Some personal context: I've been doing aerial photography as a side hustle for a couple of years now. There are several sites out there that offer one-off jobs

Some personal context: I've been doing aerial photography as a side hustle for a couple of years now. There are several sites out there that offer one-off jobs for bid. While you usually don't know who your ultimate client is, I've done probably ~25 of those that were obviously for insurance purposes. All but two were commercial properties; those two were homes where the owner was also operating a business out of an outbuilding, so it's reasonable for me to believe that they were also for commercial insurers. From the drone operator's side, the pay for this kind of work ranges from ~$50-150. Based on the research I've done into the companies posting jobs on these sites, they seem to be charging ~$200. I'm sure large customers with lots of jobs get a significant discount, too. TL;DR: The ubiquity of drones these days has driven the cost of this sort of data collection way, way down.