Buying guide
NotePin vs r1 in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
On DEPLOY's record, NotePin is further along: at the commercial stage versus r1 at the pilot stage, as of 2026.
- NotePin has the lower recorded price.
- NotePin is at the commercial stage; r1 at the pilot stage.
| Attribute | No image on file | No image on file |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Plaud AI | Rabbit Inc |
| Form factor | wearable | wearable |
| Maturity | commercial | pilot |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | shipping-nowshipping | shipping-nowshipping |
| Price | $159-$169 (actual sale price) | $199 (actual sale price) |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain | — | — |
| Verified deployments | 1Plaud AI | 1Rabbit Inc |
| Privacy practices | 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 | 10location-tracking, cloud-upload, data-retention, third-party-sharing, data-deletion-control, data-sale, location-tracking, data-sale, data-deletion-control, data-retention |
| Sources on file | 11 | 12 |
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Editorial summaries
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.
r1
The Rabbit r1 is a $199 pocket AI companion device, unveiled at CES in January 2024 and still shipping into 2026, with no subscription. Its editorial throughline is the gap between demo and product: the launch demonstration of a Large Action Model (LAM) completing agentic tasks outran what the shipping product has consistently delivered.
Rabbit has shipped software updates since launch, but consistent agentic task completion is not verified. DEPLOY classifies its maturity as pilot.
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