Drone Buying Advice Megathread and NEW Wiki Buying Guide

Welcome to the 2025 Q1 r/drones Buying Advice Megathread. This thread exists to prevent the constant "What drone should I buy?" posts that we prohibit with Rule 2.5.

(Edit: 14JAN2025. If you do not read this full post and follow all steps below, your advice request will be removed.)

Please follow all of these steps before posting in this thread!

  1. Review the Buying Guide Wiki: https://old.reddit.com/r/drones/wiki/index/buying_guide
  2. Review this thread for comments that have your same requirements
  3. If that does not answer you, please post the following information in this thread.
    1. Have you read the Wiki? Y/N
    2. Country: (Not all drones are available in all countries)
    3. Budget: (If your budget is less than $200 USD, you may want to reconsider as anything lower is a toy drone)
    4. Purpose: (eg. photography, FPV, thermal, etc)
    5. Any other requirements: