Secure Your Home for Less With This Arlo Pro 5S Camera Deal (2025)

a good security Cameras can deter potential intruders and thieves, and help you keep an eye on your property from anywhere. The Arlo Pro 5S, on sale for $85 (down from $180), isn’t just a good security camera; These are my picks for the best outdoor security cameras you can buy right now. The Arlo Pro 5S ticks every box with crisp 2K video, a wide 160-degree field of view, two-way audio, and a direct Wi-Fi connection. It’s battery powered, so there’s no need to run cables, it offers two-way audio and a siren to scare off intruders, and reliably detects people and notifies you.

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Video quality is obviously paramount for a security camera, and Arlo’s Pro 5S records up to 2K resolution. The inclusion of HDR ensures that your video doesn’t look blown out when there is a light source in the frame. A wide 160-degree field of view captures the entire scene. When darkness falls, you have the option of color night vision or a motion-activated spotlight.

One of the main reasons we love the Arlo Pro 5S so much is its swift-loading Arlo app. It offers rich notifications, showing a few frames with the highlighted subject in the notification on your phone or smartwatch. It also supports two-factor authentication, so you can log in with your fingerprint or face, phone allowed.

You can filter motion alerts by people, animals, vehicles, and packages, and the camera is quite accurate at correctly identifying subjects. You can also set privacy zones in the app very easily. Extensive smart home support makes it easy to call up your camera feed to your favorite smart display.

The big problem with the Arlo system is that you need the Arlo Secure plan ($10 per month or $96 per year for one camera, $20 per month or $216 per year for unlimited cameras) to access the best features, but that also gets you 30 days of cloud video history.

I’ve been using this camera for the past few years, and it still works perfectly, alerts correctly every time, and provides the best quality video. I still prefer it to some of Arlo’s newer cameras, and, provided you don’t mind an over-the-top subscription, it’s a great buy for the money. Although it has often fallen to $100, I have never seen it this low.

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