USA pricing for the new Hilti ProKit tool box system has finally been revealed.
Not only that, there are introductory deals right now.
As you might have seen, ProKit is Hilti’s new modular tool box system. And no, there are no drawers (yet?).
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Here’s the pricing on the 5 initial offerings, as of the time of this posting:
Organizer (full-size) with 11 bins: $73
Small tool box (medium case): $95
Large tool box: $106
XL tool box: $137
2-wheel cart (trolley): $177
A 5pc combo as shown in the product photos will cost you $588.
Don’t fret, there’s an introductory sale, now thru October 3, 2025.
For a limited time, spend over $5,000 on new Hilti tools, and you get the hand cart and a single tool box for free. Spend at least $7,500, and you get the same plus another tool box and the organizer.
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Spend over $10,000, and it looks like you get one of everything for free – the organizer, small tool case, large tool box, and XL tool box, plus the cart.
Having to spend this kind of money to save on the new Hilti ProKit tool box system tells me all I need to know about the types of customers Hilti values.
I really thought Hilti was moving in a direction where they might be welcoming individual pro users and tradespeople, but I guess I was wrong.
I asked Hilti for more details 5 months ago when their sales reps started posting about ProKit on social media, and again with specific questions earlier this week, but have not yet heard back.
Here’s everything we know so far: Hilti ProKit – a New Modular Tool Box System
The new modular tool box system looks to have some interesting features, but it will likely be a long time until they catch up to Milwaukee Packout, Dewalt ToughSystem, and other competing storage systems.
And given Hilti’s focus, the needs and wants of individual tool users might take a backseat to those of larger customers.
HmmmDusty
Seems like one of those promos where you buy a tool or two and get a $5 beanie, just with more zeroes.
On balance, Hilton definitely couldn’t care less about individual consumers, but their fleet model kind of speaks to that already.
Stuart
Hilti has been buying up a lot of influencer hype. Corporate buyers don’t make purchasing decisions based on oohs and aahs on social media.
I really thought they were working on being more accessible to individual tool users.
It was extremely discouraging when I saw “sale,” clicked through, and saw you have to spend over $5,000 to get the least of the deals, and over $10,000 for the full set.
Fluke has free gift offer tiers that start with a purchase of at least $500 and go up to $20,000, and so this type of offer is not out of the ordinary, only the minimum spend.
HmmmDusty
It does seems strange to market using channels that would primarily be seen by individual buyers, when the main sales model is corporate. Maybe the figured it’s a net positive for little money spent? Hype is hype after all.
They happen to make tools same as other brands, but the target demo and sales model are different, no big loss. Lots of options out there.
WilliamWard
Between 1999 and 2012, Hilti tools were being sold in a special section at Home Depot locations.
When I first saw the tools in 1999, I had no clue who or what Hilti was as a brand, because I didn’t work heavy construction using rotary hammers and similar concrete tools like Breakers.
Hilti wasn’t sold thru any of the numerous Tool dealer catalogs I ordered from, which included catalogs from companies like Grainger, and a number of the power tool discounters.
I came at tools from the perspective of a woodworking, and Hilti was never mentioned at the time in bookstand and newstand woodworking magazines.
All I could tell from the tools at Hilti Home Depot, is that the tools cost as much as tools from Festool, (then Festo), and Fein, and Festool and Fein at the time were usually at least 3X the cost of USA made “Professional” tools from Bosch, and Porter Cable, and Milwaukee, and Dewalt, all of which were considered “Lifetime” quality tools, or at least would last for a decade or more.
Some of the Hilti tools had “innovative features”, similar to Festool, such as a track saw system.
Others really didn’t have innovative features, while still costing way more than the other Pro US brands.
At the time, Festool was a niche tool brand, that most woodworkers weren’t buying, or which was considered by many to be overpriced, or underperforming for the price, but still purchased by some for the feature advantages that were not available from other brands.
Features like the Systainer modular tool box system were not mainstream, and I don’t even think Bosch had adopted theirs yet.
