Starlink Maritime Price Per Month: $185-$5,150

Updated 17 September 2026 · pricing, starlink, connectivity

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Starlink Maritime costs from $185 to $5,150 a month depending on the plan and the provider: $185 for the Personal Maritime boat plan, $250 to $2,150 for Starlink's own Global Priority tiers, and up to $5,150 for the largest reseller plan. Two caveats from the Starlink pricing result checked 4 November 2026: Starlink's public Maritime pricing starts at $250 a month, and neither the $185 figure nor the $5,150 figure appears there. The $185 figure comes from a third-party report, and the $5,150 figure is a reseller's. On the plans with a published data allowance that works out at $1.075 to $7 a gigabyte. The cheapest rate is Starlink's own Global Priority 2TB plan, $2,150 a month for 2TB. The dearest is Global Satellite's 10GB reseller plan, $300 a month for 10GB, which comes to $7 a gigabyte. For how these numbers stack up against other maritime satellite providers, see Maritime Satellite Internet Prices Compared.

This table covers the monthly price, data allowance and cost per gigabyte for Starlink's own plans and for two resellers, each checked against a dated source. It does not cover coverage, hardware, installation, contract terms or real-world speeds, and where a top-up rate is quoted without a published base monthly price, that price is marked as not published rather than estimated. Starlink is your at-sea connection; once the vessel is alongside, port-side data usually costs less through a phone, see eSIM vs Pocket WiFi for Crew for that comparison. For the port leg itself, a small Airalo eSIM bundle (a few dollars for 1-3GB) covers a phone ashore without paying for a whole month of the vessel's Starlink plan, it isn't cheaper per gigabyte than Starlink's own big tiers, it just avoids buying more satellite data than a few hours on the pier actually need.

How much is Starlink Maritime? The short answer (checked 4 November 2026)

The Global Priority ladder of $250, $650, $1,150 and $2,150 was confirmed on 4 November 2026 against Starlink's own current pricing result, which lists the four tiers at those monthly prices. The same result describes each tier by who it suits:

Official prices for plans above 2TB were not shown in the pricing result retrieved on 4 November 2026. A reseller article published in June 2026 and updated in July 2026, checked 26 October 2026, also gives a terminal access charge of about $150 a month on most tiers and top-up data at $2 a gigabyte, and it does not say whether the terminal charge is already inside the headline prices. Current amounts for hardware, installation, taxes and other fees were not specified in the retrieved official Maritime pricing result, so ask the seller for the all-in monthly figure in writing.

No Starlink on board yet? Two things cover the gap while the vessel is still deciding on a plan or waiting on a terminal: a Airalo eSIM gets a phone online the moment you're ashore in port, and a NordVPN or Surfshark VPN license is ready to switch on over whatever connection the vessel already has in the meantime.

Marine VSAT and yacht internet: where Starlink Maritime sits

Conventional geostationary marine VSAT is sold on per-vessel contracts, and no current public price list was found on 26 October 2026. The one dated entry-level plan in our data is a Globecomm reseller plan at $595 a month for 5GB, about $119 a gigabyte, from a 2024 report. Another reseller lists a 5GB plan on a 36-month contract and an unlimited plan limited to 1 to 8 Mbit/s, both without a published price. Next to that, Starlink's Global Priority tiers cost $1.075 to $5 a gigabyte. Yachts cannot use Personal Maritime, since it is limited to personal small watercraft, so a yacht prices the Global Priority ladder above against a written VSAT quote.

What changes on 1 December 2026

Starlink's support page, checked 4 November 2026, says that from 1 December 2026 Local Priority will be renamed Business and Global Priority will be renamed Global Business. The announced change also carries a changed international-use policy, and new pricing will appear on invoices dated on or after that day. Under the announced policy, Business includes 30 consecutive days of international use, and more than 30 days outside the home country or service region may require Global Business. The new prices were not part of the retrieved result, so the $250 to $2,150 ladder in this article is the pre-rename Global Priority pricing as of 4 November 2026.

