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Boxabl Casita Studio
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The Casita Studio, a modular kit from Boxabl, is published at $60,000 to $150,000 for the kit and covers 361 square feet.
Boxabl does not publish a wind rating, a snow load or anything about fire for this model, so 44 percent of the fields we score are blank.
None of that tells you whether it works on your land. Wind, snow, seismic and flood performance are site specific engineering, so the only useful answer comes from running this kit against your address.
Completeness
56 percent of the fields we score are backed by something Boxabl published. Why completeness is never part of the grade.
The thing nobody else will tell you
This kit cannot be scored on its own. Nothing on this page tells you whether it works on your land.
Wind, snow, seismic and flood performance come from your address, not from this kit. Put in an address and the gates run against the real requirement at that point.
Free, and it stays free.
Against our own kit
The owner of this site makes a kit home too. Rather than hide that at the bottom of a policy page, here it is at the top of every kit page, on published data only, with the same eight questions in the same order every time. Where a maker publishes nothing, this says so instead of guessing.
| Boxabl Casita Studio | The Octolithic ours | |
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| Can you order one today? | Yes | No |
| Published price | Not published | Not publishednot yet. see our target |
| Size | 361 sq ft | 400 sq ft |
| Design wind speed | Not published | Not publishednot yet. see our target |
| Snow load | Not published | Not publishednot yet. see our target |
| Wall R value | Not published | R-19.3 for the finished exterior wall. One panel, one thickness, no options: a 5 inch core, 7 and three quarter inches finished, with 1 inch of structural mortar on each face. Tested on the … |
| Foundation | Not published | Two options, and they are not an upgrade path, they are a question about the lot. On a slab at grade, or raised on its own eight sided garage story with a structural elevated floor. In a FEM… |
| Where it ships | All 50 states plus Washington DC, per the online order form's state selector. | Florida only. The engineering stamp is state specific. |
Both publish 2 of these 5 measurable figures. We publish no design wind speed and no snow load, which are the two figures that decide whether any kit can be permitted on a given lot, so on the numbers that matter most we cannot yet prove anything. A blank is a maker who has not published a figure, and it is not a fail. How this conflict is handled.
The Octolithic Kit Grade
| Buyability weight 25 | 100 takes orders today, publishes a price, lead time 8 weeks, nationwide delivery |
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| Cost honesty weight 25 | 76 publishes a price, publishes a range rather than one misleading number, itemises 6 of 14 build stages |
| Materials and carbon tier weight 15 | 40 new steel framing, a higher embodied carbon class |
Rubric v1.0, August 2026. Site fit is not in this grade, because it depends on your land rather than on the kit. Every weight, and what we refuse to grade.
What the maker publishes
Everything here came off Boxabl's own pages, cited at the bottom. A blank is a blank: we never fill one in.
| Build type | Modular |
|---|---|
| Structural system | Steel-frame, factory-built folding modular unit (folds flat for transport, unfolds/is installed on site) |
| Finished size | 361 sq ft |
| Bedrooms | 0 |
| Bathrooms | 1 |
| Wall R value | Not published |
| Roof R value | Not published |
| Foundation types | Not published |
| Lead time | 8 weeks |
| Delivers to | All 50 states plus Washington DC, per the online order form's state selector. |
| Country | United States |
| Build difficulty | Crane and a trained crew Modules or heavy steel arrive on a truck and go up with a crane. Read from the construction method. |
What the maker says it resists
Design capability as published. Not a certification, not a rating of your house, and not proof against anything.
| Engineered wind speed | Not published |
|---|---|
| Roof snow capability | Not published |
| Seismic | Company states the unit is 'seismic rated' and 'exceeds building code' but does not publish a specific seismic design value on the page checked. |
| Fire | Not published |
Price
$60,000 to $150,000
This is the number the maker publishes. What it covers is in the line below, and it is almost never the finished cost of a house.