A few years later, I decided to try a Hilti tool out, and had to go to a Hilti store, since Home Depot didn’t carry the model I wanted, and the two Hilti salesmen didn’t know who or what Fein and Festool were when I mentioned the brands.
A few years after that, and bunch of those “high end” Hilti models, started to be replaced with Chinese made Hilti tools, lacking the innovative features that the Hilti tools initially at Home Depot had, and the tools looked closer in design to the average pro tool, with prices that were closer to those pro brands, but still in many cases higher.
Allegedly, Hilti couldn’t sell enough of the expensive tools to actually make money of the tools.
By this point, “regular” tool buyers were discovering the Hilti brand, and the woodworking magazines were starting to include Hilti tools in tool reviews, and Festool was actually becoming a mainstream brand regular woodworkers and hobbyists, with the money, were starting to buy.
Then the agreement with Home Depot ended in 2012, although you can still buy the Hilti tools on HD’s website.
Now that modular tool box systems are have become mainstream, I think Hilti is chasing the Festool market, with a high prices modular tool box system, now that every brand and their mother is offering modular box systems.
At least Hilti, with their fleet management system, it makes sense to offer a modular box system.
Part of the problems with the box systems, is practically every brans is offering their “own” system, and almost none of the brands are compatible with the others.
It’s basically the same issue that gapoened with cordless tool battery systems, were practically every brand used their own proprietary battery system, so you gad to try to stick with one brand, or keep multiple batteries from multiple brands, and a half dozen or more battery chargers.
You can try to stick with one system, and just buy extra modular boxes, but replacing tool boxes to keep everything modular gets expensive very fast.
At least back when systainers were practicalky the inly option, other brands like Fein and Metabo and Mafell offered some tools in Systainer cases, and Makita even licensed the systainer design to keep modularity.
Some of the newer modular case systems offer advantages over the original systainer cases, but unless you’re sticking with a single power tool brand, the modular case system idea is becoming sort of ridiculous with the non-modularity, or the modular designs.
Ales
As far as i know, none of my hilti tools are made in china, all from austria, lithuania (only 2 i remember). But i only have their concrete tools, their vacs are mostly rebrands, and could be that their carpentry tools are from china, but im willing to bet their drywall and concrete stuff is still made in europe. I remember they had problems with bandsaw blades breaking, and my friend would just get free boxes of blades until they finally fixed the problem 2-3 years later, their customer service is on another level.
Seth Goodson
As a small business I completely agree with you. I love Hilti tools and the few that I have are great. But Hilti is not a consumer based company, they are the large supplier to unions and large project where companies buy in large qualities to get a better price. It’s a shame for you and I, but it is what it is. I think they are still behind in a lot of areas compared to Milwaukee, DeWalt or Makita to name a few. Their new Neuron batteries are so big and bulky. Anyways I guess we will have to want for their boxes in vane. 🤣
Bonnie
Eh, I’m not sure that first statement is true. I’ve known plenty of corporate people who decide to buy some expensive piece of equipment or outfit the whole company with something just because they saw someone using it on Instagram or whatever.
will
We used hilti rotary hammers amongst other brands. The Hilti (corded) was alot more expensive but over 20 years later it runs like nee even though it took a beating. The milwaukees and dewalts were used just as hard, but 5-7 years and it would be time to replace.
Just wish the hilti would kick it so we could get a new one without a cord (maybe) and with the new (ish) hepa dust extractor,bringing the price up to about $1k. A similar dewalt model would be a bit more than half that with the dust collector.
If Hilti is going Chinese then it kind of defeats the purpose of their tools imo. Same goes for other German brands like fein and festool. They make them in Germany and are worth the extra cost but if they’re made in china at the same price they can keep their tools,and I’ll just use dewalt and milwaukee.
