Price & availability

Exail DriX: Price, Availability & Status (2026)

Q: Can I buy a DriX?

No. The DriX USV is sold to survey operators and navies on contract; there is no consumer price.

Q: How autonomous is the DriX?

It runs the CortiX stack: supervised autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance, fusing camera, infrared, LiDAR, and radar across surface and underwater.

Q: Is DriX commercial or military?

Both, it is dual-use: hydrographic survey and defense mine countermeasures.

Q: Is this Exail or DriX?

DEPLOY records the vehicle (the DriX USV), not the Exail parent (the merged ECA Group and iXblue).

Q: How does DriX compare to Saildrone?

Both are surface USVs; DriX is sold as a vehicle (dual-use survey/defense), while Saildrone operates its own fleet and sells data.

By Exail

Maritime

Form factor

verified

Surface USV

Class

verified

CortiX

Autonomy

verified

Dual-use

Survey + defense

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Exail (France)

Maker

verified

Commercial

Tier

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DriX is the commercial-surface entry of DEPLOY's maritime cohort, the vehicle-sale counterpart to Saildrone's captive data-as-a-service model and the surface analogue to the subsea HUGIN.

Its autonomy is the CortiX stack: supervised autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance fusing camera, infrared, LiDAR, and radar across surface and underwater, for hydrographic survey and defense mine countermeasures.

Price

No reviewed price is on record. We do not treat unverified analyst estimates as pricing data. There is no consumer price. The DriX USV is sold to survey operators and navies on contract, so DEPLOY records zero price points rather than a consumer figure.

We'll email you the day DriX's real price lands - verified, not rumored.

Recent coverage

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Exail Secures First European Sale of DriX H-9 USV for Offshore Civil Operations - Unmanned Systems TechnologyGoogle News · 2026-03-24

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Availability

Internal use only

DriX is sold to survey operators and navies, not consumers. Made by Exail (the merged ECA Group and iXblue entity, France); DEPLOY records commercial maturity.

Real-world status

Exail's DriX is the commercial-surface entry of DEPLOY's maritime cohort: an autonomous surface vessel (USV) for hydrographic survey and defense mine countermeasures, running the CortiX autonomy stack (supervised autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance, fusing camera, infrared, LiDAR, and radar across surface and underwater). It is made by Exail, the merged ECA Group and iXblue entity (France), and is dual-use across survey and defense. DEPLOY records it at the vehicle level (the DriX USV, not the Exail parent).

DEPLOY records DriX at the vehicle level (the DriX USV), not the Exail parent (the merged ECA Group and iXblue), consistent with vehicle-not-conglomerate scoping across the cohort.

There is no consumer price. DriX is sold to survey operators and navies on contract, so DEPLOY records zero price points.

Surface + subsea: DriX vs Saildrone vs HUGIN	Exail DriX	Saildrone	Kongsberg HUGIN
Type	Surface USV verified	Surface USV (wind/solar) verified	Subsea AUV verified
Business model	Vehicle sale verified	Captive data-as-a-service verified	Vehicle sale verified
Use	Survey + defense MCM verified	Ocean data / domain awareness verified	MCM / survey / seabed warfare verified
Origin	France (Exail) verified	US (Saildrone) verified	Norway (Kongsberg) verified
Pricing	No consumer price absence	No consumer price absence	No consumer price absence

Sources: DEPLOY registry, Exail, Saildrone, Kongsberg

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I buy a DriX?

Noabsence. The DriX USV is sold to survey operators and navies on contract; there is no consumer price.

How autonomous is the DriX?

It runs the CortiX stackverified: supervised autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance, fusing camera, infrared, LiDAR, and radar across surface and underwater.

Is DriX commercial or military?

Both, it is dual-useverified: hydrographic survey and defense mine countermeasures.

Is this Exail or DriX?

DEPLOY records the vehicle (the DriX USV)verified, not the Exail parent (the merged ECA Group and iXblue).

How does DriX compare to Saildrone?

Both are surface USVsverified; DriX is sold as a vehicle (dual-use survey/defense), while Saildrone operates its own fleet and sells data.

Compare this price to cohort

Kongsberg HUGINNo consumer priceabsenceCommercial+defense subsea Bedrock AUVNo consumer priceabsenceCommercial subsea survey SaildroneNo consumer priceabsenceCaptive data-as-a-service Sea MachinesNo consumer priceabsenceAutonomy vendor

How DEPLOY verifies this

Pricing and availability are tagged verified or claimed against primary sources. Manufacturer targets are reported as targets, not prices you can pay today.

Price

Recent coverage

Availability

Real-world status

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I buy a DriX?

How autonomous is the DriX?

Is DriX commercial or military?

Is this Exail or DriX?

How does DriX compare to Saildrone?

Compare this price to cohort

How DEPLOY verifies this

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