Starlink Mini 2 Invites Ask $999 With a Year of Service

If you were about to buy a Starlink Mini for camping, road trips or power-outage backup, your decision changed on November 10, 2026. Starlink announced the Mini 2, a new portable dish with a removable battery it rates for “up to 4.5 hours of connectivity on a single charge.” You cannot simply order one: Starlink’s page says “Preorders now open by invitation for select US customers.” And the invitation is not cheap. PCMag reports that emails sent to invited subscribers price the Mini 2 at $999, with a year of Roam Unlimited service included. The first Mini is still on sale in the US, “starting at $149.”

What Starlink announced

PCMag calls the Mini 2 “the first Starlink dish to support the company’s add-on battery.” That battery is a 71 watt-hour (Wh) pack that weighs 490 g, charges over USB-C at 60 W, and can itself put out up to 60 W over USB-C. Starlink says you can “stay online while the battery charges, or swap in a spare Mini 2 battery, sold separately.”

The box holds the dish, one battery, a kickstand, a 60 W USB-C charger and a 3 m (10 ft) USB-C cable. The built-in router moves to Wi-Fi 6, with coverage Starlink lists as “up to 1,800 ft².” There is a physical power button, a battery indicator, and a “standard 1/4-20 camera thread,” the same thread a camera tripod uses. Starlink’s pitch is that you point it at the sky and “get online in about 60 seconds.”

What it costs, and who can order

Starlink’s public Mini 2 page lists no price. The figures below come from the invitation email, as posted on X in a two-post thread by an invited customer, Dirty Tesla, and quoted in part by PCMag.

The $2,100 figure matches Starlink’s own price list: Roam Unlimited is listed as “starting at” $175 a month on its Roam page as of November 10, 2026, and twelve of those months come to $2,100. The email describes that plan as unlimited data “including in-motion use at speeds up to 100 mph,” plus international travel “up to 30 days at a time.”

One line in the email matters for everyone who was not invited: “this price and year of included service are exclusive to this preorder invitation.” The bundle is a preorder offer, and Starlink has not said what the dish will cost on its own.

Mini 2 against the first Mini

Both columns below are Starlink’s own published figures, read on November 10, 2026, apart from one PCMag weight that is labelled in its cell. Starlink’s page calls the older dish “Mini 1.”

IP67 is an ingress protection rating for dust and water, and megabits per second (Mbps) is the usual measure of connection speed. Take the battery off and the weights are close: 1.6 kg less the 490 g pack leaves about 1.1 kg for the Mini 2 with its kickstand. The shapes are not the same, though. The new dish is about 15 mm thinner, about 15 mm longer on its long side and 4 mm wider on its short side. Do not assume that a form-fitted case or mount made for the first Mini will fit it.

What Starlink has not said

• A public price. PCMag reports that the day before the launch, the YouTube channel DISHYtech found references in the Starlink.com API to a $249 Mini 2 price “as part of a beta program” and a $50 battery. Starlink has confirmed neither number; its page says only that spare batteries are “sold separately.”
• Speeds. PCMag notes there was “no mention of what download and upload speeds to expect.”
• Power draw. The page lists battery capacity, runtime and 60 W charging, but no figure for how much power the dish draws. Reaching 4.5 hours on 71 Wh would take an average draw of about 16 W or less, well under the 25 to 40 W average Starlink publishes for the first Mini, so treat 4.5 hours as a ceiling until someone measures it.
• A wired port. The first Mini has one Ethernet port. The Mini 2 spec list names none, and PCMag says the dish “appears to lack an Ethernet port based on the images on the website.” If you planned to wire a travel router to your dish, wait for that to be settled.
• When everyone else can buy. The page promises only “Coming soon to more customers and countries.”

Buy the $149 Mini now, or wait?

You have an invitation and would pay for Roam Unlimited anyway. The bundle is a discount. $999 before tax is less than six months of Roam Unlimited at its $175 list price, and you get twelve plus the dish. The same year on a first Mini would list at $149 for the kit plus $2,100 for service. The $100 deposit is refundable, but the remaining $899 is charged when your dish ships, which may be before any independent review exists.

You take a few trips a year. The bundle is the wrong shape for you. Roam 100GB is listed as starting at $55 a month, and Starlink lets you pause between trips with Standby Mode “for a small monthly fee.” Two trip months on a first Mini come to $149 plus $110, or $259 before the Standby fee for the months in between, about a quarter of the Mini 2 preorder, though for far less data: Starlink describes 100GB as “approximately 1 week of typical use.” The Starlink Mini cost guide works through the full year, and the plans guide covers what each Roam tier allows.

You have no invitation. There is nothing to order yet, and no public price to plan around. If you need a dish for a trip or for this winter’s outages, the first Mini, from $149 in the US, is the one you can order now. One way to run it away from an outlet is a USB-C power bank of at least 100 W with Starlink’s cable accessory, which is the job the Mini 2’s battery does on its own. The Mini accessories guide lists power banks and cables that meet that rule, with their caveats. If the built-in battery is the whole reason you want a Mini, sign up for Starlink’s availability emails and wait for a standalone price.

What comes next

By the email’s own estimate, shipments to invited buyers begin in mid-December. The numbers to watch for after that are the standalone price, the spare battery price, and the first independent speed and battery tests. Until then, the Mini 2 is confirmed hardware with a confirmed spec sheet and, for most people, no way to buy it. To see where it sits among Starlink’s other dishes, the dish decoder sorts the dishes on general sale by size and use.