quoted from the numbered notes on that same page.

The status codes in the second table came from one machine sending a complete Chrome header set: two 301s from arlo.com, a 403 on its robots.txt, and 200 with a JavaScript redirect from kb.arlo.com. The sitemap entry was confirmed in us.arlo.com/sitemap_pages_1.xml.

No cameras were tested and no plan was purchased. Nothing here is a yearly total, because Arlo publishes none. The comparison figures come from each rival's own page, read the same week: Wyze at https://www.wyze.com/products/cam-plus, TP-Link Tapo at https://www.tapo.com/us/tapocare/, Blink at https://blinkforhome.com/plans, Lorex at https://www.lorex.com/pages/connect-cloud and eufy at https://www.eufy.com/cloud-storage. They are also set out with their dates on the tracker.

Corrections

This page exists because we got Arlo wrong first: the tracker reported it as publishing no prices for two weeks, on the evidence of a URL that renders nothing without JavaScript. If any figure here moves, or Arlo starts printing a yearly total, this gets the new answer and a new date. If you reach a different price from a different country, tell us — Arlo's storefronts are regional and this one is the US.