What does the cheapest humanoid actually cost?

Beijing-based Noetix Robotics opened a presale in October 2025 on Bumi, a 94 cm, 12 kg humanoid priced at 9,988 yuan—about $1,400.

Early demos show Bumi walking and dancing rather than performing work tasks; Noetix has positioned it as a consumer and educational product, not an industrial one.

The same South China Morning Post report noted that Unitree had launched its own R1 a few months earlier at 39,999 yuan, roughly 60% below the price of its G1 model.

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Unitree's own store lists four humanoid tiers with firm, public prices: R1 AIR at $4,900, R1 at $5,900, G1 at $13,500, and H2 at $29,900. H2 Plus lists at $100,000, and H1 is unlisted—"contact us for the real price."

Not every affordable-humanoid manufacturer publishes a price the way Unitree does.

Why doesn't every company publish a price?

Booster Robotics is a Beijing startup founded by engineers from Tsinghua University's Robot Control Lab. Its K1 and T1 platforms won the KidSize and AdultSize divisions of RoboCup 2025.

Booster's own store page carries no price at all; it tells buyers to contact the company directly.

Third-party resellers such as K-Robotics and Generation Robots fill that gap with different numbers.

One reseller lists the K1 at $12,500 and the T1 at $33,949. A French distributor prices the K1 from €7,500 before tax. A trade report from the K1's launch cited a starting price around $4,999.

These are the challenges a potential buyers faces in the market today.

Sometimes, the product can’t even be guaranteed

Tesla CEO Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum in Davos on 22 January 2026 that Tesla plans to sell Optimus to the public by the end of 2027, once the company is confident in the robot's reliability and safety.

Six days earlier, on Tesla's Q4 2025 earnings call, Musk had told investors that Optimus was "not in usage in our factories in a material way" and remained "still very much" in the R&D phase.

Tesla has not published a price for Optimus.

What does all this actually add up to?

Three tiers exist today with real, checkable numbers behind them: Noetix's $1,400 Bumi, Unitree's 100,000 lineup, and 1X's $20,000 pre-order.

A fourth tier—Booster's K1 and T1—has real robots and real competition wins, but no single number a buyer can point to and call the price, because Booster hasn't published one.

A fifth tier—Tesla's Optimus—has no public price, and as of Musk's own January 2026 comments, no material use inside Tesla's own factories either.

It will take a few more years before pricing practices become more standardised in the industry.