Hell I have 2 4ah fein batteries that died on me,rarely used since I generally used the 2.4ah and 3ah for my drill and saved the 4ah for my omt since it gets less usage. The other two are going strong while my babies 4ah just died. Theyre over 10 years old so not much you csn do,I tried jump starting which worked on my dewalt and milwaukee batteries but the fein must have some kind of protection,because it doesnt jump start at all,its just dead while looking brand new with maybe a few dozen hours between them,and nobody will touch them.
They used to be fairly cheap for batteries where you could buy just one for $75 but now they’re $130 for a single 4ah. Damn German pricing.
Joe
All I can think of as to why they would price it the way they are and push it via social media would be to target DIY types with disposable income who may already have all the latest and greatest tools and accessories the pros use and see the price equate it as a status symbol.
We keep talking about a saturation point for all these systems any why brands keep pushing out more of them… maybe the next niche to target would be making a low cost social media push to try to snag people who probably don’t need it but want it because it is cool and they have the money to buy it? This is just my brainstorm on what happening.
will
Yeah it doesnt take a company much to spend $5-10k,so the cases are just a bonus. The average person. Usually wont spend that much,but if they’re looking for a jack hammer,rotary hammers with hepa dust collector, vac, drills and drivers. Yeah it wont take much to hit that $5k price point.
taras
“As you might have seen, ProKit is Hilti’s new modular tool box system. And no, there are no drawers (yet?).”
I doubt Hilti will introduce drawers, but I’ve been wrong plenty of times in my life.
As you mentioned, most of Hilti’s customers fleet their tools, mostly because it’s an easy way to service and maintain a large inventory of tools. It’s rare to see the singleton contractor use exclusively Hilti because the buy in is only worth it if you are going to be purchasing/fleeting a large number of tools. The discounts do compound the more you purchase from them, and is worth it at larger bulk/ongoing purchases. A company I worked for did the math and the break even point for similar Milwaukee/Bosch/DeWalt… Was around 30k for tools.
Going g back to the drawers, Hilti doesn’t do small tools, so no incentive for them to really offer that, and consumable like fasteners etc, (which Hilti sells more product as fasteners vs tools) are usually kept in bulk volumes necessitating at least rolling stand up storage units.
This modular system will be geared more towards organizing duplicates or multiples of the same tools per box, or setting up individual tool kits for each tool (think a hammer drill with all the accessory bits that go with it, a grab and go for specific tasks).
I see their smaller boxes being used as containers for a days worth of fasteners and fixings of the same type used to get you through a day’s to, but no one is going to be lugging around a medium box with 2 or 3 drawers with things you don’t need.
will
They make drills and drivers,besides a drawer would be nice for batteries and a charger. Hilti specializes in concrete but have branched out alot these last 20 years. Mostly out of necessity, but it fits for a general contractor wanting just one brand. I still dont think you can just go one brand, depends on needs obviously. Theyre great company,but not if they make tools in china. Im not spending the German tax for Chinese built tools. Maybe they do exactly the same work,but it doesnt matter. Im assuming a German worker makes more in a day than Chinese workers do in a week at best. Oh and the Chinese worker works double the hours.
Jim Felt
One of my main electrical contractors has used Hilti for years. I’ve even bought the occasional odd item.
Though clearly some of his crews prefer Milwaukee and I think he prefers to be invested in multiple systems. As I did with our totally unrelated commercial activities.
But for my personal use? Not a chance.
Mace372
10k$ lol theyre way off base
Josephus
Yeah no. I figured maybe they were having a giveaway. Oh sure spend $5k and you’ll get a free toolbox! That’s never going to leave the purchasing office.
Scott K
Just a guess- does the amount you spend need to be on storage products? If you’re also buying tools and fasteners, you may reach the floor price sooner.
Stuart
No. They weren’t clear about what’s eligible and what’s not, but they made it sound like can buy over $5K in cordless power tools or other eligible products for the first freebie tier. $5K in tools, and one tool box to store it all in?
Scott K
This was actually my first thought, but I thought it would sound facetious.
TomD
These kinds of deals are a straight bribe to the purchasing department. Nothing underhanded, but that stack will stay with purchasing.
