Free
$0
A real installation for one site, not a trial.
- Up to 5 cameras
- 1 site
- Install as many times as you need
- RTSP stream health monitoring
- Automatic incidents and history
- ONVIF-assisted onboarding
- Health dashboard and camera detail
Pricing
Pay once, run it yourself.
OpticWatch is a free edition plus two one-time licenses, with no subscription and no per-camera monthly fee. Every plan may be used commercially, including the free one — the editions differ by limits and capabilities, not by who is allowed to use them.
Pro
Recommended$99one-time
For a team keeping its own camera estate healthy.
- Everything in Free
- Up to 100 cameras
- Up to 10 sites
- Email and signed webhook alerts
- Alert delivery history
- 1 licensed deployment
Integrator
$249one-time
For installers running a separate OpticWatch per customer.
- Everything in Pro
- Up to 500 cameras per deployment
- Unlimited sites
- Email and signed webhook alerts
- Up to 5 licensed deployments
One payment, delivered by email.
Checkout is handled by Paddle, which processes the payment and sends your receipt. Your license key and a download link for your edition are sent to your purchase email. Lost the link? Request a new one from the download page.
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What each edition includes.
| Capability | Free | Pro | Integrator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameras per installation | Up to 5 | Up to 100 | Up to 500 |
| Sites per installation | 1 | Up to 10 | Unlimited |
| Separate installations | As many as you need | 1 per license | Up to 5 per license |
| RTSP stream health monitoring | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Failure reason and probe history | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic incidents | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Incident history | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ONVIF-assisted onboarding | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted deployment | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Email alerts | — | Yes | Yes |
| Signed webhook alerts | — | Yes | Yes |
| Alert delivery history | — | Yes | Yes |
Licensing questions
How licensing works.
How do I buy Pro or Integrator?
Choose Buy on this page. Pro and Integrator are sold through Paddle, which handles payment, tax and your receipt. After payment your license key and a download link for your edition are sent to your purchase email.
Can I use the free edition in my business?
Yes. Commercial use is permitted on every plan, including Free. Free is a working installation, not a trial or an evaluation license: each installation monitors one site with up to five cameras, and you may install it as many times as you need, with no license and no account. Paid editions buy higher limits and more capability, not permission.
What do the paid editions add?
Outbound alerts and higher limits. Monitoring itself is not held back: Free checks your cameras on a schedule, opens and resolves incidents on its own, and keeps the incident and health history behind them. What Free does not do is send anything out — email and signed webhook delivery, and the delivery history that records each attempt, are what Pro and Integrator add. Pro covers one installation with up to 10 sites and 100 cameras; Integrator covers up to five separate installations.
What does one-time mean?
A single payment for the edition. There is no subscription, no renewal and no expiry: once activated, a license keeps working on that server, with or without an internet connection, and every 1.x update is included. The Terms of Service set this out in full.
Where does OpticWatch run?
On your own server, as a Docker Compose stack. That is true of every edition; there is no hosted option.
What does Integrator mean by five deployments?
Five separate OpticWatch installations, each with its own server, its own database and its own login — typically one per customer. Each of those installations may hold up to 500 cameras and any number of sites on its own; the allowance is not a pooled fleet. There is no shared dashboard across them, no cross-customer view and no multi-tenancy. Integrator is about how many installations one license covers, not about running several customers inside one.
How do I activate and move a license?
Install the paid build from your download link, then enter your license key under Settings, License. Your server contacts the licensing service only to activate or deactivate; after that the license works offline. To move to another server, deactivate on the old one first, then activate the same key on the new one.
What happens to my data?
OpticWatch is self-hosted, so your database and monitoring history are on your own infrastructure and remain there. A license never expires, and nothing is withheld remotely.
Start with the free edition.
One site and five cameras on your own server, with no license and no account. Move to Pro or Integrator when you need alerts or more cameras.