Reolink. Not too expensive, can be run local only, with their cloud or both. PoE or WiFi model available. I had mine for a year and I'm quite happy with it.
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I love my Ubituiti doorbell, but it helped I had the infrastructure already because of other cameras.
Eufy 3-1 works great. Purchase an extra battery with it though as it takes 6 hours to charge.
I have Ring. I haven't tried anything else. Something I like about Ring is each person in the house gets their own app account and can configure their own notification preferences. When I was looking at options 4-5 years ago (when I bought my first Ring) it generally wasn't clear to me if other systems had this.
I have an Amcrest AD410. It's pretty good but slow to connect (20seconds or so) and past few months the notifications have been minutes late. Got my parents a Reolink. It connects slightly faster, but the notifications don't have a thumbnail.