Plans for ag drone operators
The US Ag Drone Directory lists 600+ agricultural drone operators across all 50 states. There are three ways to be on it. Listed costs nothing, forever. It keeps your profile, your phone number, your website and your credential chips. Pro is $29 a month or $249 a year, with a founding rate of $19 a month or $149 a year for the first 100 operators. State Partner is the single paid Sponsored position at the top of one state, priced from $35 to $89 a month depending on how many operators that state already has listed. No plan buys a badge, a credential, a better organic position or a number of farmer enquiries. Payment buys position and nothing else.
The State Partner position is paid placement. It renders with the word Sponsored on it, every time. That label isn't a formality we'd drop later. It buys a position and nothing else. It is not an exclusive service territory, it doesn't stop any other operator working in that state. It carries no promise of any number of enquiries.
The three plans
Listed
$0
Forever. Not a trial, not an intro rate.
Your profile, your city and states, your services and crops, your phone, your email, your website and every credential chip you earn. It's what 600+ operators already have and it's never taken away.
List freePro
$29/mo
or $249/yr. Founding rate $19/mo or $149/yr for the first 100.
Pro isn't open. Nothing about it is built yet, so there's no feature list here and there's nothing to buy. The price is published now so it isn't a surprise later.
Tell me when Pro opensState Partner
Sponsored$35 to $89/mo
Band priced. One seat per state, 50 in total.
The single paid position above one state's results, labelled Sponsored. Position only. No territory, no exclusivity over the work, no promise of enquiries.
See your state| Listed | Pro | State Partner | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $0 | $29 | $35, $59 or $89 by band |
| Annual | $0 | $249 | $348, $588 or $948 by band |
| Founding rate | Not applicable | $19/mo or $149/yr, first 100, locked for the life of the subscription | 30 percent below list, first 10 Partners, locked 24 months |
| Seats | Unlimited | Unlimited | Exactly one per state, 50 in total |
| Profile, contact details, credential chips | Yes | Yes, identical | Yes, identical |
| Position in the organic results | Earned | Earned, unchanged by paying | Earned, unchanged by paying |
| Paid position above the results | No | No | Yes, labelled Sponsored |
| Badge you can buy | None | None | None |
| Promised enquiries | None | None | None |
| Commission on your work | None | None | None |
Prices are in US dollars and exclude any sales tax that applies in your state.
What free keeps, forever
This is the part that makes the paid part worth trusting. If the free listing could be degraded to sell the paid one, every sentence on this page would be worth nothing. So here is the commitment, in plain words. Everything below stays free, for every operator in the directory, whether you ever pay a cent or not.
- A profile page of your own at /operators/your-name, with full structured data. Fill in enough detail to be useful and it is indexed and in the sitemap. A profile too thin to help a farmer is kept out of search until it is filled in.
- Your business name, your city, every state you cover, your own description, your services, your crops and the airframes you fly.
- Your phone number, your email and your website shown in full and clickable. Nothing about contacting you is behind a paywall.
- Any credential we match against a named public record is shown free, with the date we checked it. Until then it shows as your own statement. Payment never buys a credential and never speeds one up.
- Inclusion in every state, city, crop, service, drone and region list on the same terms as everyone else.
- A position in those lists that money cannot move. The ordering rules are the same for a paying operator and a free one.
- Every quote request that starts on your own profile page goes to you, on any plan. The farmer can choose to ask two more operators in your state as well. That choice is theirs, it is never ours, and it is never sold.
- Your listing is never unpublished for not paying. Not for lapsing, not for cancelling, not for arguing with us.
These are commitments, not marketing lines. If one of them is ever broken, the honest thing is to say so on this page rather than quietly edit the list. That's what will happen.
Pro
$29 a month or $249 a year. The founding rate is $19 a month or $149 a year, capped at the first 100 subscriptions. It's locked for as long as that subscription stays active rather than for twelve months. None of the 100 have been taken, because nothing has been sold on this site yet. Counted when this page was built, on August 19, 2026.
Pro isn't open yet. There's no feature list here because there isn't an honest one to publish. None of it is built. There's no operator account on this site, no photo upload, no self-serve editing. Listing a set of features on the page an operator reads immediately before paying, when none of them run, is how directories in this category lose the only thing they have.
The price is published now anyway, so that when Pro does open you already know what it costs and can decide whether it was worth waiting for. The features appear on this page the day they start working, one at a time.
What Pro will never do
Pro doesn't buy a badge. There is no Pro badge on this site, deliberately, because a mark that only says money changed hands has no business sitting next to a mark that says we read a government record.
Pro doesn't change your rank. The ordering is the same for everyone and the fields it reads are fields you can fill in for free.
Pro doesn't buy a credential and it doesn't make a credential check faster or likelier to pass.
Pro doesn't come with a number of farmer enquiries. Nobody here will ever tell you one.
State Partner
The exclusive is the sole paid top position in that state's result set. It is not a service-territory monopoly, not a right to every lead from that state, and not a promise of any number of inquiries. Other operators remain listed, ranked organically and reachable.
We don't promise you any number of farmer inquiries, at any tier, ever. What you're buying is the top position in that state's result set, labelled Sponsored.
One seat per state, 50 seats in total. There will never be a second one in a state because a second one would make the first meaningless. What you can check before you buy is the only thing being sold: load the state page, see where the position sits. Position is verifiable. Volume isn't, so we don't sell it.
