Furbo 360° Dog Camera Review: What You Keep Without Furbo Nanny

The $54 on Furbo's product page is a trap for the careless reader, and also a fair deal for the careful one. It is a camera price tied to a Furbo Nanny plan. The same page strikes through $184, which is the camera on its own. The choice behind those two numbers is the whole review: how much of a Furbo 360° is left if you decline the subscription?

Know which Furbo 360 the reviews are about

Most independent reviews of the "Furbo 360°" describe the earlier model: a 1080p picture, a 132-degree lens, and a treat tosser that holds about 100 treats. Furbo's current page sells it as "the smartest AI pet camera, complete with 2K QHD, 360° view, and Lite Treat Toss". A "Lite" tosser sounds like less capacity, though the page we read does not give a number.

So when a test below mentions 100 treats or 1080p, read it as evidence about the family, not a measurement of the box Furbo ships today. We found no independent test of the refreshed unit with the numbers to match, which is a reason to use the 30-day return window early.

What stays free

Furbo's help centre and independent reviewers agree on the free core. Live view, two-way audio, pan and tilt, night vision, treat tossing and barking alerts work without a subscription. A camera-only purchase also comes with a 14-day trial of Furbo Nanny, so you will see the paid features first and lose them after.

Reviewed.com found the motion tracking worked extremely well, and the dogs quickly learned the sound of the treat launcher. That treat toss is the reason this camera has a following: it is a way to reward or distract a dog from your phone, with no subscription involved.

Barking alerts are less impressive. The same tester found they trigger on any loud noise, a TV, a slammed door or a vacuum, so expect false alarms. The sensitivity setting helps without removing them.

What the Nanny plan adds, and what it costs

The paid features are mostly about knowing what happened while you were out, not about live interaction. The Standard plan on Furbo's help page includes 3 days of video history, pet emergency alerts, home security alerts, Calm My Pet, Health Checker and Vet Report, and Pet ID to tell your pets apart. The Premium plan, according to a summary of the same page, stretches video history to 7 days and adds priority access to new features.

The prices, from Furbo's own announcement of the changes that began on 3 November 2025:

• Standard: $9.99 a month, $7.99 a month billed yearly, or $7.49 a month on a two-year plan.

• Premium: $12.49 a month, $9.99 yearly, or $9.37 a month on two years.

• Extra cameras: $2 a month each.

Work it out for a single dog. Standard on a yearly plan is about $96 a year. Over two years the $54 camera plus Nanny comes to about $246, more than the $184 camera alone. Without a plan you pay $184 once and keep live view, treats and barking alerts. In effect Furbo is selling the camera cheaply and recovering the money on the plan, so $54 is not the real price.

A wrinkle: what you will miss with no plan

The free tier gives you no recording. Independent testers describe a camera that shows what is happening now and almost nothing about what happened earlier. One reviewer also found that the barking notification carries no video clip, so you hear that something loud happened and cannot see it. If your worry is separation anxiety, you may want that video history, and then the plan stops being optional.

The phone view

Setup is described as simple by the testers we read, but one found the Alexa skill poorly rated, about 2.7 stars, with complaints about disconnections, and another source notes the camera needs a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi band, which may mean splitting a router's bands. There is no SD card slot in the tests we read, so any recording lives in the cloud.

Who should buy it

Buy it if you want to talk to your dog and toss them a treat from the office, and you are content with live view and no history. For that, the free tier is real, and $184 once is a fair price. Take the $54 deal only if you will keep Standard for as long as you own the camera, and put the cost of that plan on a calendar before checking out.

Skip it if you want a record of the day, a camera that works with Alexa without fuss, or a tosser with a confirmed large capacity for a big dog. And do not buy it as a safety device: an alert is no substitute for a person who can come home.

We would score it as a good toy that is sold as a monitoring system. That is a sound product, but not a bargain at $54.