The Unitree humanoid robot lineup explained: G1, R1, H1, H2

Unitree lists six humanoid robots on its own store right now, priced from $4,290 to $100,000. Two of the six have a working Add to Cart button. The other four send you to a sales email. That split, more than any spec sheet, tells you who each machine is for.

Unitree humanoid robot names are where people get lost, so start with the two rules. The letter is the size and class tier: R is the light entry biped, G is the mid tier, H is full size. The suffix tells you whether you are still looking at the same robot. EDU means the same machine, cleared for you to write code on. -D means a different product built on that platform, and in two cases it does not have legs at all.

The whole lineup, priced

Model	Store price	How you buy it	Size	What it is
R1-D	from $4,290	contact sales	not listed	Developer set on the R1 platform (R1-A5, R1-A7, R1-A5-D, R1-A7-D)
R1	from $4,900	Add to Cart, in stock	1,230 mm, about 29 kg	Entry walking biped, 20 to 26 DOF, about 1 h battery
G1	$13,500	Add to Cart, backordered	1,320 mm, about 35 kg	Mid tier, 23 DOF standard (43 on EDU), about 2 h, 2 to 3 kg per arm
H2	$29,900	contact sales	1,820 mm, about 70 kg	Full-size flagship, 31 DOF, about 3 h battery
H1	$90,000	contact sales	about 1,800 mm, about 47 kg	The 2023 original, research grade
H2 Plus	$100,000	contact sales	1,820 mm, about 70 kg	H2 body plus tactile hands and Jetson compute, 75 total DOF

Prices are live on shop.unitree.com and the matching spec pages at unitree.com. The week any of those change, this page changes.

Two things that table will not tell you. The G1 is backordered, so its Add to Cart button is a queue, not a shipment. And the H1's listing title on Unitree's own store ends with "(Contact us for the real price)", a remarkable thing to print next to $90,000.

R, G, H: what the letters buy

R1 (from $4,900). The cheap ticket in. Unitree's R1 spec page puts it at 1,230 mm standing, about 29 kg (27 kg for the lighter R1 Air), 26 degrees of freedom on the standard model, and about one hour of battery. That last number is the one people skip. More on it, including why $5,900 still floats around, on the R1 tracker page.

G1 ($13,500). The one most people mean when they say "the Unitree robot." Unitree's G1 page lists 1,320 mm standing and 690 mm folded, about 35 kg with battery, 23 degrees of freedom rising to 43 on the EDU, about two hours of battery, and 2 kg per arm (3 kg on EDU). It is also the only humanoid whose price you can chart going down: $16,000 at launch in May 2024, $13,500 today, one clean cut. I keep that record here.

H2 ($29,900). The current full-size flagship. The spec page gives 1,820 x 456 x 218 mm, about 70 kg, 31 degrees of freedom (6 per leg, 7 per arm, 3 waist, 2 head), up to 360 N.m of leg joint torque, and about three hours of battery. Adult height, and it lasts most of a working morning.

H1 ($90,000). The 2023 original, still on sale. Its page claims a moving speed of 3.3 m/s, which Unitree labels a world record. It weighs about 47 kg at roughly H2 height, so it is built lighter and simpler: five degrees of freedom per leg, four per arm.

The H1 costs three times the H2, and it is the older robot

That looks backwards until you check what the H1 used to cost. I pulled the archived store page.

Capture	H1 store price
2024-01-06	$150,000
2024-03-08	$150,000
2024-05-08	$150,000
2024-07-15	$90,000
2025-01-05	$90,000
2026-08-07 (live)	$90,000

A $60,000 cut landing somewhere between 2024-05-08 and 2024-07-15, and then nothing for two years. The H1 is priced like a legacy research machine that a handful of labs still standardize on, which is roughly what the "(Contact us for the real price)" note admits.

The H2 Plus is easier to explain. Same 1,820 mm body, same 70 kg, same 31 body joints. What the extra $70,100 buys is hands and brains: a Jetson T5000 compute module, and dual SharpaWave tactile dexterous hands carrying 22 active degrees of freedom of their own, for 75 total body-and-hand DOF, with a rated arm payload of 7 kg and a peak of 15 kg (H2 Plus page). Hands remain the expensive part of a humanoid, and Unitree has now put a number on exactly how expensive.

Unitree announces the H2 Plus, which it calls the first humanoid robot reference design built on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T, to accelerate humanoid research (@UnitreeRobotics, 2026-06-01)

EDU, -D, Comp: the suffixes that trip people

This is where the model soup actually lives.

EDU is the same robot with the lid off. The base G1 page states plainly: "This product does not support secondary development. For customization needs, please select the EDU edition." The H2 page says the same. So if you plan to write code for one of these, budget for EDU, which is quote-only through sales_global@unitree.cc.

-D marks a separate machine built from the same parts bin, filed by Unitree under "Application Plans" rather than products. The shape can be nothing like the letter suggests:

• G1-D is a dual-arm torso, not a walking G1. Unitree's G1-D page describes a data and training platform: 17 degrees of freedom standard or 19 on the flagship with a mobile base, a 1,260 to 1,680 mm adjustable column, about 90 kg, roughly 3 kg per arm, and two hours of battery (six with the chassis). No store listing, no published price. If you searched "unitree g1-d" expecting a cheaper G1, this is a heavier, legless lab rig.
• H2-D is a wheeled dual-arm robot at 135 kg, 20 DOF on the mobile base, up to 1.5 m/s, 7 kg rated and 15 kg peak per arm. Industrial manipulation, not a hallway humanoid.
• R1-D is the developer set on the R1 platform, four configurations (R1-A5, R1-A7, R1-A5-D, R1-A7-D) from $4,290, contact-sales only.

Comp and Boxing are competition builds of the G1: G1-Comp for RoboCup, and G1-Boxing, the hardware behind the robot fight nights. Those events are real and so is the hardware. Every documented bout still has a human on the sticks, which I covered in the fighting leagues explainer.

The one Unitree price that went up

The R1 store page's own price metadata read $4,500.00 in the 2025-12-24 capture and $4,900.00 by the 2026-03-26 capture, where it has sat since. These are lowest-variant "from" prices, so a variant reshuffle could explain part of it. Either way, the cheapest Unitree biped costs $400 more than it did in December.

What the sticker leaves out

Every price above is China-direct. From the G1 and R1 product pages: shipping runs $300 to $1,200, the customer "is responsible for all applicable customs duties, taxes, and import clearance," and a contactable phone number and email are required for clearance. There is no warranty information on these pages for an individual buyer and no described US service network. A fault on a 35 kg G1 means self-repair or an international shipment.

Budget the landed number, not the listed one. The full price ladder puts every buyable humanoid on the same scale.

Which one you actually want

• Student, hobbyist, or anyone testing embodied-AI code at home: the R1 at $4,900. Accept the one-hour battery.
• A lab or course that needs arms, hands, and a proven walk: the G1 at $13,500, in the EDU edition if you intend to program it, and expect a wait.
• Anyone who needs adult height and a real payload: the H2 at $29,900, the sanest full-size machine on any public price list.
• Anyone about to buy an H1 in 2026: ask sales what it actually costs. Unitree's own listing tells you to.
• Anyone who wanted a Unitree and does not need two legs: the Go2 quadruped starts at $1,600.

None of these six is a home robot, and Unitree does not pretend otherwise. Its G1 page warns that "the global humanoid robot industry is in the early stages of exploration" and tells individual buyers to understand the limitations first. That is more candor than most of this industry manages.