The Antigravity A1 launched in December 2025 with a price tag that made a lot of people curious and a lot of wallets nervous. Four months later, and with the DJI Avata 360 now breathing directly down its neck, the world’s first 8K 360-degree drone just got its first significant discount.
As of March 28, Amazon’s Big Spring Sale has the Antigravity A1 Infinity Bundle marked down to $1,599, a flat $400 cut from its original $1,999 list price. The Standard Bundle drops to $1,279, saving you $320 off the original $1,599. Both are the first meaningful price reductions since the A1 launched in December.
The timing is not a coincidence.
A Drone Unlike Anything Else in the Sky
Before we get to the discount math, it’s worth explaining what the A1 actually is, because it’s genuinely different from anything DJI makes or has ever made.
The A1 doesn’t have a gimbal. It doesn’t have a forward-facing camera. What it has is a dual-lens system positioned on the top and bottom of the airframe, each covering a full 180-degree field of view, combining to capture everything around the drone simultaneously in every direction.
The idea is that you fly first and frame later. You don’t point the drone at your subject during the flight. You just fly, record everything, and decide what angle you want once you’re back on the ground.
The goggles drive the whole experience. The Vision Goggles use dual 1-inch Micro-OLED displays at 2560×2560 resolution with pancake optics and head-tracking built in. You don’t look at a screen on a controller. You wear the cockpit. The Grip controller replaces traditional sticks with a motion-based point-to-fly system, meaning you tilt and steer with your hand rather than manipulating two thumbsticks. First-time pilots can get airborne and feel competent in minutes. That’s a meaningful difference.
Antigravity A1 Specs
The A1 weighs exactly 249 grams with the standard battery, which keeps it under the FAA and international registration thresholds in most regions. Flight time runs 24 minutes on the standard pack and up to 39 minutes on the high-capacity battery, though the extended pack pushes the drone to 291 grams and officially puts it into FAA registration territory.
The camera records full 360-degree video at 8K at 30fps, 5.2K at 60fps, or 4K at 100fps. It also shoots 55-megapixel still photos including DNG. The sensors are dual 1/1.28-inch chips with FlowState stabilization inherited from Insta360’s X Series camera line.
One thing worth being straight about: the “8K” figure is the combined resolution of both lenses stitched together. When you extract a normal, forward-facing crop from the 360 footage, the effective resolution lands closer to 2.7K.
That’s not a flaw unique to the A1, it’s how all 360 cameras work, and it’s a trade-off you accept when you choose the fly-first-frame-later workflow. If you need the sharpest possible forward-facing footage, a traditional camera drone is still your answer.
Top speed hits 35.8 mph in Sport mode. Max service ceiling is 13,123 feet with the standard battery, dropping to 9,842 feet with the extended pack. Range on the standard battery covers 8 miles. Obstacle avoidance runs forward and downward with vision sensors and bottom infrared sensors.
Internal storage is 20GB with microSD support up to 1TB. The A1 won TIME’s Best Inventions 2025 and a CES Best of Innovation award in early 2026.
Why the Price Is Dropping Now
The A1 launched at $1,599 for the Standard Bundle and $1,999 for the Infinity Bundle in December 2025. Four months in, $400 comes off the Infinity and $320 off the Standard, simultaneously. That doesn’t happen without a reason.
The reason has a name: DJI Avata 360.
DJI’s answer to the A1 landed on March 27, 2026, and it brought its own 360-degree immersive flight experience with it. Insta360, whose X Series camera tech lives inside the A1’s dual-lens system, also suddenly finds itself in an interesting position.
Insta360 built its reputation making the cameras that DJI couldn’t. Now DJI just walked into Insta360’s living room, sat down on the couch, and asked what’s for dinner. The A1 was alone in this category for most of its commercial life. Neither Antigravity nor Insta360 has that comfort anymore.
Antigravity still has genuine advantages. The A1’s fly-first-frame-later workflow, the Vision Goggles system, and the Insta360 editing pipeline are legitimately mature. The A1 was also reviewed favorably by independent pilots who noted the FreeMotion control system is more intuitive than traditional FPV sticks for beginners.
But DJI’s entry into the space changes the competitive pressure immediately, and a $400 price cut right at that moment tells you everything you need to know. Also, if you already have the Neo 2 FPV combo, you can just buy the drone and use the same joystick and googles.
DroneXL’s Take
Here’s what I find genuinely significant: the Antigravity A1 launched a legitimate new category of drone flight, and that’s not a small thing.
Most drone launches in the past three years have been incremental. More megapixels, longer battery, slightly better obstacle avoidance. The A1 changed the concept of what a drone experience feels like from the pilot’s seat. That deserves credit regardless of what DJI does next.
The price drop makes it more honest. At $1,999 the Infinity Bundle was a tough sell against a consumer market that still sees $1,000 as a lot for a drone. At $1,599 it’s a different conversation. The Standard at $1,279 brings the entry point down to a range where the experience can justify itself for creators who shoot travel, adventure, or events and want footage they couldn’t get any other way.
The effective resolution trade-off is real and worth knowing before you buy. But if 360 capture at altitude is the goal, the A1 is still the most refined system built specifically for that purpose. DJI just showed up to the fight. The outcome isn’t settled yet.
Photo credit: Drone Supremacy, Insta360, DroneXL
