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Google Nest Doorbell (2K, 2025)

Compiled by SmartHomeWorkflow Research · Google Nest · Cameras & Doorbells · ~$179.99 (at time of research — never treated as a live price)

Compatibility

Protocols: WIFI^[1][7]

What it can do^[11]

Some of these may need a paid plan — see Subscription reality below.

Listed capabilities are what we could establish from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished — not necessarily absent.

Subscription reality^[2][7][8]

◐ Works without a subscription: Yes, but material features need a plan.

• Free: On-device person / package / vehicle / animal alerts, ~3 hours of event snapshot history
• Behind a plan: 30–60 day event video history, Familiar faces, Gemini-powered event descriptions, 24/7 continuous recording (Nest Aware Plus) (from $10/mo)
• Plan tiers: Standard $10/mo · Advanced $20/mo
• 5-year cost if you add the plan: ~$600–$1200 depending on tier — price verified 2026-08-13

Vendor account required: Yes — you must create a vendor account to use it.^[13][15]

Optional but pushed: Google Home Premium (formerly Nest Aware) for video history and Gemini alerts. Both tiers and their prices are held as structured data behind this page and shown above as a five-year range. ⚠ The tier names and prices published here are Google's CURRENT ones, read from the plan's own page on 2026-08-13. Google renamed the service on 2025-10-01 — 'As of October 1, 2025, Nest Aware (2nd gen) is called Google Home Premium' — and its own comparison table sets the two old names ('Nest Aware', 'Nest Aware Plus') beside the two new ones ('Standard', 'Advanced') WITHOUT saying in words which old plan became which. So we deliberately do not assert that mapping, and the legacy name still shown in one paid-feature line is left as written rather than silently rewritten to a correspondence Google has not published.

Maintenance reality^[1][7]

• Works without the internet: Partly — some of it keeps working and some of it does not. See the detail below.^[14]
• Wired; feature set shifts with Google's subscription packaging

Security updates^[10]

Google Nest declares security updates for this model until October 1, 2030 (US-declared — the maker states this commitment for its US market). After that date the product keeps working; the manufacturer simply has no stated obligation to keep issuing security fixes.

Google lists “Nest Doorbell (wired, 3rd gen)” on its connected-home security-updates page with a release date of 10/1/2025 and a five-year minimum of 10/1/2030, and marks it “Yes” under “Currently receiving critical security updates”. ⚠ Identity is worth stating because our name for this product and Google's differ: we call it “Google Nest Doorbell (2K, 2025)” while Google's table calls it “Nest Doorbell (wired, 3rd gen)”. They are the same product — our own sources cite Google's store page for the wired 3rd gen, and the table's linked validation report is titled “Nest Doorbell Indoor (wired, 3rd gen)”. We did NOT take the date from either of the two older doorbell rows on the same table (“Nest Doorbell (wired)”, 10/4/2027, and “Nest Doorbell (battery)”, 8/24/2026). Read that 2030 date as a floor rather than an expiry: the column is headed “Release date + 5 year minimum”, and the commitment behind it reads “Google Nest connected home devices will receive automatic security updates for at least 5 years from the date we start selling them on the US Google Store. Security updates will address critical issues known to Google Nest that are able to be resolved with a remote software update.” ⊕ Google's separate UK compliance statement agrees, which is worth saying because the last two makers we looked at had no second document to check against. That statement (Google LLC, signed Louise Bohmann / Director & PA Compliance Lead, Mountain View, April 8, 2024, declaring as of April 29, 2024) gives a UK support period for its home devices of “At least five years from when the device first became available on the Google Store in the US” — the same promise, written as a period rather than a date. The published table is that promise with the arithmetic already done, so the two documents are not competing sources: one states the rule and the other applies it. The UK statement is also UK-scoped by its own terms and predates this hardware. ⊕ REGION: US — Google anchors the promise to its US storefront in the very sentence this rests on, so the scope comes from Google's own words and not from the fact that we list the US model.

The catch

The AI features — smart alerts, event history, Gemini-powered video descriptions — are increasingly gated behind Nest Aware / Google Home Premium.

Who it's for

Google homes wanting the smartest alerts and 2K HDR video.

