Most humanoid-robot price pages are guesswork. Agility Robotics' Digit is one of the few where real numbers exist — because it is the only humanoid currently earning revenue from paying commercial customers, and because Agility has since published its own unit-economics in investor materials. This guide lays out what Digit costs to buy, what it costs to lease, and which route makes sense.
What Digit is
Digit is a bipedal, human-scale warehouse robot built to move totes and containers in facilities designed for people. Unlike a research humanoid, it is sold to do a job: it has run live at a GXO site handling Spanx inventory (reported to have moved 100,000+ totes), and has since expanded to Toyota and Amazon fulfillment operations. It won *The Robot Report*'s inaugural RBR50 Robot of the Year award. That commercial track record is what makes its pricing worth taking seriously rather than treating as a spec-sheet fantasy.
The purchase price
Agility does not publish a list price, and it is not primarily selling Digit as a one-time purchase. Where a purchase figure does surface, third-party resellers list Digit at around $250,000 per unit. Treat that as an indicative reseller-listed figure, not a factory quote — the actual number depends on configuration, support, and the Agility Arc software that orchestrates a fleet.
The lease (RaaS) price — the number Agility itself uses
Digit is offered mainly as Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS): a monthly fee bundling the hardware, the Agility Arc cloud software, maintenance, and support. Per Agility's own investor presentation (dated June 24, 2026, filed as an exhibit to its Churchill Capital Corp XI merger materials), the working number is $8,500 per month per Digit. Read that as the company's illustrative unit-economics assumption, not a public rate card — but it is the most authoritative figure available.
At that rate the same deck implies roughly $100,000 per year and about $500,000 over a five-year lifetime on RaaS, versus roughly $400,000 for the ownership route over the same window.
| Route | Indicative cost | What's included | Best when |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purchase | ~$250,000/unit (reseller-listed) | Hardware; software/support may be extra | High utilization, long horizon, in-house robotics team |
| RaaS | ~$8,500/mo (~$100k/yr; ~$500k/5-yr) | Hardware + Agility Arc + maintenance + support | Piloting, opex budgets, no in-house maintenance |
The ROI framing — and where to be skeptical
Agility positions Digit against a fully loaded human worker at ~$30/hour, targeting an under-two-year payback. That math only holds under specific assumptions: multi-shift utilization, a task Digit does reliably without hand-holding, and few unplanned stoppages. A single-shift deployment, or a task that still needs frequent human intervention, stretches payback well past two years. The honest read: the sub-two-year figure is a best-case vendor scenario, not a default outcome.
Two more cost realities buyers underestimate:
- Integration and site readiness. Even a "bundled" RaaS deployment needs process mapping, safety sign-off, and workflow changes around the robot. That is time and money the monthly fee does not fully cover.
- Utilization risk. RaaS costs the same whether Digit runs one shift or three. Underused, the per-tote economics collapse.
Buy or lease?
- Lease (RaaS) if you are piloting, want the maintenance and software burden off your plate, or need to prove the case on an operating budget before committing capital. This is Agility's own default and fits most first deployments.
- Buy only if you have consistently high, multi-shift utilization, a long deployment horizon, and the in-house capability to maintain and reprogram the fleet — the scenario where amortizing ~$250k beats paying ~$100k/year indefinitely.
- Either way, model your own payback at *your* labor rate and *your* realistic uptime, not the $30/hour, sub-two-year headline.
For how workplace and home humanoids are priced across the market, see our humanoid robot category; for where Digit fits in fulfillment automation, see warehouse robots.
Sources
- The Robot Report — Here's what it could cost to hire a Digit humanoid
- Sacra — Agility Robotics valuation, funding & revenue
- Silicon Valley Robotics Center — Agility Digit listing (~$250,000)
*Prices are indicative and based on reseller listings and Agility's own investor-presentation unit economics as of mid-2026. RaaS and purchase terms are negotiated per deployment — confirm current figures with Agility before budgeting.*
