Buying guide
INMO Air3 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.
- NotePin has more verified real-world deployments (1 vs 0).
| Attribute | No image on file | No image on file |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | INMO | Plaud AI |
| Form factor | wearable | wearable |
| Maturity | commercial | commercial |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | shipping-nowshipping | shipping-nowshipping |
| Price | $1,099 (actual sale price) | $159-$169 (actual sale price) |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain | — | — |
| Verified deployments | 0 | 1Global |
| 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 |
| Sources on file | 1 | 11 |
Editorial summaries
INMO Air3
INMO Air3 AR glasses are available for purchase directly from inmoxr.com with an Add to Cart button; preparation takes 7 to 10 business days and delivery takes 7 to 10 business days after dispatch to over 200 countries. INMO Air3 is priced at $1,099.00 USD as the official retail price on the manufacturer's website; a welcome10 promo code offers 10 percent off first orders.
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 INMO Air3 and NotePin?
- INMO Air3 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.
Recent coverage
- AscendTMS expands fraud-fighting toolkit with SearchCarriers integrationINMO Air3 · FreightWaves · 2026-07-07
- 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
- INMO AIR3 AR Glasses Kickstarter Campaign Breaks $630,000 in Backer FundsINMO Air3 · AgentRecon · 2025-10-01
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