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DJI has announced the Mini 4 Pro, a sub-250-gram drone with a bevy of sensors and smart flight features. We’re testing it alongside the Air 3, and we’ve added details in What to look forward to. Pocket Selfie Drone
If you’re an aspiring aerial photographer or videographer, drones are your ticket to the sky.
They provide perspectives that you’d otherwise be able to re-create only with expensive, difficult-to-use equipment such as cranes or dollies, which is why these cheap, lightweight marvels have become a staple of many online creators’ gear lists.
We’ve made photos and videos with all 30 of the drones we’ve tested since 2016 and compared them each time to see which results are the best.
We fly drones through trees and at other objects that can get in their way to see if the drones detect them and avoid crashing.
But you can find dozens of different models—sometimes even from a single brand—with various costs and benefits to sift through.
After test-flying 30 models, we’ve concluded that the DJI Air 2S is the best drone because it combines a high-end camera with the latest autonomous technology for less than $1,000 (purchased on its own).
We also recommend the DJI Mavic 3 Pro, the DJI Mini 3, and the Autel Robotics Evo Lite+. Pilots of all skill levels will find that these drones are exceptionally reliable and easy to fly.
This drone offers impressive value, combining DJI’s reliable obstacle avoidance with a 5.4K camera and great battery life.
The DJI Air 2S is easy to fly, blessed with long battery life, and equipped with a camera that can shoot 5.4K video. We recommend the Fly More Combo option because, among other things, it includes three rechargeable drone batteries.
The Air 2S can sense and avoid obstacles approaching from the front, back, top, and below, and it can alert you to approaching aircraft. It can also hold its position steadily, even in moderate winds, so you can focus on your cinematography instead of having to worry about keeping the drone stable.
This model features DJI smart flight modes such as ActiveTrack, which directs the drone to autonomously follow and film a subject while also avoiding obstacles. And the Air 2S can go with you almost anywhere: Measuring 7 by 3.8 by 3 inches folded and weighing 1.3 pounds, it fits exceptionally well in our top pick for drone backpacks.
If you want the best cameras available in a DJI drone, this is the model for you.
The DJI Mavic 3 Pro takes many of the best features of the Air 2S and, for a little more than twice the price, tacks on three exceptional cameras: a Hasselblad-branded wide-angle lens with a Four Thirds sensor plus two telephoto lenses (70mm and 166mm equivalent, with 1/1.3-inch and 1/2-inch sensors, respectively).
Thanks to the comparatively huge sensor on the main camera, the Mavic 3 Pro can capture more detail than our other picks and in a much wider band of lighting conditions. As a result, it produces better images right out of the camera but also gives editing software more data to work with to improve the images even further.
This model can capture 48-megapixel photographs and 5.1K videos that look more color-accurate than those of the competition. It also has a 43-minute battery life—which isn’t the longest we’ve ever seen in our tests but comes pretty close.
This drone offers DJI’s autonomous features and a 4K camera that can shoot in portrait or landscape orientation, all in a tiny package weighing less than 250 grams. It does not include obstacle avoidance.
If you’re just getting into drone photography, especially for personal use, the DJI Mini 3 is a fantastic starter package. Though it costs less than half as much as our top pick, it still offers a 4K camera, a long (38-minute) battery life, and a compact, lightweight build that just slides under the FAA’s 250-gram limit.
The Mini 3’s camera and sensor aren’t as high-quality as those of the Air 2S, but the f/1.7 aperture provides surprisingly good image quality in lower-light conditions.
This model also comes with all the important features you need from a video drone, such as image and flight stabilization, an included controller, and smart flight modes, in which the drone flies itself to easily capture cinematic shots. But it lacks the obstacle-avoidance sensors of more expensive models.
You have the option to extend the battery life to 51 minutes via DJI’s Intelligent Flight Battery Plus, but using that add-on makes the drone heavy enough that you have to register it with the FAA.
This easy-to-fly drone provides a 6K camera and 40 minutes of flight time, and unlike DJI drones, it has no known security concerns. But the video quality isn’t as crisp or colorful.
If you are avoiding the DJI brand due to security or human-rights concerns, or if you want a 6K camera, we recommend the Autel Robotics Evo Lite+.