Sources & method

Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →

1. [1] 2026-07 web research sweep (docs/02 catalog; primary sources cited there) — registry-and-press research, verified 2026-07-12
   Backs: Price, Protocols, Maintenance, Service status
2. [2] store.google.com Nest Doorbell (wired, 3rd gen) — 2048x2048 2K, $179.99, Google Home/Gemini + Alexa-compatible; recording history/AI need Google Home Premium; not a Matter node — vendor-page research, verified 2026-07-15
   Backs: Product identity, Amazon Alexa compatibility, Google Home compatibility, Market availability, Research status, Subscription
3. [3] https://support.google.com/googlehome/answer/9259110 — Google's technical-specs page for Nest cameras and doorbells names the Google Home app as the requirement and lists no HomeKit, Apple Home or Matter support for any model. Re-verified 2026-07-30: the page returns 200 and contains zero occurrences of 'Apple', 'HomeKit' or 'Matter' — vendor-page research, verified 2026-07-30
   Backs: Apple Home compatibility
4. [4] https://developers.google.com/nest/device-access/supported-devices — SmartThings' Google Nest linked service runs on Google's Smart Device Management API, and this list is the authority on which models the API covers. Re-verified 2026-07-30 (page 'Last updated 2026-06-29 UTC'): the doorbells listed are 'Nest Doorbell (battery)', 'Nest Doorbell (legacy)' and 'Nest Doorbell (wired)' — the wired 3rd-gen (2K) model is absent, and the page's catch-all covers only 'Older camera models not explicitly listed' — vendor-page research, verified 2026-07-30
   Backs: SmartThings compatibility
5. [5] Google Device Access supported-devices page (developers.google.com/nest/device-access/supported-devices — doorbells listed: 'Nest Doorbell (battery)', 'Nest Doorbell (legacy)', 'Nest Doorbell (wired)'; no 2K/3rd-gen model) + Home Assistant official docs (home-assistant.io/integrations/nest — official core, US$5 SDM fee; doorbell table stops at wired 2nd gen). Consistent with this record's own smartthings catch documenting the SDM exclusion — vendor-and-ecosystem-page research, verified 2026-07-21
   Backs: Home Assistant compatibility
6. [6] store.google.com product page, Nest Doorbell (wired, 3rd gen), read 2026-08-10 — rendered storefront price '$179.99', with 'or $15.00/month with 12-month' financing line alongside; the $179.99 figure appears in the page's own price element — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-10
   Backs: Price
7. [7] support.google.com/googlehome/answer/9259110 (Nest camera/doorbell technical specs — model listed with dedicated section) + store.google.com/us/product/nest_doorbell_wired_3rd_gen, both read 2026-08-10 — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-10
   Backs: Protocols, Maintenance, Market availability, Service status, Research status, Subscription, Google Home compatibility
8. [8] store.google.com/us/product/google_home_premium (read 2026-08-13; .../product/nest_aware redirects here): 'Standard $10/month or $100/year — Save $20 with an annual subscription' · 'Advanced $20/month or $200/year — Save $40 with an annual subscription'. Corroborated by the trial footnote: 'auto-renews ... at $10/month or $100/year for Standard plan or $20/month or $200/year for Advanced plan.' Tier scoping from support.google.com/googlehome/answer/16618650: 'This feature requires the Advanced plan of Google Home Premium' for camera livestream/video-history search and for Home Brief. — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-13
   Backs: Subscription
9. [9] the record's own cited Google Store and support pages (re-read 2026-08-18) plus Google's offline-storage article, which names this model but is cited by sibling records rather than this one — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-18
10. [10] Google, “Security updates & security validation results for Google's connected home devices” (support.google.com product-documentation answer 10231940), read 2026-08-19. Table row, verbatim across its four columns (Device | Release date | Release date + 5 year minimum | Currently receiving critical security updates): “Nest Doorbell (wired, 3rd gen) | 10/1/2025 | 10/1/2030 | Yes”. Page-level commitment: “Google Nest connected home devices will receive automatic security updates for at least 5 years from the date we start selling them on the US Google Store.” Cross-read against Google's UK PSTI Statement of Compliance at https://support.google.com/product-documentation/answer/14869041 (signed Louise Bohmann, April 8, 2024), whose Group 2 UK Defined Support Period is “At least five years from when the device first became available on the Google Store in the US” — the same rule the table applies. — first-party read (BQ-192 security-support sweep, method note 69 source precedence), verified 2026-08-19
