Ring Cameras Prime Day Deals for October 2022

For us, Prime Day is basically Christmas — a once-a-year event where we could get the items on our wishlist at discounted prices. Well, it’s not a once-a-year event anymore, because this year, Amazon is hosting a second Prime Day event in October (which, lucky for you, is happening now!).

The Prime Day Early Access Sale has begun and it will run through October 12, and much like the Prime Day in July, it’s two days full of deals and discounts on Amazon’s best-selling brands. One of those brands is Ring, the Amazon-owned doorbell and security camera brand. Just what kind of discounts can we expect?

Prime Day Early Access Sale: Ring Security Cameras

Ring started the Early Access Sale with discounts up to 47 percent on select Ring cameras and bundles. Check them out here.

Ring’s Best July Prime Day Deals

As we anticipated, Ring had some of the best security camera Prime Day deals during the July Prime Day event. One in particular caught our eye: The Ring Indoor Cam was offered at 25 percent off, bringing its already affordable price down to just $44.99. With that price, you could cover every nook and cranny of your home with this affordable indoor camera.

Most of Ring’s cameras, however, are designed for outdoor use. Most of them went on sale, with discounts up to 30 percent.

These were the best July Prime Day deals we found on Ring cameras.

Aside from camera deals, Ring offered bundles that pair its cameras with other Amazon-owned products such as the Echo Show 5 and Ring video doorbells. The Echo Show 5 bundles offer a great way to improve your smart home security, since the pairing lets you monitor and control Ring cameras with the Echo Show 5. Meanwhile, the video doorbell bundles can greatly boost your perimeter security. The video doorbell stands guard on your front door, while the cameras watch out for lurkers and intruders.

These were the best July Prime Day bundles from Ring.

One thing that remained true from the July Prime Day to the Early Access Sale is that buyers stand to save more if they bundle Ring products together. And the key to getting the most out of those bundles is to prepare yourself and do research before buying.

Ring Camera Information

Knowing Ring’s lineup can help you pick out the best Prime Day deals for yourself. It’s easy to find the biggest discounts, but of course, you should find deals for the Ring cameras that you need. You can read our Ring camera review for more information, or you can refer to this quick guide.

All in all, Ring offers four security camera lines: the Ring Indoor Cam, Ring Stick Up Cam, Ring Spotlight Cam, and Ring Floodlight Cam. Within each lineup are several models, except for the Ring Indoor Cam.

The Ring Indoor Cam

The Ring Indoor Cam is, obviously, an indoor camera. It’s the most affordable camera from Ring, but it offers all the essential features of an indoor camera. It has 1080p HD resolution, night vision, a decent viewing angle, two-way audio, and motion detection. It’s small enough to go almost anywhere, and its simple plug-in setup makes it easy to install. Here’s our Ring Indoor Cam review for more information.

The Ring Stick Up Cam

The Ring Stick Up Cam is a line of durable cameras that can be used either indoors or outdoors. It comes in several versions. There’s a battery-powered one, a plug-in type camera, a solar-powered model, and a version that uses Power over Ethernet (PoE) for power and internet connectivity. No matter the version, you’ll get 1080p resolution, wide viewing angle, motion detection, and night vision, among other useful features.

Additionally, there’s a special mount for the Ring Stick Up Cam that converts it into a pan-and-tilt camera. The mount plugs into a power outlet, and makes the Stick Up Cam rotate a full 360 degrees and tilt up to 90 degrees for a more complete view of your home. The pan and tilt functions are controlled through the Ring app.

The Ring Spotlight Cam

The Ring Spotlight Cam is an outdoor camera lineup. Their most distinguishing feature is the built-in spotlight that shines a bright line on intruders. It can function as a normal spotlight as well, and since it provides enough light to illuminate the camera’s view, Spotlight Cams offer color night vision. Like the Stick Up Cam, it comes in a battery-powered, solar-powered, and plug-in version. There’s no PoE version, but there’s a hardwired version that easily replaces existing spotlights.

In addition, Ring announced two new Spotlight Cam versions during the Amazon hardware event last month, both of which with special features that can further bolster your home security. The Spotlight Cam Pro, for example, can track movements using radar, and can even map out your lawn and show you where a guest (or intruder) walked through. Both will become available later this month.

The Ring Floodlight Cam

Lastly, the Ring Floodlight Cam is a lineup of outdoor cameras equipped with floodlights. These floodlights are brighter than the spotlights on the Spotlight Cams. And since they consume more power than regular spotlights, all the Ring Floodlight Cams need to be plugged into an outlet or wired into existing floodlight wirings.

Ring Protect Plans

The overall cost of Ring cameras is contingent on whether you’ll get a Ring Protect plan to cover your cameras. Ring Protect is Ring’s subscription service that provides cloud storage to Ring cameras and doorbells and professional monitoring for Ring Alarm systems.

You could opt not to get a subscription, but that would mean your cameras won’t record. That’s why we recommend getting a Ring Protect plan, particularly if you have multiple cameras. It’s not easy monitoring and attending to notifications from multiple cameras on your own.

Monthly, the Ring Protect Basic costs $3, or you can pay $30 yearly and save $6. It provides cloud storage for only one camera, though, so if you have two cameras, you’ll pay $6 per month, and if you have three, you’ll pay $9 per month. There are no discounts for multiple cameras, but that’s because the Ring Protect Plus plan is better suited for owners of multiple cameras.

At $10 per month or $100 per year, the Protect Plus plan provides 60 days of cloud storage to an unlimited number of cameras. The only condition is that all your cameras need to be installed at the same address. Otherwise, you’ll pay $10 per month per address.

Ring Company Background

Ring wasn’t always an arm of Amazon, which has made 21 acquisitions in 2017 through 2018, including Ring for $1.2 billion in 2018.1 They began as a humble company called DoorBot that was actually rejected on the TV show Shark Tank, believe it or not.

But by 2018, they had a 97 percent market share of the U.S video doorbell market.2 Now, Ring sells products other than video doorbells like the Ring Video Doorbell Pro; obviously, they sell security cameras, the topic of this article, but also motion sensors, smart speakers like the Echo Dot with Clock and the Echo Flex, smart displays like the Echo Show 8, door/ window sensors, smart lighting, and other smart home offerings.

Ring’s story isn’t all inspirational. The company has gotten into trouble for both hackings of their cameras and their partnerships with over 400 local police departments in the U.S. Some consider Ring cameras to be surveillance devices, while many others see the Alexa integration as further recording. Amazon admits that its employees listen to these recordings to improve Alexa’s artificial intelligence, so when it comes to privacy, Ring is not the most trustworthy, given its track record.

That being said, Ring has addressed privacy concerns with a couple of key updates. Privacy zones, for example, have their cameras ignore designated areas of people’s homes. On certain cameras like the battery-powered Ring Stick Up Cam Battery, users can completely disable motion alerts, motion recording, and audio. We hope more of Ring’s cameras get these capabilities in the future, as that would help to build more trust in the company.

Recap

A lot of great deals are up for grabs during the Prime Day Early Access Sale. Before you use Amazon’s patented one-click ordering,3 though, check out Ring Prime Day deals for doorbells and Ring Alarm Prime Day deals. Bundles seem to be the theme of Prime Day October 2022, so you can save more by bundling Ring cameras with other Ring products, or even products from Amazon’s Echo lineup.