Talos' T60X Sprayer Drone Is $4,996 Under DJI — Props Covered 15 Days
Verdict The Talos T60X kit is $16,999 and the DJI Agras T25P kit at the same dealer is $21,995 — $4,996 more for a drone the seller of both rates at 200 acres a day against the T60X's 560. At the $16 an acre the University of Missouri calls typical for hired application, the T60X kit is 1,063 acres.
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Accurate Ag Drones sells a Talos T60X ready to fly — airframe, three batteries, charger — for $16,999. The same dealer’s DJI Agras T25P ready-to-fly kit is $21,995.
The cheaper aircraft carries a 50 L tank. The dearer one carries 20 L.
Talos Drones builds the T60X and also sells DJI Agras. Its own ROI calculator rates the T60X at 560 acres a day and the T25P at 200: the company selling both says the cheaper one does 2.8 times the day.
The Machine
The T60X is a four-rotor sprayer from Talos Drones of Riverside, California, which calls it “our flagship proprietary model.” Published: a 50 L tank upgradeable to 60 L, 36 ft of swath, 4.8 gal/min on two nozzles and 7.4 on four, 20–320 µm droplets, an 80 L spreader carrying 132 lbs, 45 ft/s top speed, obstacle avoidance and terrain-following.
Four numbers appear nowhere Talos or its dealer puts in writing: max takeoff weight, wind resistance, operating temperature and flight radius. DATA NOT AVAILABLE FROM SOURCE on all four. The T25P listing on the same site carries every one — 53 kg loaded, under 6 m/s, 0° to 40 °C, 2,000 m. What it lacks is acres per hour, missing from DJI’s spec page too.
Stock is real: both Shopify endpoints return available: true on all five variants, and the 30 “Sold out” strings in the T60X source are template artifacts — chat widget, hidden badge, variant labels.
The Numbers
| Line | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| T60X, airframe only | $8,999.00 | Talos · Accurate |
| T60X + 3 batteries + C10000 charger | $16,999.00 | Both, same price |
| DJI Agras T25P, airframe only | $12,399.00 | Accurate |
| DJI Agras T25P ready-to-fly kit | $21,995.00 | Accurate |
| T60X / T25P rated day | 560 / 200 acres | Talos ROI calculator |
| T60X acres per flight hour | 56 | Talos |
| T25P acres per flight hour | DATA NOT AVAILABLE FROM SOURCE | DJI |
| Hired drone application, called typical | $16.00 per acre | MU G1274 (archived) |
| 980 acres a year | 37.69 flight hours | MU G1274 |
| The $16,999 kit at the hired rate | 1,063 acres | Our math |
At the $16 Missouri calls typical for hired application — its word, not a rate card — the T60X kit is 1,063 acres and the T25P kit 1,375. The $4,996 between them is 313 acres somebody else would have sprayed. These are price divided by rate, before chemical, fuel, labor, repairs, insurance, depreciation or interest: a floor under the question, not a break-even.
What Breaks
The warranty is published, and it is short. Twelve months on airframe, motors, ESC, RTK and radar. Three months on the spraying and spreading system — flow meter, impeller pump, sprinkler, servo, solenoid valve. Fifteen days on propellers, the spread tank, cables, hose and structural module. A full set of propellers is $864.00 in the maker’s parts store. The battery gets 12 months or 1,000 cycles, against the five years Missouri’s model assumes when it spreads that cost.
The exclusions name the features the listing sells. Collisions with “wires, cables, power lines, or similar objects of any type or size” are not covered, while the page advertises obstacle avoidance that bypasses “trees, irrigation pivots, electric poles.” Nor are objects under one inch, crashes at six feet or less, or “terrain-following misjudgments” — on an aircraft whose terrain-following is a selling point.
Acres per hour changes with the page you open. Talos says 56; its dealer prints 70 beside the 56, and the maker’s page never says 70. The ROI calculator calls the tanks 60 L and 25 L where the product pages say 50 L and 20 L. That 60 L upgrade is a separate $438.00 part — out of stock at the maker today, in stock at the dealer.
And the two kits are not described the same way. DJI’s airframe “Includes RC Plus 2 and Battery Cooling Box.” The Talos variant names batteries, a charger and an adapter cable, no remote — though its option group is titled “T60X+Remote Controller Bundle,” and the remote is $2,999.00 alone. Read strictly, the entry is $19,998 and the gap $1,997.
The spread matters because the hour is the unit here. At 56, the kit is 19 flight hours at the hired rate. Missouri’s model needs 37.69 flight hours for a farmer’s 980 acres — 26.0 acres per flight hour, Talos’ claim divided by 2.15 — and at that rate the kit is 41. That figure belongs to a T-40, not this aircraft; borrowing it outright would repeat the T100 report’s error. It is also the only flight-hour rate anyone has costed, and the gap between 19 and 41 lands on the buyer.
Run the rated day through the same arithmetic and it stops being a day. 560 acres at 56 an hour is 10 flight hours, in the air, not at the truck. Missouri books 37.69 for a whole year: the rated day is 26.53% of it.
The certificate is still unpriced: spraying for hire needs one under 14 CFR 137.11(a), at no published cost or timeline.
Who Should Buy This
The operator already flying and pricing a second aircraft. Someone with the certificate, the trailer and a season of real acres, who can discount a brochure figure on sight. The tank is the argument: 2.5 times the DJI’s, for $4,996 less.
The buyer who got as far as the $21,995 kit and stopped. Compare it against $16,999, and read both warranties before either spec sheet.
Not for a first aircraft: weight, wind, temperature and radius are what a new operator needs to decide whether today is flyable, and only DJI publishes them. Not for anyone under Missouri’s 980 acres a year. And not for anyone budgeting $16,999 without the $3,609.00 spares kit the maker itself recommends — 21.23% of the aircraft, on top.
The Stack
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Three months on the pump puts the spares decision before the purchase decision, and Talos prices its own answer: the recommended spare parts kit at $3,609.00 is the manufacturer saying, in dollars, what it expects to fail.
Then the consumable the hour count rests on. A flight battery is $1,934.00 loose — three are 72.53% of the $8,000 step from airframe to kit, each covered 12 months or 1,000 cycles. The 60 L tank upgrade is $438.00 on the same counter.
Before any of it, open Talos’ warranty page (archived) and put your own acres into Missouri’s cost model. It is a spreadsheet, and it answers in flight hours.
The 560-acre day is ten flight hours long, and nobody sells those separately. They come out of your season.
One machine. All the numbers.
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