# Exail DriX: Price, Availability & Status (2026)

Exail's DriX is a dual-use autonomous surface vessel (CortiX autonomy) for survey + mine countermeasures. Commercial, no consumer price. The verified status.

## Price

_No verified price on record._

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.

## Availability

_Status: internal-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.

## 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).

## Compare

| Model | Pricing | Tier |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Kongsberg HUGIN](/price/kongsberg-hugin) | No consumer price | absence (Commercial+defense subsea) |
| [Bedrock AUV](/price/bedrock-auv) | No consumer price | absence (Commercial subsea survey) |
| [Saildrone](/price/saildrone-usv) | No consumer price | absence (Captive data-as-a-service) |
| [Sea Machines](/price/sea-machines-sm300) | No consumer price | absence (Autonomy vendor) |

## Common questions

### Can I buy a DriX?

No. 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 stack: supervised autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance, fusing camera, infrared, LiDAR, and radar across surface and underwater.

## How DEPLOY verified this

- [How DEPLOY tracks pricing](https://news.deploy.report/methodology/how-we-track-pricing)
- [How DEPLOY verifies deployment status](https://news.deploy.report/methodology/how-we-verify-deployment-status)

## Related reading

- [Deploy News: What is a maritime robot?](https://news.deploy.report/explainers/what-is-a-maritime-robot)
- [Deploy News: What is physical AI?](https://news.deploy.report/explainers/what-is-physical-ai)

## On the registry

- [Model record](https://registry.deploy.report/models/exail-drix.md)
- [Manufacturer](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/exail.md)

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