ZeroEyes Pricing 2026: AI Gun Detection Cost per Camera ZeroEyes Quotes by Camera Count and Contract Term, and Publishes No List Price. Here Is What It Actually Costs per Camera in Signed Public Contracts.
ZeroEyes is the best-known name in camera-based AI gun detection. Its software watches the cameras you already own, and when a gun becomes visible in frame, a human analyst in its 24/7 operations center verifies the image before an alert goes out. It publishes no price. Every deal is a custom quote built from your camera count, contract length, and site layout. The only honest way to plan a budget is to look at what districts and campuses have actually signed and disclosed.
How Much Does ZeroEyes Cost?
ZeroEyes does not publish a price. It sells a per-camera annual subscription quoted to your deployment, and it routes deals through procurement vehicles like Omnia Partners, Carahsoft, TIPS, Arrow, and AWS Marketplace rather than a public price list. Third-party summaries put most clients under about $60 per camera per month and under roughly $400 per detection point per year, but those are ranges, not a rate card, and ZeroEyes itself names no figure.
The signed contracts tell a clearer story, and they cover a wide band. Public school district and campus agreements land between about $168 and about $592 per camera per year, and the single biggest factor is camera count. A 38-camera district in Iowa paid about $592 per camera per year. Districts at 650 to 800 cameras paid about $168. The same product, the same vendor, roughly three and a half times more per camera at a small site than at a large one.
The second factor is contract term. Rockford Public Schools (RPS 205) in Illinois was quoted about $115,000 per year on a year-to-year basis, or about $75,600 per year if it committed to five years. That is a 34 percent per-year difference for the identical service, bought purely with a longer signature. If you take one number away from this page, make it that one: with ZeroEyes, camera count and term length are the whole negotiation. Our gun detection system cost guide covers the wider category, and our Actuate AI pricing guide covers the closest software competitor.
Ranges from public contracts and third-party reporting, July 2026. ZeroEyes attaches no dollar figure to its own plans, so we do not invent one.
What ZeroEyes Actually Costs per Camera
These are signed ZeroEyes contracts with public school districts and a university, reported from district records and board documents. They are the only ZeroEyes numbers a buyer can verify, because ZeroEyes publishes none itself. Read the last column top to bottom and the volume curve is unmistakable.
| Organization | Cameras | Contract | Cost per camera per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Union School District, Afton, Iowa | Up to 38 | One year, $27,500 total: $22,500 per year plus a $5,000 one-time setup fee | About $592 |
| Mount Pulaski CUSD No. 23, Illinois | Up to 116 | Five years at $38,280 per year, setup waived | About $330 |
| William & Mary, Virginia | 400 | About $82,600 per year | About $207 |
| Park City School District, Utah | 650 | $109,200 per year | About $168 |
| Iberville Parish, Plaquemine, Louisiana | Up to 800 | Five years, $687,000 total: $134,400 per year plus a $15,000 setup fee | About $168 |
The pattern is the single most useful fact in this category, and no vendor publishes it: the per-camera annual price for AI gun detection falls sharply as the camera count grows. About $592 per camera at 38 cameras. About $330 at 116. About $207 at 400. About $168 at 650 to 800. When a salesperson quotes you a per-camera rate, this table tells you whether the volume discount is actually being passed on for your size, or whether you are paying small-site pricing for a large-site deployment.
Contract Term Moves the Number as Much as Volume
Camera count is the first lever. Contract length is the second, and it is easy to overlook because it is invisible in a single-year quote. Rockford Public Schools (RPS 205) in Illinois shows exactly how much it moves.
The flexible option. No multi-year commitment, and you can walk away after any term. You pay for that flexibility every single year.
The same service, the same cameras, about 34 percent less per year. The saving is bought entirely with a longer signature, not a smaller scope.
Two identical services for the same district, and the annual price differs by roughly $39,000 depending only on how long you sign for. Mount Pulaski and Iberville tell the same story from a different angle: both got their setup fees reduced or their per-camera rate held down in exchange for five-year terms. Before you compare a ZeroEyes quote to anything, make sure you are comparing the same term length. A one-year ZeroEyes price against a competitor's five-year price is not a real comparison.
The Four Things That Set Your ZeroEyes Price
ZeroEyes builds each quote from your deployment. These are the inputs that move it, in the order they matter, so you know which ones are worth pushing on.
