Open-source alternative  ·  CCTV / NVR

Replace Verkada with Frigate NVR.

Self-hosted NVR with AI detection, Google Coral TPU support, and Home Assistant integration. Person, vehicle, and animal detection on commodity hardware. Zero cloud subscription, your footage stays on your network.

You'd keep~R88 800 to ~R177 600/year

Current licence  ·  CCTV / NVR

Verkada

~R88 800 – ~R177 600/yr

10-user estimate

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Frigate NVR

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R177 600/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Verkada's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Standard

R88 800/yr

R740/user/month

Per camera

With Frigate NVR

Keep R88 800/yr

Professional

R177 600/yr

R1 480/user/month

Per camera

With Frigate NVR

Keep R177 600/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Verkada grows around 10% per year on average. Frigate NVR hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR79kR158kR237kR315kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R287kR18k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R1.27M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

VerkadaFrigate NVR, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

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Migrate Verkada.
Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.