Humanoid Robot Prices in August 2026: Only 12 of 58 Robots Have a Verified Price

Humanoid robot prices are mostly a rumor. Of the 58 humanoid robots we track in the Humanoid Reality Index, exactly 12 have a price you can verify against the manufacturer’s own store, order page, or a regulatory filing as of August 2026. Everything else that circulates as a “price” is an analyst estimate, a launch-day target, or an aggregator guess. This page is the monthly, verified answer: every figure below was checked on the maker’s own property on the date shown, and we tell you which of them you can actually order today.

How Many Humanoid Robots Have a Verified Price in August 2026?

Twelve. That is the entire universe of humanoid robot prices that survive a source check against the manufacturer’s own store, order page, or a filing. Our rule is strict on purpose: a price counts only if it appears on the maker’s own property or in a regulatory document, on an individual product page rather than a collection grid, and we record the date we checked it. Press reports, analyst decks, and aggregator tables do not count, because that is exactly where wrong prices come from.

Two entries deserve their asterisks spelled out. The Mornine M1 figure is a CNY price from the maker’s own flagship store; the dollar conversion uses the ECB reference rate of July 24, 2026 and is our arithmetic, not a maker figure. The Digit figure is not a published price at all: the June 2026 Churchill SPAC investor presentation filed with the SEC says “Assumes $8,500 monthly SaaS pricing per Digit” in a footnote. Agility Robotics publishes no price. We include it because a filed assumption from the company’s own transaction documents is the closest thing to a primary source that exists for the most-deployed humanoid in the market.

What Do Humanoid Robot Prices Look Like by Tier?

Three price tiers have formed, and they map cleanly onto what the robots are for.

Under $15,000: research and early home platforms

The Unitree R1 family ($4,900 to $10,500 depending on variant) and the G1 at $13,500 own this tier, with Weave’s Isaac pre-order at $7,999 as the home-focused entry. These are development platforms and first-generation home units, not machines that will run a warehouse shift. If you are weighing this tier, our affordable humanoid robots buyer’s guide covers what each one can and cannot do.

$20,000 to $45,000: the new commercial middle

This is where most of the movement is: 1X Neo at $20,000, AGIBOT X2 at $24,240, Unitree H2 at $29,900, EngineAI T800 from $40,500, Mornine M1 at about $42,200, and AGIBOT A2 Lite at $44,560. A year ago this tier barely existed as a set of published, orderable prices. It is also the tier where Chinese makers with functioning online stores are visibly ahead of Western makers, most of whom still publish nothing.

Above $45,000, and the subscription question

The only maker list price above the middle tier is the Unitree H1 at $90,000, and the store listing itself tells you to contact them for the real number. The more interesting signal in the upper market is that it is shifting to monthly pricing entirely: 1X and Weave sell homes a robot at $499 and $449 per month, while the SEC-filed assumption for Digit in logistics runs $8,500 per month. That 17x spread between home and industrial subscription pricing, for machines of broadly similar complexity, says the industrial price is carried by the labor it replaces, not by the hardware cost. Our humanoid robot cost and ROI breakdown works through that math in detail.

What Changed in July and August 2026?

This is a monthly series, and the point of tracking prices continuously is that the changes carry more information than the levels. Four things moved since mid-July.

• EngineAI published an international USD list for the T800. Four editions from $40,500 to $80,800. Important detail: the Chinese list runs CNY 180,000 to 360,000, and the USD list is not a currency conversion of it. The two lists are priced separately for separate markets, which is exactly the kind of detail that FX-converting aggregators destroy.
• Menlo’s Asimov-1 got a real pre-order price, and it supersedes the launch number. The $15,000 figure that circulated at the April 2026 launch was a target price. The maker’s product page now takes a $499 deposit against a $20,000 unassembled kit with more than 100 hours of build time. A third of the reporting on this robot still quotes the dead number.
• AGIBOT’s global store went add-to-cart. The X2 at $24,240 and the A2 Lite at $44,560 can now be put in a cart by an international buyer. That moves them from “price on a page” to a real purchase path, which is a different level of commitment.
• Unitree consolidated the R1 into three variants on one product page. Base at $5,900, AIR at $4,900, EDU at $10,500. The AIR variant makes it the cheapest listed humanoid from any maker.

Just as telling is what did not change: Tesla Optimus, Figure 03, Boston Dynamics Atlas, Apptronik Apollo, and UBTech’s Walker S2 all went another month without publishing any price. For robots whose deployment claims dominate the headlines, the commercial layer remains completely opaque.

Why Are Most Humanoid Robot Price Lists Wrong?

