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Omi vs Rokid Glasses in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
Neither Omi nor Rokid Glasses 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 | No image on file | |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Based Hardware | Rokid |
| Form factor | wearable | wearable |
| Maturity | commercial | commercial |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | shipping-nowshipping | shipping-nowshipping |
| Price | $17-$19/month subscription or $89 (actual sale price) | $299-$599 (actual sale price) |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain | — | — |
| Verified deployments | 1Based Hardware | 1Rokid |
| Privacy practices | 5third-party-sharing, on-device-processing, capture-indicator, data-deletion-control, cloud-upload | 7cloud-upload, capture-indicator, data-sale, location-tracking, third-party-sharing, data-retention, data-deletion-control |
| Sources on file | 6 | 7 |
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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.)
Rokid Glasses
Rokid Glasses are lightweight (49g) AI and AR glasses with a dual-eye Micro-LED display, 12MP camera, and a voice AI assistant that routes to GPT and Gemini, plus fast real-time translation across 89 online and 6 offline languages. They are about $599 internationally (2,499 RMB in China); a non-display, audio-only AI Glasses Style also exists at $299.
Rokid has delivered more than 200,000 display units (about 50,000 overseas), making it one of China's strongest verified-commercial AI wearables and the genuine-AI counterpart to Meta Ray-Ban's Western dominance.
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Recent coverage
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- AI glasses reportedly used to film flight attendants without consent, Rokid responds with action planRokid Glasses · Technode · 2026-06-09
- Rokid expands vision for everyday wearable AI with Rokid AI Glasses StyleRokid Glasses · Ben Smith, Deploy Editor · 2026-03-24
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