# Saildrone: Price, Availability & Status (2026)

Saildrone is the canonical commercial autonomous surface vessel: a captive data-as-a-service fleet for NOAA and the US Navy, not vessels for sale. No consumer price.

## Price

_No verified price on record._

There is no consumer price. Saildrone runs a captive data-as-a-service model: it owns and operates its fleet and sells data and outcomes on B2B service contracts, not vessels, so DEPLOY records zero price points rather than a consumer figure.

## Availability

_Status: internal-only_

Saildrone is not sold; it is operated. The fleet collects data for customers including NOAA, the US Navy's 4th Fleet (counter-narcotics and illegal-fishing patrol), and Denmark's EIFO, across 130-plus vehicles and twelve-plus years of operation.

## Status

Saildrone is the canonical commercial autonomous-surface-vessel company and the captive data-as-a-service archetype of the maritime category. Its line spans the 7-meter Explorer (ocean data), the 10-meter Voyager (coastal defense and mapping), and the 20-meter Surveyor (bathymetric mapping), with a 52-meter diesel-electric hybrid Spectre announced in 2026 for 2027 delivery that departs from the wind-and-solar identity. DEPLOY records it at commercial maturity, the most mature commercial surface-autonomy player. Its autonomy is genuine long-endurance ocean operation; what it does not do is sell vessels, since it sells the data its fleet collects.

**Verified deployments:**

- [Ocean Aero Triton (wind/solar surface vessel, registry profile)](https://registry.deploy.report/models/ocean-aero-triton)
- [Exail DriX (survey USV, registry profile)](https://registry.deploy.report/models/exail-drix)
- [Kongsberg HUGIN (survey AUV, registry profile)](https://registry.deploy.report/models/kongsberg-hugin)

## Compare

| Model | Pricing | Tier |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Saronic](/price/saronic-usv) | No consumer price | absence (New-defense USVs (early commercial)) |
| [Sea Machines](/price/sea-machines-sm300) | No consumer price | absence (Autonomy vendor (commercial)) |
| [Kongsberg HUGIN](/price/kongsberg-hugin) | No consumer price | absence (Commercial+defense subsea AUV) |
| [Bedrock AUV](/price/bedrock-auv) | No consumer price | absence (Commercial subsea survey) |

## Common questions

### Can I buy a Saildrone?

No. Saildrone owns and operates its fleet and sells data and outcomes on service contracts, not vessels. There is no consumer price.

### How far have Saildrones sailed?

The defensible verified anchor is the October 2023 milestone of 1,042,620 nautical miles across 136 vehicles. Larger 2-to-2.5-million-mile figures are claimed, not verified.

## 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 Saildrone?](https://news.deploy.report/explainers/what-is-saildrone)
- [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/saildrone-usv.md)
- [Manufacturer](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/saildrone.md)

_Canonical: https://deploy.report/price/saildrone-usv_