Wyze vs eufy: Which Budget Security Camera Brand Is Better?

Wyze: On February 16, 2024, an AWS outage took Wyze devices offline for several hours. As cameras came back online, a third-party caching client library mixed up device and user IDs, and about 13,000 Wyze users received event thumbnails from cameras that weren’t their own; 1,504 of them tapped on one, according to Wyze’s own update and The Verge. Wyze says it added a new layer of verification before users are connected to Event Videos and bypassed caching for user-device checks.

eufy: In late 2022, The Verge^[4][7] showed eufy cameras could produce unencrypted streams for eufy’s web portal despite its end-to-end encryption marketing. In January 2023, Anker told The Verge that web-portal streams are now end-to-end encrypted and that it was moving to WebRTC, encrypted by default. See also our Ring vs eufy comparison.

The Wyze Cam v4 records 24/7 locally to a microSD card of up to 256GB (sold separately); it’s wired, 2.4GHz-only and rated IP65. eufy’s Indoor Cam E220 ($59.99, or $99.99 for a 2-pack) records to microSD with no subscription and can also stream to a NAS over RTSP. For several cameras, eufy’s HomeBase S380 has 16GB of non-removable storage, which eufy says holds about two months of clips for one camera or one month for two, and takes a 2.5-inch SATA HDD or SSD of up to 16TB that you buy separately.

Skip both if you want professionally monitored security with sensors and sirens; see SimpliSafe vs Ring Alarm or Ring Alarm vs ADT instead. Skip Wyze if you won’t pay any subscription but want AI person alerts and cloud backup, since those need Cam Plus. Skip eufy if you only want one camera and don’t want the extra cost of a HomeBase and drive. And if either brand’s security history is a deal-breaker, our best security cameras without a subscription guide covers other local-storage options.