The DJI Mavic 4 Pro Creator Combo is selling for $3,500 on Amazon as of August 13, a $499 cut from the $3,999 list price. Deal coverage this morning called it a record low, citing the price tracker camelcamelcamel. DroneXL’s archive says otherwise. The same Creator Combo sold for $3,400 during Prime Day, a price we reported on June 25. Today’s number sits $100 above the actual floor.
That gap doesn’t kill the deal. It changes what kind of deal it is. This is the second real discount on DJI’s flagship since launch, the first one lasted only days, and a pending FCC proposal now hangs over this drone’s supply in a way it did not in June.
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The Price History Tells a Different Story Than the Deal Sites
The Creator Combo has been discounted twice since it reached American shelves: $3,400 during Prime Day in June and $3,500 now. Both cuts came from the $3,999 list price. The June price was lower, it lasted days, and it has not returned in seven weeks.
DroneXL covered the June drop when it happened, which is why the record-low framing Mashable published this morning doesn’t match our notes. Price trackers follow individual Amazon listings, and listings for the Mavic 4 Pro have multiplied across sellers since it first hit Amazon in January, so a tracker can be technically right about one listing and wrong about the product. What a buyer needs to know is simpler: the floor so far is $3,400, today’s price is $3,500, and full price is $3,999.
The Creator Combo Packs the RC Pro 2, Three Batteries, and the All-I Codec
The Creator Combo bundles the drone with the RC Pro 2 controller, three Intelligent Flight Batteries, a parallel charging hub, and 512GB of onboard storage, and it unlocks the All-I codec that the base kit lacks. This is the full working-professional configuration, not a starter package.
The RC Pro 2 remains the best controller DJI ships: a 7-inch Mini-LED screen that holds up in direct sun, motorized joysticks, and auto-power pairing that switches on both controller and drone in one motion. Three batteries at 51 minutes each in the $3,500 kit cover a full production day with one pack charging while two rotate through the air. The All-I codec matters if footage leaves your hands: it encodes each frame independently, so editors get cleaner scrubbing and more grading headroom than interframe compression allows.
The Mavic 4 Pro Still Has No Equal in Its Class
The Mavic 4 Pro carries three cameras on one gimbal: a 100MP 4/3-inch CMOS Hasselblad at 28mm, a 48MP medium tele at 70mm, and a 50MP tele at 168mm. Video tops out at 6K/60 HDR. Nothing sold in America matches that package on a folding airframe.
The main camera’s aperture adjusts from f/2.0 to f/11, and dynamic range runs roughly 16 stops. The Infinity Gimbal rotates a full 360 degrees and tilts 70 degrees upward, which puts Dutch-angle spins and true vertical video on a folding drone for the first time. A firmware round we covered in October added focal-length switching mid-recording. Top speed is 56 mph (90 km/h), and the O4+ link carries a 10-bit HDR feed up to 18.6 miles (30 kilometers) under FCC rules. Obstacle sensing runs through six fisheye cameras rated to 0.1 lux, backed by a forward-facing LiDAR unit for flying in the dark. Hold that last spec in mind; it comes up again below.
The airframe weighs 1,063 grams, so FAA registration and Remote ID compliance are mandatory, and Part 107 applies to any commercial work. Our full review from May 2025 covers the camera system in depth.
The FCC’s LiDAR Proposal Reaches This Drone
The Mavic 4 Pro received its FCC authorization before the December 22, 2025 Covered List decision, which keeps it legal to import and sell today. The pending proposal in PS Docket 26-189 would end that grandfathering for LiDAR-equipped drones, and this drone carries forward-facing LiDAR.
The proposal, which DJI is now rallying its customers against, would prohibit continued importation and marketing of previously authorized foreign drones in seven categories the FCC labels military-grade. One category covers any drone that contains or integrates a LiDAR sensor. It draws no line between mapping-grade LiDAR and the short-range obstacle-avoidance module in consumer aircraft (the sensor that stops a drone from hitting a tree in the dark). Public coverage of the docket has centered on the Air 3S, Mini 5 Pro, and Avata 360, but the category as written reaches the Mavic 4 Pro’s spec sheet just the same. The comment window closes September 2, and the proposal includes a 180-day wind-down after any final rule.
Nothing is banned yet, and proposals change. But the machinery for ending grandfathering has already run once: the FCC cut off legacy Huawei imports on June 26 using exactly the authority that hangs over grandfathered DJI hardware. Replacement batteries sit in their own legal gray area as covered critical components, a question we put to the FCC in December that still has no clean answer.
DroneXL’s Take
I’ll give the FCC’s grandfathering its due: eight months after the Covered List decision, the Mavic 4 Pro is still on Amazon at a discount, and the overnight sell-out plenty of people predicted in December never came. The regime has been more stable than the panic suggested.
Docket 26-189 is the first proposal that would actually break it. When we covered the June price drop, the open question was whether DJI would announce a successor. The question now is whether the government lets retailers keep importing this one. A ban on obstacle-avoidance LiDAR as military-grade technology is the kind of category error DJI is right to fight, and I’d encourage every pilot to file a comment before September 2. I have followed this docket since the FCC opened it on July 21, and the agency’s June 26 Huawei cutoff tells you it will close a grandfathering window when it decides to.
So here’s my read on the $100. If you were waiting for June’s $3,400 to come back, you’re now betting an unknown promo calendar against a docketed proceeding with a September 2 comment deadline and a written scope that covers this drone. That’s the wrong side of the trade. The Creator Combo at $3,500 is a fair price on the most capable folding camera drone Americans can currently buy, and “currently” is doing more work in that sentence than it was in June.
Source: Amazon product listing, Mashable, FCC Public Notice DA 26-758.
Photo credit: Billy Kyle, DJI, Amazon
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