The Modernhunter
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With subscription rates you pay a fixed amount per camera for a fixed photo quota per month. The quota is tied to the individual camera: what one camera doesn't use, another can't — and depending on the provider, unused volume expires at the end of the month.

Modernhunter deliberately relies on a pool solution: all cameras share a common balance, and you're only billed for what is actually sent — you never pay in advance for captures that never come.

In practice, 90 % of Modernhunter customers send on average 11 photos per day — only 5 % of users reach more than 30 photos per day.

From a user's perspective, we find rigid subscription rates of little use and the pool solution simply fairer. Our calculator even assumes that all cameras send the same number of photos — the best case for subscription rates. The more your cameras differ in how much they send, the greater the pool advantage becomes in practice.

We didn't pick the number arbitrarily: on its publicly accessible information page, ICU states around 24,000 images per year for 6 cameras. Converted, that's about 11 photos per camera and calendar day.

This value also matches our experience in the Modernhunter system. Individual cameras send more images at times and fewer at others — but viewed across a full year, 11 photos per day is a realistic average value.

According to the Seissiger FAQ, the Supersim Edition can be converted for €90 to operate with any SIM card you like. After this unlock, the camera can also be used with a suitable Modernhunter SIM card.

In our example calculation with 11 photos per day, this results in savings of around €88 per year compared with Supersim. The one-time cost of the unlock has thus paid for itself after just over a year.