Search for what a demolition robot costs and you get market-size reports, a used-equipment aggregator, and one content site that invents numbers. What you almost never get is a price attached to a model. Husqvarna and Brokk, the two brands that define the category, both route buyers to dealers, and dealers route them to a phone call.
We found an exception. Contractors Direct, a US construction-equipment retailer running on Shopify, lists Husqvarna DXR robots with prices in its catalog. We pulled all 8,058 products from its public product feed on 10 August 2026, confirmed the store currency is USD via its cart endpoint, and opened both machine pages to read the prices as displayed. Nine DXR/DCR line items came back with numbers.
The machines
| Model | Listed price | Weight | Reach (up) | Rated power |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Husqvarna DXR 145 | **$173,939.00** | 2,315 lb | 174.1 in | 24.8 hp |
| Husqvarna DXR 315 | **$259,195.30** | 4,696 lb | 216 in | 36 hp |
Specs are from Husqvarna's own US demolition-robot page, read the same day. The full US line has five models — DXR 95 (1,299 lb / 13 hp), DXR 145, DXR 275 (4,123 lb / 32 hp), DXR 305 (4,564 lb / 36 hp) and DXR 315 — so two of five models, 40%, have a public US price. That is almost exactly the ratio we found in solar-panel cleaning robots, where three of seven models were priced and the rest were quote-only.
Price tracks horsepower, not weight
Run the two priced machines against their own specs and something clean falls out:
| Metric | DXR 145 | DXR 315 | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $173,939.00 | $259,195.30 | 1.490× |
| Rated power | 24.8 hp | 36 hp | 1.452× |
| Weight | 2,315 lb | 4,696 lb | 2.028× |
| **Price per horsepower** | **$7,013.67** | **$7,199.87** | **1.027×** |
| Price per pound | $75.13 | $55.20 | 0.735× |
Dollars per horsepower is essentially flat across the line — 2.7% apart. Dollars per pound falls 26.5%. Our reading is that within the DXR range you are buying hydraulic power, and the extra steel comes along for free; the bigger machine is 103% heavier for 45% more money. If you are choosing between two DXRs, the honest comparison is impact energy and reach, not tonnage — and the bigger machine is the cheaper way to buy a horsepower even though it is the more expensive way to buy a robot.
One caveat we will flag rather than smooth over: the dealer's own DXR 145 page lists the weight as 2,171.52 lb while Husqvarna's site says 2,315 lb, a 6.6% disagreement between a manufacturer and its authorized retailer on the same machine. We used Husqvarna's figure. Neither source explains the gap.
The attachments are the story
A demolition robot arrives without a tool. Every page says so. Here is what the tools cost at the same retailer:
| Attachment | Price | Share of a machine |
|---|---|---|
| DCR 300 crusher | $79,823.80 | **30.8%** of a DXR 315 |
| DCR 100 crusher | $57,569.40 | **33.1%** of a DXR 145 |
| Tool bucket, 105 L wide | $6,290.62 | 3.6% |
| Tool bucket, 85 L standard | $4,504.08 | 2.6% |
| P2 cooling package (DXR 250/300/310) | $3,810.24 | 2.2% |
| Tool bucket, 40 L narrow | $3,794.56 | 2.2% |
| DXR 140 bucket | $3,199.70 | 1.8% |
A single concrete crusher costs about a third of the robot it bolts onto, and the ratio holds at both ends of the range — 33.1% on the small machine, 30.8% on the large one. That is remarkably disciplined pricing for an aftermarket item, and it means a realistic first purchase is not $173,939 but closer to $231,508 for a DXR 145 with one crusher, before a hydraulic breaker, which this retailer does not list at all.
The buckets have their own quirk. Per litre of capacity the 40 L narrow bucket costs $94.86/L, the 85 L costs $52.99/L and the 105 L costs $59.91/L. The smallest bucket is the most expensive per unit of volume by 79%, which is what you expect when the price is driven by the fabrication of a narrow profile rather than by the steel. Note also that the cooling package costs more than the standard bucket — an option to keep the machine running in heat is priced above the thing that carries the rubble.
What we could not price, and why
Brokk. The category's largest brand publishes no prices and has no US retailer with an online checkout that we could reach. Aggregator summaries quote a $29,753–$205,000 range with a $47,215 average across Brokk listings, but those are used-equipment listings of mixed age, model and condition, and MachineryTrader and Machinio both returned 403 to us, so we could not open a single original listing to verify a machine, a year or an hour meter. We are not publishing numbers we could not open.
Rental. Sunbelt, United Rentals and BigRentz all blocked automated access. Rental is genuinely the majority route into this category — the machines are project equipment, not fleet equipment — and we would rather say we could not get the rates than repeat a figure from a summary.
Catalog hygiene. Two things a buyer should know about the source. The DXR 315 lives at a URL ending husqvarna-dxr310, a leftover from the superseded model, and the three tool buckets are titled for the DXR 250/270/300/310 — a model generation that no longer appears in Husqvarna's current US lineup. Both machine pages display a price and an Add to Cart control but are marked Unavailable, so these are listed prices rather than executable ones. Eight of the nine line items carry a compare-at price of $0.00, the placeholder pattern we have catalogued repeatedly across dealer stores.
What this means if you are buying
- Budget the tool, not the robot. A crusher is roughly a third of the machine; a breaker is a separate line item again. Anyone quoting you "about $175,000 for a demolition robot" has quoted you a machine that cannot demolish anything.
- Compare on horsepower. Within the DXR line, price per horsepower is constant to within 3%. Weight is not a pricing variable, so paying more for a heavier machine only makes sense if the reach or the stability is what you actually need.
- Two prices are not a market. Everything above comes from one retailer on one day, and neither machine was in stock. Treat these as list anchors for a negotiation, not as street prices.
- Expect rental to win the first job. With no public rates and machines this expensive, the buy case usually needs a demolition pipeline rather than a single contract. That mirrors what we found modelling cobot cost per operating hour — utilisation, not sticker price, decides the economics.
For the wider category, see our construction and inspection robot price guide and the robots by category index.
Sources. Contractors Direct public product feed and product pages for the Husqvarna DXR 145 (SKU 970509705) and DXR 315 (SKU 970517605), plus DCR 100 (966786301), DCR 300 (966786401), tool buckets and cooling package, all read 10 August 2026; store currency confirmed USD via the site's cart endpoint. Husqvarna Construction US demolition-robot model page, read 10 August 2026, for weights, reach and rated power. Brokk and rental pricing: not verifiable at source on the day, and excluded.
