Humanoid Robot Price Index, November 2026

The index in one paragraph

We track 68 humanoid robots. After removing nine superseded models and one desktop robot, 58 are current full-size humanoids. Only 23 of them (40%) carry a public list, “from” or preorder price. The median of those 23 is $26,993, the mean is $45,776, and the range runs from $1,499 for the Noetix Bumi (launched at 9,998 yuan) to $246,600 for the UBTECH Walker S2 at a US reseller. The live table above recalculates as our seller checks change; the analysis below reflects the data as of November 6, 2026.

That timing matters. Counterpoint Research estimates that humanoid shipments topped 22,000 units in the first half of 2026, up nearly 300% year on year, with AgiBot and Unitree together holding about 74% of the market. Volume is growing quickly. Price transparency is not.

Eight headline findings

1. 60% of current humanoids have no list price. 35 of 58 current full-size humanoids publish no list price. Six of those have only a reported figure or a company target, such as Tesla’s long-term Optimus goal. The other 29 have nothing public at all.

2. The median list price is $26,993. That is the EngineAI T800 base version at 180,000 yuan. Remove the three robots under $5,000 and the median rises to $29,950.

3. China publishes 74% of all humanoid list prices. 17 of the 23 priced robots come from Chinese makers. 17 of 33 current Chinese humanoids (52%) have a list price, against 2 of 12 American ones (17%) and 3 of 9 European ones (33%).

4. Every humanoid under $10,000 is Chinese. The four are the Noetix Bumi ($1,499), Unitree R1 Air ($4,900), Booster K1 ($4,999) and Noetix N2 ($5,848).

5. Only 15 current humanoids can be bought outright today: 26%. Twelve of the 15 are Chinese. One is American (Dexmate Vega, $89,999). Two are European, both older Aldebaran designs (NAO and Pepper). Add three preorders (1X NEO, LimX Oli and NEURA 4NE1) and the orderable share reaches 31%.

6. Pilot-stage humanoids publish zero list prices. None of the 13 robots in pilot deployments, and none of the 11 prototypes, has a list price. That group includes Figure 03, Boston Dynamics Atlas and Apptronik Apollo.

7. A dexterous, programmable version costs up to 5.5 times the base. The Unitree G1 starts at $13,500 on Unitree’s shop. The top EDU version with hands and developer compute is $73,900 at a US dealer. The DOBOT Atom spread is 5 times, from its $27,500 launch price to $136,825 for the 41-DoF research build.

8. The only recorded price cuts are both Unitree, both about 16%. Across 14 dated price points in our history files, two entry prices moved, and both went down: the G1 by 15.6% and the R1 by 16.9%. No other maker in our data has cut a published price.

Price bands

Price band (USD, base config)	Robots	Which ones
Under $10,000	4	Noetix Bumi, Unitree R1, Booster K1, Noetix N2
$10,000 to $49,999	13	EngineAI PM01, Unitree G1, NAO, 1X NEO, LimX Oli, AgiBot X2, Booster T2, EngineAI T800, Unitree H2, Kepler K2, Pepper, DOBOT Atom, AgiBot A2
$50,000 to $149,999	5	Leju Kuavo, Rainbow RB-Y1, Dexmate Vega, NEURA 4NE1, Fourier GR-2
$150,000 and up	1	UBTECH Walker S2

The cheapest tier is mostly child-sized or small robots. The Bumi stands about 94 cm, and the R1 about 123 cm. The cheapest priced robots near adult height are the LimX Oli (165 cm, from about $23,694 on preorder) and the EngineAI T800 (173 cm, from about $26,993). The 182 cm Unitree H2 lists at $29,900. Our cheapest humanoid robots list ranks them with specs.

Price by country

Region	Current humanoids	With list price	Share priced	Median list price	Buyable now
China	33	17	52%	$25,254	12
United States	12	2	17%	$55,000 (n=2)	1
Europe	9	3	33%	$32,000 (n=3)	2
Other (Japan, South Korea, Canada, Israel)	4	1	25%	$80,000 (n=1)	0

We count 1X and Clone, which have Norwegian and Polish roots, as American because they sell from the US, and Hong Kong’s Hanson Robotics under China. Read the US and European medians with care: two or three prices are too few to call a market. The stronger signal is the share column. Chinese makers sell through web shops and resellers. American makers sell through pilots and contracts. Our China vs US humanoid robots guide covers the gap beyond price, and Chinese humanoid robots lists them by rating.

Price by purchase path

How you buy it	Current robots	With any public price	Median list price
Buy now (web shop or reseller checkout)	15	15	$24,240
Preorder	3	3	$23,694
Contact sales	27	9	$80,000 (5 listed)
Lease or robots-as-a-service	1	1 (monthly only)	n/a
Waitlist	1	0	n/a
Not for sale	11	2 (targets or reports)	n/a

Where a “contact sales” robot has a list price, it usually comes from a third-party reseller. The Walker S2 and Fourier GR-2 prices are both reseller listings, and UBTECH and Fourier publish none of their own. Treat them as dealer prices, which include the reseller margin.

Price per kilogram of payload and per degree of freedom

Dividing price by capability shows what the money buys. We used the base price and the payload and DoF figures in our spec files. 17 priced robots have a payload figure and 23 have a DoF count.

