What is Ring Solo, and what does it cost?

Ring Solo is Ring's subscription for one device, and Ring will not tell you what it costs. Its own page about the plan runs to 862 words and describes nineteen features without printing a single price.

Everything below is what Ring does publish, read on 19 September 2026.

What is Ring Solo?

Ring's subscription tier for one Ring device. It was called Ring Home Basic until 14 January 2026, and Ring Protect Basic before that. Ring's support hub lists the tiers as Solo, Multi, Pro and Virtual Security Guard, and states that each plan includes all features from the previous tier — so Solo is the floor, not a stripped-down edition.

If most of what you have read calls this Ring Protect Basic, that is because Ring has renamed the family twice in about eighteen months. The plan did not change on either occasion. The word you would search for did.

What does Ring Solo cost?

Ring does not say. Its own Ring Solo page runs to 862 words, describes nineteen features and carries seven footnotes, and contains no price at all — the words price, cost, fee and monthly appear zero times on it. ring.com/pages/plans, where a price would normally live, returns HTTP 406 to anything that is not an interactive browser.

This is the same finding this site made about Ring's plans pages in August, at closer range. There the number was missing from 55,584 words across a whole section. Here it is missing from one page about one plan, with a Subscribe Now button on it.

Nineteen features, seven footnotes, no number

• What Ring describes in full — up to 180 days of video event history; person, vehicle and package alerts; extended Live View; doorbell calls; multi-cam Live View; picture-in-picture; video preview alerts; snapshot capture; iOS priority alerts; downloading 50 videos at once; device modes; a daily event summary; 10% off at Ring.com; the Ring Appstore; alarm cellular backup; alarm event history; flood and freeze calls; intercom visitor snapshots; and voicemail.
• What the footnotes take back — person, vehicle and package alerts are "available for select Ring video doorbells and/or security cameras"; snapshot photos are kept "up to 14 days" rather than 180; flood and freeze calls require a "Ring Alarm Security Kit", sold separately.
• What is missing — a price. On a page of 862 words about one subscription, the words price, cost, fee and monthly appear zero times between them.

Counted from https://ring.com/support/plans/solo on 19 September 2026. The feature list is quoted in Ring's own order; the footnote numbers are Ring's own.

To be precise about what is and is not being claimed: Ring is entitled to price its product wherever it likes, and the figure certainly exists once you are signed in. What can be said is narrower and checkable — a shopper comparing plans cannot compare this one, because the comparison needs a number and Ring's page for this plan does not contain one.

Does Ring Solo record video?

Yes. Ring's page states it saves, shares and replays recorded videos of every doorbell ring, motion event and Live View event for up to 180 days. That video history is the main thing the subscription buys, and without a plan a Ring camera keeps nothing.

That last part is worth stating plainly because it is unusual. A Ring camera without a plan records nothing at all — not to a card, not to a hub, not even to Ring Edge, which is Ring's own local storage and needs a subscription of its own. On most brands the plan buys an off-site copy. On Ring it buys the recording.

How long does Ring Solo save videos?

Up to 180 days for video event history, which is the longest retention of any plan this site tracks. But Snapshot Capture photos are a different figure: Ring's third footnote states those are stored up to 14 days, not 180.

Read the last row against the rest. Ring offers three times the retention of the next-longest plan on this list, and it is the only one you cannot put a number against. Those two facts belong in the same sentence: the plan that may well be worth the most is the one Ring makes hardest to evaluate.

Is Ring Solo worth it?

That question cannot be answered from what Ring publishes, which is itself the answer to something. Every rival tracked here prints a monthly and usually a yearly figure beside its feature list. If you want 180 days of history and you already own Ring hardware, Solo is the only route to it — you just have to reach the checkout to learn the price.

If you have not bought the hardware yet, the calculation is different and this site has made it several times: a camera that records to storage you own costs nothing per month and keeps footage for as long as the card holds it. Three of the ten brands here do that. What none of them offers is 180 days in somebody else's cloud, which is the thing Ring is actually selling.

The version of this with a number on it

Specifications as published by each maker, read 19 September 2026. Nothing was tested and nothing is ranked. Both of these replace a monthly bill with hardware bought once, and both publish what they charge — which is the whole difference this page is about.

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How this was checked

No cameras were tested and no plan was purchased. The feature list, the nineteen features, the seven footnotes and the absence of any price were read on 19 September 2026 from https://ring.com/support/plans/solo. The word counts and the zero counts are ours, taken from that page's rendered text on that date.

The tier structure and the sentence that each plan includes all features from the previous tier are from https://ring.com/support/plans, read the same day. The HTTP 406 on https://ring.com/pages/plans was re-checked on the same date and has been the response on every check since August 2026.

The rename dates come from Ring's own mapping, recorded here in January 2026. The rival figures are each maker's own published prices, set out with their dates on the tracker. If Ring publishes a price for Solo on a page that loads, this page gets the figure and a new date — and that would be a good day for it.