Year one, these two cost the same to the penny. Year three, the eufy is $100 ahead and pulling away. We priced the Ring Battery Doorbell 2K against the eufy Video Doorbell E340 with the subscription included, then checked what the lab testing says about the cameras themselves.
Our verdict
Get the eufy Video Doorbell E340 — paying once and being done beats a lower sticker price that turns into a subscription.
Our pick: Best overall
~$130–180
Get it if you want to pay once, watch the doormat, and never see a doorbell line item again.
Best ecosystem
~$60–100 Lowest price
Get it if your home already runs on Alexa and the low $60–100 entry price is what gets this done.
The price gap~$70–80 more for the eufy Video Doorbell E340
Each bar is an estimated price range, on one scale from ~$60 to ~$180.
Either way: Run either one three years and factor the subscription cost in before comparing stickers.
We used TechGearLab’s lab testing, which has run both of these doorbells through the same twenty-camera protocol, alongside Trusted Reviews’ measured teardown of the eufy by David Ludlow, then priced the subscriptions against Ring’s own published plan pages and Security.org’s independent tally of the same tiers. We haven’t installed either doorbell ourselves; the video and subscription-cost claims come from TechGearLab’s twenty-camera lab protocol and Security.org’s published pricing tally, both linked where we cite them. Prices are always moving, so every button and link pulls the live listing.
How we rank
Published specifications, verified owner reviews, and independent safety or standards data where it applies — weighted the same for every pick, never sponsored placement.
Best overall~$130–180
Two cameras, no account, no monthly line item
Get it if you want to pay once, watch the doormat, and never see a doorbell line item again.
Skip it if your house runs on Alexa and app polish is what you touch every day.
The eufy Video Doorbell E340 is the rare product where the hardware and the arithmetic argue the same way. TechGearLab scored it 78 out of 100 and gave it an Editors’ Choice, third of the twenty security cameras they have run through the same protocol, with 7.6 for video quality and 8.2 for monitoring performance.
What earns that is the second lens. The top camera shoots 2K and frames a visitor head to toe; a second camera angled down watches the mat, where packages land and where a single-camera doorbell sees nothing. Trusted Reviews’ David Ludlow measured the pair at 2048×1536 and 1600×1200 and rated daytime footage sharp enough to pick out real detail.
The storage is the whole case. Eight gigabytes sit inside the doorbell itself, with no account and no plan behind them. eufy says that holds around 90 days of clips; Ludlow put it nearer a month in ordinary use, which is still further back than most people ever scroll.
There is no microSD slot, so the only way to grow it is one of eufy’s hubs, the HomeBase S380 or S280. The S380 runs about $180 and takes a drive up to 16TB. That’s optional: the E340 was the first eufy dual-camera doorbell that works standalone, without a hub at all.
The trade-offs are real and worth naming. Ludlow found Delivery Guard only reliably flags packages of about ten inches or more per side, so a padded envelope can slip past it. There is no Apple Home, SmartThings, or IFTTT support, only Alexa and Google Assistant, and the app is functional rather than Ring-slick.
Local storage also means a stolen doorbell takes its footage with it unless a HomeBase is holding a copy indoors. Battery life lands around a month, and eufy sells a spare pack that charges in about five hours, so the doorbell need never come off the wall.
Strengths
Tradeoffs
Best ecosystem~$60–100
The easiest doorbell to buy, and the one that keeps billing you
Get it if your home already runs on Alexa and the low $60–100 entry price is what gets this done.
Skip it if you plan to keep the doorbell more than about eighteen months and would rather not rent it.
Get the name right before you shop, because Ring’s lineup has multiplied. The mainstream battery model is now the Battery Doorbell 2K, which Ring also sells as the Battery Doorbell (2nd Gen). It lists at $99.99, drops to $69.99 often enough that $60 to $100 is the honest range, and it is not any of the Plus, Pro, or wired variants.
It records what Ring calls Retinal 2K at 1920×1920 across a 140-by-140-degree head-to-toe view, mounts on push pins in minutes, and can trickle-charge off doorbell wiring or a solar panel. TechGearLab measured roughly 1% battery drain a day, about three months between charges.
The camera is where the Ring gives ground. Testing the previous 1440p generation, TechGearLab found the very wide lens distorts badly toward the edges and the footage pixelated enough that testers could not read the color accuracy chart at all — one of the group’s lowest video scores — while rating the app 8.2 for ease of use. That split is the product in one line: best-in-class software, mid-pack glass. The 2nd Gen’s 2K sensor should narrow the gap, but nobody has lab-tested it against the eufy yet, so treat the resolution bump as a spec rather than a result.
Then the subscription, which is the actual price. Without a plan the doorbell still rings your phone, shows live view, and does two-way talk; it never saves anything, and TechGearLab put it plainly, that it does not let you go back and review anything without subscribing. Ring renamed its plans on January 14, 2026.
Ring Solo is $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year and covers one device with up to 180 days of history. Ring Multi is $9.99 or $99.99 and covers every device at one address. Ring Pro is $19.99 or $199.99 and adds Familiar Faces and professional monitoring. Security.org lists the same three tiers at the same prices. So: $149.98 the first year, $249.96 by year three, $399.96 if a second camera pushes you to Multi.
Strengths
Tradeoffs
5 common questions, answered.
Year one is a tie and year three is not. The Ring Battery Doorbell 2K lists at $99.99 and the cheapest plan that saves video, Ring Solo, is $49.99 a year, so the first year is $149.98. The eufy Video Doorbell E340 lists at $149.99 and has no plan, so the first year is $149.99. By year three the Ring has cost $249.96 and the eufy is still $149.99, a gap of about $100. Add a second camera and Ring Multi at $99.99 a year takes the three-year Ring total to $399.96. Buying the Ring on a $69.99 sale pushes the break-even point out to roughly month nineteen instead of month twelve.
No. Live view, two-way talk, and real-time motion and ring alerts all work with no plan, so the doorbell is not a brick. What you never get is recorded history: TechGearLab found it does not let you go back and review anything without subscribing. That is the single most important thing to understand before buying a Ring, because it means the $99.99 sticker is an entry fee rather than the price. eufy is the opposite arrangement, recording to its own memory from the first day.
Video goes into 8GB of memory inside the doorbell itself. eufy rates that at about 90 days of clips; Trusted Reviews put it closer to a month in normal use. There is no microSD slot, so the only way to expand is a eufy HomeBase, the S380 or S280, with the S380 at about $180 and expandable to 16TB. The honest risk is that a stolen doorbell takes its footage with it, which is exactly what a cloud plan protects against. A HomeBase indoors solves it, and even at $329.98 for doorbell plus hub the eufy stays cheaper than the Ring until close to year five.
The eufy, by a wide margin in the only lab that has tested both the same way. TechGearLab scored the E340 78 out of 100 with an Editors’ Choice, third of twenty cameras, while their Ring testing found the wide lens distorted at the edges and the image pixelated enough that testers could not determine the colors on their color accuracy chart. The eufy also sees more: a second downward camera covers the doormat that a single-lens doorbell misses. Ring wins on software rather than optics, taking 8.2 for ease of use.
The Battery Doorbell 2K, which Ring also lists as the Battery Doorbell (2nd Gen). It is the mainstream battery model at $99.99, not the Battery Doorbell Plus, the Battery Doorbell Pro, or either wired Pro, and Ring now sells enough similarly named doorbells that it is easy to buy the wrong one. Check the listing says 2K or 2nd Gen and shows the $99.99 list price. The rest of the family runs from about $150 to $250 and carries exactly the same subscription requirement.
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