Starlink Maritime price per month, plan by plan

Starlink Maritime's monthly price runs from $185 a month for the smallest plan up to $5,150 a month for the largest reseller plan in this table. The plan that fits a given vessel comes down to how much data it uses each month, not the lowest sticker price alone.

The cheapest entry point is Personal Maritime at $185 a month, built for smaller boats. As of the Starlink pricing result checked 4 November 2026, that price is not on Starlink's public price page. A third-party article says it was a "Personal Maritime" price for US accounts communicated by Starlink email and not listed on the public price pages, so current availability, limits and eligibility are unknown. The plan includes unlimited data in territorial waters, and ocean-going data outside that zone is billed separately through Ocean Mode (see the throttle and overage table further down this page). For a plan with a published ocean data allowance instead of a flat rate, Starlink's own Global Priority 50GB plan starts at $250 a month.

Personal Maritime was introduced in August 2026 for personal, small watercraft. In Starlink-related reporting, "territorial waters" means within 12 nautical miles of shore, and the plan does not carry the Roam plan's 30-day international-travel limit. Its vessel size limit has changed since launch: the initial terms reportedly restricted it to boats up to 40 feet, and a report dated 4 September 2026 said the limit had been revised to 60 feet or less, so check the current terms before ordering. It is for personal use only. Yachts, ferries, commercial fishing vessels and other commercially operated boats are excluded, and it is not intended for use on land. The sources checked on 7 October 2026 do not establish whether a freelancer working from a boat counts as personal use.

Reading down this table by monthly price alone: budgets under $300 a month land on Personal Maritime (where available), a 50GB Global Priority plan direct or through a reseller, or Global Satellite's 10GB plan. Budgets in the $600 to $1,400 range cover 500GB to 1TB of data across Starlink direct and both resellers. Above $2,000 a month, the choice is between Starlink's own 2TB Global Priority plan and Satellite Phone Store's larger 5TB plan. Full sourcing and the dollar-per-gigabyte figure for each of these rows is in the table below.

A September 2026 comparison, checked 7 October 2026, lists the same Global Priority ladder at $250 a month for 50GB, $650 for 500GB, $1,150 for 1TB and $2,150 for 2TB, with additional data sold in blocks. A September 2026 table checked the same day lists a 5TB plan at $5,150 a month, about $1.03 a gigabyte, and attributes it to a reseller rather than to Starlink directly. The $5,150 figure is not supported by the Starlink pricing page or the current comparison retrieved on 4 November 2026, so treat it as a reseller price, not a Starlink list price.

One September 2026 industry article, checked 7 October 2026, lists a different set of commercial tiers. These are secondary figures, and the source did not establish that they are current direct Starlink plans, so their official status is unknown.

A comparison site checked 4 November 2026 also reports a Global Priority Unlimited offer listed at $2,495 a month through distributors for IMO-registered cargo and tanker vessels. It was not shown on Starlink's own page, so its official availability and terms are unknown.

Starlink Maritime pricing, checked against the source pages

Plans without a published per-gigabyte price

Throttle after the priority data allowance runs out

Starlink itself states the 1 Mbps download and 0.5 Mbps upload figure for the period after the monthly Priority Data limit is used up, as of the pages checked 4 November 2026. Customers can opt into paid additional data, and Starlink says a 50GB top-up does not automatically renew. One other secondary source (Starlink Insider) describes the 50GB tier losing ocean connectivity outright, with access limited to starlink.com, once the allowance is gone. That description conflicts with Starlink's own statement, so treat the 1/0.5 Mbps figure as the one to plan around. No independently published latency, typical offshore speed, uptime or failure-rate benchmark was found.

How to read this table

Price per gigabyte here depends mostly on volume and on markup. Starlink's own Global Priority 2TB plan comes to $1.075 a gigabyte against $5 a gigabyte for its 50GB plan, bigger direct plans are consistently cheaper per gigabyte at this size.

