Unitree H1 humanoid robot, H2 and H2 Plus, tracked
The H2 does the H1's job for $60,100 less ($29,900 against $90,000, checked 2026-08-07), and the H1's store listing has carried the words "Contact us for the real price" in its own title since mid-2024, when its sticker fell from $150,000 to $90,000.
Unitree's H-series is the top of its humanoid line: full-size bipeds, 180 cm class, sold to labs and integrators rather than to people with living rooms. Three of them sit on the US store right now: H1 at $90,000, H2 at $29,900, H2 Plus at $100,000.
Those are listed prices. None of them is clickable. I could not find an Add to Cart button on any of the three pages, and every one of them routes to the same address, sales_global@unitree.cc. The page for the Unitree H1 humanoid robot goes further and says the quiet part in its own product title: "Unitree H1（Contact us for the real price）".
That parenthesis is the most useful sentence Unitree has written about this line, so this page starts there.
H-series status box
- Orderable by a member of the public: no. All three H-series pages are listings with a sales email, not checkouts. Compare the $4,900 R1 and the $13,500 G1, which both have real carts
- Listed prices: H1 $90,000, H2 $29,900, H2 Plus $100,000
- The H1 caveat: "Contact us for the real price" appears inside the product title, and has since mid-2024
- H2 development note, verbatim from its page: "Only the EDU version supports secondary development. For customization needs, please select the EDU edition"
- H2 Plus purchase note, verbatim: "Please contact our sales team (sales_global@unitree.cc) to purchase"
- Import terms on the H1 and H2 pages: "Not include customs duties, Please comply with local customs laws pay customs duties and clear the goods." The buyer clears it
- What they are: research and development platforms. Unitree does not market any H-series robot as a home product
One more name to know before you email anyone. Unitree's own site navigation lists an H1-2 among its humanoids, sitting between the H1 and the G1, but there is no H1-2 listing in the US store and the obvious product-page URLs returned 404 when I tried them. It is a variant that exists inside Unitree's world and not inside its shop.
The H1's price record, from its own store archive
The H1 is the older machine, and it is the one with a price history worth pulling. Unitree's own Spring Festival Gala writeup, published 2025-02-05, described the H1 as "1.5 Yrs Old," which puts its debut in the back half of 2023. Its store listing has been captured by the Wayback Machine since January 2024.
| Capture date | H1 listed price | Product title on that capture |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-06 (earliest) | $150,000 | "Unitree H1" |
| 2024-05-25 | $150,000 (unchanged) | "Unitree H1" |
| 2024-07-15 | $90,000 | "Unitree H1（Contact us for the real price）" |
| 2026-08-07 (live) | $90,000 (unchanged) | same |
One cut, $60,000 off, about 40 percent, landing somewhere between 2024-05-25 and 2024-07-15. There are no captures inside that gap, so that is as tight as it pins, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. The interesting part is what shipped alongside the cut: the "contact us for the real price" wording arrived in the same window. Since then the number has not moved in over two years, which is the behavior of a placeholder rather than a price.
The H2 arrived and undercut it by $60,100
The H2 is the newer full-size machine and it is priced at less than a third of the H1. Store-home captures put its arrival inside a four-month window: the 2025-10-04 capture of shop.unitree.com lists no H2 at all, and the 2026-02-02 capture has it at $29,900. The earliest capture of the H2's own product page, 2026-04-11, shows the same figure. So does the live page today. Flat since it landed.
Unitree pins the reveal tighter than its own store archive does. It introduced the H2 on October 20, 2025, sixteen days after the store capture that had no H2 on it at all, and gave the size in the same breath: "standing 180cm tall and weighing 70kg." That dates the robot, not the listing. The $29,900 still does not show up in a capture until February.
Unitree introduces the H2, standing 180cm tall and weighing 70kg. (@UnitreeRobotics, 2025-10-20)
Then, on 2026-06-01, Unitree announced the H2 Plus, described in its own headline as "an NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot for Academic Research." It is listed at $100,000, and its page names the buyer out loud: academic research. Nobody is confused about who this one is for.
