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Which Starlink terminal should I buy?
Match the terminal to how the site behaves, not to the price tag. A crew that relocates buys a Mini or builds around a mobility kit; a fixed structure with mains power buys a Standard; anything exposed to weather, wash-down or vibration buys Performance or Enterprise. The guide below asks the four questions that actually decide it, and the table after it gives you the numbers Starlink itself publishes.
- Portable and battery-run: only the Mini is built to be carried and struck each day.
- Fixed site needing WiFi for a building: the Standard covers the most floor area and the most devices.
- Wet, dusty or vibrating environment: Performance is rated for pressure washing and a rack-mounted power supply.
- Permanent professional install: Enterprise pairs the Standard's own panel with earthed, IP66 power hardware.
- Crossing a border or working at sea: the terminal choice is separate from the plan — get the region right too.
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Buying guide
How to choose between the four terminals
Four questions sort almost every buyer into the right terminal. Answer them in the order below and the shortlist writes itself; the comparison table further down fills in the numbers.
Start with how the terminal will actually live day to day, not with a spec sheet. A dish that gets carried, mounted, struck and carried again needs a completely different build to one bolted down for five years, and the difference between models tracks that difference in build, not raw throughput. Two sites with the same headcount can need two different terminals once you account for how exposed each one is and whether it ever leaves the ground.
The rows below cover the situations that come up most often. If a job doesn't match one cleanly, call (800) 279-2366 and describe the site rather than guessing at a model — it's a shorter conversation than sending back the wrong terminal.
01
Carried in a pack or vehicle, set up and struck most days
→Starlink Mini
It's the only terminal here light enough to travel daily, and it runs on DC power alone.
02
Fixed at one address, WiFi needed across a building
→Starlink Standard
Covers up to 297 m² and 235 devices through a separate WiFi 6 router — the terminal most sites should buy.
03
Exposed to pressure washing, dust, vibration or a plant room
→Starlink Performance
IP69K with cables installed and a rack-mountable power supply designed for a 10-year service life.
04
A permanent professional install with proper earthed power
→Starlink Enterprise
The same panel as the Standard, built around an IP66 earthed power supply and a 50 m cable for a real installation.
05
A crew of six or more sharing one connection under way
→Standard or Performance, not the Mini
128 devices and 112 m² of WiFi coverage suit one or two people, not a crew sharing a vessel or a site office.
06
A defined job with a hard end date, not an ongoing site
→Rent, don't buy
A rental kit gets the connection without owning hardware for a job that won't repeat.
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Every terminal, adapter and bundle on this page ships from stock. A model that's disabled or out of stock simply drops off this grid rather than sitting here as a dead tile.
Specifications
Compare the four terminals
These figures come straight from Starlink's own specification sheets. Three of the four models have no published download, upload or latency figure at all — that's not a gap in this table, it's what Starlink has released.
ONE PUBLISHED SPEED FIGURE
Performance is the only model with a published speed: up to 400+ Mbps. If you see a number quoted for the Mini, Standard or Enterprise anywhere else, it isn't from Starlink.
| Mini | Standard | Performance | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weight (terminal only) | 1.10 kg (2.43 lb) | 2.9 kg (6.4 lb) | 5.2 kg (11.5 lb) | Not published (package weight only) |
| Field of view | 110° | 110° | 140° | 110° |
| Environmental rating | IP67 Type 4 with DC cable & plug installed | IP67 Type 4 | IP69K with cables installed, IP68 without | IP67 Type 4 |
| Operating temperature | -30°C to 50°C | -30°C to 50°C | -40°C to 60°C | -30°C to 50°C |
| Wind — operational | 96 kph+ (60 mph+) | 96 kph+ (60 mph+) | Not published | 96 kph+ (60 mph+) |
| Wind — survivable | Not published | Not published | 280 kph+ (174 mph+) | Not published |
| Average power draw | 25–40 W | 75–100 W | 75–100 W | 75–100 W |
| Download speed | Not published | Not published | Up to 400+ Mbps | Not published |
| Devices / WiFi coverage | Up to 128 devices, 112 m² | Up to 235 devices, 297 m² | Not published | Not published |
| Cable length in box | 15 m (with kickstand kit) | 15 m (with kickstand kit) | 25 m | 50 m |
Wind rating is split into two rows deliberately: three models publish an operational figure, Performance publishes a survivable figure instead, and the two are not comparable.
What else you need
What else you need to get connected
A plan. The terminal is hardware; the connection comes from a plan on top of it. A plan is defined by two things — how far the terminal may travel, and how much priority data it gets each month. Local plans are tied to a home region and cost the least per gigabyte; global plans work across borders and at sea, subject to each territory's regulatory status. Mobility itself is included on every plan Satmodo sells, so moving the terminal is never a separate permission or an upgrade — only the region decides how far it can travel. Running past the priority allowance doesn't cut the connection off; traffic beyond it is simply served at lower priority, so it's unaffected most of the time and slower only when the local cell is busy. If several terminals need to share one allowance under one account, that's a pooled plan, and because it's priced to the fleet it starts as a conversation rather than a checkout. Browse plans at the plans shop or read how they work at the plans guide.
