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Mentra Live vs Omi in 2026

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

Key differences

  • Omi has the lower recorded price.
  • Omi has more verified real-world deployments (1 vs 0).
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ManufacturerMentraBased Hardware
Form factorwearablewearable
Maturitycommercialcommercial
Autonomy——
Availabilityshipping-nowshippingshipping-nowshipping
Price$349 (actual sale price)$89 (actual sale price)
Capability claims——
Brain——
Verified deployments01Global
Privacy practices—5third-party-sharing, on-device-processing, capture-indicator, data-deletion-control, cloud-upload
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Editorial summaries

Mentra Live

Mentra Live smart glasses are available for purchase directly from mentraglass.com and are shipping now; Batch 1 sold out and Batch 2 is on sale, limited to 1,000 units per batch. Mentra Live is priced at $349 USD as listed on the manufacturer's website; prescription lens add-on is $99 USD.

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.)

Common questions

What is the difference between Mentra Live and Omi?
Mentra Live and Omi 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, Mentra Live or Omi?
Omi has the lower recorded price on the DEPLOY registry than Mentra Live. 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, Mentra Live or Omi?
Omi has more verified deployments (1) on the DEPLOY registry than Mentra Live (0). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.

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