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Omi vs RayNeo V3 in 2026

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

Key differences

Neither Omi nor RayNeo V3 leads across the verified dimensions on DEPLOY's record as of 2026; the comparison table holds every sourced figure side by side.

Omi has the lower recorded price.

Attribute	Omi View full model page →	No image on file RayNeo V3 View full model page →
Manufacturer	Based Hardware	RayNeo
Form factor	wearable	wearable
Maturity	commercial	commercial
Autonomy	—	—
Availability	shipping-nowshipping	shipping-nowshipping
Price	$17-$19/month subscription or $89 (actual sale price)	$245-$255 (actual sale price)
Capability claims	—	—
Brain	—	—
Verified deployments	1Based Hardware	1RayNeo
Privacy practices	5third-party-sharing, on-device-processing, capture-indicator, data-deletion-control, cloud-upload	4data-sale, third-party-sharing, data-retention, data-deletion-control
Sources on file	6	5

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Editorial summaries

Omi

Omi, by Based Hardware (founder Nik Shevchenko, San Francisco), is a shipping AI necklace in the ambient-recording 'second brain' category: a small circular orb on a neck lanyard that captures conversations and runs them through GPT-4o for ambient transcription in 25+ languages, auto-summaries and tasks, a searchable memory database, daily recaps, and a 'Brain Map'. It sells for $89 as a consumer unit (about $70 dev) one-time, with a free tier (unlimited on-device transcription plus 1,200 cloud minutes a month) and an optional Omi Unlimited plan from $16 a month; the user owns the device.

It is one of the few genuinely open-hardware entries in the cohort: an MIT-licensed GitHub repo of about 12,700 stars with firmware, apps, and open hardware designs, maintained into 2026. The AI is genuine cloud functionality, not veneer. One significant cap-flag: the aspirational brain-interface and EEG 'reads-your-mind' marketing is not the shipping product, which is audio-only; the BCI module is roadmap with no code, and TechCrunch could not verify it. (Omi is distinct from Friend, Avi Schiffmann's pendant; Shevchenko's device was originally also named Friend and was renamed Omi.)

RayNeo V3

The RayNeo V3 (from RayNeo, TCL's AR glasses subsidiary) is a camera-and-audio AI glasses product with no display, in the Ray-Ban Meta class: 39 grams, a 12-megapixel TCL co-developed camera (1080p/30fps), and 32GB of storage. It went on sale in China in January 2025 at 1,799 yuan, roughly $249.

Its AI is genuine: a customized multimodal large language model via an Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen partnership, with three years of free AI updates, placing it in the genuine-cloud-AI tier. Two cap-flags: pricing is China-market CNY (the USD figure is a conversion, and it is not officially sold outside China), and the vendor's performance numbers (a 1.3-second response time and 98 percent accuracy) are RayNeo-stated, not independently verified. It is the TCL/RayNeo parallel to Xiaomi AI Glasses and Baidu's Xiaodu in the Chinese consumer wearable-AI cohort.

Common questions

How do Omi and RayNeo V3 differ?

Neither Omi nor RayNeo V3 leads across the verified dimensions on DEPLOY's record as of 2026; the comparison table holds every sourced figure side by side. Omi has the lower recorded price.

What is the difference between Omi and RayNeo V3?

Omi and RayNeo V3 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, Omi or RayNeo V3?

Omi has the lower recorded price on the DEPLOY registry than RayNeo V3. 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, Omi or RayNeo V3?

Omi and RayNeo V3 each have 1 verified deployment on the DEPLOY registry (confirmed at named sites with primary sources).

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