# Omi AI Necklace: Price, Availability & Status (2026)

Omi is an $89 open-source AI necklace: genuine GPT-4o ambient transcription, ~12.7k GitHub stars. Ambient capture is real; the brain-interface marketing is not.

## Price

- **$89** (actual-sale-price, one-time; as of 2025-01-08) · [Based Hardware (Omi product page)](https://www.omi.me/pages/product) · 2025-01-08

The $89 above is a verified one-time consumer price (about $70 for the dev unit). No subscription is required: there is a free tier (unlimited on-device transcription plus 1,200 cloud minutes a month), with an optional Omi Unlimited plan from $16 a month. The user owns the device.

## Availability

_Status: shipping-now_

Omi is shipping and consumer-available from Based Hardware, and is one of the few genuinely open-hardware entries in the cohort: an MIT-licensed GitHub repository of about 12,700 stars with firmware, apps, and open hardware designs, maintained into 2026.

## Status

Omi is a shipping AI necklace in the ambient-recording 'second brain' category: a small orb worn on a neck lanyard that captures conversations and runs them through GPT-4o for transcription in 25+ languages, auto-summaries and tasks, a searchable memory database, daily recaps, and a Brain Map. DEPLOY places it in the genuine-cloud-AI tier of the AI-substance spectrum, with the added distinction of genuine open hardware. One significant cap-flag applies: 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.

## Compare

| Model | Pricing | Tier |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Hey Pocket](/price/hey-pocket) | $99 | verified (Multi-model recorder (no-sub)) |
| [Plaud NotePin](/price/plaud-notepin) | $169 | verified (Notes pendant (subscription-augmented)) |
| [Humane AI Pin](/price/humane-ai-pin) | Discontinued | absence (The failure case) |
| [Rabbit r1](/price/rabbit-r1) | $199 | verified (AI device (pilot)) |
| [Brilliant Labs Halo](/price/brilliant-labs-halo) | $299-$349 | verified (Open-source (moderate AI)) |

## Common questions

### How much is Omi?

$89 for the consumer unit (about $70 dev), one-time. No subscription is required; a free tier exists, and Omi Unlimited is optional from $16/month.

### Does Omi read your mind?

No. The shipping product is an audio AI necklace. The brain-interface / EEG marketing is roadmap with no code, and TechCrunch could not verify it.

## How DEPLOY verified this

- [How DEPLOY tracks pricing](https://news.deploy.report/methodology/how-we-track-pricing)
- [How DEPLOY verifies deployment status](https://news.deploy.report/methodology/how-we-verify-deployment-status)

## Related reading

- [Deploy News: What is an AI wearable?](https://news.deploy.report/explainers/what-is-an-ai-wearable)
- [Deploy News: Best AI wearables 2026](https://news.deploy.report/explainers/best-ai-wearables-2026)
- [Deploy News: What is physical AI?](https://news.deploy.report/explainers/what-is-physical-ai)

## On the registry

- [Model record](https://registry.deploy.report/models/omi.md)
- [Manufacturer](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/based-hardware.md)

_Canonical: https://deploy.report/price/omi_