Comparison of Compact Drones DJI Mavic Mini, Mavic Air, Tello and Spark

In this table, we have col­lect­ed for you the key char­ac­ter­is­tics of DJI com­pact mini drones such as Tel­lo, DJI Spark, DJI Mav­ic Mini, DJI Mav­ic Air.

Name	RyzeTech Tel­lo	DJI Spark	DJI Mav­ic Mini	DJI Mav­ic Air
Note	Reg­is­tra­tion in the World is not required	The mod­el is out­dat­ed, not pro­duced	Reg­is­tra­tion in the World is not required	The small­est quad­copter with 4K cam­era
Mod­el	Mod­el: Ryze Tech Tel­lo	Mod­el: Spark	Mod­el: MT1SD25 (for oth­er coun­tries MT1SS5)	Mod­el: U11X
The weight	80 grams	300 grams	249 grams	430 grams
Fold­able design	Not	Not	Yes	Yes
Diag­o­nal dimen­sions	120 mm	170 mm	213 mm	213 mm
Can fly out­doors	Yes (calm)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Avail­abil­i­ty of GPS	Not	GPS+GLONASS	GPS+GLONASS	GPS+GLONASS
Fly­ing into the wind	Not	Yes	Yes (up to 8 m/s)	Yes (up to 10 m/s)
Max speed	29 km/h	50 km/h	46.8 km/h	68.4 km/h
Max­i­mum range	100 meters	500 meters	2000 meters	2000 meters
Max Height	30 meters	500 meters	500 meters	500 meters
Sig­nal trans­mis­sion type	WiFi	Enhanced WiFi	Enhanced WiFi	Enhanced WiFi
Flight modes	Take­off from the palm 3D som­er­saults Auto take­off Abil­i­ty to pro­gram on Scratch	Active­Trak — Tar­get Track­ing Ges­ture con­trol Run from the palm of your hand TapFly — one touch flight Rock­et One Touch Video One Touch Video Dronie One Touch Video Cir­cle One Touch Video Helix	One Touch Video — Droni One Touch Video — Rock­et One Touch Video — Cir­cle One Touch Video — Spi­ral	Active­Track — Tar­get Track­ing Spher­i­cal panora­mas Ges­ture Con­trol Aster­oid Boomerang TapFly — one touch flight APAS — obsta­cle avoid­ance in tar­get track­ing mode
Flight time	up to 13 min­utes	up to 16 min­utes	up to 30 min­utes	up to 21 min­utes
Obsta­cle sen­sors	Not	Front	Not	Front + Rear + Bot­tom
APAS Obsta­cle Avoid­ance Mode	Not	Not	Not	Yes
Max­i­mum Video Record­ing Res­o­lu­tion	720p	FHD: 1920x1080 30fps	2.7K: 2720×1530 25/30 fps FHD: 1920×1080 25/30/50/60p	4k 25/30fps Full­HD 120fps
Pho­to (num­ber of megapix­els)	5 Mpx	12 Mpx	12 Mpx	12 Mpx
Avail­able RAW pho­to	Not	Not	Not	Yes
Matrix	-	1/2.3″ CMOS	1/2.3″ CMOS	1/2.3″ CMOS
Video sta­bi­liza­tion	Elec­tron­ic	Mechan­i­cal 2 axles	Mechan­i­cal 3 axis	Mechan­i­cal 3 axis
Remote con­trol in the basic set	Not	Not	Yes	Yes
Appli­ca­tion	Tel­lo ( Android, iOS)	DJI GO4 ( Android, iOS)	DJI Fly ( Android, iOS)	DJI GO4 ( Android, iOS)
Appli­ca­tion in Russ­ian	Not	Not	No (expect­ed in upcom­ing releas­es)	Not
Pro­gram­ming capa­bil­i­ty	Yes	Not	Not	Not

In the table, we have col­lect­ed the most pop­u­lar char­ac­ter­is­tics of DJI com­pact drone mod­els.

It is dif­fi­cult to give a def­i­nite answer which quadro­copter to choose, every­one pays atten­tion to the char­ac­ter­is­tics that are impor­tant for him.

For exam­ple, the Tel­lo quadro­copter mod­el - It will be a good gift for a teenag­er or a child.
Of the pros This mod­el is light weight, durable design, pro­peller pro­tec­tion in the basic kit and the main fea­ture of this quad­copter is the abil­i­ty to learn pro­gram­ming, thanks to a sim­ple graph­i­cal pro­gram­ming lan­guage
Scratch.
Minus­es - there is no GPS mod­ule, which does not allow you to fly out­doors even in a small wind, the quad­copter can be blown away by the wind, and there is no cam­era sta­bi­liza­tion, video record­ing is only 720p, pho­tos are only JPG.

Quad­copter DJI Spark - at the moment it has already been offi­cial­ly dis­con­tin­ued, but in some places you can find left­overs.
pros - there is GPS, it is pos­si­ble to fly up to 500 meters, there are a lot of auto­mat­ic modes, there is a track­ing mode — Active­Track, there is ges­ture con­trol (in this case, the remote is not need­ed at all), there are col­li­sion sen­sors.
Minus­es - the gim­bal sta­bi­lizes only along 2 axes, there is no 4k video record­ing, only JPG pho­tos.

Quad­copter DJI Mav­ic Mini - a nov­el­ty of 2019, at the moment the most com­pact and light quadro­copter with a three-axis sus­pen­sion and weigh­ing up to 250 grams, which allows you to use it with­out reg­is­tra­tion in most coun­tries.
pros - there is a 3‑axis cam­era sta­bi­liza­tion, the flight time is up to 30 min­utes, it can fly in the wind up to 8 m / s and at a dis­tance of up to 2 km. There are sev­er­al auto­mat­ic self­ie modes.
Minus­es - no Active­Track, video is not 4K.

Quad­copter DJI Mav­ic Air — the most com­pact drone with a 4K cam­era on a 3‑axis gim­bal.
Plus­es — there is an Active­Track mode, there are col­li­sion sen­sors in front / behind / below, video writes 4k 25 / 30fps or Full­HD 120fps, video stream 100Mbps, pho­to in JPG + RAW for­mat, auto­mat­ic shoot­ing of spher­i­cal panora­mas, APAS mode detec­tion and obstruc­tion flight.
Cons — flight time up to 21 min­utes.