You don't have to take the lock-in.
Flock made LPR a household name. They also made it a closed ecosystem: Flock cameras only, direct sales that bypass your local integrator, and a national plate-sharing network the city council found out about in the newspaper. Corvid does the same job. None of those terms.
Four things you trade away with Flock.
The feature checklist looks similar. The terms don't.
Flock cameras only. Want LPR on the cameras you already paid for? Different vendor.
Bring your own — Axis, Vivotek, Hikvision, Dahua, Hanwha, anything ONVIF. Or buy Corvid cameras. Your call, not ours.
Flock sells direct. The integrator who installed your CCTV, your access control, and your alarm panel? Cut out of the deal.
Channel-only. Your local security integrator owns the relationship, the install, and the renewal. Corvid is the platform underneath.
Plate reads have been quietly shared into Flock's national network and surfaced to other agencies — including ones the camera owner didn't approve.
Reads stay in your tenant. Inter-agency sharing is opt-in per deployment. Every share is logged. The audit trail goes to your records team, not ours.
Flock prices direct. The number your city sees and the number your neighbor city sees aren't always the same. Your integrator can't sharpen the deal.
Per-camera pricing your integrator sets. They know your zip code, your fleet, your renewal calendar. They make the deal pencil out.
Side by side.
The full feature comparison.
| Feature | Corvid | Flock Safety |
|---|---|---|
| Sales model | Channel-only — sold through certified integrators | Direct sales to municipalities + HOAs |
| Camera hardware | Bring your own (any IP / ONVIF) or buy Corvid cameras | Flock cameras only |
| Gateway | Software — runs on PC, NUC, Pi, LTE modem, or another camera | Proprietary cellular hardware |
| Hot lists | Federal, state, custom | Federal, state, custom |
| Make / model / color | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile in-car LPR | Yes | Yes |
| Phone as a camera | Yes — Corvid mobile app | No |
| Full VMS (video, not just plates) | Yes — same camera does both | Limited |
| Parking (occupancy / dwell / zones) | Yes | Newer offering |
| Audit log | Every action, every share, queryable by your records team | Limited |
| Default inter-agency sharing | OFF — opt-in per deployment, every share logged | ON in many deployments |
| Pricing | Per-camera, set by your integrator | Per-camera, set by Flock |
Comparison reflects publicly available information about Flock Safety as of 2026. Flock is a registered trademark of Flock Group Inc.; Corvid is not affiliated with Flock.
Your reads. Your decision.
License plate reads are public-record data. But who sees them, for how long, and which other agencies they get pushed to — those should be the customer's call, not the platform vendor's default.
- Reads stored in your tenant. Corvid doesn't resell them, broker them, or roll them into a national network without your explicit per-deployment opt-in.
- Inter-agency sharing is opt-in per deployment. You decide which other agencies see your reads, on what schedule, with what retention.
- Every share is logged. Every query is logged. Your audit committee can reconstruct who saw what, when — something that's been notably hard to do with Flock's national network.
Corvid's default posture is privacy-conservative. Custom retention windows, opt-in sharing, and full audit logs are built in — not features hidden behind a sales gate. Talk to us about your jurisdiction's requirements before you have to talk to your local newspaper about them.
Flock cut you out. Corvid puts you back in.
If you're a security integrator who's ever lost a deal because Flock walked into your customer's council meeting and closed it for them — this is the platform you fight back with. Corvid is sold exclusively through you. Same plate reads, same alerts, same hot lists, same mobile in-car LPR. Different relationship.
And every camera you sell pays you yearly. Your renewals calendar is your business now, not a leakage point to a SaaS rep.
Same job. Different terms.
See Corvid running live. Then talk to your local integrator about what it costs in your zip code — without the lock-in, without the lawsuit, without the surveillance brand.