How much ADT costs in Columbus: three packages, a $99 install, and what actually changes the quote
The search is “how much is ADT in Columbus,” “ADT prices Columbus Ohio,” and “ADT packages near me.” The honest answer is four monthly numbers, an install charge, a 36-month agreement, and a list of things that actually move the quote. It is not a national “from” line on a banner. Home Security Systems Columbus quotes this window on (380) 600-9919. SafeStreets is the ADT Authorized Provider that installs. ADT monitors 24/7. This site is not ADT corporate. The lockup is Columbus Security Pros on homesecuritysystemscolumbusoh.com.
Four Columbus prices, not a national from line
Callers get stuck because a national ad says “from” and then a local quote names a different monthly. The four numbers on this site are the promotional rates we actually say on the 380 line when you qualify. Secure+ $53.99*. Smart+ $63.99*. Complete+ $74.99*. Those are monthly monitoring prices, not equipment catalogs. The specialist will not hide the 36-month agreement. The specialist will not hide the $99 install on many plans. The specialist will not hide that Complete+ can move the install when you add outdoor cameras.
A German Village house and a Lewis Center new-build can land on the same monthly if the openings match and the plan matches. They will not land on the same permit desk. Price and paperwork are different files. Do not mix them. Columbus versus Dublin permits is the city-line comparison. This journal stays on the three packages.
Asterisks matter. Rates assume a new monitoring agreement, typically 36 months, satisfactory credit, and a homeowner. Tenants do not get the homeowner promotion. Landlords who own the property can. The contact page is the 380 line. There is no form that prints a fake quote.
ADT Secure+ at $53.99: doors and 24/7 on a German Village house
Secure+ is the door-and-window plan. Indoor sensors. A keypad. ADT 24/7. That is the product most people actually need on a Tuesday while they sit on I-70 or at a downtown badge. A German Village house with a front door, a rear alley door, a brick side opening, and the windows you open is a Secure+ conversation until you ask for smoke, a lock, or a camera. We will not upsell a twelve-camera grid onto a house that only needed contacts.
Secure+ is also the honest leftover-keypad plan when the hardware on the wall can be reused. Reactivation is often cheaper in time than a full replace. It is not free monitoring. Monitoring still starts at $53.99* on this promotion. Photograph the pad before you call. Photograph the leftover keypad is the hardware article.
ADT Secure+ at $53.99: smoke or CO, not a secret camera plan
Secure+ adds life-safety sensors — smoke, carbon monoxide, or both, depending on the quote. It is not a secret camera plan. Callers mix this up because “plus” sounds like video. It is not. If you want a clip of the porch, that is Complete+. If you want the panel to see smoke in a Clintonville two-story or a Grove City ranch, that is Secure+.
Columbus houses with gas, a garage, or a closed-up extra unit are the usual Secure+ calls. A larger-lot house in New Albany or Powell with a shop heater is another. A battery smoke on the ceiling is not ADT. A monitored smoke is.
ADT Smart+ at $63.99: the plan most Columbus orders pick
Smart+ is the occupancy plan. A lock, a thermostat, or a garage on the same app. Arm from a downtown garage. Arm from I-71. Arm after drop-off at Olentangy or Dublin. Weekday empties are why Smart+ sells in this metro. You do not open a camera app at lunch and call that a security system. Occupancy is the product. Weekday empty houses is the commute article. The monthly is still $63.99* on this promotion.
ADT Complete+ at $74.99: video when you asked for video
Complete+ is cameras on top of monitoring, never instead of it. A doorbell for High Street packages. An outdoor camera on a long New Albany driveway. Indoor video if you asked for it. The clip is useful. The clip is not a person at a monitoring center. If a door opens while the system is armed, ADT can call you whether or not you bought video.
Complete+ may have a higher install when you add outdoor cameras. The $99 install* is the promotional install on many plans. A Dublin or New Albany board that limits street-facing cameras does not cancel Complete+ indoor video, and it does not cancel Secure sensors. Bring the covenant. HOA camera rules is the packet article. German Village and Short North porch packages is the stoop article.
The $99 install is not an activation fee
Many plans have a $99 install*. That is the professional install charge on the promotional packages, not an “activation fee” invented for the script. A technician comes to the house, places the equipment in the quote, tests it, and connects it to ADT. The $99 does not buy a custom twelve-camera grid. If you asked for outdoor cameras on Complete+, the install can be higher. Ask that on the call.
A new monitoring agreement is required — typically 36 months. Early termination fees apply. Credit approval applies. Offers are for homeowners. Qualifying monitoring can include a free alarm system promo ($850 value)*. Those sentences belong in the same breath as $53.99*. You will hear the term before anyone puts a date on the calendar.
Permit dollars are not a fifth package
The City of Columbus License Section has suspended the Alarm User and False Alarm programs as of June 1, 2024 until new legislation. Confirm at (614) 645-8366. That current zero is not a fifth package. It is city paper. Dublin bills chargeable false alarms after two in six months. Township desks may use Ohio Revised Code 505.511 after three false alarms. None of those desks change Secure+ from $53.99* to something else.
False-alarm bills are also not the monthly. A professionally installed system with a cancel path is how you stay out of those windows. It is not how we hide a higher monitoring rate. Township desks are the county-line article. This page stays on the three plans.
A downtown condo and a Grove City ranch can share a monthly
A downtown condo and a German Village house can both start at $53.99* if both are Secure+ and both qualify. The condo usually has fewer openings and a shared hall. The house usually has an alley door the listing agent forgot to mention. Say the occupancy card. A shared-hall camera is the association’s. Your door still needs a contact.
Dublin mixed blocks confuse people because a two-story house sits next to a stacked unit. The quote is per address, not per block. Grove City ranches confuse people because the lot looks simple and then the garage walk-through is a fourth door. Count it. Dublin and Grove City are occupancy pages. The money is still this page.
AEP Ohio does not change the monthly. It changes the backup question
AEP Ohio is the Columbus default. South-Central Power Company pockets exist on some Fairfield and Pickaway lots. Confirm from the ZIP. The package prices do not care which feeder you sit on. The alarm path does. Ask whether the panel on the quote includes cellular backup. AEP Ohio and cellular backup is the outage article.
Do not bring Duke Energy Ohio onto a 43206 quote. That is the Cincinnati utility. Do not bring AES Ohio onto a Grove City quote. That is Dayton. Confirm the meter on the bill.
What to ask so the quote is complete
Ask whether the leftover pad can be used. Ask whether Complete+’s install is still $99 if you add an outdoor camera. Ask whether the City of Columbus suspension, the Dublin false-alarm ladder, or a township desk is the paper for this address. Those questions belong on the same call as the monthly.
Call (380) 600-9919 with the ZIP, the occupancy card, the door count, cameras yes or no, and a leftover photo if there is one. You will hear one of the four monthlies, the install, the term, and the desk. SafeStreets installs. ADT monitors 24/7. Columbus Security Pros is the local voice. Square footage is a listing habit. Openings are the product.