Because almost nobody checks the maker’s page, and the failure modes compound. We know this uncomfortably well: in a July 2026 audit of our own buying guide, 6 of 13 listed prices could not be verified against a primary source, and the errors traced back to content-mill aggregators we should never have trusted. We rebuilt our process around a written protocol after that, and the recurring failure patterns are worth naming.

• Placeholder prices. Stores sometimes list checkout-blocking placeholders, round identical figures across variants, or a list price with “contact us for the real price” behind it, like the H1’s $90,000. A scraper reads these as real.
• Target prices reported as prices. The Asimov-1’s $15,000 launch target is this month’s example. Launch-day numbers age badly and are rarely corrected.
• Pre-sale press figures that never reach a maker page. The Dobot Atom’s widely cited CNY 199,000 pre-sale figure and the Noetix N2’s CNY 39,900 both come from press coverage. They may well be accurate, but neither currently appears on a maker-operated purchase page we can check, so they are not in our table.
• Currency butchery. Chinese reporting uses 亿 (100 million) and 万 (10,000), and translation layers get these wrong by factors of 10 to 100. Separately priced regional lists, like the T800’s, get flattened into fake FX conversions.

If you take one thing from this section: a humanoid robot price without a source, a date, and a purchase path attached is not data. It is decoration.

Which Humanoid Robots Can You Actually Order Today?

Collapsing the table to the practical question, an international buyer in August 2026 has three lanes.

• Add-to-cart today: Unitree G1 and R1, AGIBOT X2 and A2 Lite, and EngineAI T800 via its international list, plus Mornine M1 if you can buy through JD.com.
• Pre-order with a refundable deposit: 1X Neo, Weave Isaac, and the Menlo Asimov-1 kit.
• Listed but not orderable: Unitree H2, with online ordering not yet enabled, and H1 behind its contact-us wall.
• Everything else: all 46 remaining robots we track are quote-only or entirely unpriced.

The full landscape of who is actually shipping sits in our humanoid robots for sale overview, and the deployment evidence behind every claim lives in the Humanoid Reality Index, where each robot carries its sourced event history. A quarterly institutional edition of that index, with the full evidence ledger and this price series over time, is in preparation.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does a humanoid robot cost in 2026?

Verified manufacturer prices run from $4,900 for the Unitree R1 AIR variant to $90,000 for the Unitree H1’s list price, with a growing commercial middle between $20,000 and $45,000. Subscription options run $449 to $499 per month for home robots, and an SEC-filed assumption of $8,500 per month for industrial deployments of Agility’s Digit.

What is the cheapest humanoid robot you can buy?

The Unitree R1 AIR at $4,900 is the cheapest humanoid variant listed on any manufacturer’s store as of August 2026. The base R1 is $5,900. Details on what that money buys are in our Unitree G1 price guide, which covers the whole Unitree lineup.

Does Tesla Optimus have an official price?

No. Tesla has never published a price for Optimus, and there is no order page. Figures like $20,000 or $30,000 that circulate are projections from company statements about future targets, not prices. The same applies to Figure, Boston Dynamics Atlas, and Apptronik Apollo: no published price exists for any of them.

Why do Chinese and international prices differ for the same robot?

Makers price regional lists separately. The EngineAI T800’s Chinese list runs CNY 180,000 to 360,000 while its international USD list runs $40,500 to $80,800, and the second is not a conversion of the first. Tariffs, shipping, support, and market positioning all go into the split, so converting one list into the other currency produces a number nobody will actually charge you.

Sources

• Unitree Robotics store, product pages for G1, R1, H1, and H2, checked August 1 and 2, 2026
• 1X Technologies order page, checked August 2, 2026
• Weave Robotics Isaac order page, checked August 2, 2026
• AGIBOT global store, X2 and A2 Lite product pages, checked August 2, 2026
• EngineAI T800 international product page, checked August 2, 2026
• Menlo Research, Asimov-1 product page, checked August 18, 2026
• AiMoga (Chery) Mornine M1, JD.com self-operated flagship store, reported by Sina Finance and Jiemian, April 13, 2026; USD at the ECB reference rate of July 24, 2026
• Churchill Capital Corp X / Agility Robotics investor presentation, SEC filing exhibit EX-99.2, June 2026, via the Agility Robotics investor page
• The Robot Report, Dobot Atom pre-sale coverage, March 2025; TMTPost, Noetix N2 pricing coverage, March 2025 (press figures, excluded from the verified table)

Ulrich Baldauf

Ulrich Baldauf is the founder of There’s A Robot For That, covering humanoid robotics for manufacturing and industrial operations. He has tracked the humanoid robot sector since 2024, with a focus on safety standards (ISO 10218, EU Machinery Regulation 2023/1230) and what deployments mean for operations and EHS teams. Connect on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ubaldauf