For the 500GB, 1TB and 2TB tiers, Starlink direct and Satellite Phone Store currently charge the identical monthly price, so the size of the plan matters more than the choice of seller at that size. Global Satellite is the pricier reseller at 1TB: $1,400 a month, $2.50 a gigabyte, against $1,150 direct. For light or occasional use, Satellite Phone Store's 50GB plan at $275 a month, $5.50 a gigabyte, keeps the flat monthly bill low.

The main trap is the rate once a plan's allowance is used up. Global Priority top-up data is $2 a gigabyte. Ocean Mode, the ocean-coverage option for Roam Unlimited, and the way Personal Maritime bills ocean data, was $2 a gigabyte until 26 September 2026 and is $6 a gigabyte from 27 September 2026 onward, a date that has now passed; Personal Maritime, a newer $185-a-month base plan for smaller boats, already bills its ocean data at $6 a gigabyte from launch. Sources checked on 7 October 2026 report Ocean Mode data beyond territorial waters under Personal Maritime at $6 a gigabyte, and one of them says the rate previously cost $2 a gigabyte and increased to $6. At that rate the $185 base price is not the full cost of offshore use, and the sources found do not state a monthly cap, bill-protection feature or automatic spending limit. Skip the top-up entirely on a Global Priority plan and Starlink says speeds drop to 1 Mbps down / 0.5 Mbps up (Starlink support pages, checked 4 November 2026).

Two other limits are worth knowing. Unlimited use on Personal Maritime is described as applying within 12 nautical miles of a coast, and the sources do not explain how that boundary is enforced in every jurisdiction. The sources gathered also give no verified figures for uptime, typical speeds or latency at sea, or support response times on any plan, and one Trustpilot report describes service staying restricted right after activation. That is a single customer report, not a measured failure rate. The research checked on 4 November 2026 found no attributable, concrete user complaints or documented maritime failure cases beyond that, and no current maritime subscriber, vessel-count or market-share figure.

Usage rules that affect what you pay for

Starlink's support pages, checked 4 November 2026, set a few conditions that matter when budgeting:

• Coverage and motion: Global Priority is intended for global and ocean coverage, including in-motion use up to 100 mph (160 km/h, 87 knots).
• Terminals: a maximum of two terminals may be used per service line when operated on the same vessel, vehicle or building.
• Coastal waters: maritime use in coastal waters should be limited to territorial waters where SpaceX or the end user holds the required licensing.
• Scope of service: Starlink provides prioritized satellite connectivity. The retrieved sources do not establish that it supplies onboard network installation, managed IT support, guaranteed uptime or a complete vessel communications system, so those may be extra costs from an installer or reseller.

One question the top results do not answer is what a freelancer or small business actually pays per month once normal usage passes the allowance, counting top-ups, hardware, installation, taxes and any distributor fees. Those totals are unknown from the sources retrieved. Whether 1 Mbps is workable for ordinary business tasks offshore is also unreported by anyone who has used it at work, so a seller quote and a trial period are worth asking for.

How these numbers are collected

Every row above comes from a vendor or reseller plan table, with the date we last read it in the Checked column and a link to the page it came from. The dollars-per-gigabyte column is arithmetic on those two published figures, not a quote from the seller.

This page is a snapshot taken on 2026-09-17, with the Global Priority ladder and the post-allowance speed cap rechecked against Starlink's own pricing and support pages on 4 November 2026 (previously rechecked on 26 October 2026), and with the Personal Maritime, Ocean Mode and tier-listing notes refreshed against web research checked on 7 October 2026. It is not a live feed. The Global Priority 500GB, 1TB and 2TB figures above matched Starlink's own pricing result on 4 November 2026; on earlier snapshots of this page Starlink's plan page did not return content to the tools used, and secondary sources disagreed with each other on those three tiers at the time of checking. The rename of Global Priority to Global Business on 1 December 2026 may change prices after that date. Satellite plans change without notice, and a reseller can quote a different number on the phone. Treat it as the starting point for a quotation, and check the source link before you commit a vessel to a contract.