UniFi G6 180 vs G6 Pro 360: Which Panorama?

Ubiquiti introduced both in June 2025 alongside the G6 Dome, and they are the two G6 cameras tracked here that are built to replace several fixed views with one. That shared purpose is why they get compared, but the comparison is mostly a sorting exercise: each is strong where the other cannot be mounted sensibly.

The $200 gap does not buy more resolution, as the next section shows. It buys a vandal-rated housing, a colder operating range, and a lens that sees straight down as well as around. How to choose a UniFi Protect camera places panoramic cameras beside the fixed and motorized ones, and the Security Cameras hub lists every model.

Picture the view each produces. Mounted on a building face, the G6 180 shows everything from one end of the wall to the other in a single undistorted-looking strip, with no blind spot where two separate cameras would meet. It does not see the ground directly beneath it or much of the sky, which is rarely a loss.

The G6 Pro 360 is a ceiling camera. It records a circular image of the whole floor, and digital pan-tilt-zoom lets a viewer steer around that image. A motorized camera works the other way round: the G6 PTZ sees one direction at a time, while the fisheye records every direction continuously. Mounted on a wall, a fisheye wastes half its image on the wall itself.

Pixels per degree decides whether a distant face is a face or a smudge. On that measure the cheaper camera wins by about 2.2 to one along the horizontal. The G6 180 concentrates its pixels into a band where people actually appear. The fisheye spreads a smaller total across a whole hemisphere, and the edges of a fisheye image are its most compressed region, which is where distant subjects sit.

Both run slower than the 30 fps of the single-sensor G6 cameras. At 20 fps the G6 180 is smooth enough for security footage but will show more motion blur on a fast vehicle; the G6 Pro 360's 24 fps is a little better. Neither is the camera for reading plates on a moving car. That job belongs to a fixed Pro body, as G6 Pro Bullet vs G6 Bullet sets out.

The detection gap follows from the optics. Recognizing a face or a plate needs enough pixels on it and a reasonably undistorted view, and a ceiling fisheye delivers neither for a subject across the room. Ubiquiti's store listing describes the G6 Pro 360 in terms of panoramic coverage and digital pan-tilt-zoom, and the absence of face and plate recognition from its specification table fits an overview role.

Both IR ratings are short beside the 30 m of the fixed G6 cameras, which suits how they are used. A fisheye over a shop floor or a strip camera over a forecourt lights a nearby area. Where the forecourt is deep, the optional G6 180 Enhancer ($129) extends that camera's rating to 40 m and adds a 600-lumen light. The fisheye has no equivalent accessory. The 360's zoned IR is a useful refinement indoors, where one quadrant of the image is often a reflective wall or a window that would otherwise bloom. Protect camera placement covers mounting heights for both.

Here the extra $200 shows. A ceiling camera in a shop, a lobby, or a warehouse is often within reach of a pole or a thrown object, and the G6 Pro 360's IK10 housing is built for that. Its -30 °C rating also makes it the choice for an unheated loading bay or an exposed canopy. The G6 180's IK04 body wants to be mounted out of reach.

Mounting kits differ accordingly. The G6 180 ships with ceiling, pole, and wedge mounts and a pan adapter, so it can be angled along a wall or wrapped around a pole at a site entrance. The G6 Pro 360 ships with a surface mount, with a junction box, dual mount, and arm as options. Both need a PoE+ port on the switch. PoE budget planning totals the draw, and how to choose a UniFi switch lays out port counts, PoE standards, and budgets across the four switches this site tracks.

Decide where the camera will be fixed and what it has to prove. A wall and a need to identify point to the G6 180. A ceiling and a need to see everything point to the G6 Pro 360.

Buy the G6 180 if:

• The view is a frontage. A shop front, a building face, or a car-park edge is a 180° strip with nothing useful above or below it.
• You need faces or plates. Only the 180 lists recognition, and it puts about 2.2 times the pixels across each degree of view.
• It replaces two fixed cameras. At $299 it undercuts two G6 Bullets and leaves no seam between them.
• Budget matters. It is $200 cheaper.

Buy the G6 Pro 360 if:

• The view is a room. One ceiling unit covers a shop floor, lobby, or warehouse aisle junction in every direction at once.
• The camera can be reached. IK10 is built for it; the 180 is IK04.
• The space is unheated. It is rated to -30 °C.
• You want every direction on record. A fisheye never looks the wrong way, and digital pan-tilt-zoom steers around the image.

Need reach rather than breadth? G6 Turret vs G6 PTZ weighs the motorized alternative, and how to choose a UniFi Protect camera maps the full range.