Product comparison chart

XProtect VMS includes the following products:

  • XProtect Corporate
  • XProtect Expert
  • XProtect Professional+
  • XProtect Express+
  • XProtect Essential+

The complete feature list is available on the product overview page on the Milestone website (https://www.milestonesys.com/solutions/platform/product-index/).

Below is a list of the main differences between the products:

Name

XProtect Essential+

XProtect Express+

XProtect Professional+

XProtect Expert

XProtect Corporate

Sites per SLC

1

1

Multi-site

Multi-site

Multi-site

Recording servers per SLC

1

1

Unrestricted

Unrestricted

Unrestricted

Hardware devices per recording server

8

48

Unrestricted

Unrestricted

Unrestricted

Milestone Interconnect™

-

Remote site

Remote site

Remote site

Central/remote site

Milestone Federated Architecture™

-

-

-

Remote site

Central/remote site

Recording server failover

-

-

-

Cold and hot standby

Cold and hot standby

Remote connect services

-

-

-

-

Edge storage support

-

-

Multi-stage video storage

Live databases +
1 archive

Live databases +
1 archive

Live databases +
1 archive

Live databases + unrestricted archives

Live databases + unrestricted archives

SNMP notification

-

-

-

Time controlled user access rights

-

-

-

-

Reduce frame rate (grooming)

-

-

-

Video data encryption (recording server)

-

-

-

Database signing (recording server)

-

-

-

PTZ priority levels

1

1

3

32000

32000

Extended PTZ (Reserve PTZ session and patrolling from XProtect Smart Client)

-

-

-

Evidence lock

-

-

-

-

Bookmark function

-

-

Manual only

Manual and rule-based

Manual and rule-based

Live multi-streaming or multicasting, also known as adaptive streaming

-

-

-

Direct streaming - - -

Overall security

Client user rights

Client user rights

Client user rights

Client user rights

Client user rights/

administrator user rights

XProtect Management Client profiles

-

-

-

-

XProtect Smart Client profiles

-

-

3

3

Unrestricted

XProtect Smart Wall

-

-

-

optional

System Monitor

-

-

-

Smart map

-

-

-

Two-step verification

-

-

-

-

DLNA support

-

Privacy masking

-

Device password management