Today's Biggest Webcam Price DropsJanuary 2021

The price range of webcams is from $9 to $650 and in total we found prices for 79 webcams. The average price of a new webcam is $84 and the 80% of webcams are priced between $20 and $195. The Sony PlayStation Eye is the cheapest webcam at only $10, and Logitech Rally Camera is the most expensive at $650.

We have evaluated 664 expert reviews and 8,234 user reviews for webcams and used this data to determine the average rating for each brand of webcam. The top rated webcam brand is Logitech with an average rating of 88%. The second best brand is Microsoft with 69% and the third best brand is HP with 69%.

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The biggest webcam retailer by number of products currently for sale is eBay. We found 76 current webcam offers from eBay. The second biggest retailer is Overstock with 9 offers. That means eBay is over 8 times bigger than Overstock when it comes to webcams. Adorama is the third biggest retailer with 4 current offers.

The chart below helps you decide which retailer is normally cheapest for buying webcams. For each retailer it shows the total number of webcams where they currently have a market leading price. The chart below helps you decide which retailer is normally cheapest for buying webcams. For each retailer we took all of their prices and looked at what proportion of those prices where the cheapest on the market. The cheapest retailer that we found was eBay. 72 of their webcam prices were the cheapest that could be found anywhere.

Assessing how cheap each retailer is for webcams by counting the number of cheapest prices for that retailer, makes the retailers that offer the greatest number of webcam prices more likely to offer the greatest number of cheapest prices. The chart below considers the proportion of each retailer's webcam prices that are the cheapest compared to other retailers. The cheapest retailer that we found using this approach was eBay. 94.7% of their webcam prices were the cheapest that could be found anywhere.

New webcams drop in price by an average of 28% in the first 6 months after they were first released.

That means a saving of $23 on a typical $84 new webcam if you wait 6 months before buying.

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We looked at the release dates for new webcams over the last 3 years, but couldn't see any prominent trend. The biggest month last year for new webcam releases was October, with two new webcams released that month. In April 2019, three new webcams were released making it the biggest month that year for new webcam releases. June was the biggest month in 2018 for new webcams, with seven new webcams released that month.

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