Buying guide
NEO vs XPeng IRON in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
- NEO has more verified real-world deployments (2 vs 1).
- NEO is at the pilot stage; XPeng IRON at the research stage.
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | 1X Technologies | XPeng Robotics |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | pilot | research |
| Autonomy | ◐ not independently verified | — |
| Availability | preorder-openpreorder | internal-onlyenterprise |
| Price | $499/month subscription or $20,000 (actual sale price) | Not announced |
| Capability claims |
| — |
| Brain |
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| Verified deployments | 2Oslo, Norway, 1X Technologies | 1Baosteel Group |
| Privacy practices | 11Face blurring, Restricted zones, Session approval, data-retention, third-party-sharing, data-deletion-control, data-sale, capture-indicator, bystander-recording, training-data-use, on-device-processing | — |
| Sources on file | 32 | 6 |
Editorial summaries
NEO
1X is the only humanoid maker in this cohort betting on the consumer market at price-of-a-car scale, distinct from the enterprise-integration contracts that define Figure, Apptronik, and Agility. The hardware is verified: NEO is a bipedal humanoid shipping to early-adopter households, backed by a Hayward, California vertical-manufacturing facility, with the wheeled EVE archived as the prior product line. The open question is utility at scale: 1X describes home-task performance today as a mix of supervised autonomy on learned chores and remote-operator teleop on the rest, an honest framing that also signals how much of the daily-use envelope is still operator-assisted.
XPeng IRON
XPeng's IRON (from the Chinese EV maker XPeng) is a roughly 175-centimeter, 70-kilogram research humanoid, an automotive-OEM entrant into humanoids, the cross-OEM positioning that parallels Tesla Optimus emerging from a carmaker. DEPLOY records it at research maturity with no verified deployments. XPeng has shown IRON in staged demonstrations and stated consumer and industrial intentions, but the verification posture is demonstration, not verified autonomous deployment or commercial sale, and DEPLOY cap-flags aggregator 'autonomous' or 'shipping' framing. As a research platform it has no consumer price.
Common questions
- What is the difference between NEO and XPeng IRON?
- NEO and XPeng IRON are both humanoid robots on the DEPLOY registry. They differ in maker, maturity, price, verified deployments, and how much of their autonomy is independently verified. See the table above for the full head-to-head; each figure is sourced.
- Is NEO or XPeng IRON more autonomous?
- On the DEPLOY registry, neither NEO nor XPeng IRON has capabilities independently verified as fully autonomous yet; their recorded capabilities are teleoperated-assisted, demonstrated, or vendor-claimed. See the table for each capability's verification status.
- Which has more verified deployments, NEO or XPeng IRON?
- NEO has more verified deployments (2) on the DEPLOY registry than XPeng IRON (1). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.
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