A:Answer Only if you want continuous recording to cloud storage and the other features included with Arlo Smart, to my understanding. This camera comes with a free trial of it, but I’ve been using an older Arlo Q camera for years without a paid subscription. Without a subscription, you can pull up a live stream of your camera and keep up to 7 days of recorded events, like audio or motion alerts, which are typically about 15 seconds of video when detected.