Unitree G1 price history, dated. Offbrand Human

The Unitree G1 is the one humanoid whose price you can actually chart, and the chart does something almost nothing else in tech does: it goes down. The G1 was announced in May 2024, its store page showed $16,000 by June 2024, and it sells for $13,500 maker-direct today. That is $2,500 off, about 16 percent. And it was not a slow slide: the price held at $16,000 for roughly 17 months, then stepped down once, in late 2025. No hype, no coupon, just a real product getting cheaper on its own store page.

Studio cut-out of the Unitree G1 on white, chrome body panels and black gloves, balanced on one leg mid high kick with a blue-lit visor across its face; this is the robot whose sticker fell from $16,000 to $13,500. — The kick shot from the G1's own store gallery, on the same listing page this post charts. Photo: Unitree

One thing to clear up first, because it trips people: search interest in "unitree g1 price" is up around 50 percent year over year, but the price itself went the other way. More people are looking; the number they find is lower than it was.

The price record

Date	Price (base G1)	Source	Confidence
2024-06-23 (earliest store capture, six weeks after the May 2024 launch)	$16,000	shop.unitree.com via archive.org	archived store page
2025-10-16	$16,000 (unchanged)	shop.unitree.com via archive.org	archived store page
2025-12-24	$13,500	shop.unitree.com via archive.org	archived store page
2026-08-04	$13,500 (backordered)	shop.unitree.com, live	store page

Archived captures of the G1 store page from 2024-06-23, 2024-08-28, 2025-01-06, 2025-05-26, 2025-09-18, and 2025-10-16 all show $16,000. The 2025-12-24 capture shows $13,500. Every capture since agrees. So the G1's history is one clean step: a single cut landing sometime between 2025-10-16 and 2025-12-24, and with no captures inside that window, that is as tight as it pins. I am not going to draw a smooth line where the data shows a staircase.

Dated timeline of the Unitree G1 store price: $16,000 at the 2024-06-23 capture six weeks after launch, $16,000 unchanged at the 2025-10-16 capture after six archived captures across roughly 17 months, $13,500 at the 2025-12-24 capture for one cut of $2,500 or about 16 percent, and $13,500 live and backordered on 2026-08-04, where $300 to $1,200 of shipping plus buyer-paid customs puts the out-the-door cost at $14,000 to $15,000 against $17,990 at dealers

The launch price was never a rumor anyone had to reconstruct, either. Unitree put the number in the title of its own announcement video in May 2024, which makes the starting line of this chart about as official as these things get.

The May 2024 announcement that set the

What $13,500 actually gets you

The machine itself: about 1,320 mm tall, roughly 35 kg with battery, 23 degrees of freedom in the standard config (up to 43 on the EDU edition), about 2 hours of battery, an arm load of 2 to 3 kg. It walks, and by all accounts it walks well.

Studio close-up of one Unitree G1 arm against a grey backdrop: upper arm, elbow actuator, wrist joint and a black padded work glove with its fingers spread; this is the arm carrying the 2 to 3 kg load in the spec list. — The arm doing the 2 to 3 kg of lifting, off-the-shelf work glove included. Photo: Unitree

What it is not is a home helper. Unitree's own G1 page tells individual buyers to "thoroughly understand the limitations of humanoid robots before making a purchase" and notes the humanoid industry "is in the early stages of exploration." Out of the box the G1 is a programmable platform, not an autonomous assistant. And the base model "does not support secondary development," so if you want to actually program it, Unitree points you to the pricier EDU edition (contact sales).

The price after the price

$13,500 is the sticker, not the landed cost. Straight from Unitree's product page (August 2026):

The G1 is currently backordered and "will ship as soon as it is back in stock."
Shipping runs $300 to $1,200.
The buyer pays all applicable customs duties, taxes, and import clearance, and must provide a phone number and email for customs.
There is no warranty information on the product page for an individual buyer, and no described US service network.

So the real out-the-door cost of a G1 is closer to $14,000 to $15,000 before you factor in that a future repair may mean shipping a 35 kg robot back to China.

The dealer premium (why the same robot costs $17,990 somewhere else)

If you meet a G1 anywhere other than Unitree's own store, you are probably paying a markup. As of 2026-07-25:

Channel	G1 price	Over direct
Unitree direct	$13,500	baseline
Amazon (third-party listing)	$17,990	+$4,490
US dealer (per RoboZaps buyer guide)	$17,990	+$4,490 (~33%)
G1 EDU from resellers (RoboZaps)	$43,900 to $73,900	(EDU is a different, dev-capable tier)

The ~$4,500 dealer premium is not a scam. It buys US-side logistics, no personal customs paperwork, and sometimes local support, which matters more on a China-direct machine with no stated warranty. Whether it is worth it is a real decision. Just know the direct price exists.

The takeaway

The G1 is the case study this whole site was built to find: a real humanoid, a real store, a real price you can watch move, sold plainly as a research platform instead of a butler. It got cheaper by $2,500. Every other number in this category is either a "target" that keeps drifting up or a price nobody will quote you at all.

Store render of Unitree's smaller R1 in a red and gold finish, fists up in a loose guard stance on a white background, with a printed footnote reading that the images show a prototype; the same maker's $4,900 humanoid, for anyone the G1's sticker scares off. — The R1 in the red and gold finish, under Unitree's own footnote that this is the prototype and the shipping robot may differ. Photo: Unitree

If $13,500 is more than you want to spend, the same maker's Unitree R1 starts at $4,900, and I keep the full price ladder here. For where the G1 lands against every other buyable humanoid, see the best humanoids ranked.