Camera count
The dominant driver. ZeroEyes charges per detection point, and the per-camera rate falls as the count rises. Deciding which feeds actually need firearm detection, entrances and common areas rather than storerooms, is the first place to control the bill.
Contract term
Year-to-year is the most expensive way to buy. Multi-year terms cut the annual rate sharply, as the RPS 205 numbers show, and often knock down or waive the setup fee. Longer signatures are the cleanest discount available here.
Sites and layout
One building or many, indoor and outdoor coverage, and how your cameras are laid out all feed the quote. Multi-site programs are priced across the whole footprint, which is part of why large districts land at the low end per camera.
Setup and onboarding
A one-time setup fee is common, $5,000 at East Union and $15,000 at Iberville Parish. It is negotiable and it is the easiest line to trade for a longer term. Always see it broken out separately from the annual subscription.
What the subscription buys is worth understanding, because it is more than software. ZeroEyes pairs its detection model with a staffed operations center that runs 24/7. When the AI flags a potential firearm, a trained analyst looks at the image and confirms it is a real gun before any alert reaches your staff or local dispatch. That human-in-the-loop step is the reason ZeroEyes prices above a pure software product, and it is the thing to weigh when you compare it to a tool that alerts automatically without verification.
That is also the line that separates ZeroEyes from a full analytics platform. ZeroEyes does one job, firearm detection with human confirmation, very deliberately. It is not a video management system, and it does not search your footage or run broader analytics. If gun detection is your single priority and you want a monitoring center behind it, that focus is the point. If you need the wider analytics layer too, the comparison changes, and we get to that below.
Budgeting Bands from the Public Contracts
These bands come from the signed contracts above, not from a ZeroEyes price list. Use them as a sanity check on your quote. If a 700-camera program is priced like a 40-camera site, the volume discount is not landing on your invoice.
| Deployment | Cameras | Benchmark rate per camera per year | What else lands on the invoice |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single small site or one school | Around 40 | About $590 | A one-time setup fee is common at this size. East Union paid $5,000 on top of the annual subscription |
| Small district or campus | Around 120 | About $330 | Mount Pulaski got setup waived for a five-year term. Term length is a real lever here |
| Large campus or university | Around 400 | About $207 | William & Mary sits between the small-site and large-district rates, as you would expect |
| Mid-size district or multi-site | 650 to 800 | About $168 | Iberville Parish still paid a $15,000 setup fee even at 800 cameras, so volume does not always erase it |
One line to watch specifically: the setup fee. It appears at 38 cameras ($5,000), it appears again at 800 cameras ($15,000), and in one deal it was waived entirely for a five-year term. It is negotiable, and it is the easiest thing to trade for a longer commitment. For the full picture across the category, including monitoring-center models and hardware-based screening, see our gun detection system cost guide.
The Hard Limits of Camera-Based Gun Detection
This applies to ZeroEyes, to Actuate, and to us. Before you approve a budget, be sure everyone signing off understands what the technology can and cannot do.
A camera-based system can only detect a weapon that is visible. A gun in a waistband, a backpack, or under a coat is invisible to any AI running on a video feed, ZeroEyes included. Concealed weapon detection is a different product category, usually walk-through sensing at a controlled entrance. Anyone who tells you camera AI finds concealed guns is wrong, and that distinction matters more than any line on the quote.
False alarms are real and documented across the category. A Texas high school went into lockdown after a system flagged the shadow of a student's arm. St. John Fisher University generated alerts from prop guns during a theater rehearsal. ZeroEyes routes detections through human verification specifically to catch these before they reach your staff, which is part of what you pay for, but no system is free of them, and your people still absorb the ones that get through.
Michael Dorn of Safe Havens International has noted that many active shooter events are over in roughly nine seconds, which raises a fair question about how much detection speed alone can prevent. Chad Marlow of the ACLU argues the word "proactive" is misleading here, since a genuinely proactive system would stop a threat before it reached the campus rather than react once a weapon is already on camera. Amanda Klinger of the Educator's School Safety Network points out that behavioral threat assessment is rigorously tested yet routinely overlooked in favor of flashier technology.
None of that makes AI gun detection worthless. It shortens the gap between a visible weapon and someone in authority knowing, on cameras you already own, and ZeroEyes adds a human check on top. But it is one layer. A budget that spends its whole safety line here while skipping threat assessment, drills, and access control is badly balanced. See our AI gun detection guide and our weapons detection AI page for how the layers fit together.
Camera AI sees what the camera sees. A gun under a coat is invisible to it.