This drone can fly for up to 40 minutes with autonomous options similar to those of DJI drones. And unlike the DJI Fly app, the Autel Sky app is available for direct download from the Google Play store.
However, we still prefer DJI drones for their value and image quality.
This drone offers impressive value, combining DJI’s reliable obstacle avoidance with a 5.4K camera and great battery life.
If you want the best cameras available in a DJI drone, this is the model for you.
This drone offers DJI’s autonomous features and a 4K camera that can shoot in portrait or landscape orientation, all in a tiny package weighing less than 250 grams. It does not include obstacle avoidance.
This easy-to-fly drone provides a 6K camera and 40 minutes of flight time, and unlike DJI drones, it has no known security concerns. But the video quality isn’t as crisp or colorful.
Staff writer James Austin has been researching and testing drones since he took over this beat last year. He has completed the FAA 107 licensing process and has so far run only a few drones into metal poles and fences.
Editor Signe Brewster previously contributed to this guide, chronicling the rise of modern hobby drones and spending hundreds of hours flying drones in all sorts of environments.
Drones (or, more specifically, quadcopters) are small aircraft that you can equip with a camera to shoot bird’s-eye-view photos and videos. They can reach spaces that other cameras traditionally have been unable to go without a crane or helicopter, making this sort of photography and videography much more accessible for the average person.
But the drones we cover in this guide might be of interest to certain professionals, too. They can be great additions to a pro kit for everything from filming a wedding to inspecting gutters to capturing footage of a house for sale.
But those who work in the film industry should consider higher-end models that allow them to mount specific camera equipment on the drone. The same goes for people who want to inspect farmland and industrial equipment, since that task can call for specialized sensors.
After reading both professional reviews and owner reviews, and speaking to drone enthusiasts, experts, and manufacturers at the CES trade show, we decided to consider the following criteria while looking for drones to test:
To test each drone, we shot photos and videos to evaluate camera quality; the process also helped us to gauge stabilization ability and to see whether propellers appeared in any of the shots.
In addition, we tried all of the advertised intelligent flight modes and crash-avoidance systems by flying the drones through trees. We tested maneuverability and controller sensitivity by flying fast, with lots of turns.
We also took our candidates to a model-aircraft field with drone racing gates, which made judging the drones’ obstacle avoidance both easier and more exciting.
Over the coming months, we’ll continue to send our picks up in a variety of weather conditions, and we’ll update this guide if we find that they struggle or excel in certain circumstances.
This drone offers impressive value, combining DJI’s reliable obstacle avoidance with a 5.4K camera and great battery life.
The DJI Air 2S is the best drone for budding aerial photographers and videographers because of its automated obstacle avoidance and 5.4K camera, as well as how easy it is to fly. Although the DJI Mavic 3 Pro gives you a bump in camera quality, battery life, and autonomous abilities, the Air 2S is impressive enough to please most people—for half the price.
It avoids obstacles with ease. The Air 2S can detect obstacles, as they approach from the drone’s front, back, top, or bottom, and then make adjustments to avoid them.
Although it’s missing side sensors (something that the Mavic 3 Pro offers in certain flight modes), we still found the obstacle-avoidance feature useful for normal flight. The drone emitted a loud beep and stopped itself when we deliberately tried to fly it straight at a tree or slam it into the ground.
Obstacle sensing removes stress from the flying experience, both when you’re flying manually and when you’re using DJI’s preprogrammed flight options. The drone also receives flight-location information from nearby manned aircraft, and in our tests it warned us about two approaching airplanes and a helicopter.
The camera is one of the best we’ve used on a drone. The Air 2S’s camera uses a three-axis gimbal and has a 1-inch sensor (like some high-end compact cameras). It captures sharp, well-stabilized 5.4K video at up to 30 frames per second, and it can grab 20-megapixel stills, too.
In our tests, the Air 2S’s video was crisp, without any editing-software color-balancing fuss required, though we still preferred the colors that came out of the Mavic 3 Pro’s Hasselblad camera.
It handles gusty conditions with aplomb. While flying in winds measured at about 10 mph, the Air 2S was unfailingly stable. It didn’t drift, and it consistently recorded steady video, even when it rose above the tree line.