Metric	Median	Best value	Most expensive
USD per kg of payload (17 robots)	$6,750	Kepler K2: $1,000/kg (30 kg, $30,000)	Fourier GR-2: $41,667/kg (3 kg, $125,000)
USD per degree of freedom (23 robots)	$821	Noetix Bumi: $71/DoF	Foundation Phantom MK-1: $7,895/DoF (reported price)

Payload claims are not standardized. Some makers quote a two-arm peak, others a single-arm rated load. The Kepler figure is a two-arm 30 kg claim, while the Unitree G1 is listed at 2 kg. Use the per-kg ranking as a screen, then check the spec notes on each robot price page.

Price changes on record

Robot	Before	After	Change	What happened
Unitree G1 (base)	$16,000 (May 2024)	$13,500 (Oct 2026)	-15.6%	Launch price at ICRA 2024 vs Unitree shop today
Unitree R1 (entry)	$5,900 (Jul 2025)	$4,900 (Apr 2026)	-16.9%	Launched at 39,999 yuan; the cheaper R1 Air now lists at $4,900
1X NEO	$20,000 (Oct 2025)	$20,000 (Oct 2026)	0%	Order page unchanged after a year
Unitree H2	$29,900 (Oct 2025)	$29,900 (Oct 2026)	0%	Listed, but not orderable on the official shop at check time
Tesla Optimus (target)	“less than $20,000” (Sep 2022)	$20,000 to $30,000 (Oct 2024)	Target widened upward	AI Day 2022, We, Robot 2024

The R1 cut is an entry-price cut. The standard R1 still costs $5,900; buyers now have a cheaper variant. Tesla has still not opened orders; see our Tesla Optimus price guide.

The dealer markup

The maker’s shop price is often not what an American or European buyer pays. For the same base Unitree configuration:

Configuration	Unitree shop	Dealer	Markup
G1 base	$13,500	$17,990 (RoboStore)	+33%
R1 (non-EDU)	$5,900	$8,990 (RoboStore)	+52%
H2 base	$29,900	$40,500 (US Robot Store)	+35%
H2 base (EU)	$29,900	EUR 45,000 excl. VAT, about $50,508 (Generation Robots)	+69%

Dealers add local stock, support and warranty handling, and Unitree’s own shop quotes shipping and duties as extra. At check time the H2 on Unitree’s shop could not be added to the cart, so the dealer price was the real price.

Subscriptions and leases

Monthly pricing is still rare. 1X sells NEO at $499 per month, which equals the $20,000 ownership price after 40 months. Agility’s October 2026 investor presentation uses $8,500 per month per Digit as illustrative robots-as-a-service pricing, plus a one-time deployment fee of about $25,000; that is $102,000 a year before the fee. The Next Web reported that Foundation leases Phantom for about $100,000 per year, against a unit cost of about $150,000. We keep monthly prices out of the medians above.

Quote-ready lines

• “60% of current humanoid robots have no public list price.” (35 of 58, Humanoid Arena, November 2026)
• “The median humanoid robot with a public price costs $26,993.” (23 robots)
• “Chinese makers publish 17 of the 23 humanoid list prices we can find.”
• “Every humanoid robot under $10,000 is made in China.”
• “Only 15 humanoid robots can be bought outright today, and 12 of them are Chinese.”
• “None of the 13 humanoids in pilot deployments has a list price.”
• “US dealers charge 33% to 52% more than Unitree’s own shop for the same base robot.”

Methodology

What we count. 68 humanoid robots in our catalog and arena data. Headline statistics use the 58 current full-size robots: we drop nine superseded models (such as Figure 02, Honda ASIMO and Booster T1) and the desktop Reachy Mini.

What counts as a price. A robot enters the index if a seller page, maker shop, official preorder page or dated launch announcement shows a one-off price of type list, “from” or preorder. Reported prices (press or directory figures without a seller) and company targets are counted separately and kept out of the medians. That rule excludes Tesla Optimus, MenteeBot, Apptronik Apollo, Reachy 2, Foundation Phantom and Spirit AI Moz1, whose $150,000 figure appears only in a directory. Monthly and lease prices are excluded too. When a robot has several configurations, we use the cheapest list-type price, which is usually the base model without hands or developer access.

Currencies. Non-USD prices are converted with the European Central Bank reference rates of November 5, 2026: 1 EUR = 1.1224 USD and 1 USD = 6.668 CNY (EUR 1 = CNY 7.4846). Prices are before tax, VAT, shipping and import duties unless the seller says otherwise. The live table above may use rounded rates, so its USD figures can differ by a few percent.

Date checked. Seller pages in our commerce files were checked on October 14, 2026; catalog prices carry their own access dates. The index was compiled on November 6, 2026. Full rules are on our methodology page.

Limits. List prices are not transaction prices. Large buyers negotiate, and several Chinese launch prices were promotional. EngineAI’s PM01 price of 88,000 yuan, for example, was promoted through March 2025.

How to cite

Please cite as: Humanoid Arena, “Humanoid Robot Price Index, November 2026,” humanoidarena.ai/humanoid-robot-price-index, accessed [date]. A link to this page is appreciated. The underlying robot, spec and price records are free to reuse under the terms on our open data page. Journalists who need a custom cut of the data (by category, height or date) can reach Jason Burmeister through the site contact page.