Robot Service Price Index: what 308 robot jobs cost, and how many won't say

Methodology

Sources. Public web pages only: provider websites and published rate cards, public tenders, extension-service and regulator publications. Every price row links to the page that states it, with the date that page gives (as_of).

Units. A job (use case) is one kind of robot work a buyer can hire or buy, such as drone crop spraying. A price point is one sourced price row: a published price or range, in its original currency and unit.

Exclusions. No estimates, no prices from private quotes, and no demand data. Currency is never converted in these figures.

Sample. 308 jobs; 88 priced jobs; 302 price points (183 benchmarks + 119 provider prices). Data as of Oct 25, 2026, frozen in release 2026-10.

Caveats

• Most priced jobs have only one or two sourced prices; treat single-source ranges as examples, not market averages.
• Published prices skew towards providers that sell online and towards English-language markets (most prices are in US dollars).
• This is a first edition. Price changes over time are tracked in the append-only price history and will be reported once there are enough repeat observations.

Demand data (what people search for and request) is still too small to publish responsibly. We will add it when the sample supports it.