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Omi vs Xiaomi AI Glasses in 2026

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

Key differences

Neither Omi nor Xiaomi AI 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	Omi View full model page →	Xiaomi AI Glasses View full model page →
Manufacturer	Based Hardware	Xiaomi
Form factor	wearable	wearable
Maturity	commercial	commercial
Autonomy	—	—
Availability	shipping-nowshipping	shipping-nowshipping
Price	$17-$19/month subscription or $89 (actual sale price)	$278-$417 (actual sale price)
Capability claims	—	—
Brain	—	—
Verified deployments	1Based Hardware	1Xiaomi
Privacy practices	5third-party-sharing, on-device-processing, capture-indicator, data-deletion-control, cloud-upload	8location-tracking, training-data-use, third-party-sharing, data-retention, cloud-upload, data-deletion-control, data-sale, on-device-processing
Sources on file	6	11

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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.)

Xiaomi AI Glasses

Xiaomi AI Glasses, by Xiaomi Corporation, are camera-and-audio AI glasses with no display, positioned as a direct Ray-Ban Meta competitor and built around the XiaoAI voice assistant. Launched at Xiaomi's Human x Car x Home event on June 26, 2025 (China-only), they carry a 12-megapixel camera with 2K 30fps stabilized video, a Qualcomm AR1 chip, and about 8.6 hours of battery (45-minute recharge), priced from 1,999 yuan (roughly $278) for the base model up to 2,999 yuan (roughly $417) for the color-electrochromic version, with voice capture, object recognition, translation, and QR and visual-scan contactless payment.

DEPLOY records commercial mass-market maturity: 50,000 units sold in the first three days and the lead in China's AI-glasses share at 31.9 percent in 2025, ahead of Rokid and Alibaba. The AI is primary and genuine (XiaoAI), though cloud-dependent rather than on-device. Two cap-flags: pricing is China-market CNY (USD figures are conversions), and forward sales targets (such as five million units by 2027) are projections, not verified sales. Recorded under a Xiaomi Corporation consumer entity distinct from the Xiaomi Robotics division that makes the CyberOne humanoid.

Common questions

How do Omi and Xiaomi AI Glasses differ?

Neither Omi nor Xiaomi AI 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.

What is the difference between Omi and Xiaomi AI Glasses?

Omi and Xiaomi AI Glasses 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 Xiaomi AI Glasses?

Omi has the lower recorded price on the DEPLOY registry than Xiaomi AI Glasses. 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 Xiaomi AI Glasses?

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

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