SpaceX's Starship platform will eventually cut the cost of launching payload to orbit to around $10 per kilogram, potentially up to a roughly 1,000x reduction from today's launch costs.
“Elon believes he can get payload into orbit for $10 per kilogram with the Starship platform, which is, call it a roughly 100x reduction in cost. Yeah. Um maybe more. Maybe from some from a depending on the point at which you're measuring it, maybe a thousand x reduction in cost.” View on YouTube
Explanation
No fixed timeframe was given ('eventually'). As of 2026 Starship costs roughly $820-980/kg, and SpaceX's own near/medium-term targets are $67-200/kg once fully reusable, well short of the $10/kg figure cited, so the claim remains unresolved rather than falsified outright given its open-ended horizon.