H1 vs H2 vs H2 Plus, on the published specs
Specs below are from Unitree's own pages, unitree.com/h1 and unitree.com/H2. Where a figure is not published, the cell says so, because a blank is information too.
| H1 | H2 | H2 Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listed price | $90,000 | $29,900 | $100,000 |
| Height | about 180 cm | 1,820 mm | not published |
| Weight | about 47 kg | about 70 kg | not published |
| Degrees of freedom | 5 per leg, 4 per arm (no total published) | 31 (6 per leg, 7 per arm, 3 waist, 2 head) | 75 total, including 22 active in the hands |
| Max joint torque | 360 N.m knee, 220 hip, 59 ankle, 75 arm | 360 N.m leg, 120 N.m arm | not published |
| Arm payload | not published | peak about 15 kg, rated about 7 kg | rated 7 kg, peak 15 kg |
| Battery | 864 Wh, runtime not published | 0.972 kWh, about 3 hours | not published |
| Compute | Intel Core i5 or i7 | 2,070 TOPS chip, plus i5 or i7 | built on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T |
| Headline claim | "Moving speed of 3.3m/s(world record)" | dynamic-motion replication, algorithms updated over the air | dexterous manipulation |
Read across those rows and the two machines are aimed at different things. The H1 is the sprinter: lighter, fewer joints, and Unitree's own page still leads with a movement-speed record claim. The H2 is heavier and puts its money into joints, motion control and compute. The H2 Plus is the H2's dexterity build, and those 22 hand joints are the whole reason it costs $70,100 more than the H2. Fingers are where the money goes in this category, every time.
Unitree H1 vs G1, the comparison people actually search
Most people comparing the H1 to the G1 are really asking which one they can have. The G1, by a mile.
| H1 | G1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Price (2026-08-07) | $90,000 listed, "contact us for the real price" | $13,500, on a real checkout |
| Buy path | sales email only | Add to Cart, ships to individuals |
| Height / weight | about 180 cm / about 47 kg | 1,320 mm / about 35 kg |
| Degrees of freedom | 5 per leg, 4 per arm | 23 standard, up to 43 on EDU |
| Battery | 864 Wh | about 2 hours |
| Bought by | labs, integrators, broadcasters | labs, students, individuals |
The G1 is also the only humanoid on this site whose price chart goes down: it held at $16,000 for roughly 17 months and stepped to $13,500 in late 2025, which I documented capture by capture in the G1 price history. Below it, the R1 starts at $4,900. Those two are the Unitree robots a person can actually own. The H-series is what that person's university buys.
The same warning label applies to all of them. Unitree's G1 page tells individual buyers to "thoroughly understand the limitations of humanoid robots before making a purchase," and calls the industry "in the early stages of exploration." Nothing in the H-series changes that; it just adds a zero.
Where you have actually seen an H1
Probably on television. Sixteen H1 units performed a Yangko folk dance on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala in 2025, choreographed under filmmaker Zhang Yimou, and Unitree returned to the Gala aired 2026-02-16 with H1 units doing parkour and martial-arts routines while an H2 appeared as the Monkey King, per Global Times. That is a genuinely hard piece of engineering and also a stage act with a director, a rehearsal schedule and a floor built for it.
That is the standing rule for the whole category, and the reason every humanoid demo is a dance video: choreography is a solved problem, unsupervised usefulness is not.
Who should buy one
University labs, robotics competition teams, broadcast production, and companies building embodied-AI software that needs a full-size body under it. For those buyers the H2 at $29,900 is the number that matters, because it puts a 31-joint, 180 cm biped inside a grant budget that would never have carried a $90,000 H1.
For everyone else: there is no home use here, no warranty story for an individual buyer, no US service network, and no cart. If you want a humanoid you can order tonight, start with the full price ladder and the sub-$5,000 end of it.
The one number I cannot check from here is the one Unitree quotes. If you emailed sales_global@unitree.cc about an H1 or an H2 and got a figure back, forward me the reply with the date on it and I will run that quoted number beside the listed one in the table above, with your name off it if you prefer. Unitree wrote "contact us for the real price" into the product title itself. The only people who know the real price are the ones who asked.
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