The other DJI drones we tested performed similarly, except for the Mini 3, which warned us about high winds and advised us to land. Like many drones, the Air 2S uses a combination of Galileo, GPS, and GLONASS satellites, as well as its vision cameras, to monitor movement and altitude changes.
The battery lasts for a decent amount of time. With a battery life of up to 31 minutes—admittedly, not as lengthy as the pricier Mavic 3 Pro’s 43 minutes or the budget Mini 3’s 38 minutes—the Air 2S can fill its 8 GB of internal memory space with video footage before it’s forced to land for a swap.
DJI’s automated flight modes are great. We most often used ActiveTrack, which directs the drone to follow a subject or yourself.
In QuickShots mode, the Air 2S can autonomously film in elaborate cinematic ways, such as circling around a subject or zooming away from it. A mode that DJI added in 2022 called MasterShots combines several filming effects and then creates a short video for you.
It’s compact and lightweight. The Air 2S measures 7 by 3.8 by 3 inches when folded—about the size of a large coffee thermos—and weighs 1.3 pounds. Its controller is comparable in size to a sandwich. You can slip both into a camera bag easily or stow them in a purse or backpack.
It has great range. The Air 2S is capable of flying up to 7.5 miles away, though federal regulations say that you must keep a drone within your line of sight. It transmits video and remote-controller data via DJI’s OccuSync 3.0 system, which we’ve found to be reliable.
DJI’s mobile app gets the job done. You can use DJI’s Fly app for drone calibration, camera settings, GPS maps, and intelligent flight modes. Most important, the app displays a live feed from the drone’s camera so that you can frame shots to your liking. It also tracks all of your flight information (which you can replay if you’re trying to repeat a shot), warns you about any flight restrictions in the area, and offers built-in video-editing tools.
You connect your smartphone to the controller via an included specialized USB Type-C, Micro-USB, or Lightning cable threaded through the side of the left brace.
The controller is easy to use. Although you can use the DJI Fly app to control almost every aspect of the drone, you still need to use the controller to pilot it. In our tests, the drone responded nimbly to our commands, even while flying in the faster and more agile Sport mode. We also found it easy to adjust the tilt of the drone’s camera with the wheel built into the controller and to press the dedicated buttons that prompt the camera to take a picture or start filming.
If you want the best cameras available in a DJI drone, this is the model for you.
The DJI Mavic 3 Pro is a worthwhile upgrade if you’re willing to pay considerably more for better image quality and telephoto lenses.
Its main 4/3 wide-angle sensor helps to create clearer videos and photos, and its Hasselblad-branded camera makes the footage it shoots more colorful. Its anti-collision sensors are also superior to those on the Air 2S—unlike our top pick, it can sense and avoid obstacles approaching from the side.
Its omni-directional sensors make flying through obstacles a breeze. When we flew the Mavic 3 Pro through drone-racing gates at a model-airplane field, it navigated the gates easily and stopped itself before we were able to fly it into any of the metal poles.
The controller’s screen (or the DJI Fly app on your phone) does a good job of indicating where the sensors perceive hazards to be as you navigate tight spaces, making it easy to steer accordingly.
Its cameras provide amazing quality and flexibility. The Mavic 3 Pro has a main wide-angle camera with an unusually large Four Thirds sensor that works better in low-light conditions than the Air 2S’s 1-inch sensor. The colors it produced in our testing also looked truer and brighter than those from the Air 2S and the Mini 3.
This main camera can shoot 5.1K video at up to 50 frames per second with a 200 Mbps maximum bit rate (the speed at which the camera can record video to digital media). In addition, you can set its variable aperture anywhere between f/2.8 and f/11, whereas the Air 2S has a fixed f/2.8 aperture.
The other two cameras on the Mavic 3 Pro’s chunky gimbal block are a medium telephoto (70mm equivalent with an f/2.8 aperture) and a telephoto (166mm equivalent with an f/3.4 aperture). Compared with the main wide-angle camera, these longer lenses have smaller sensors (1/1.3 inch and 1/2 inch, respectively), but their image quality is still good enough for stealthy wildlife photography and other kinds of long-distance shooting.
Its battery life ranks among the best in our test group. At 43 minutes, the Mavic 3 Pro’s stated battery life is a small step down from the Mavic 3’s 46-minute flight time, but it’s still more than enough for you to capture a satisfying amount of footage before you have to land for a battery change.
