Open beats lock-in.

Yes. TetherX supports 1,000+ integrations plus any ONVIF (the camera interoperability standard that lets cameras from different brands work with the same software) device - Hanwha, Axis, Bosch, Hikvision, Dahua, Uniview, i-Pro, Avigilon and the rest. The cameras already installed at the customer site stay. No rip-and-replace, no proprietary hardware, no per-camera annual licence on top of the device cost.

A TetherBox at every site bridges the cameras to the cloud over an outbound-only encrypted tunnel - cameras never touch the Internet directly. Open at the edge, ringfenced at the boundary.

Verkada pairs expensive cameras ($599 to $5,199 each) with annual licences ($199 to $1,799 each, depending on tier and retention). A 10-camera mid-market project lands at US$10,000-25,000+ in year one before any storage upgrades - and the licence has to be paid every year afterwards or the cameras stop working. On 5 June 2026 Verkada published a 2026 Pricing Update on its own blog confirming a list-price increase (channel reports 5-15% magnitude); vendor cited tariffs plus AI / storage costs. OMNIA R250206 contract customers are protected through March 2028; everyone else absorbs the increase at renewal.

TetherX is an annual subscription priced by channel count (from £80/site/year) through your installer - dashboard, multi-site, alarms and access included - with cloud recording, AI search and ARC monitoring added per camera only where the customer wants them. No hardware floor, no licence cliff at renewal, no stranded cameras if the customer ever moves off.

Try it on your own kit first with a 30-day free trial - extensions available on request if the evaluation needs more time.

TetherX AI delivers person, vehicle and animal detection plus 63-class audio analytics, searchable across multi-site footage in seconds. The platform keeps evolving with additional analytics through the year. Verkada has built strong AI features into a closed camera stack; TetherX delivers AI search across an open camera fleet so the integrator does not have to lock every site to a single vendor to get modern search.

Yes. TetherX is sold exclusively through qualified installers - we never sell direct. The qualified installer who designed and deployed the system stays the single point of contact for the customer. The "sells around the installer" pattern that installers cite repeatedly as a reason to avoid Verkada can't happen with TetherX by design. See the Partner Programme for the commercial model.

TetherX already unifies cameras, alarms and access control in one dashboard - the same idea as Verkada. The difference is the hardware underneath. With TetherX the installer picks best-in-class cameras and access control, rather than being locked to one vendor for the whole stack.

For monitored sites, ARC integration connects directly into ARC (Alarm Receiving Centre) workflows without forcing the end customer into a single-vendor responder app.

The Command Connector (CC700-F) is Verkada's official way to bring an ONVIF camera into Command. List price US$9,599 per appliance, capped at 50 channels, capped at 30 days of retention, and you still pay a per-channel cloud-management licence on top. IPVM and installers describe it as a stopgap fix for retrofits, not a real strategy.

TetherX does the same job natively. A TetherBox at the site already speaks ONVIF and 1,000+ integration protocols - no separate appliance SKU, no 50-channel cap, retention set per-camera and changeable any time. Multi-vendor is the default, not the exception.

TetherX takes a ringfencing-first approach: existing cameras stay behind the TetherBox, which is the only thing that talks to the cloud. Where regulations (NDAA Section 889 in the US, UK high-secure guidance, Australia's PSPF) require approved manufacturers, the platform supports phased camera replacement over 12-36 months without forcing a single-vendor swap. Read the full compliance and ringfencing page for the shared-responsibility model.