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Best Lightweight Video Surveillance for self-hosting

The 21 best Lightweight video surveillance you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

At a glance

AppDeploy effortDifficultyMin. RAMLicense★ Stars
MediaMTXUnder-an-hour setupEasy128 MBMIT20,409
go2rtcUnder-an-hour setupMedium128 MBMIT14,367
CameradarUnder-an-hour setupMedium128 MBMIT5,246
motionEyeUnder-an-hour setupEasy512 MBGPL-3.04,708
MotionUnder-an-hour setupMedium256 MBGPL-2.04,051
mjpg-streamerRead-the-docs projectEasy64 MBGPL-2.03,255
OpenIPCRead-the-docs projectHard64 MBMIT2,242
WebRTC CameraRead-the-docs projectMedium256 MBMIT2,187
uStreamerRead-the-docs projectEasy64 MBGPL-3.02,034
RTSPtoWebRTCUnder-an-hour setupMedium128 MBMIT1,791

Quick picks

Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Lightweight within the video surveillance category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.

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