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Viseron vs ZoneMinder: catalog facts
Viseron	ZoneMinder

Best for: Home camera setups that want AI detection without sending video to a cloud	Best for: A mature self-hosted CCTV recorder on a Linux server
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence, with optional sponsorship.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0 licence.
Self-hosted	Linux, Self-hosted
Object, face and license plate recognition run locally Camera agnostic with ONVIF control GPU, NPU and TPU acceleration Configuration editor built into the web interface	Supports IP, USB and analog cameras Packaged in many Linux distribution repositories Mature project with a large community Motion analysis and recording in one system
Configuration is YAML-based, which takes some learning Docker is the expected way to run it	Linux only Setup and tuning take more effort than newer Docker-first systems
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: GPL-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Offline features available	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Viseron viseron.netlify.app github.com/roflcoopter/viseron Catalog checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for ZoneMinder zoneminder.com github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder Catalog checked October 2, 2026

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