Top 5 Budget Webcams Under $50 in 2024: Best Quality for Your Money

these are the top five budget webcams under $50 in 2024 and I'll be showing footage from each device side by side

just like this so that you can compare the image quality starting at number five this is the nexo n60 while this has

normally been retailing for about 40 bucks I've seen this on sale for as low as 30 and even lower when you factor in

coupon codes that you can often find on the product pages so for that reason I've tagged all of these webcams and

I've added links to all of them in the description so that you can go ahead and see the current price for all of these

devices now what sets the n60 apart from these other webcams aside from its price is the build quality it has swivel

horizontally and it tilts up and down it's on a sort of ball hinge so it gets excellent adjustability even diagonally

it has the most secure monitor amount of all these and it comes with a privacy cover it even has tripod threading the

cable is not detachable usba a the only Annoying Thing about the build is that the red light is always on as for the

image quality it is usable for video conferencing but there are some shortcomings this is a 1080p 30 frames

per second webcam and it has fixed Focus so I can't specifically focus on anything that you put up close to the

camera the field of view is stated to be 110° looks more like 90 also there is a pretty strong fisheye effect you can

really see it with this light over here on the edge of the screen as for the colors skin tone at least for me it's

not bad at all but the white balance is problematic if you look at the background it's kind of got a little bit

of this greenish bluish tint and a lot of next too EP games kind of have this issue also there's a lot of pixelation

when there is motion so there's another webcam that's on this top five that also has a similar issue switching over to

the built-in microphone of the n60 for the price this is a great value option especially for the amazing build quality

number four is the Logitech Brio 100 also known as the Brio 101 depending on which color you get if you get this on

Amazon I bought mine for $25 the image quality is overall better than the n60 but it does cut a few corners this is

1080p 30 frames per second again but the field of view is extremely narrow at 58° so it's extremely cropped in and if I

was sitting a little bit closer to my desk it's just way too much now there's less pixelation with this webcam when

there's movement and also the colors are just way better than the n60 brain in lower light can be a problem as long as

you have some decent light and it actually looks pretty good the biggest weakness of the Bria 100 is the build it

comes with a nice privacy shutter but other than that it doesn't actually Mount onto to a monitor it just kind of

sits on it so it can fall off with the slightest nudge it cannot swivel and tilting it up and down risks it just

falling off there's also no tripod threading now this is the mic on the Brio 100 overall for

$25 this webcam is unmatched however the build can be very frustrating so if you're considering this do keep that in

mind at number three this is the Logitech Brio 300 which is a direct upgrade over the Brio 100 I bought mine

for exactly $50 the specifications are very similar to the Brio 100 1080p 30 frames per second however this has a

much wider 70° field of view but unfortunately it is still fixed Focus so now there is a slight Improvement when

it comes to colors but honestly just having a wider frame that's not so claustrophobic it doesn't force you to

scoot back farther away from your monitor is the main reason to get the Brio 300 if you can oh and the build the

Brio 300 comes with a non-detachable 60-in USB cable the monitor mount is way more secure than the 100 and it has a

unique privacy shutter it has up and down tilt but no swivel switching to the onboard microphone this is currently

logitech's best webcam under $50 it's even better than the Logitech C920 the only thing that is missing is that

autofocus the great thing about fixed focus is that if you're sitting at a reasonable distance even if you're

moving a little bit you're not going to fall out of focus now for number two I really want to put this at number one

but it does have one major flaw that I just could not overlook this is the anchor poweron fa c200 make sure you

look out for sales and coupons on this device because I bought mine for $50 which was including a $10 coupon that I

got it was originally 60 got it for $10 off anyway this webcam does several things differently and better than the

other webcams on this top five list first of all it records it up to 1440p 30 frames per second which is the

highest resolution of any of these webcams at a glance it easily has the best image of all of them in terms of

sharpness colors and minimal grain even the dynamic range range is really good but here's the one problem if you look

at the image for more than about 15 seconds you'll start to see that something's a bit off first of all in

OBS you can select 2560 by 1440 but this image is definitely not sharp enough to really be 1440 most likely it is 2K

which is fair enough because that's what it's actually marketed as a 2K webcam but 2K is only 80 pixels wider than

1920x 1080 so suddenly it's actually not that impressive but more importantly there are a lot of comp ression artifact

so if you look at my glasses that's where you can really see it the most it kind of seems to warp and move up and

down left and right the pixels that are representing it independent of my face and the rest of my body it's almost like

they're detached in a weird way and just movement in general looks very strange with this device because there's a lot

of Shifting of the pixels when they really shouldn't be and this is a compression technique that actually

YouTube uses and the nexo n60 actually has the same issue other than that the image looks superb for the price point

it also has fully fun function autofocus and a field of view of 95° the build is also excellent and this

is another thing that this webcam does differently than the others it has a 60-in cable like them but it has a USBC

to usba a cable that's detachable it also has a privacy shutter under the lens so you're going to use a switch

that's on top to open and close it and when you close it it actually disables the video of the webcam entirely this

has no swivel but it tilts up and down and it has tripod threading speaking of to the mic of of this webcam if the

pixel warping doesn't bother you then I definitely recommend the anchor workor power comp c200 the number one best

webcam under $50 is the Razer Kio this is a classic device that dropped in price from $100 when it launched and

that's what I actually bought it for down to $50 in its latest sale so make sure to check the links for the current

pricing so you can see what it is right now it records it up to 1080p 30 frames per second that's what I got it set to

right now it can also do 720p 60 if you want it it comes with a ring light built right onto the device which helps a

little bit in low light situations it's not really something that anyone with decent lighting should need but if you

have really poor lighting conditions you might want to consider it in terms of the image quality it is the sharpest of

all these devices including the anchor it has an 82° field of view this and the anchor are the only ones that have

functional autofocus and this one's actually pretty decent I like it a lot now you can lock the autofocus because

as you might have seen the pulsing can get to be a little bit much if you have a particularly cluttered background the

only real weakness of this device is the colors particularly the white balance now if we switched over to something

like the nexo n60 then obviously the colors look way better than that but even though the white balance is

adjustable the background always looks a little bit too Amber or a little bit too bluish green and doesn't really have

that middle ground the build was great for its time with the unique ring light and the stable monitor mount

unfortunately there's no privacy shutter so that might be a a deal breaker for some mic demonstration this is

definitely the worst microphone of these five devices but if you're actually using a webcam microphone then you might

have more pressing issues to be honest now here are all these webcams side by side first without the Kio they're all

set to their maximum resolution now like I said the anchor looks the best by default until there's a little bit of

movement then it starts to have a little bit of issues but overall it does have the best image quality and all of these

are completely possible for video conferencing now when you move on to like YouTube or twitch or something like

that where you want something to look a little bit nicer I'm going to have to add in this the Razer Kio and I swapped

out the next too n60 cuz I don't think that's really suitable for those two platforms now none of these completely

dominate the competition and both of the Bri really hold their own even though they don't have autofocus however the

Razer Kio is still my number one webcam recommendation under $50