Building cameras, body cameras, and drone feeds on a single map, with one login and one evidence store. Most organizations run four systems to do this — a video platform, a body-camera platform, a real-time operations tool, and somewhere to keep the evidence. We replaced all four with one subscription that starts at $15 per camera per month.
Your video management system
A separate body-camera platform
Real-time operations software
Your evidence management system
Body cameras stopped being a police-only technology years ago. The problem they solve — a disputed account of an incident, a lone worker with no backup, a claim you cannot answer six months later — belongs to almost every organization that puts staff in front of the public.
Evidence management, chain of custody, redaction, retention, and export — at a price a fourteen-officer department can approve without a council meeting. See the detailed comparison ↓
You already have cameras on your clients' sites. Put your officers on the same map. Prove your people were where you billed for, answer a client's incident question the same day, and defend a liability claim with footage instead of a written statement.
Assaults on healthcare staff are among the fastest-growing workplace-violence categories. Cameras on security officers, tied to the fixed cameras already in your corridors, with an SOS every operator sees at once.
One system covering campus cameras and the officers walking the grounds, with retention rules that match district policy and evidence you can hand to a board or an attorney intact.
An SOS that works with gloves on, live location on a map, and recording that keeps running with no signal and uploads with proof when service returns. Meter readers, linemen, remote-site staff, night crews.
The roles that take the most abuse and have the least budget. Same platform, same price, no per-seat licensing and no five-year commitment to get it.
Encryption in transit and at rest is the floor, not the feature — every serious vendor has it. What matters when a recording is challenged is whether its integrity can be demonstrated by someone who does not work for us, and does not have to trust our software.
Hash-chained and immutable, exportable, with a standalone offline verifier — a prosecutor, an insurer, or an opposing expert can confirm nothing was altered, without trusting our platform to check itself.
Recordings carry per-segment hashes generated on the device — including recordings made with no connectivity. Signed integrity manifests mean the original is never modified, only referenced.
Retention categories, legal holds with a named custodian, two-person approval before anything is destroyed, and a signed deletion certificate for every item removed.
Blur and mute to produce a derivative for release; the source file stays exactly as recorded. Included in the Evidence Management add-on — not a separately-priced module on top of it.
Expiring, passcode-protected, revocable links for outside parties, with every view — and every refused attempt — in the audit trail. When the matter closes, access closes with it.
We never train AI models on your recordings — not de-identified, not "to improve the service," not by default with an opt-out in an appendix. Export everything, whenever you want, in open formats.
Included in the per-camera price, not sold as a real-time operations upgrade.
Open any camera — fixed or body-worn — in real time from the office. No request, no waiting for someone to dock a device.
Live positions for every unit on shift, visible to your whole organization, alongside the stream you're watching. See who is closest before you ask.
Hold Talk and speak through the wearer's loudspeaker — half-duplex, like a radio. A supplement to the radio, not a replacement for it.
When something goes wrong, one held button reaches every unit within a mile of the officer you're watching — without a dispatcher working out who to call.
A basement, a stairwell, a dead zone: the device keeps recording, holds it with hash proofs, and uploads the moment service returns. An outage is a pause in streaming, not a hole in the record.
The voice listener fires SOS or marks an incident from a spoken phrase; the motion sensors detect falls; and in armed mode, a gunshot, breaking glass, shouting or a kicked door starts the recording itself — with the two minutes before the trigger already saved. All on the phone's own sensors: how it works.
Axon is the market leader in law enforcement — roughly 70% of the body-camera market. If you are evaluating body cameras for a department, they are the benchmark, so here is a sourced, line-by-line accounting against them. Every Axon figure below comes from their own published documentation, their master services agreement as filed in public contracts, or an executed municipal contract. Sources are linked at the bottom of this page.
$91,134.92 over five years. Duvall compared three vendors and chose a competitor, citing redaction cost in writing.
$172,634.61 over five years, itemized to $204.06 per holster-draw sensor.
$930,186 over five years. The 200-officer agency pays 29% less per officer than the 14-officer one.
