We spent a great deal of time answering the question “what makes a drone great?”. Is it the long flight time…the nice camera? It's both, and a lot more!

Based on the features that drones have (or strive to have), we broke our scoring system up into the following five categories:

When I was looking for my first “professional” drone a few years back, I did quite a bit of research. I had ten different tabs open on my browser, which I would toggle through when comparing the cameras…or the flight modes…or the range.

I really wanted a single source where I could see how all of the drones stacked up, but none seemed to exist. 

Now that I work in the drone industry and have spent thousands of hours learning about what makes a drone “great”, I feel qualified and confident enough to present you with this ultimate drone comparison tool!

For example, a camera with a 1″ sensor  gets 10 points, whereas a 1/2″ sensor only gets 5 points. Although the 48 MP quad bayer camera on the Mavic Air 2 may have better dynamic range than a regular 12 MP camera, it's effectively still a 12 MP camera, thus only getting 3 points.

In this instance, It was necessary to grant more points for sensor size than for MP count, as it's the larger sensor that ultimately represents a superior camera.