A shadow triggered a Texas lockdown. Theater prop guns triggered alerts at St. John Fisher.
ZeroEyes analysts confirm a detection before it becomes an alert. Part of what the price buys.
A visible weapon becomes a verified alert in seconds instead of a phone call in minutes.
ZeroEyes Versus a Full Analytics Platform, Including Where We Cost More
Surveillant publishes its price: Plus is $42 per camera per month, Pro is $39 per camera per month, and there is a free forever plan for a single camera. Here is the honest comparison, including the row most vendor pages would leave out.
| Factor | ZeroEyes | Surveillant |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | None. Quote only, via procurement partners | Yes: Plus $42 and Pro $39 per camera per month |
| Free plan or trial | Neither is listed | Free forever plan for 1 camera |
| Cameras required | None. Runs on the cameras you own | None. Runs on any ONVIF or RTSP camera you own |
| Scope | Firearm detection with 24/7 human verification | Full analytics platform: natural language search, intrusion, loitering, threat detection, investigations |
| Human-verified alerts | Yes, staffed operations center | No. Automated alerts you review yourself |
| Cost at 800 cameras | About $168 per camera per year in benchmark contracts | About $468 per camera per year at the Pro rate, which is more per camera than that benchmark |
| Concealed weapons | Not detected | Not detected |
Do the arithmetic on our own price and it comes out uncomfortable at scale, so we will do it for you. Surveillant Pro at $39 per camera per month is about $468 per camera per year. Park City and Iberville Parish are paying roughly $168 per camera per year for dedicated ZeroEyes gun detection with a monitoring center behind it. At a large camera count, if firearm detection is the only thing you need, ZeroEyes will likely be cheaper per camera than we are, and it comes with human verification we do not offer. That is the truth, and we are not hiding it in the footnotes.
The difference is scope. ZeroEyes does one job extremely well and staffs a 24/7 operations center to back it. Surveillant is a full video analytics platform: you can search across all your footage in plain language, run intrusion and loitering detection, flag threats, and pull an investigation together from the same feeds, all on the cameras you already own. If gun detection with human review is your single requirement, pick the specialist. If you want the whole analytics layer and are willing to run alert review yourself, that is where we fit.
The other difference is that we publish the number. You can read it on the pricing page right now, without a call, a form, or a procurement vehicle. ZeroEyes does not, and neither does Actuate. That transparency is worth something when every vendor in the category wants a discovery call before it names a figure.
ZeroEyes Pricing: Questions
How much does ZeroEyes cost?
ZeroEyes does not publish a price. It sells a per-camera annual subscription quoted to your deployment. Signed public contracts run from about $168 per camera per year at 650 to 800 cameras up to about $592 per camera per year at 38 cameras. Camera count and contract term are the two biggest factors.
Does ZeroEyes publish pricing?
No. ZeroEyes lists no dollar figure and no free trial. Pricing comes through a request form and procurement vehicles such as Omnia Partners, Carahsoft, TIPS, Arrow, and AWS Marketplace. The number depends on your camera count, term length, and site layout.
How much does ZeroEyes cost per camera?
It depends heavily on camera count. Public contracts show about $592 per camera per year at 38 cameras, about $330 at 116, about $207 at 400, and about $168 at 650 to 800. A small site always pays a much higher per-camera rate than a large district. Setup fees are separate.
Why is ZeroEyes cheaper per camera at large deployments?
ZeroEyes prices per detection point and passes volume savings down as the count grows. The same product costs about three and a half times more per camera at a 38-camera site than at an 800-camera district. If a large quote is priced like a small site, the discount is not being applied.
Does a longer ZeroEyes contract lower the price?
Yes, substantially. Rockford Public Schools was quoted about $115,000 per year year-to-year or about $75,600 per year on a five-year term, roughly 34 percent less for the same service. Longer terms also tend to reduce or waive the one-time setup fee.
What do you get for the ZeroEyes subscription?
Firearm detection software running on your existing cameras, plus a 24/7 operations center where trained analysts verify a detection is a real gun before an alert goes out. That human verification step is a core part of what the price covers and what separates it from tools that alert automatically.
Can ZeroEyes detect a concealed weapon?
No. Camera-based AI can only detect a weapon once it is visible in frame. A gun in a waistband, backpack, or coat is invisible to it. This is the hard limit of the whole category and it applies equally to ZeroEyes, Actuate, and Surveillant. Concealed detection requires walk-through screening.
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