About $24,000 a year for a department that size, before add-on modules.
Small departments pay the most and get the least leverage. Axon's Officer Safety Plan 10 Premium — the tier bundling redaction, transcription, and records — carries a minimum of 50 sworn officers; Axon Standards requires 15 or more. A department below those lines pays roughly 40% more per officer for the same product and cannot reach the bundle that makes the add-ons affordable. Contracts run five years as standard, ten-year terms are now sold, and pricing is "subject to an annual increase of 4% beginning on the second anniversary."
| Nevtech VMS | Axon | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost per camera | $15–32 / monthSame tiers as any other camera on your plan (published pricing). No separate bodycam platform fee, no per-officer licensing. | $930–$1,400 / officer / yearFrom executed contracts. OSP bundles run $318–$325 per user per month. |
| The camera | $289.99 at retailA 280 g IP68/IP69K rugged Android phone (the reference handset). Buy it from anyone, replace it same day, from anywhere. We sell the software, not the hardware. | Bundled into the contractBattery is not user-replaceable — the user guide says return the camera to Axon. |
| Live streaming & real-time ops | IncludedLive stream, two-way voice from dispatch, the live unit map for the whole organization, and one-mile broadcast. | Two separate add-onsAxon Respond+ runs roughly $19 per user per month inside a bundle; Fusus, the real-time layer, a further ~$20. |
| Recording starts by itself | Included, no extra hardware Say the SOS phrase or take a fall mid-shift and the alert fires with GPS — no button. And in armed mode, recording starts itself from standby with a two-minute pre-roll, triggered by five on-device sound families: gunfire (a classifier we trained, with anti-fireworks voting), impacts, breaking glass, shouting, and doors. It all runs on the phone's own microphone and motion sensors, on-device, with trigger sensitivity tuned to your environment during onboarding. | Sensors sold separatelyAxon Signal triggers from a holster draw or light bar — $204 per holster kit, $228 per vehicle unit plus $205 installation. Their documentation states Signal "does not transmit a signal to end recording" and "cannot power an Axon camera on." Gunshot detection is not a Body 4 feature. The pre-event buffer defaults to 30 seconds. |
| Redaction | Included in Evidence ManagementVideo blur and audio redaction; the original is never touched. | Premium add-onRedaction Assistant is priced separately, around $10 per user per month inside a bundle. |
| Legal holds | Named holdsWith a custodian, release log, two-person deletion approval, and signed deletion certificates. | Case membershipEvidence in a case is exempt from deletion. We found no dedicated legal-hold feature in their documentation. |
| Leaving | Open export, no cliffTake your evidence and your audit history whenever you want, in open formats, no egress fee. | 90 days, read-onlyTheir agreement: no functionality other than retrieval, bulk egress "will result in additional fees," and Axon "will not warrant or guarantee data integrity" on the way out. |
| AI training on your evidence | NeverWe do not train models on customer evidence. | Opt-out by default"By default, Customer will be a participant in ACEIP Tier 1." |
| Fixed cameras and bodycams | One systemBuilding cameras, body cameras and drone feeds together, on one map, in one evidence store. | Not offeredBody cameras, fleet, and interview room — not general municipal video surveillance. |
| Contract | Monthly, no minimumEight officers is a normal customer for us. | 5 or 10 years4% annual increase from year two; 50-sworn minimum for the top bundle. |
Any vendor whose comparison says they win on everything is telling you something about the vendor, not the product. Here is where we're different, with what the platform does in its place.
Nevtech VMS is a practical Axon alternative for agencies that can’t justify enterprise contracts: body cameras run on a $289.99 rugged Android handset on ordinary per-camera plans, evidence management with chain of custody is built in, and your existing fixed cameras join the same system. Every price on this page is published with sources, so procurement can compare line by line without a sales cycle.
Put two cameras on two people for a month. Record real shifts, pull a real export, and hand the audit trail to your attorney or your insurer to see whether it holds up. No contract, no minimum, and nothing to unwind if it is not for you.
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