What is the difference between Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame) and NotePin?

Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame) and NotePin are both wearable 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.

Which is cheaper, Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame) or NotePin?

NotePin has the lower recorded price on the DEPLOY registry than Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame). Prices are sourced; see each record for whether the figure is a manufacturer target, an estimate, or an actual sale price.

Which has more verified deployments, Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame) or NotePin?

Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame) and NotePin each have 1 verified deployment on the DEPLOY registry (confirmed at named sites with primary sources).

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Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame) vs NotePin in 2026

Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.

Key differences

NotePin has the lower recorded price.

Attribute	No image on file Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame)View full model page →	No image on file NotePin View full model page →
Manufacturer	Brilliant Labs	Plaud AI
Form factor	wearable	wearable
Maturity	commercial	commercial
Autonomy	—	—
Availability	shipping-nowshipping	shipping-nowshipping
Price	$299-$349 (actual sale price)	$159-$169 (actual sale price)
Capability claims	—	—
Brain	—	—
Verified deployments	1Global	1Global
Privacy practices	11data-retention, cloud-upload, data-deletion-control, data-sale, bystander-recording, training-data-use, location-tracking, on-device-processing, biometric-storage, capture-indicator, third-party-sharing	12training-data-use, cloud-upload, data-deletion-control, third-party-sharing, data-retention, data-sale, bystander-recording, on-device-processing, cloud-upload, data-sale, data-deletion-control, data-retention
Sources on file	8	11

Editorial summaries

Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame)

Brilliant Labs makes open-source AI smart glasses: the Frame (2024) and the newer Halo (announced July 2025). Both are open-source (hardware and SDK on GitHub; Lua on-device plus Python/Flutter), which sets them apart from the closed Meta and Humane ecosystems. The Noa assistant routes to cloud models (Perplexity, OpenAI, Whisper), and Halo licenses Liquid AI's on-device model. Pricing runs about $349 for Frame and $299 to $349 for Halo. AI substance is moderate: developer-accessible and hackable rather than the most polished.

NotePin

The Plaud NotePin (by Plaud.AI, San Francisco, founded 2023) is a lightweight wearable AI voice recorder worn as a clip, pendant, or wristband: a notes-pendant form factor distinct from the glasses, earbuds, necklace, and ring entries in the cohort. It taps to record meetings and conversations and uses third-party large language models (GPT, Claude, and Gemini) for transcription and AI summarization, and independent reviews confirm those core features work as advertised, placing it in the genuine-cloud-AI tier. It launched in August 2024 at about $169 with an optional Pro subscription, and a successor, the NotePin S, launched in January 2026 in the same price range. DEPLOY records it at commercial maturity: it ships, is purchasable, and is independently verified as functional, and it is a tier-1 citation winner in Google's AI Overview for 'best wearable AI' queries. Its model is subscription-augmented (a free tier plus a paid tier for more transcription minutes), the inverse of Hey Pocket's no-subscription-core posture. One cap-flag: Plaud's sales and revenue figures (more than a million devices, profitability, and $180-to-$250 million annualized revenue) are company self-reports, recorded as claimed rather than independently audited.

Common questions

What is the difference between Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame) and NotePin?: Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame) and NotePin are both wearable 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.
Which is cheaper, Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame) or NotePin?: NotePin has the lower recorded price on the DEPLOY registry than Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame). Prices are sourced; see each record for whether the figure is a manufacturer target, an estimate, or an actual sale price.
Which has more verified deployments, Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame) or NotePin?: Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame) and NotePin each have 1 verified deployment on the DEPLOY registry (confirmed at named sites with primary sources).

Recent coverage

Plaud NotePin S Hands-on Review: A Wearable AI Note Taker for In-Person Work - AndroidGuysNotePin · Google News · 2026-06-18
The PLAUD NotePin S is an AI voice recorder you can wear - Creative BloqNotePin · Google News · 2026-04-17

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