    Backs: Security-update support period
11. [11] Google, "Camera and doorbell features by subscription" (support.google.com/googlehome answer 9233159), read 2026-08-19. The article carries a per-device-group matrix; the table headed "Nest Doorbell (wired, 3rd gen)" — this model — gives, across its No subscription / Standard plan / Advanced plan columns: Person alerts YES/YES/YES · Animal alerts YES/YES/YES · Vehicle alerts YES/YES/YES · Motion alerts YES/YES/YES · Package detection YES/YES/YES · Familiar face detection NO/YES/YES · Garage door detection NO/NO/NO. Under "Foundational features": Quick Responses, Live view, Two-way Talk and Listen, Activity Zones, Camera automation, all YES at every tier. Footnote 1 on the same table: "Familiar face detection is not available for cameras and doorbells in the U.S. state of Illinois." — vendor-and-ecosystem-doc research (BQ-187 capabilities population, batch 5 — cameras-doorbells), verified 2026-08-19
    Backs: Capabilities
12. [12] Google's own Nest specifications/requirements page, read 2026-08-20, which names the requirements as the "Google Home app", a "Google Account" and a "Wi-Fi internet connection", with "Recommended: Android device or an iPhone or iPad with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)". The page addresses this product directly in its bandwidth line: "Internet connectivity speed of at least 3.3 Mbps is required" for 2K resolution on the Nest Doorbell (wired, 3rd gen). No Google Nest Hub, smart display or base station appears anywhere in the requirements. — vendor-page research (BQ-191 provider backfill, population (b): the `hubs` axis), verified 2026-08-20
    Backs: Required hub or bridge
13. [13] support.google.com, 'Install Google Nest Doorbell (wired, 3rd gen)' (read 2026-08-21) — a model-scoped article whose first line is 'Start here if you have a new Google Nest Doorbell (wired, 3rd gen).' Declarative, verbatim: 'You need the Google Home app to connect your doorbell to Wi-Fi and get recorded video. Use the Home app as your primary guide to set up and install your doorbell.' Step 5 is titled 'Connect your doorbell to the Google Home app'. Cross-read on the same day, Google's own 'Requirements for Google Nest and Chromecast devices' (https://support.google.com/googlehome/answer/7035987), which states under 'Google Home app requirements': 'A Google Account' — and adds 'Note: You can't set up devices or use the Google Home app on a computer.' — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-21
    Backs: Vendor account required
14. [14] support.google.com, 'How local video storage works when the camera's offline' (read 2026-08-21). THE MODEL IS ENUMERATED OUTRIGHT, verbatim: 'To offer backup when cameras go offline, the device stores events in the internal memory. These devices upload these videos to the cloud once they reconnect to the Nest service: Nest Cam Indoor (wired, 3rd gen) / Nest Cam Outdoor (wired, 2nd gen) / Nest Cam (wired) / Nest Cam (battery) / Nest Doorbell (battery) / Nest Doorbell (wired, 3rd gen) / Nest Doorbell (wired, 2nd gen)'. And: 'The Nest cameras and doorbells mentioned above have enough on-device storage to record up to one hour of events.' The page also states 'Locally stored video is uploaded to the cloud and removed from your camera's internal memory' and 'For security reasons, your camera's internal memory is not accessible.' — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-21
    Backs: Works without the internet
15. [15] support.google.com, 'Requirements for Google Nest and Chromecast devices' (read 2026-08-21). Verbatim, under the heading 'Google Home app requirements': 'A Google Account / A home Wi-Fi network / One of the following mobile devices: Android phone or tablet with Android 9.0 or later / iPhone or iPad with iOS 17.0 or later'. The same section adds: 'Note: You can't set up devices or use the Google Home app on a computer.' — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-21
    Backs: Vendor account required
16. [16] SmartHomeWorkflow record maintenance (BQ-250 securitySupport.region backfill) — internal-review of the document this record already cites, verified 2026-08-27
17. [17] Record-keeping entry: this record's `none` cells were classified under the five-way absence sort, 2026-08-30 — internal, verified 2026-08-30
18. [18] the record's own customer-facing prose fields as they stood before 2026-09-06 (no new external read) — consumer-translation pass (07 §2A.12) — customer-facing prose rewritten to the three-layer rule; NO FIELD VALUE, LEVEL, PATH OR TRANSPORT CHANGED. The research trail that used to sit inside those fields is preserved here verbatim., verified 2026-09-06

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