How much does a humanoid robot cost in 2026? Every price we could verify

A humanoid robot you can actually order in 2026 costs between about $4,900 and $130,000, as of September 28, 2026. The cheapest full-body model with a published US price is Unitree’s R1 at $4,900 to $5,900; the most expensive listed price we could verify is Faraday Future’s Futurist Ultra at $129,900. Industrial humanoids from Agility, Figure, Boston Dynamics and Tesla still have no public list price.

Why it matters: the price of a humanoid now depends less on the robot and more on who is allowed to buy it. The lowest prices belong to Chinese makers selling research and developer hardware; the factory machines are sold as pilots under contracts nobody publishes.

How much does a humanoid robot cost in 2026?

The table below lists every humanoid price we could trace to a manufacturer page, a regulatory filing or a named news report, as of September 28, 2026. We sort each robot into one of four buying states: Buy now (a price and a checkout or active deliveries), Pre-order (a price but no general deliveries), Pilot or lease only (sold to businesses under unpublished contracts) and No price. Dollar figures in parentheses after yuan prices are approximate conversions, not official US prices. Base prices exclude tax, shipping and customs unless stated.

Humanoid robot prices, as of September 28, 2026:

Robot	Published price	Buying status	Source
Noetix Bumi (94 cm, 12 kg)	Under RMB 10,000 (about $1,370, per TechNode)	Pre-order (China; opened late 2025)	TechNode, Oct 22, 2025
Unitree R1	$4,900 (R1 Air), $5,900 (R1); EDU on request	Buy now	Unitree product page
Unitree G1	$13,500; EDU on request	Buy now	Unitree product page and US shop
Unitree G1+	$15,000; RMB 95,000 incl. tax in China; EDU on request	Buy now (launched mid-September 2026)	Unitree G1+ page; The Standard, Sep 14, 2026
1X NEO	$20,000 or $499/month	Pre-order; US deliveries planned 2026	1X
Unitree H2	$29,900; H2 Plus $100,000; EDU on request	Buy now	Unitree US shop
Feather	$29,990 promotional ($32,990 regular)	Buy now (company says “shipping now”)	feather.dev; TechCrunch, Sep 24, 2026
UBTech U1 series	RMB 119,800 (Lite, about $16,500) to RMB 990,000 (Ultra, about $135,000)	Buy now (China; deliveries from Sep 16, 2026)	The Standard; Startup Fortune
EngineAI T800	$40,500 (Basic) to $80,800 (Max) international; RMB 180,000–360,000 in China	Pre-order; first shipments promised by June 2026	Forbes, Dec 20, 2025; Humanoids Daily
Faraday Future Futurist	$89,900 (standard, incl. $10,000 skills package); $129,900 (Ultra)	Buy now (company-stated)	FF Form 8-K, Jun 23, 2026; The AI Insider, Sep 21, 2026
Unitree H1	$90,000 shown, “contact us for the real price”	Buy now (by quote)	Unitree US shop
Agility Digit 5	None published	Pilot or lease only; early access H1 2027	Agility
Figure 03	None published	Pilot or lease only	Figure
Boston Dynamics Atlas	None published	Pilot or lease only	Boston Dynamics
Tesla Optimus	None; $20,000–30,000 is Musk’s at-scale target	No price	The Motley Fool, Sep 14, 2026

Three patterns stand out. First, every humanoid at $15,000 or less is Chinese. Second, the two US-designed robots priced under $35,000, NEO and Feather, sit between $20,000 and $33,000, and Feather’s is a developer platform on a wheeled base rather than a biped. Third, the robots that dominate factory pilot headlines publish nothing, which means any figure you see for them is an analyst estimate. For the G1 refresh in detail, see our report on the Unitree G1+ upgrade, and for the wheeled developer platform, our coverage of Feather’s $29,990 launch.

Why are Chinese humanoids so much cheaper?

Unitree’s own filing shows the price fall directly. Its STAR Market prospectus, as reported by Inside Deep Tech on August 27, 2026, puts the average selling price of a Unitree humanoid at RMB 593,400 in 2023, when it sold five units. That fell to RMB 260,700 in 2024 on 410 units, and to RMB 167,600 (about $24,900 at RMB 6.74 per dollar) in the first nine months of 2025 on 3,551 units. That is a 71.8% drop in two years.

Our read is that mix explains most of it: the fall tracks Unitree’s shift from a handful of large H1 units to hundreds, then thousands, of cheaper G1s. The same filing shows 73.6% of humanoid revenue in the first nine months of 2025 came from research and education buyers, and only 9.0% from industrial applications. A $13,500 humanoid is priced for a lab budget, and it is mostly labs that are buying. We covered the strategy behind this in Unitree’s price war.

The average also shows how far list prices sit from what buyers pay. At about $24,900, Unitree’s 2025 average is nearly double the G1’s $13,500 entry price. EDU configurations, dexterous hands and the larger H-series robots are the likely difference; the prospectus figure is an average across all of them.

Can you buy a humanoid robot for your home?

Yes, but in 2026 only in China at volume, or by pre-order in the US. UBTech began home deliveries of its U1 companion series in China on September 16, 2026, after reporting 13,361 orders by the end of June. The range runs from RMB 119,800 for the half-body Lite to RMB 990,000 for the top Ultra version.

In the US, the home option is 1X’s NEO: $20,000 outright or $499 a month, with first deliveries planned for 2026 and other markets from 2027. 1X says it sold out its first year of production capacity, over 10,000 units, within five days of opening orders in October 2025. As of September 28, 2026, NEO remains a pre-order product. At $499 a month, a subscriber passes the $20,000 purchase price after about 40 months.

US buyers face one more constraint. On July 28, 2026 the FCC added foreign-made humanoids and quadrupeds to its Covered List, which blocks new equipment authorisation for models that did not already hold it. Models already authorised are not affected, but a newly launched foreign model needs an exemption to be authorised, so a US list price alone does not show that a new model can be imported.

What else do you pay for beyond the robot?

The base price rarely covers a working system. Four sourced cost lines recur:

• Developer (EDU) editions. Unitree lists the G1, H2 and R1 base models online but sells the EDU versions, the ones that support secondary development, only through its sales team. Its H2 page states that only the EDU version supports secondary development.
• Hands. Dexterous hands are sold separately. Unitree’s 22-degree-of-freedom Dex5-S, launched September 21, 2026, starts at $6,500 before tax and shipping, per hand.
• Software and skills. Faraday Future’s $89,900 Futurist price includes what the company values as a $10,000 “Skills package”, according to its June 23, 2026 filing. 1X’s $499 subscription folds the robot into a monthly fee.
• Tax, shipping and duties. Unitree prices exclude tax and shipping, and its H2 listing says customs duties are the buyer’s responsibility. The G1+’s Chinese price of RMB 95,000 is one of the few quoted with tax included; its $15,000 US price is not.

We found no published maintenance or service-contract pricing from any humanoid maker. Businesses that want to avoid ownership costs can rent; our guide to humanoid robot rental costs tracks those rates.

What we could not verify

We left out several widely repeated figures. Estimates of $100,000 to $250,000 for Agility’s Digit circulate on shopping guides but are not company prices. Agility has published no price for Digit 5. Figure and Boston Dynamics have published none for Figure 03 or Atlas. Tesla has not listed Optimus for sale; the $20,000–30,000 figure is Elon Musk’s stated cost at scale, and his stated start of commercial shipments is 2027. We will update this page as prices are published.