DJI's Agras T25P Spray Drone Is $12,399. Flying One Is $21,449.
Verdict The sticker is $12,399 for an airframe and a remote with no battery; the cheapest published bundle that can fly is $21,449, or 72.99% more. At the $16 an acre the University of Missouri cites for hired drone application, that kit is 1,341 acres.
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nuWay Ag lists the DJI Agras T25P at $12,399. The listing says what arrives: “DJI Agras T25P Airframe, DJI RC Plus 2 Remote Controller.”
No battery. No charger. The same dealer’s cheapest bundle that carries both is $21,449 — $9,050 more, or 72.99% on top of the number in the ad.
The Machine
The Agras T25P is a foldable four-rotor sprayer DJI sells for one-person operation. Published specs: a 20 L spray tank, 20 kg operating payload, an effective spray width of 4–7 m at three meters above the crop, and a max flow rate of 16 L/min on two nozzles or 24 L/min on four. Loaded to spray, max takeoff weight is 53 kg.
The flight battery is the DB800, 15,500 mAh at 52.22 V. DJI’s own spec page publishes no acres per hour, no flight time per tank and no warranty term — DATA NOT AVAILABLE FROM SOURCE on all three. That is why this report counts dollars and not acres an hour.
Stock is real at both dealers today: Shopify’s product endpoints return available: true at 1239900 cents on each, and the “Sold out” strings in the page source belong to the chat widget, not to this drone.
The Numbers
| Line | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| T25P airframe + RC Plus 2 | $12,399.00 | nuWay Ag |
| Same airframe, second dealer | $12,399.00 | Accurate Ag Drones |
| T25P charger bundle (drone, batteries, charger) | $21,449.00 | nuWay Ag |
| Ready-to-fly kit (3 batteries + C10000) | $21,995.00 | Accurate Ag Drones |
| T25P generator bundle | $24,449.00 | nuWay Ag |
| DJI C10000 charger, sold alone | $1,999.00 | nuWay Ag |
| Drone package incl. charger, model’s figure | $23,000.00 | MU Extension G1274 (archived) |
| Battery, each, model’s figure | $2,500.00 | MU Extension G1274 |
| Hired drone application, called typical | $16.00 per acre | MU Extension G1274 |
| Fungicide by crop duster | $12.50 per acre | MU Extension G1274 |
| The $21,449 kit at the hired rate | 1,341 acres | Our math |
The step is the whole story, and a second dealer prices it independently. nuWay also throws in-person coaching into its bundle, so its $9,050 is not purely hardware. Accurate Ag Drones sells the same airframe at the same $12,399 and its ready-to-fly kit — three batteries and one C10000 charger — at $21,995, a step of $9,596. nuWay publishes that same charger alone at $1,999 and a third dealer lists it at $1,699, out of stock. Pull the charger out of that step — the kit price and the charger price come from two different sellers, which is the one seam in this number — and the three batteries land between $2,532.33 and $2,632.33 each.
The University of Missouri’s drone ownership model budgets $2,500 for a battery. The retail pair lands 1.29% and 5.29% above it, and nothing connects them: one is a university’s assumption, the other is arithmetic on published price tags. The freeze dryer step report found the same thing on a different ladder — the step, not the machine, is where the money sits.
In acres, at the $16 MU calls typical for hired drone application — its word, and not a published rate card: the sticker is 775 acres, the kit is 1,341, and the step by itself is 566 acres of spraying somebody else would have done. Against the $12.50 MU gives for fungicide from a crop duster, the kit is 1,716 acres.
Those are divisions of price by rate, before chemical, fuel, labor, repairs or interest. They are a floor under the question, not an operation’s break-even. MU’s full-cost model puts that at 980 acres a year — and it runs on an Agras T40 with a $23,000 drone package, which is not this machine. The T100 report moved that same model to roughly 1,300 acres only after the T100’s own $39,999 went into it. Borrowing the T40’s number for a T25P would be the same error twice.
What Breaks
The sticker is an airframe. The seller’s own contents list stops at the drone and the remote. What it leaves out is not an accessory: a sprayer with no battery does not leave the ground, so the $12,399 is a price for something that cannot do the job in the photograph.
The kit names a battery the spec sheet does not. Accurate’s variant says three DB1560 packs; DJI’s T25P page says DB800. The DB1560 is the T40 and T50 battery — a third dealer lists a refurbished one at $1,899. One of those two listings describes a different pack: ask before wiring money, not after.
The battery is a five-year consumable, not capital. MU gives a pack 1,000 charge cycles or five years, whichever lands first, at 6.5 acres a charge on the T40 it models. Its own 980-acre scenario burns 150.77 charges a year across three packs, so reaching 1,000 cycles would take about 19.9 years. The calendar gets there first. Whatever a pack costs, it is a bill that returns.
The certificate is not in the price. 14 CFR 137.11(a) is flat about it: “no person may conduct agricultural aircraft operations without, or in violation of, an agricultural aircraft operator certificate issued under this part.” At 53 kg loaded this is also well past the 55-pound line, so the paperwork sits above a remote pilot certificate. What that costs, and how many months it takes, is DATA NOT AVAILABLE FROM SOURCE.
Power in a field is another $3,000. The generator bundle is $24,449, or 1.97 times the sticker. A charger needs a socket and a field does not have one — which is why that bundle exists. Interest, depreciation, insurance, chemical and resale are counted on no side here.
Who Should Buy This
The operator already spraying more acres than anyone will schedule for them. Spot work, odd corners, terraces, the forty acres a plane will not turn around for. The case for this machine is control of timing.
The buyer who was going to compare $12,399 against a custom bill. Compare $21,449 instead, and add the certificate: the one decision this report exists to move.
Not for anyone under MU’s 980 acres a year who hoped the small Agras changed that line — the flying kit alone is 1,341 acres before a drop of chemical. Not for anyone without the Part 137 certificate in hand or in progress. And not for anyone planning to charge three 15,500 mAh packs from a wall outlet at a field edge.
The Stack
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The honest starting line is the T25P charger bundle at $21,449: drone, batteries and charger in one price, the cheapest published way to own one that flies of the two dealers that list this drone.
If a generator is not already on the trailer, the generator bundle at $24,449 is what the field version actually costs.
Before either, read the Missouri cost model and change its drone price to the one you are quoted: it is a spreadsheet, and it answers in your acres.
Count the kit, not the sticker. The airframe is the cheapest part of flying one.
One machine. All the numbers.
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