Monitoring

AI eyes on, alerts in real time.

Connect RTSP, ONVIF, or IP cameras and get real-time people, vehicle, and motion detection with intelligent alerts. Self-hosted on your VPS, so surveillance footage never leaves your infrastructure.

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Capabilities

Everything a Modern Video Needs

Powerful capabilities with AI orchestration — all self-hosted on your infrastructure.

Camera Management

Add RTSP, ONVIF, or IP cameras, configure resolution and frame rate, group them by location, and run health checks from one grid.

Real-Time Detection

People, vehicles, faces, custom objects, and motion detected live with bounding boxes — no specialized hardware required.

Smart Alerts

Email, SMS, push, and webhook notifications with custom rules, active-hour schedules, cooldowns to prevent flooding, and escalation.

Video Analytics

People and vehicle counts, trends, activity heatmaps, dwell time, and real-time occupancy tracking beyond raw footage.

Recording & Playback

Continuous or event-based recording with timeline playback, MP4 clip export, and configurable storage retention policies.

Live Dashboard

Detections today, uptime, storage used, and active cameras shown as at-a-glance stat cards alongside recent alerts.

Pricing

One Flat Server — Zero Per-User Fees

Unlike commercial SaaS suites that charge per seat, General Bots runs on your own infrastructure with unlimited users.

Self-Hosted
Your Infrastructure, Your Data
Deploy on any VM or bare metal. No user limits, no hidden fees. Full source under AGPLv3.
  • Unlimited users and operations
  • No per-user licensing fees
  • Full source code access (AGPLv3)
  • Self-contained Docker deployment
  • Bring your own LLM / AI backend
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Typical SaaS
Per-seat pricing
Plus overage fees
plus overage fees
Self-Hosted
Unlimited users
On your infrastructure
unlimited users
Comparison

Self-Hosted vs SaaS

See how the open-source General Bots Video compares to proprietary alternatives.

FeatureSelf-HostedSaaS
Per-user pricingFreeVendor lock-in
Data ownershipYoursTheirs
Source accessFull (AGPLv3)Closed
AI model choiceAny LLMVendor lock-in
ScalabilityUnlimitedTiered
Audit & complianceFull controlLimited
Why Choose

Built for Sovereignty, Scale, and AI

Thousands of teams choose General Bots for their video infrastructure.

Zero Vendor Lock-In

Your data, your infrastructure, your control. General Bots is fully open source under AGPLv3 — no proprietary APIs, no data leaving your network, no forced upgrades.

  • 100% Open Source

    Audit, modify, and extend the code. Community contributions welcome.

  • AI-Native by Default

    LLM orchestration built in — bring any model, run it on your own hardware.

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