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How much does a humanoid robot cost in 2026? Prices compared

By Humanoid News Staff · Published 2 November 2026, 11:00 UTC · Last updated 2 November 2026

Short answer: As of 2 November 2026, most humanoid makers still do not sell their robots like an ordinary product with a public price tag. Three do: Unitree lists its G1 from $13,500 and its full-size H2 at $29,900, both before tax and shipping, on its own product pages. 1X prices its NEO home robot at $20,000 to own, with a 3-year warranty, or $499 a month to subscribe, on its order page. AGIBOT's international store lists the A2 Lite, a performance and interaction humanoid, at $44,560. Figure, Tesla and Apptronik have not published a sale price for their flagship humanoids; each is still shipping only to enterprise partners or talking about where a price might land once production scales up.

Unitree's own product pages set its numbers. The G1, the company's smaller research and development platform, is listed from $13,500, tax and shipping excluded; a higher-spec G1 EDU variant is listed as 'Contact Sales' rather than a fixed price. The larger H2, about 1.8 metres tall, is listed at $29,900 on the same terms, with the H2 EDU variant again priced on request. We previously compared the H2's roughly 3-hour battery life with other makers' runtimes in our runtime report; more Unitree coverage is on our Unitree hub.

1X takes a different approach. Its order page prices the NEO at $20,000 for outright ownership, which it says includes a 3-year warranty and priority delivery, or $499 a month as a subscription with standard delivery. The same page says US deliveries start in 2026, without giving an exact date, and lists NEO's runtime at 4 hours per charge.

AGIBOT, based in Shanghai, sells several humanoids directly through its international online store. The A2 Lite, aimed at entertainment and commercial performance work such as group dance routines and tai chi demonstrations, has a listed sale price of $44,560, plus $500 to $3,000 in shipping and any import duties the buyer owes locally. The more capable A2 Ultra, which adds navigation, object recognition and an interactive screen, is priced on request rather than listed outright. More Chinese humanoid coverage is on our China hub.

Figure has not published a price for either of its current humanoids. Its October 2025 announcement introducing the Figure 03, designed for homes as well as factories, describes the robot's hardware and manufacturing in detail but states no price, and the Figure 04, whose design Figure says is now locked, has no published specifications or price either, as covered in our Figure 04 report. Figure 03 units have gone only to the company's own programs and to enterprise partners such as carmakers, not to a public order page.

Tesla has never published a retail price or an order page for Optimus. The only figure Elon Musk has given in public remains the one from Tesla's We, Robot event on 10 October 2024, where he said the robot should eventually cost 'probably $20,000-$30,000 long term,' according to CNBC's report of the event. Musk told Tesla's Q3 2026 earnings call that Optimus is moving into early production on the company's Fremont line, but set an end-2027 target for deliveries to outside customers rather than a price, as we reported in our deliveries target article.

Apptronik has not published a price for Apollo either. Co-founder and chief executive Jeff Cardenas told IEEE Spectrum in 2023, when Apollo was introduced, that a humanoid should eventually cost less than $50,000, comparable to the price of a car; that was a long-term goal stated before the robot had shipped to any customer, not a current price. Apollo today is deployed only through enterprise pilot and development agreements with manufacturing and logistics partners, not sold against a published price list. Agility Robotics follows a similar pattern: it does not sell Digit directly either, instead reaching customers such as GXO and AGCO through its own agreements, which we track on our Agility Robotics hub, deployments hub and deployment tracker.

The pattern across these companies splits in two: Unitree, 1X and AGIBOT publish a number a buyer can act on today, while Figure, Tesla, Apptronik and Agility either have no price or only a long-term aim. AiMOGA's Mobo, a home companion robot that opened worldwide pre-orders in October, falls into the same no-price-yet group. A published list price is also not the same as being able to buy a robot today: several of the companies above still restrict sales to approved customers or specific countries. For the wider funding and policy picture around these companies, see our funding and policy hub.

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