Also those look so terribly Milwaukee colored that I can’t believe it. Picks new color!
fred
We had only a few Hilti tools – PAT’s only. Back then – we liked the look of their rotohammers – but bought Bosch based on better price/performance/availability. Today their model probably works well for folks like utilities and nationwide contractors – not small to medium-sized firms.
BTW – Acme has a 10% off promo (code INSIDER10) going right now — and MaxTool has upped the ante to 15% off – with code TRADE15
Nathan
I always heard hilti tools were excellent best concrete and metal work tools but I think that was 20 years ago
John E
Concrete? They may still be. I’ve broken two Hilti rotory hammers- one beyond affordable repair and had a couple of their expensive rebar proof bits break on first contact. But their T 3000 breaker is best in class, by far.
Makita give them a run for their money at half the price and is where is go for concrete work tools and grinders. The Japanese made stuff is always top notch.
Trevor
Not related to pricing comment, but I like the way they have handled the dolly/hand truck. Nice that it is interchangeable between boxes.
Stuart
Looks like it was inspired by Ridgid’s approach.
I have the feeling that Metabo didn’t develop ProKit in-house. Some of the nuances seem too close to Keter’s modular tool box innovations to be a coincidence.
JoeM
I don’t know how many times I have to say it, but Hilti is just European DeWALT. They occupy the exact same niche and range as DeWALT, but are made in, and for, Europe. What makes them popular, in any way, in the North American market, is the novelty of the “European Import” branding. Over here, they’re like owning a BMW or Porsche. It’s a very big deal to have spent that kind of money on the car. It’s a very big deal to have spent that kind of money on those tools. Meanwhile in Europe, BMW is the GM of the continent. BMW, Volkswagon, Porsche, and even Mini-Cooper are all just everyday cars, without any luxury to them beyond being well designed.
Hilti is just like that. They’re well designed, they’re well engineered. But they’re no more than DeWALT is in our North American market. The same amount of design and engineering goes into both brands, but Hilti has to be imported. Making them a status symbol for the tool users who have them. Meanwhile, they’re on par with DeWALT. They’re the Other Red Brand. I really don’t see any reason to believe their storage systems would be any different than their tools. Priced to be a status symbol, not an improved quality product over their equivalent North American competition.
I know this point of view probably irks a few people, and I’m okay taking that commentary. But I don’t see Hilti as being worth what they ask in the North American market. Really and truly, they’re just DeWALT levels.
Stuart
Hilti has a completely different business and sales model, including their fastener systems. I’d say they’re more like tool truck brands, where you pay a premium for service, especially given Hilti’s fleet management leasing program. Dewalt announced they were considering something similar for the pricey batteries needed by their next-gen outdoor tools, but seemed to have backed away from that.
Aram
Hilti has a niche in the steel construction industry, mainly in composite deck shear connectors and the like (basically competing with Nelson stud welders).
They generally compete in smaller jobs, where firewatch regs and the like would get in the way of a Nelson stud, or where you can’t get sufficient power to the site, but they’ve been going upmarket. Having said that, I cannot count the number of times a field engineer has called me because somebody shot a pin through the protected zone of an RBS, which somehow has never happened with a Nelson stud.
fred
Maybe your protected zone incidents are a consequence of the “wild west” aspect of some users of PATs. (i.e. easy to get into a rapid fire – boom-boom-boom mode) I’ve heard reports of accidents where PATs were being used on all sorts of inappropriate fastening situations (like concrete board to wood) – with sometimes injurious results. Some of the earliest PATs had the charge firing directly (no intermediary piston) on the fastening pin- and were even more gun-like. We had an old Remmington that used .38 loads this way – and you needed to respect its potential for danger.
chip hershberger
I view Hilti ,and Snap-on in the same view.
Not easy to buy ,but the service is as important as the tool to specific industries.
With the internet and options to buy any tool anywhere, their margins are being eroded by well run competition.
A broke young person is buying Icon and Milwaukee, while an older business owner will pay more for less aggravation …and a no questions asked warranty.