Cameras & recordings
Frigate
Local camera recorder with object detection.
open source self-hostable Frigate project · ?Records your cameras and detects people, cars and pets on your own hardware; nothing is uploaded.
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How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
Facts
| Company / project | Frigate project (jurisdiction unknown) |
|---|---|
| Licence | MIT |
| Self-hosting footprint | 2048 MB RAM · 2 vCPU · 50 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | Ring, Google Nest |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | 35,610 stars · updated 2026-09-03 · Docker, Python, Nodejs |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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