Which camera subscriptions went up in 2026, and which only look like it

One clearly did: Wyze's Cam Plus annual plan, from $19.99 to $29.99 in March 2026, up 50%. Tapo added dearer tiers but kept its entry price. Arlo renamed its plans without changing what they cost, Ring renamed its plans and publishes no price, and Lorex, SimpliSafe and Blink have not moved while this site has been checking them weekly, since August 2026.

The difference between those matters if you are deciding whether a plan is worth starting: a rename and a restated yearly price change nothing you pay, and a rise does. Everything here is from the makers' own pages, dated.

Which camera subscriptions went up in 2026?

The table has one "yes" in it. The more common event this year was a rename: Ring, Google and Arlo all changed what their plans are called, which leaves older reviews and comparison tables describing plans that no longer exist under those names. That is on the rename page.

How much did Wyze's plan go up?

By half, on the annual plan. Wyze Cam Plus went from $19.99 a year to $29.99 in March 2026. The monthly price stayed $2.99, so paying yearly now saves 16.4% instead of 44.3%.

The price was never the interesting half. At $19.99 a year, paying annually saved $15.89, more than five months of the monthly price; at $29.99 it saves $5.89, about two. Wyze called the new price "still a 17% discount", which is true, and when this site read it in August, the plan page where people choose a plan did not show the annual price at all. The detail is on the Wyze annual page.

Did Tapo raise its price?

Not at the entry level. Tapo's cheapest plan is still $3.49 a month or $34.99 a year, and on 31 August 2026 it began covering up to two devices instead of one. What changed is that two dearer plans appeared above it, at $11.99 and $19.99 a month.

If anything, the cheapest plan got better: the same $34.99 a year now covers two cameras. The new plans above it add unlimited devices and 180 days of history. Tapo's restructure and what each tier includes are on the Tapo cost page.

Did Arlo raise its prices?

No. Arlo renamed all four plans in September 2026 and started printing yearly totals, but the rates are the same. $95.88 a year is the $7.99 a month Arlo quoted as its billed-annually rate in August.

This is the one most likely to be misreported, and this site's own weekly check shows why. On 21 September 2026 it logged "$7.99/mo no longer listed" and "$95.88/yr appeared" on Arlo's page. Read as two numbers, that looks like a rise from $7.99 to something bigger. Read as what Arlo did, it is the same price written as a yearly total instead of a monthly rate. The month-to-month prices, $9.99 to $49.99, did not move. Arlo's plans are on the Arlo cost page.

What happened to Nest Aware and Ring's plans?

Both were renamed, and neither can be shown to have gone up. Ring renamed its plans on 14 January 2026 and publishes no price. Google's Nest Aware is now Google Home Premium, at $10 a month or $100 a year, and this site holds no dated earlier price to set it against.

For Ring, a rise is not checkable at all: its plan pages list features without a price, which this site has reported since August. For Google, the honest position is narrower. The new names carry clear prices, $10 and $20 a month; what is missing is a dated record of the old price on Google's own page. The Internet Archive's nearest copy of Google's store page is from 2021, too old to date a 2026 change, so this page says nothing about whether the rename came with a rise.

Which camera plans did not change?

Lorex, SimpliSafe and Blink. Lorex's Connect Cloud+ is still $5.99 a month for one camera, SimpliSafe's Core still $1.10 a day, and Blink's plan page has shown no price change in this site's weekly check since 24 August 2026.

Lorex's page was re-read on 28 September 2026 and matched the 28 August figures exactly; the details are on the Lorex cost page. SimpliSafe's per-day prices matched too, and its help centre gives the same plans per month, set out on the SimpliSafe page.

How does this site know what changed?

By reading each maker's plan page every week and keeping what it says. The check also catches camera sale prices on the same pages, so every change it logs is read by a person before it is called a price rise; that is how Arlo's restated yearly price was told apart from a real increase.

The current figure for every plan is on the subscription tracker, each with the date it was read. And the plan that cannot go up is the one you never start: the cameras that record to a card with no plan are on the roundup.

Corrections

If a maker announces a change, or a figure here is wrong, the page gets the new answer and the new date. If you have a dated copy of a price this page could not find, tell us; it would settle the Nest question.

The plan that cannot go up

Cameras that keep their video on a card with no plan. Specifications as published by each maker, read 24 September 2026; nothing was tested and nothing is ranked.

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How this was checked

Every figure was read from the maker's own page and first reported on this site's cost and rename pages, with the dates given there: Wyze on 13 August 2026, Google and Ring on 13 August, Tapo on 22 September, Arlo on 17 September, SimpliSafe on 27 September and Lorex on 28 September. The weekly record behind the "no change" rows has run since 17 August 2026. The Internet Archive was checked for an older Google store page on 30 September 2026 and was offline. Nothing here came from a review site.