| What that number covers | 'Unit Only' ($60,000): factory-built folding unit plus basic documentation package; no installation. 'Turnkey' ($150,000 standard, $140,000 at a stated limited-time promotional price): adds site survey/custom planning, engineering services, utility connections (water/electric/sewer), foundation and professional installation, shipping and crane services, final inspection/certification, and warranty (1-year standard + 6-year extended). |
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What else we found
FLAG - DEPOSIT/DELIVERY RISK: Boxabl has a well-documented pattern of collecting money (a $250 order fee, then a $2,500+ production-queue deposit) with long and inconsistently-communicated delivery timelines. Its BBB profile (not BBB-accredited) shows complaints in the prior 3 years citing deposit-refund difficulties, multi-year delivery delays, and poor communication. The company has also been party to litigation involving dealers/partners (e.g., Boxabl Inc. v. Tassev, 2:23-cv-00760; Boxabl Inc. v. Box House Inc., 4:2024cv00032). '8 weeks' lead time above is the company's stated factory-build time only ('as little as 2 months'); it explicitly excludes jurisdiction-dependent permitting time. Prospective buyers should verify current production-queue status directly before paying any deposit.
Questions to send this maker
Generated from what they left blank. Every one of these is a thing they could answer today and have chosen not to publish. Copy them into an email. If they answer, tell us and we will update this page with the citation.
- What design wind speed is this model engineered to, in miles per hour, and at what Risk Category and Exposure Category?
- What ground snow load can the roof carry, in pounds per square foot, and is that the ground load or the roof load?
- What is the roof assembly's fire classification, and are the vents ember resistant?
- Which foundation types does this kit support, and can it sit on piers above a base flood elevation?
- What is the wall R value, and is that nominal insulation or a tested whole assembly value including thermal bridging?
- What is the roof R value, and is it nominal or whole assembly?
Across the whole Index, the average kit publishes about a quarter of what a buyer needs. This maker is at 56 percent.
Questions people ask about the Boxabl Casita Studio
Answered from what Boxabl publishes, including the answers that are "they do not say".
How much does the Boxabl Casita Studio cost?
Boxabl publishes $60,000 to $150,000. 'Unit Only' ($60,000): factory-built folding unit plus basic documentation package; no installation. 'Turnkey' ($150,000 standard, $140,000 at a stated limited-time promotional price): adds site survey/custom planning, engineering services, utility connections (water/electric/sewer), foundation and professional installation, shipping and crane services, final inspection/certification, and warranty (1-year standard + 6-year extended).
What wind speed is the Boxabl Casita Studio engineered to?
Boxabl does not publish a design wind speed for this model. Only about one kit maker in ten publishes one. Note that "hurricane rated" has no legal definition in the United States, so a page using that phrase without a number has told you nothing.
What snow load can the Boxabl Casita Studio roof take?
Boxabl does not publish a snow load for this model. Around one maker in twenty does.
Can you actually buy the Boxabl Casita Studio?
Yes. Boxabl takes orders for this model today.
What foundation does the Boxabl Casita Studio need?
Boxabl does not publish foundation options for this model. That matters more than it sounds: in a FEMA A or V flood zone the finished floor has to sit above the base flood elevation, and a kit offered on a slab only cannot get there.
How well does the Boxabl Casita Studio stand up to a hurricane or a wildfire?
The honest answer is what it resists, and under what conditions. No kit home is proof against either, and any page telling you otherwise is selling. "Hurricane rated" has no legal definition in the United States, no house can be tornado rated, and whole building certifications like LEED, Passive House and HERS all require a built, sited, inspected home and cannot be attached to a model from a spec sheet. What a maker can honestly tell you is what the design resists and under what conditions. For this model, they publish nothing at all.
Will the Boxabl Casita Studio work on my land?
Nothing on any spec sheet can answer that, including this one. Wind, snow, seismic, flood and soil requirements come from your address, not from the kit. The Octolithic runs every kit in the Index against the published hazard data for your point and shows you what survives and why the rest did not. It is free.
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Other modular kits in the Index
How it compares
It documents more than the average modular kit, 56 percent against 26, and more than every other modular kit we hold. Against the 4 modular kits with a comparable published price, it sits above 0 of them, and the middle of that group is $464,632.
Computed across all 515 kit homes in the Index, 27 of them modular. Recomputed on every build.
Sources
| Where these values came from | https://www.boxabl.com/casita |
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| Maker's site | https://www.boxabl.com/ |
| Last checked | 09 October 2026 |
Values are what the maker published on the date above. Makers change pages without notice. If you find something out of date, use the contact form and we will recheck it and re-cite it. Members can dispute any figure on the page, and the dispute and its resolution are both published.