That flight time allows you to fly the drone up to 17.3 miles away, though federal rules in the United States say that you or a spotter you’re in communication with must always have the drone within your non-magnified line of sight, so you aren’t likely to be testing the range limits on most flights.
It’s not the smallest drone, but it is still easy enough to bring along. The Mavic 3 Pro is slightly larger than the Air 2S but just as portable. It weighs 2 pounds and doesn’t require any assembly before you fly, aside from removing the muzzle-like camera cover.
DJI also sells an upgraded version called the DJI Mavic 3 Pro Cine, which supports the Apple ProRes 422 HQ codec and upgrades the internal storage to a 1 TB solid-state drive. But you can buy that version only as part of the Premium Combo, which includes both the usual Fly More kit and the DJI RC Pro controller (an improvement on the DJI RC with a brighter screen, an increased transmission bit rate, and a few other features). That package costs just under $5,000, so it’s out of the range of most enthusiasts.
This drone offers DJI’s autonomous features and a 4K camera that can shoot in portrait or landscape orientation, all in a tiny package weighing less than 250 grams. It does not include obstacle avoidance.
The DJI Mini 3 isn’t DJI’s cheapest drone (that honor now belongs to the Mini 2 SE), and it doesn’t produce images as beautiful as those of the Air 2S, but its low price, impressive capabilities (including 4K video), and tiny form make it an excellent choice for beginners.
It provides a good introduction to flying. With DJI’s basic suite of smart features, this drone can take off, land, and return home with the push of a button. It also has a positioning system that’s intelligent enough for it to hover, stationary, in the air (the only sensors it uses for positioning are downward sensors to help with landing). And its 38-minute flight time with the included battery is quite respectable for a drone at its price.
Its camera is far better than what you’d get in most other budget drones. The Mini 3’s camera, which has a 1/1.3-inch sensor, can shoot 48-megapixel photos and up to 4K video at 30 frames per second. Its wide-angle f/1.7 lens provides great low-light performance, as well.
As a bonus, the camera can physically rotate to shoot vertical (portrait-orientation) video, which is useful for sharing on apps like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. The results aren’t as clear or as detailed as what you can capture on the Air 2S or Mavic 3 Pro, but they’re more than sharp enough for posting to social media.
It’s small enough to skirt the FAA’s drone-weight limit. The Mini 3’s tiny size is its best feature. Because it weighs less than 250 grams with the base battery, about half a pound, the drone slides in under the FAA’s 250-gram (0.55-pound) weight limit, beyond which you must register a drone before flying it for personal use.
DJI does offer the bigger Intelligent Flight Battery Plus, which increases the Mini 3’s flight time to an astounding 51 minutes but pushes it over that 249-gram limit. So if you want to use the bigger battery, you have to go through the (relatively simple and cheap) registration process.
It provides good-enough range. You can fly the Mini 3 up to 11 miles away with the standard battery, but since you need to keep the drone within unmagnified sight to comply with the law, you’re likely to reach the limits of your vision well before you run out of range.
The DJI Fly app (and the optional DJI RC controller upgrade, which includes a screen) maintains a smooth live stream from the drone’s camera. The app also allows access to many of DJI’s intelligent flight modes, and it can activate features such as auto takeoff and landing.
This easy-to-fly drone provides a 6K camera and 40 minutes of flight time, and unlike DJI drones, it has no known security concerns. But the video quality isn’t as crisp or colorful.
If you want to avoid buying a drone from DJI or are interested in a 6K camera, the Autel Robotics Evo Lite+ is a worthy choice.
It’s easy to use. We’ve tested a few Autel drones over the years and found them just as easy to fly as their DJI counterparts. The company’s well-designed Autel Sky app includes plenty of autonomous flight modes, too.
But it’s not quite as polished as our DJI picks. Autel’s drones don’t provide the same value as DJI’s models do—Autel’s flagship drones consistently lag behind DJI’s in their range of features, and DJI’s drones shoot crisper and more colorful images and video.
The Evo Lite+ offers a slight bump in capabilities over the DJI Air 2S but comes with a price increase to match; for one, the Evo Lite+ has a 6K, 20-megapixel camera with a 1-inch sensor. Even so, we preferred the clarity of the colors that the tested DJI drones captured across the board.
