We don’t own either doorbell and we don’t run a lab. This comparison is built from what each manufacturer publishes on its own listing, read through one question: what does this mean for someone who rents? That means the true cost over a lease, how reversible the mount is, what you have to buy on top, and what happens to your footage on the day you hand back the keys.
Storage: the difference that decides it
eufy publishes 8GB of local storage built into the E340 itself. No card to buy, no hub to add, no subscription to record — the doorbell keeps its own event history out of the box, and cloud is strictly optional. That is unusual in this category and it’s the entire reason the E340 is our no-subscription pick. The honest trade-off eufy makes: because the footage lives on the device, the doorbell going missing means the footage goes with it, and 8GB is a finite pool that eventually rolls over.
Wyze approaches it from the other end. Live view and basic motion alerts on the Video Doorbell Pro are free, and Cam Plus — about $2 a month — is what unlocks the full event history and person detection. It is the cheapest subscription in the category by a distance, and plenty of renters happily pay it. But it is still a recurring line item on your card, and if your reason for skipping Ring was “I don’t want a monthly bill attached to my front door,” that reasoning applies to Wyze too, just at a smaller number. Multiply $2 across a three-year tenancy and compare that with what the eufy costs extra up front; that arithmetic, not the spec sheet, is usually what settles this one.
What’s actually in the box
Wyze includes something eufy doesn’t, and it matters more in a rental than anywhere else: a plug-in chime. Plenty of apartments have no working doorbell chime at all — either there was never a button, or the mechanical chime was disconnected two tenants ago. With the Wyze, you unbox it, plug the chime into any outlet, and you can hear the door from the kitchen. With most other doorbells, you’re relying on your phone or buying a chime separately.
eufy’s box answers a different problem. It ships with an angled wedge, which is the fix for the very common apartment situation where the doorbell has to go on a narrow frame or a wall that faces the wrong way down a shared corridor. If your door opens onto a hallway rather than a porch, that wedge is the difference between filming your neighbor’s door and filming yours.
The camera itself
eufy runs two cameras: one at face height and a second aimed down at the ground, specifically for packages. If your building leaves deliveries against the door — and in an apartment block, that is most of them — the second lens is the feature you’ll actually use, because a single forward-facing camera routinely shows you a courier’s shoulders and nothing of the box they set down.
Wyze answers the same problem with one camera and a 1:1 head-to-toe aspect ratio— a square frame tall enough to catch both the visitor’s face and the mat below them in a single view. It is a genuinely clever solution at the price and it works; it is simply one compromise picture rather than two purpose-built ones. If packages are the whole reason you’re buying, eufy’s dedicated second lens is the more complete answer, and it’s worth reading our apartment package-theft guidebefore you decide how much that’s worth to you.
Install and lease-safety: a near-tie, with an asterisk
We rate both Goodfor lease-safety rather than Excellent, and for the same reason: each ships with a screw bracket rather than adhesive. Neither needs wiring, both run on a rechargeable battery, and both lift off their bracket in seconds — but to put either up with no holes at all you pair it with a stick-on no-drill doorbell mount, which is a separate small purchase. Budget for it with either doorbell.
One eufy-specific note: the E340 can also run off existing doorbell wiring if your unit happens to have it. That’s a nice option for a homeowner and a mostly irrelevant one for a renter — touching your landlord’s low-voltage wiring is exactly the kind of alteration that turns a reversible upgrade into a conversation, and it is why we rate the wired-only doorbells Limited across the site. Run either of these on battery and the question never comes up.
Living with each one
Both are 2.4GHz Wi-Fi devices, which is the right band for a doorbell sitting at the edge of your coverage on the far side of a front door. In a dense building where every neighbor’s router is fighting for the same channels, expect to care more about where your router sits than about which of these two you bought; if that describes your place, our apartment Wi-Fi guide is worth ten minutes before you order either.
Day to day, the eufy asks less of you once it’s up — recording just happens, with nothing to subscribe to and nothing to remember. The Wyze asks a little more: you decide whether the free tier is enough, and if it isn’t, you’re into Cam Plus. Both recharge rather than taking replaceable cells, so both come down off the door periodically for a top-up. If never touching the doorbell again is the goal, the AA-powered Blink is genuinely the better answer than either of these.
The verdict
Buy the eufy Video Doorbell E340if a monthly fee is the thing you’re trying to avoid and you want that settled permanently on day one. Its 8GB of built-in storage and its dedicated package camera are the two things nothing else at this price does, and over a multi-year tenancy the extra up-front cost is usually the cheaper path.
Buy the Wyze Video Doorbell Proif the up-front number is what matters, if your apartment has no working chime (that included plug-in chime is worth real money), or if $2 a month genuinely doesn’t bother you. It is the most doorbell for the least money on this site, which is exactly why it tops our best doorbells for apartments ranking — that page weighs value across the whole field, where this one is a straight two-way.
What should notdecide it: picture quality. Both are clear enough to identify whoever is standing at your door, which is the job. Let storage, chime and package coverage make the call, because those are the three things you’ll notice every week.
