Lovely modern design ; Great picture quality ; Good feature set ; Excellent floodlight capabilities ; Easy to use

Some features locked behind subscription ; No local storage ; Requires wired installation

The Nest Cam with Floodlight is excellent. Its modern design won't suit all homes and installation is potentially tricky for those without a current wired light, but it's a great two-in-one device that performs brilliantly overall.

Subscription not required ; Good floodlight ; Records if Wi-Fi goes down

Expensive ; Google Home app needs improving for cameras ; Limited integration (Google-only)

The floodlight means much improved video quality when it’s dark. But it’s expensive, the Google Home app is inferior to the Nest app and you can only control the floodlight with Google Assistant. It’s only a good buy if you’re a die-hard Google fan who...

As a camera, the Nest Cam offers a lot for home security with Face, Package and Animal detection, but it's these features that make the camera great and you need to subscribe to Nest Aware to get the most out of the camera. As a piece of hardware, the...

Excellent video quality ; Free tier is actually useful ; Thoughtful app experience ; On-device motion and facial recognition processing ; 5 GHz WiFi radio ; Battery backup ; Up to 3 hours on-device storage if Internet goes out

Only compatible with Google Home ; No expanded local storage option ; Some on-device features subscription-locked

Still, for the price, the Nest Cam with Floodlight offers the best outdoor security camera experience in its class. It has excellent video quality, built-in battery backup, local storage, and an intuitive app. It also offers features for free that with...

In our extensive testing of each, we found that Nest’s cameras are some of the highest quality on the market today, especially in terms of video and artificial intelligence capabilities. We got the same high-quality equipment and low-cost cloud storage...