Its battery life is a luxurious 40 minutes. The Evo Lite+’s other main draw is its 40-minute battery life, which is nine minutes longer than the battery life of the Air 2S but three minutes shorter than what you get from the Mavic 3 Pro.
We’ve found that a battery life of 30 minutes or so is usually plenty for us, but pilots who want to take advantage of the Evo Lite+’s 7.4-mile transmission range might find the full 40 minutes to be especially useful.
It has fewer anti-collision sensors than our top pick. The Evo Lite+ can sense obstacles approaching from its front, back, and bottom and autonomously maneuver to avoid them. In contrast, the Air 2S adds top sensors, while the Mavic 3 Pro adds both top and side sensors. In our tests, this Autel model’s sensors were sensitive enough to detect a chain-link fence, which prompted the drone to stop itself to avoid a collision.
The controller is a pleasure to use. Drone controllers usually have built-in clamps to hold your phone, and the Evo Lite+ has our favorite type, holding the phone above the controller instead of below. When you’re trying to keep your eye on a drone, it’s much better not to have to tilt your head down quite as far to glance at your phone’s screen.
It’s stealthy quiet compared with our other picks. We found the Evo Lite+ to be notably quieter than the Air 2S. That’s not a big deal for most people, but if you want to avoid drawing attention, it can make a difference.
In July 2023, DJI released the Air 3, a follow up to the Air 2S, our current top pick. This new Air drone features a smaller sensor on the main wide-angle camera but adds the 70mm-equivalent telephoto lens from the much more expensive Mavic 3 Pro.
In addition, it’s faster than the Air 2S, it includes all-around obstacle sensing like the kind found on the Mavic 3 Pro, and it has an improved transmission system.
All of that new tech comes at a base price of $1,100, which makes this model $300 more than the Air 2S.
In September of 2023, DJI announced the Mini 4 Pro, a new sub-250-gram drone. It improves on the Mini 3 Pro by adding a full suite of obstacle avoidance sensors that allow for additional side-sensing protection, a more comprehensive set of autonomous flight modes, and better image processing to make night footage a bit more crisp.
The Mini Pro 4 is available at the same price as the Mini Pro 3, starting at $760 for the base kit with the phone holster (RC-N2) controller and going up to $1,160 for the Fly More Combo Plus (which includes the new RC 2 controller, two additional batteries, and a carrying case). We’re currently testing the Mini Pro 4 alongside the Air 3, and will update this guide with our findings.
If you want footage of close calls and near misses instead of sweeping vistas: Consider the DJI Avata. DJI’s second take on a first-person-view drone, this model is smaller, slower, and lighter—and has a shorter battery life—than the company’s original DJI FPV model. But after testing (and crashing) the Avata over multiple flights, we’ve concluded that the Avata is a better introduction to this specific type of drone flying.
The fragile blades are protected by a sturdy plastic duct, so you can confidently maneuver through obstacles at speed (video). The Motion Controller that DJI packages with the drone is surprisingly intuitive to learn, behaving much like a traditional flight joystick, but it limits you to flying in the two beginner-friendly Normal and Sport modes.
One problem we noted in our testing is that when—not if—you crash the Avata at high speed, the battery is likely to fly out of the body, and it’s easy to lose in foliage. Adding colorful gaffer tape to the matte-black battery or using zip ties to further secure it to the drone body may help.
Like the original DJI FPV, the Avata lacks the larger sensor and autonomous flight modes of our top picks, so it doesn’t provide the ease of use we’d like to see for people focused on cinematography. But if you want an extremely fun little toy that can also capture a particular type of footage, this model is a great entry point to flying in first-person view.
Drones, as a category, feel a bit icky when it comes to security and privacy, since they make aerial surveillance available to anyone for just a few hundred dollars. And on top of that, they pose the same personal-privacy questions as any connected device does.
To provide features such as geofencing, which helps pilots comply with federal regulations regarding where they can fly a drone, DJI’s apps have access to a lot of information on your phone. That can be concerning, especially since alarming reports have outlined potential security flaws in DJI drones.
There are also allegations that the company provided drone technology for the surveillance of Chinese detention camps, and in 2020, the US government placed DJI on its entity list, which meant that US companies could not provide DJI with technology but DJI could continue to sell its drones in the US.
In addition, while iOS device owners can download the DJI Fly app from the App Store, Android device owners cannot download the app directly from the Google Play store due to privacy concerns. Instead, Android users must download it from the DJI website.
DJI says that it does not sell user data. However, that statement does not rule out sharing data with third parties, which the company’s complex privacy policy suggests it may be able to do. And its iOS app currently lists information under Apple’s “Data Used to Track You” label, suggesting that it does share data, possibly for advertising.
While features such as geofencing and accessing your photos and videos within the DJI Fly app may seem potentially creepy, they are legitimately useful. If you turn them off, which DJI allows you to do, you won’t get warnings regarding federally regulated airspace, you can’t access the location of your drone if you lose it, and you can’t review your photos and footage until you load your memory card onto a computer.
Ultimately, each drone pilot has to make a personal call about balancing security and privacy with function.
This is not a comprehensive list of all the drones we’ve tested. We have removed models that have been discontinued or no longer meet our requirements.
We’ve recommended many DJI drones over the years. If you find an older model that offers specs that meet your needs and has a low price tag, it’s likely to be a good buy. However, drone technology is changing rapidly, and newer drones provide longer battery life, superior cameras, and better autonomous flying abilities.
The DJI Mini 3 Pro puts the camera of the Mini 3 on a similar frame weighing just under 250 grams but adds a suite of sensors and slightly more powerful motors, bringing this small-but-mighty drone much closer to the capabilities of our top pick. But all of that tech also makes this model just about the same price as the Air 2S, and the camera on our top pick produces slightly better images thanks to its larger sensor. If portability is your absolute priority, the Mini 3 Pro is worth a look, but we still think most aerial photographers and videographers are likely to get more use out of the Air 2S.
The DJI Mavic 3 Classic is a good option if you want the Four Thirds sensor found on our upgrade pick but don’t want to shell out for that model’s extra telephoto lenses. The Mavic 3 Classic produces stunningly clear images with better color accuracy than the 1-inch-sensor Air 2S, and it includes the omnidirectional sensors found on the Mavic 3 Pro, but its price is a bit closer to that of our top pick. We’ve concluded that the Air 2S’s mix of price and performance makes it the better choice for most people, but if you want the highest-quality wide-angle drone camera and don’t need telephoto lenses, the Mavic 3 Classic is worth considering.
The DJI Mini 2 is our former budget pick, and though it was an exceptional drone for its price when it debuted, the Mini 3’s camera represents a substantial step up in quality. Though DJI lists the Mini 3 at $560, it’s been discounted to $470 ever since its release, which makes it only $20 more than the Mini 2. Even at its list price, the Mini 3 is worth the extra investment over this older model. Anyone looking for the cheapest decent DJI drone should consider the DJI Mini 2 SE instead, though that model is limited to 2.7K video recording.
The original DJI FPV allows you to fly your drone via a first-person view using a headset. While it’s the most fun we’ve ever had flying, this model lacks the larger sensor and autonomous flight modes—including obstacle avoidance—of our top picks, so it doesn’t provide the ease of use we’d like to see for people focused on cinematography.
The Potensic Atom SE was the least expensive drone we tested for this guide. It had its positives—we actually preferred the controller design to that of the basic DJI remote. But the 13-megapixel camera, which relies on a two-axis gimbal (as opposed to the three-axis gimbal of all the other drones we tested), couldn’t quite keep up with the rest of the test group despite its digital stabilization software. For most people, the extra cost of our current budget pick, the DJI Mini 3, is well worth paying.
This article was edited by Ben Keough and Erica Ogg.
James Austin is a staff writer currently covering games and hobbies, but he’s also worked on just about everything Wirecutter covers—from board games to umbrellas—and after being here for a few years he has gained approximate knowledge of many things. In his free time he enjoys taking photos, running D&D, and volunteering for a youth robotics competition.
Signe Brewster is an editor on Wirecutter's PC team. She also writes about virtual reality. She previously reported on emerging technology and science for publications like Wirecutter, MIT Technology Review, Wired, Science, and Symmetry Magazine. She spends her free time quilting and pursuing an MFA in creative writing.
by Signe Brewster and James Austin
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