Top Drones 2023

The DJI Inspire 3 is a powerful drone with precise control, aimed at professional filmmakers, with further use cases including commercial inspections and surveying. Image quality from the full-frame sensor and interchangeable lenses is fantastic, and blows smaller drone models out of the water. It’s a large and heavy drone kit offering professional features far beyond what any casual user could ever need, and with a kit price of $16,499 / £13,419 / AU$20,469 without any lenses or the Inspire 3 Raw License, it’s priced accordingly.

Offering a better camera than any other sub-250g drone, as well as obstacle-sensing tech, long battery life and responsive, easy-to-use flight controls, the DJI Mini 3 Pro is a drone with true mass appeal. While it looks quite expensive next to DJI’s other Mini models, its design and performance goes above and beyond the bar that they’ve set. Its camera can struggle a little at night, which means there’s definitely still a place for larger, pricier drones such as the DJI Air 2S and Mavic 3. However, for general everyday aerial video and photos, the Mini 3 Pro makes a lot more sense for all but the most demanding of users.

The DJI Mavic 2 Pro is the best small drone on the market, with superior image and video quality, obstacle avoidance, and excellent battery life.

The DJI Mavic 3 Classic is exactly what you’d expect. It has great image quality and the most advanced features on the market right now, but it costs less than other Mavic 3 models.

The DJI Mavic 3 Pro drone captures all the action you can see from the air with its triple camera array, while its GPS and 360-degree obstacle avoidance sensors ensure safe flights.

With a sharp, stabilized, distortion-free 4K video camera, the $999 DJI Mavic Pro is much more capable than you'd expect given its size. It's an excellent choice for pilots looking for a more portable drone.

If you want to take your flying to the next level, and to new locations, the DJI Avata could be the drone for you.

The DJI Mavic 3 is a small folding drone with a Hasselblad camera that captures stunning video and stills, but you need to step up to the Cine version for ProRes recording.

With superb video and photo capture, great features, and long battery life, DJI has not one, but two excellent drones in the Mavic 2 Pro and the Mavic 2 Zoom.

If money is no object, the DJI Inspire 2 is the best drone you can buy, delivering Raw video capture at 5.2K quality, superb build quality, and top-end performance.