Votix and Hover solve the same problem: live drone video to a browser, AI on the feed, shared with more than one person. The difference shows up on the invoice. Votix prices Stream by the seat and AI by the drone; Hover gives you unlimited viewers at every tier and includes AI detection from Fleet up, at one flat price.
Both platforms are hardware-agnostic clouds that carry live drone and camera video to a browser with AI on the feed. The differences are in how each one prices what you use.
| Dimension | Hover flat tiers · unlimited viewers included | Votix per-seat, per-drone modules |
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| 01Pricing shape |
Flat per-tier price. Unlimited viewers at every tier; AI detection included from Fleet up. What you pay does not move with how many people watch.
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Modular: Stream is priced per user per year, Visual AI per drone per year. Cost rises with headcount and fleet size.per reseller price list
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| 02Getting started |
Self-serve signup. Create a free Pilot account and a deployment without talking to a reseller.
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No public self-serve signup found. Pricing and purchase run through enterprise drone resellers.per public sources
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| 03Sharing a feed |
PIN-gated public viewer, no install, no account, viewers not metered or billed per seat.
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Open, PIN-based, or authenticated sharing. Each additional viewer is a paid Stream seat.per public sources
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| 04AI detection |
Natural-language detection rules on the live feed, included at Fleet tier and up. No facial recognition or license-plate recognition.
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80-plus object categories, license-plate recognition, and facial recognition. Priced as a separate per-drone add-on.per public sources
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| 05Latency claim |
Sub-second on stable terrestrial paths. We do not market a millisecond figure. On cellular what matters is whether the feed holds when the link degrades.
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Publishes three different figures across its own pages: "sub-250ms," "less than 200ms," and "zero-latency." No stated test conditions.per public sources
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| 06Regulatory assist |
Not offered. Hover relays your feed under whatever FAA waiver you already hold.
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Bundled BVLOS waiver assistance through partners Skyfire and Iris Automation.per public sources
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Votix cells marked per public sources are summarized from Votix's published material and reseller price lists, and are not independently verified by Hover. Prices are one reseller's public list, not Votix's own price sheet, and may vary.
Hover is not certified CJIS, NDAA, SOC 2, or FedRAMP today. Votix markets NDAA, ASDA, and CJIS compliance on its own pages.
Hover's price is the tier. Votix's price is the sum of the modules and seats a deployment ends up needing.
Unlimited viewers and AI detection included at Fleet and up. The price does not change with headcount.
Every additional viewer is another Stream seat; AI is a separate per-drone line.per reseller price list
A 3-drone deployment with 5 viewers and AI on every drone stacks to roughly $28,700–$38,300 per year on Votix's published reseller list, before any DFR-specific module. The same deployment sits inside Hover's Fleet tier at $999 per month, unlimited viewers and AI included.
A PIN-gated link any browser can open. Viewers are not counted or billed.
Describe what to watch for in plain language, rather than picking from a fixed category list. Included from Fleet up.
Any drone or field camera exposing RTSP, with no firmware change.
Video streams over RTMP straight to Hover's platform on US AWS; it does not pass through a drone vendor's cloud.
A real comparison says where the other platform is stronger. Here is ours.
Votix prices in modules: Stream by the user, Fly and Visual AI by the drone. A 3-drone deployment with 5 viewers and AI on every drone stacks to roughly $28,700–$38,300 a year on a published reseller list, before any DFR-specific module. The same deployment fits inside Hover's Fleet tier at $999 a month, unlimited viewers and AI included.Votix figures per reseller price list
No, not today. Hover is not certified CJIS, NDAA, SOC 2, or FedRAMP. It is built aligned to ISO 27001 controls, with no third-party attestation yet. Votix's own pages claim NDAA, ASDA, and CJIS compliance. If a certification is a requirement, raise it early and ask any vendor, including us, for the supporting documentation.
No. Hover's AI detection uses natural-language rules on the live feed rather than a fixed category catalog, and does not include facial recognition or license-plate recognition. Votix markets both as part of its AI module.Votix detail per public sources
On Hover, no: video streams live from the field, direct over RTMP to Hover's own platform on AWS in the United States. It does not pass through the drone vendor's cloud. Processing and storage stay in US regions, enforced at the AWS organization level. Votix's public material does not address its own data path, so no comparison claim is made either way.
Both relay live drone and camera video to a browser with AI on the feed. Hover is flat-priced with unlimited viewers at every tier and AI detection included from Fleet up and self-serve to start. Votix prices by the seat and the drone, sells through resellers, and carries a broader AI feature set including facial and license-plate recognition, plus bundled regulatory assistance Hover does not offer.Votix detail per public sources
Start a free Pilot with one deployment, unlimited viewers included from day one. Pricing is a flat monthly fee per tier.