How your state gets its price
A state's band is set by one number, how many operators are already listed in it. Twenty or more puts it in Core, five to nineteen in Growth, under five in Frontier. That's inventory pricing: you're paying for the size of the shelf you'd be sitting at the top of. A bigger shelf costs more because it's bigger. It is not a forecast, not a scoring of how good a market we think your state is or a guess about outcomes. The band would be identical if the state produced no enquiries at all.
| Band | Rule | States | Monthly | Annual | Founding annual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core | 20 or more operators listed in the state | 25 | $89/mo | $948/yr | $660/yr |
| Growth | 5 to 19 operators listed in the state | 22 | $59/mo | $588/yr | $408/yr |
| Frontier | fewer than 5 operators listed in the state | 3 | $35/mo | $348/yr | $240/yr |
The States column is counted from the live operator data when this page is built, not from a list written in advance, so it moves when the directory does. Counted on August 19, 2026. The founding rate is 30 percent below list for the first 10 State Partners in the country, locked for 24 months. None of the 10 have been taken.
The band price is the whole price of the position. If a Pro subscription is ever required alongside it, this page will say so and will print the combined yearly total before you're asked to pay anything.
What isn't for sale, at any price
Every item here has been asked for by somebody. Every one is a no. Not a no for now, a no. No badge, credential or trust signal on this site can be bought, at any price, by anyone. Payment buys position. Position is disclosed, labelled and checkable. Trust has to be earned against a record.
- A badge. There is no badge, chip or trust signal on this site that money can buy. There is no Pro badge at all. A mark that only says money changed hands does not belong beside a mark that says we checked a government record.
- A credential check, or a faster one. Paying does not make a check pass and does not move you ahead of anyone else waiting for one.
- Your position in the organic results. The one paid position on this site sits above them, labelled. Everything below it is ordered by rules that ignore who pays.
- Website links. Every operator that gives us a website gets it published free. You cannot buy a better link, an extra link or a different kind of link.
- Your own contact details back. Your phone and email are public on your profile whether you pay or not.
- A number of farmer enquiries. Not a quota, not a minimum, not a forecast, not a first look. See the FAQ below for why.
- County exclusivity. It is not a product here and it is not going to be.
Where this actually stands today
Nothing on this page has sold. Not one Pro subscription, not one State Partner position. Every one of the 50 state positions is open. That's a fact rather than a sales angle: the Sponsored slot isn't switched on anywhere on the site, because nobody holds one. Checked when this page was built, on August 19, 2026.
You will not find a countdown here, a seat counter ticking down, a waiting list or a price that expires on Friday. If a state is taken, the State Partner board will name the operator holding it and link to their profile. Until then every row on it says Open, because every row is open.
There's no checkout on this site yet. The form below is a question, not a purchase. Sending it reserves nothing, charges nothing and commits you to nothing. You'll get an email back from Eugen with a straight answer, including the answer that a plan isn't worth it in your state yet.
We may add per-lead pricing in a state one day, but only once that state has produced six or more good farmer requests a month for three months in a row. That trigger is published here in advance so it can't arrive as a surprise. Until then there is nothing to buy per lead and nothing to opt into.
Questions operators actually ask
We don't know and we won't guess. Nobody on this site will ever quote you a number of farmer enquiries, at any plan, for any state, because we have no way to substantiate one and a forecast with nothing behind it is just a sales line. What you can buy is a position. A position is a thing you can check by loading the page. If somebody in this category tells you how many leads a listing produces, ask them to show you the count.
One thing: the single paid position at the top of your state's result set, carrying the word Sponsored. That's it. It's deliberate. It is visible, it is verifiable by loading the page and it is the only thing on this directory that payment moves.
No. It never will. A credential shows as your own statement until we match it against a named public record, and when we do, the check is free and carries the date we made it. Payment cannot buy a check, cannot speed one up and cannot make a failed one pass. There is no Pro badge on this site at all, on purpose, because a badge that only means somebody paid sitting next to a badge that means we read an FAA record would make both of them worthless.
No. The Sponsored position sits above the results, labelled as paid. Everything inside the results is ordered by rules that do not read your plan. A free listing and a paying listing with the same details rank the same.
Nothing. Your profile stays published, indexed and reachable, with your phone, your email and your website on it, exactly as it was before you ever paid. Your listing is never taken down for non-payment, lapse, cancellation or a disagreement about a bill. That is the point of the free tier being a commitment rather than a trial.
Yes, without phoning anybody. Once checkout is live, cancellation runs through the same self-serve billing portal you bought through. The page you cancel on is one click from your receipt. Until checkout is live there is nothing to cancel, because nothing can be bought yet.
Because of how many operators are already listed in it. Nothing else. Twenty or more puts a state in Core, five to nineteen in Growth, under five in Frontier. That is inventory pricing: you are paying for the size of the shelf you are sitting at the top of. It is not a guess about how many enquiries that state will produce. The band would be the same if the state produced none.
No. It is the sole paid top position in that state's result set. It is not a service-territory monopoly, not a right to every enquiry from that state or a promise of any number of enquiries. Every other operator in the state stays listed, stays ranked organically and stays reachable, with their phone number on their page.
No. There is no commission, no booking fee and no cut of a job. We are not in the middle of the transaction. A farmer who finds you here calls you. What happens after that is between the two of you.
Yes, one position per state, each priced by its own band. There are fifty positions in total and there will never be more than one in a state, because a second one would make the first one meaningless.
Ask before you spend anything
Tell us your state and what you're weighing up. If the honest answer is that the position in your state isn't worth what it costs yet, that's the answer you'll get.
Not listed yet? Start at the free listing form. Want a specific state's band, price and page count? The State Partner board has all 50. Selling to farmers or operators rather than being one? Advertising is a different conversation.