Requirement gateway
Industrial wifi router price rows need one radio, one power feed, and one license scope
An industrial wifi router price collapses when one factory prices the bare board and another quietly adds a 24 V brick, two antennas, and a cloud seat. Write those rows before anyone subtracts the totals.
Port count and port speed, including any empty SFP cage.
Power input voltage and whether Power over Ethernet is source, sink, or absent.
Software or license scope for VPN, cloud, or a second SSID pack.
Interfaces each factory should price on the same sheet
Ethernet side
Count 10/100 Mb/s jacks separately from 10/100/1000 Mb/s jacks. Switching capacity for four Gigabit ports, if claimed non-blocking and full duplex, is 8 Gbps. Forwarding rate near 1.488 Mpps per Gigabit at 64-byte frames is about 5.95 Mpps for those four ports. Ask whether the WAN port is inside that figure. Uplink type, copper or fibre, is its own cell. Optical budget applies only if an SFP is in the quote, and then wavelength and reach must be named.
Radio side
Frequency range for Wi-Fi, such as 2412 MHz to 2472 MHz and 5180 MHz to 5825 MHz where allowed, plus channel width 20 MHz, 40 MHz, or 80 MHz. MIMO 2x2 and MIMO 4x4 are different RF chains and different antenna counts. Gain in dBi is not a property of the router housing unless the antenna is integrated. Impedance of the antenna port, commonly 50 ohm, should be stated when the antenna is bought elsewhere.
SIM and routing
One SIM, dual SIM, or eSIM is a hardware difference. Routing or security features, such as IPsec tunnels, a firewall rule count, or a VLAN limit, need a number from the datasheet of the exact model. A phrase like advanced routing is not a count. Management method, local HTTPS, SNMP, or a cloud portal, decides whether a license row exists.
Mechanical and power
Rack format is often not a rack unit at all. Write DIN rail, wall plate, or a 1U shelf if that is what the buyer needs. Power input of 12 V, 24 V, or 48 V DC, with the watt draw at the quoted radio state, keeps the supply from being forgotten. Ingress protection, IP30 versus IP65, changes the enclosure price and the place the unit can sit.
Questions that change an industrial wifi router price
OEM-coded module or a compatible radio?
Some buyers want the radio module the platform vendor names, because support policy may follow that code. Others accept a compatible module when it is verified on the exact host, which can widen the factory list. Neither side is a default on this desk. The quotation must name the module manufacturer and the firmware it was tested with.
Which costs stay outside the unit price?
Freight, duties, a replacement antenna, a console cable, and the first year of a management seat are common exclusions. Currency and whether the target budget is per router or for the whole order must be visible. This page does not publish a market index, and it does not rank factories.
What evidence is attached?
Request the current datasheet, the band table, the power draw at the stated MIMO and channel width, and any FCC or safety file the destination legal team says applies. Applicability is a confirmation item. A public IEEE 802 overview read on 2026-10-27 only helps the Ethernet questions. It does not authorize the radio.
Three limits: a price without antennas is not a deployed cost, a license quoted as optional can exceed the hardware line, and band support outside the buyer SIM plan makes the unit unusable even if the port map matches. Continue with the inquiry cards or submit the rows.
Ask factories to fill the same price rows
Send port map, radio, power, license scope, quantity, destination, and timing. Optional budget and a high-end, mid-range, budget, or undecided preference travel with the brief as buyer choices.