Humanoid price snapshot, October 2026: 35 buyable models, median entry price $21,800
No single launch dominated the last 48 hours, so here is a monthly look at where the whole humanoid market sits, computed from our own dataset. The lens is the usual one: what does it cost, and can you actually buy it?
The headline numbers. The index tracks 65 humanoids. Only 35 combine a public price with a for-sale or pre-order status. The median entry price (the lowest published configuration) across those 35 is $21,800. The other 30 are enterprise-only, not for sale, or have no public price. Of those, 21 carry no price at all.
Where the 35 land, by entry price:
| Entry price | Models |
|---|---|
| Under $5,000 | 2 |
| $5,000–$9,999 | 4 |
| $10,000–$24,999 | 15 |
| $25,000–$49,999 | 8 |
| $50,000 and up | 6 |
The $10,000–$25,000 band holds 15 of the 35, which is where most of the competition now sits. The cheapest listings are the Unitree R1 from $4,150 and the FF Nova pre-order at $2,490 (listing). The Unitree G1 starts at $13,500, and 1X NEO is a $20,000 US pre-order, not a shipping product.
Entry price is not the price you pay. Many ranges are wide. The G1 runs from $13,500 to $73,900 depending on configuration, and several Chinese lines span similar multiples. Dealer markups, shipping and import duties push real landed costs above manufacturer list prices, which is why we separate those evidence types in the methodology.
The missing prices matter more than the cheap ones. The best-known Western names — Figure 03, Tesla Optimus and Boston Dynamics Atlas — have no public price. Any figure you see for them is an analyst estimate, and we list them as not for sale or enterprise-only rather than inventing an offer. At the other end, PNDbotics Adam starts at $100,000 and is the priciest listed model with an actual price.
Takeaway. If you can order a humanoid today, the realistic budget is roughly $15,000–$25,000 for a research-grade platform. Anything cheaper is a small or toy-scale machine; anything marketed by a famous Western brand is still a quote request or a waiting list.
See the full table in the humanoid price guide.