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Plate Recognizer Advantages

When benchmarked against Adaptive Recognition (ARH), our Plate Recognizer ALPR offers higher ALPR accuracy at a lower cost.

We take pride in the results here but remain humble. Our focus continues to be on making ALPR as best as it can be, with engine updates every 3-6 weeks.

For more details on our ALPR, please see our full Benchmarking Results.

Save Up To 26%

Sure, we are in business to make money, but that doesn’t mean we need to take advantage of you to succeed.*

Strong Accuracy

We took some sample images and ran them in both engines. See our detailed assessment below.*

Fast Response

We view ALPR as mission-critical. Connect with us right away to get things going fast.

Cost Comparison | Plate Recognizer vs. Adaptive Recognition (ARH)

We know that cost is important for any technology spend. Whether you are looking to deploy LPR for one site or bundling our software into your solution, we’re here to make this a win-win. See our cost analysis below is for Plate Recognizer Snapshot and ARH CarmenCloud.*

Adaptive Recognition Cost Comparison-Medium vs Growth

ARH-Adaptive-Recognition-Cost-Comparison-Large vs Professional

Accuracy Comparison

In a direct comparison of Plate Recognizer vs Adaptive Recognition (ARH), our license plate recognition software demonstrated higher accuracy across a wide range of real-world conditions. This includes challenging scenarios such as low-light and night-time images, steep or off-center angles, snow or glare, tinted plates, stacked characters, and motion blur.

Click on any image to expand, and we encourage you to run your own tests to evaluate ALPR accuracy firsthand.*

Plate Recognizer

Better than ARH in Lightness | Plate Recognizer

Better than ARH with Plates with Tint | Plate Recognizer

Better than ARH on Plates with Stacked Characters

Better than Adaptive Recognition on Plates with Stacked Characters

Better than Adaptive Recognition on Plates with Snow

Better than Adaptive Recognition on Vehicles with Signs

Better than Adaptive Recognition on Plates with Bike Racks

Better than Adaptive Recognition on Plates with Emojis

Adaptive Recognition (ARH)

Better than Adaptive Recognition | Plate Recognizer

Better than Adaptive Recognition in Lightness | Plate Recognizer

Better than Adaptive Recognition on Plates with Stacked Charaters

Better than ARH on Plates with Bike Racks

Customer Support Comparison

We pride ourselves on awesome support because we know how mission-critical ALPR is. When needed, our developers engage directly to help you resolve the issues at hand. And, we’re very open to seeking your input into our roadmap so we can grow together.

While this topic of Customer Support is a tough one to compare, we recommend you contact Plate Recognizer and ARH to see for yourself.

Plate Recognizer Solution

Highly Accurate

Our algo handles plates that are blurry, dark, angled, with double-stack characters, and more.

Images & Videos

We handle both. Snapshot decodes plates from images. Stream identifies and decodes plates from live cameras.

Feature-Rich

Get vehicle region, make, model, color, classification; Webhooks, Dashboard, and more!

On-Premise & Cloud

Both Snapshot and Stream can run on-premise without Internet access. We have a Cloud version too!

Fast, Nimble

Snapshot has an inference speed of 50-100 ms and Stream can process 4 cameras at once on a mid-range CPU.

Proven Globally

Our ALPR engine supports over 90 countries and is tuned to your specific region.

Feature-Rich ALPR & Plate Recogntion Library

ALPR ANPR License Plate Recognition Software

License Plate: pl8rec
Type: Sedan
Make: BMW
Model: 3 series
Color: Blue

Region: USA
Direction: 90 degrees
Orientation: Rear
Plate score: 0.9
Detection Score: 0.9

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90+ Countries Supported

USA

India

Turkey

Argentina

Canada

Brazil

Australia

Singapore

Mexico

Europe

Jordan

New Zealand

Indonesia

South Africa

We support over 90 countries today!

* DISCLAIMERS. Cost Comparison analysis is based on published website pricing as of October 26, 2025. Since ARH provides other products (some with hardware included), we only analyzed CarmenCloud prices. Accuracy Comparison analysis is based on the latest versions of ALPR software (Snapshot Cloud and CarmenCloud) as of October 26, 2025. Images were randomly selected across a variety of countries and are not intended to reflect the actual images used for testing by customers. For details on the methodology on Angle, Blur Distance, and Lightness Level, please refer to the Methodology section of ALPR Results. Plate Recognizer does not claim to have a better ALPR engine, a cheaper ALPR software or better customer support compared with any ALPR software vendor. The analysis on this page is for illustration purposes only. We encourage all customers to perform their own tests in the areas of ALPR costs, accuracy, and customer support.