The lowest Starlink kit prices on record: $0, $89 and $175, and what each one asked of you

The three lowest Standard kit prices in our log are $0, $89 and $175, all on starlink.com and all in 2025. None of them is running today. Each came with a condition that mattered as much as the price: the $0 kit needed a 12-month commitment in select areas, the $89 kit was only for reported low-demand states, and the $175 kit was nationwide but only for about a month. When we checked on Oct 5, 2026, the kit’s purchase price was $349, where purchase is offered.

This post puts the three lows side by side, explains what each one asked of you, and shows how they compare with today’s $0-up-front rental, which looks like a record low but isn’t a sale at all.

The three lows, side by side

Price	Dates	Where	What it asked of you	Status
$0	Apr 30 – Jun 25, 2025	Select areas (parts of New England and the Mountain West, reported)	12 months of Residential; a prorated fee to leave early	Ended (one source says Jul 14, 2025)
$89	From Sep 13, 2025	Low-demand areas (reported: ID, IA, KS, NE, NV, NM, ND, SD, WY)	Nothing beyond the plan; came with first-year plan discounts	Ended; no end date was published
$175	Aug 11 – Sep 12, 2025	Kit price nationwide; plan discounts in mapped areas	Plan discount lost if you changed, paused or cancelled	Ended

All three rows come from our price-drop record, which joins sourced points with steps rather than lines because the price between two sources is unknown. The everyday list price around them was $349 from Oct 7, 2024, after the cut from $599.

$0: the lowest price, with the longest string

On Apr 30, 2025, Broadband Breakfast reported that Starlink was waiving the kit charge for new Residential customers who agreed to a 12-month commitment, in select markets. Monthly plans at the time were $80 for Residential Lite and $120 for Residential. The report named parts of New England and the Mountain West as included and the Midwest and Southeast as excluded.

What the $0 really cost was the year. Leave early and you owed a prorated change fee for the months that remained, so a household that moved or cancelled in month four could end up paying more than someone who bought the kit outright. For a household sure to stay twelve months, it was the cheapest way in that we’ve recorded.

It ended Jun 25, 2025, by our main source; one source gives Jul 14, 2025, so the row carries an “end date conflict” flag. Our 12-month commitment post walks through its terms start to finish, and offers that need a commitment explains the change fee.

$175: the only nationwide low

From Aug 11 to Sep 12, 2025, the kit sold for $175, half of $349, and satelliteinternet.com reported it as nationwide. That makes it the lowest price in our log that any US address could get without a commitment.

The fine print was on the plan side. Discounted first-year plans came with the sale, but only in mapped areas, and the plan discount was lost if you changed, paused or cancelled. So two neighbors could pay the same $175 for the kit and very different amounts each month, depending on whether their address was mapped.

$89: the cheapest no-commitment kit, if your state qualified

On Sep 13, 2025, Tesla North reported an $89 kit in low-demand areas, listing nine states: Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. It came with first-year plan discounts, though sources disagree on which plan was $59 a month, and no end date was published.

$89 is lower than $175, but it was never a national price. If your address wasn’t in a qualifying area, you saw the regular price. That’s why our log marks it regional and why we never build state-by-state pages: only starlink.com’s checkout, with your exact address, could show it.

Why today’s $0 isn’t a fourth record low

starlink.com’s national listing, read Oct 5, 2026, showed the Standard kit as a rental with $0 up front. That looks like the April 2025 offer, but it works differently:

• You never own the kit. Starlink does. If you cancel, you return it within 30 days or pay its full retail price.
• There can be a monthly rental fee. A $10-a-month fee was added for new Residential customers from about Jun 9, 2026, and since about Jul 20, 2026 it has been $0 in select areas. Shipping of about $20 is reported.
• There’s no commitment of the 2025 kind, but Standby isn’t available on some rental kits.

So we log the rental as a live free-kit offer, not as a price point on the kit chart. A $0 rental and a $0 purchase are different deals, and the chart only records purchase prices. Our rental guide lists every charge.

Store lows, kept separate

Stores have their own record. Home Depot sold the Standard kit for $279 over Black Friday 2025, the same as starlink.com’s holiday price for the kit with a Roam plan. A single low-authority blog reported a $175 kit in some Costco warehouses on Feb 17, 2026; neither Costco nor we could confirm it, so it stays unclear and off the starlink.com chart.

Store prices go on their own rows because a store kit is a different purchase: it never qualifies for the Starlink referral free month, and returns run through the store. Our store vs starlink.com tool puts both prices on one screen.

Reading “lowest price ever” headlines

Outlets used “lowest price ever” for both the $89 and the $175 kits, and each was true for some readers. A few checks before you trust the phrase:

1. Nationwide or select areas? Two of the three lows were regional.
2. Purchase or rental? A $0 rental isn’t a $0 kit.
3. What does the plan cost? A cheap kit with a discount you lose on any change can cost more over a year than a list-price kit.
4. Is there a commitment? The $0 kit’s year was the real price.
5. What’s the date? All three lows ended in 2025. An undated article can keep ranking for months.

A worked example: which low would have suited whom

These use only prices in our log and the conditions as reported.

A household in Wyoming, certain to stay put, autumn 2025. The $89 kit was the cheapest no-commitment way in, if the address qualified. Had the household been shopping in May 2025 instead, the $0 kit would have been cheaper still, provided it was in a qualifying area and kept service twelve months.

A renter in a big East Coast city, likely to move within a year, August 2025. The $175 kit was the only low open to every address. The $0 kit’s 12-month commitment would have been a gamble for someone who might move: a prorated fee for the months left.

A household shopping today. None of the three exists. The choice is $349 to buy where offered, or the $0-up-front rental. Whether owning is worth it depends on whether you’d ever want Standby on an owned kit, resell it, or keep it after cancelling.

Common mistakes

• Quoting $89 or $0 as “the Starlink price”. They were regional and ended.
• Treating the rental as a sale. You’ll owe the kit’s full price if you cancel and don’t return it.
• Ignoring the plan side of a kit sale. The $175 and $89 kits came with plan discounts that had conditions of their own.
• Mixing store and starlink.com lows. They’re different purchases with different returns.

What we don’t know

• Exactly which addresses qualified for the $0 and $89 kits. Starlink didn’t publish lists.
• When the $89 offer ended. No end date was published.
• Which plan was $59 a month with the $89 kit; sources disagree.
• Whether the Costco $175 warehouse price existed beyond one blog post.

What to do next

The price-drop page holds the full record as a chart, a table and a CSV, and our deals log shows what’s live today. For the complete Standard kit timeline from $499 in 2020, read Standard kit price history. If a new low appears, it goes into the news feed with its source and date first.