Faraday Future's FF Nova lists at $2,490, but only 100 units are on offer
Two weeks after its $89,900 Futurist and $9,990 Master Mini, Faraday Future’s robotics business (now renamed FFR) has gone to the other end of the price scale. On October 15 it launched the FF Nova, a bipedal humanoid with 20 degrees of freedom, at $2,490.
What the release actually says
- The Nova is aimed at developers, schools and educational institutions. The company describes an open SDK with a ROS 2 workflow and over-the-air updates. A Developer Skills Package costs $390 extra.
- Availability comes in three phases. Phase one is invitation-only and limited to 100 units, with the first 20 “ready for immediate delivery”. Applications run through the company’s developer site in a seven-day window. Phase two opens to all developers and institutions, and phase three is a consumer launch. No dates are given for phases two or three.
- Height, weight and battery life are not stated in the release, so we leave them blank in the index.
- A smaller Nova Mini (under 1 kg, for ages eight and up) costs $299, with a separate $499 curriculum of 16 live classes. The Mini is a learning toy rather than a robot we track.
Where it sits on the price map
At $2,490 the Nova undercuts the Unitree R1 and every other full-body bipedal humanoid with a public price in our index, and costs about a quarter of the FF Master Mini. That comparison needs care: the Nova is a small desktop-class platform, not a worker, and with the skills package the real outlay is $2,880.
Our read
The price is real, but the product is not yet broadly buyable. A hundred invited buyers, twenty units in stock and no dates for open sales is a pre-order in practice, so we list it as pre-order rather than for sale. Treat $2,490 as the price for the first invited cohort until the open phases arrive. The company also signed agreements on October 12 to acquire the robotics business from its parent, so the corporate structure is still moving; see our earlier note on that financing risk.
Sources
Primary sources referenced in this article. Prices in the tables come from the live index and carry their own as-of dates.
- Faraday Future / FFR press release, October 15, 2026 (Business Wire) (financialcontent.com)