A mount. Mounts and pipe adapters are model-specific — a Standard adapter does not fit a Performance panel, and ordering by name rather than by model is the single most common cause of a return here. Pick the family that matches your terminal at Starlink accessories before you order anything else.
The right cable length. The run from dish to router is a fixed constraint once it's installed, and it's cheaper to measure the run twice than to re-terminate a roof cable afterwards. If you're not certain what your site needs, call (800) 279-2366 and describe the run rather than guessing at a length.
Power, if the site is off grid. The Mini draws the least of the four and is the easiest to run from DC, a battery bank or a vehicle; the larger terminals need a more sustained supply, and Performance's rack-mountable power supply is built to take a backup battery for exactly that reason. Size the power system to the terminal you've chosen, not the other way round — see powering Starlink off grid before you commit to either.
| Surface | What it needs | Which terminals fit |
|---|---|---|
| Pole, mast or rail | A pole or rail adapter that clamps the terminal's kickstand or panel mount | Available across the range, but the adapters are not interchangeable between models |
| Flat roof or deck | A flat mount, or the terminal's own kickstand | Suits Mini and Standard; Performance and Enterprise are heavier and usually go on a fixed pole instead |
| Vehicle roof or bonnet, moving under way | A magnetic mount rated for the terminal's weight | Mini only — the larger terminals are too heavy and too large in profile for a magnetic mount in motion |
| Wall, permanent install | A wall mount and an earthed power run | Standard and Enterprise; Enterprise adds its own power supply mount for the earthed unit |
Mounting hardware is model-specific throughout the range; check the fit before ordering rather than after.
Kits and bundles
Bundles and kits, and when they earn their keep
A bundle is a terminal built into a kit for one job, not a discount for buying the same parts separately.
Trailblazer Land Mobility Bundle
Built around a terminal for a vehicle or a mobile team that relocates by road: mounting and cabling are matched to a job that moves, rather than picked separately afterwards.
Maritime Pro Bundle
Built around a terminal for a vessel, with mounting and cabling suited to a deck and a mast rather than a rooftop or a pole.
Mini Ballistic Max Kit
A Mini in a hardened transport case, for a team that needs the terminal to survive being thrown in a truck bed rather than carried in a padded bag.
Buy a bundle when the job is already defined and matching mount, cable and case to it yourself would just mean assembling the same kit by trial and error — a mobile team standing up a site every few weeks, or a vessel where the mounting hardware has to survive a deck rather than a rooftop. The saving is in time and in not getting the fit wrong on the first attempt, not in the terminal itself.
Buy a bare terminal and pick your own mount and cable when the install is fixed, when you already know exactly what the site needs, or when the terminal is going into a permanent installation that a mobility-focused kit was never built for. Nothing in a bundle changes the terminal's own specification — it only changes what ships around it, so check the comparison table above regardless of which route you take.
Questions
Frequently asked
Yes. A terminal is hardware only; browse plans at /service-plan/starlink or read how they work at /starlink/starlink-plans. Every plan Satmodo sells includes mobility, so you never pay extra just to use the terminal on the move.
Only on a global plan. A local plan is priced against one region, and used outside it, it isn't a slow connection, it's no connection at all — the terminal simply won't get online.
Not past a point. Its WiFi covers up to 112 m² and 128 devices — roughly a third of the Standard's coverage area and about half its device ceiling — so a small crew or a single vehicle is its natural ceiling, not a full office floor.
Not reliably. Every terminal here needs a largely unobstructed view of the sky; heavy branches over the dish cause dropouts however good the plan underneath it is.
You can, if the dish gets a clear view of the sky from a roof or a high balcony, but plenty of city sites simply can't offer that, and a dish boxed in by taller buildings on every side will underperform whatever plan you put on it.
Not by default, and most business and enterprise plans here don't include one as standard. If a specific application needs a fixed address, confirm it when the plan is set up rather than assuming it's included.
Both sit in the Standard range; the specification above is for the Standard 4 we sell. If a job specifically calls for the X variant, ask before ordering, since there's no separate published sheet for it here.
Not on the same hardware. Mounts and pipe adapters are model-specific, and a Standard adapter does not fit a Performance panel, so budget for the matching adapter rather than reusing the old one.
Software-assisted manual orienting walks you through pointing the dish once it has power and a network connection. Most of the time on a first install goes into choosing a mount location with a genuinely clear sky view, not the pointing itself.
The Mini draws the least power in the range and is the easiest to run from DC, a battery bank or a vehicle; the larger terminals need a more sustained supply. See /off-grid-power/starlink for how to size a system.
It can carry the connection, but it's also one point of failure and one coverage area. Larger crews and sites usually mean the Standard or Performance for wider coverage, plus a second terminal or a satellite phone from /buy/satellite-phones-radios as backup, rather than one dish stretched further than it's rated for.
It's designed to be self-service — software-assisted orienting and a kickstand or mount get most sites connected without a technician. For anything beyond that, from choosing a mount to sizing off-grid power, call (800) 279-2366 before you order rather than after the terminal arrives.
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