OnRobot does not publish prices. Its US dealers do — and unlike most of the robot market, several of them run real checkout carts. On 4 August 2026 we pulled three of them: a BigCommerce distributor with 120 OnRobot SKUs listed, and two Shopify dealers (57 and 19 OnRobot SKUs) whose cart endpoints confirmed USD.
The result is an unusually complete picture of what a cobot tooling budget actually looks like — including the fact that the most expensive OnRobot line item at one dealer is not a gripper at all.
Gripper prices, three dealers, same day
| Model | Payload | Dealer A | Dealer B | Dealer C |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gecko SP (adhesive) | 1 / 3 / 5 kg | $989.38 | $891.00 | $675.00 |
| MG10 (magnetic) | 10 kg | $3,562.29 | $3,204.00 | — |
| VGC10 (compact vacuum) | 15 kg | — | $3,782.00 | $3,709.00 |
| VGP30 (pneumatic vacuum) | 30 kg | $4,865.16 | $4,389.00 | — |
| Soft Gripper (food grade) | 2.2 kg | — | $4,576.00 | $4,175.00 |
| 2FG7 (sealed parallel) | 11 kg | — | $4,843.00 | — |
| RG2 (2-finger) | 5 kg | $6,342.03 | $5,580.00 | $5,472.00 |
| 2FG14 (parallel) | 14 kg | $6,581.68 | $5,938.00 | — |
| 3FG15 (3-finger centric) | 150 mm stroke | $6,694.17 | $6,030.00 | $4,360.00 |
| VG10 (electric vacuum) | 15 kg | $7,026.27 | $6,140.00 | $6,022.00 |
| RG6 (2-finger, wide) | 6 kg | $7,594.43 | $6,683.00 | $6,554.00 |
| VGP20 (electric vacuum) | 20 kg | $7,676.79 | $6,925.00 | — |
| 3FG25 (3-finger, heavy) | — | $7,746.34 | $6,988.00 | — |
| RG2-FT (with F/T sensing) | 4 kg | $13,180.01 | $11,598.00 | $11,374.00 |
| 2FGP20 (palletizing) | 20 kg | $14,805.51 | $13,356.00 | — |
Non-gripper tools price alongside them: the Sander at $3,922.00-$4,555.36, the Screwdriver at $6,445.00-$9,915.18, the Eyes 2.5D vision system at $4,475.00-$7,513.00, HEX-E/HEX-H force-torque sensors at $3,460.00-$4,428.00, and the Lift100 seventh-axis elevator at $15,767.00-$17,479.63.
Payload is not what you are paying for
Divide price by rated payload and the range inside one brand is 20x:
| Model | Payload | Price (Dealer B) | $/kg |
|---|---|---|---|
| VGP30 | 30 kg | $4,389.00 | $146.30 |
| Gecko SP 5 | 5 kg | $891.00 | $178.20 |
| VGC10 | 15 kg | $3,782.00 | $252.13 |
| MG10 | 10 kg | $3,204.00 | $320.40 |
| VGP20 | 20 kg | $6,925.00 | $346.25 |
| VG10 | 15 kg | $6,140.00 | $409.33 |
| 2FG14 | 14 kg | $5,938.00 | $424.14 |
| 2FG7 | 11 kg | $4,843.00 | $440.27 |
| 2FGP20 | 20 kg | $13,356.00 | $667.80 |
| RG6 | 6 kg | $6,683.00 | $1,113.83 |
| RG2 | 5 kg | $5,580.00 | $1,116.00 |
| Soft Gripper | 2.2 kg | $4,576.00 | $2,080.00 |
| RG2-FT | 4 kg | $11,598.00 | $2,899.50 |
Three things that ladder makes obvious:
The 30 kg vacuum gripper is cheaper than the 20 kg one. VGP30 lists at $4,389.00 against VGP20's $6,925.00 — 50% more payload for 36.6% less money. The reason is in the product names: the VGP30 is pneumatic and runs on your shop air, while the VGP20 is electric and carries its own vacuum generation. If you already have plant air, the higher-payload tool is the cheaper one. If you do not, the VGP30's cost lands on your compressor bill instead. This is the same shape as the negative price step we found across UR payload classes in our cobot payload class comparison — bigger is not reliably dearer.
Sensing costs more than lifting. The RG2-FT is 2.08x the price of the RG2 and carries *less* payload (4 kg vs 5 kg). The premium buys built-in force/torque and proximity sensing. Buying the plain RG2 plus a HEX-E QC sensor separately comes to $10,008.00 at the same dealer — cheaper than the integrated $11,598.00, but two devices to mount and wire.
Payload does not always change the price at all. The Gecko SP ships in 1 kg, 3 kg and 5 kg variants and all three list at exactly $891.00. You are buying the pad technology, not the capacity.
The most expensive OnRobot SKU is software
At the distributor with the deepest catalogue, the top of the price list is not a gripper. D:PLOY — OnRobot's deployment software — lists at $4,499.75 for the base licence, then $9,518.70 for three years, $13,845.38 for five, and $25,960.10 for ten. That last figure is 75% more than the 2FGP20, the priciest gripper on the shelf.
The ten-year licence works out to $2,596/year against $3,173/year for the three-year term, so the long term is the cheaper per-year deal — but it also locks a decade of software spend into a tool that costs $4,000-$15,000. Budget it as a line, not an afterthought; subscription pricing on automation has a habit of moving, as we documented in our piece on RaaS contract repricing risk.
The dealer spread, and the trap inside it
Across 21 SKUs stocked by both Dealer A and Dealer B, A is consistently 10.7-14.4% higher — remarkably consistent, which tells you these are formula-derived list prices rather than negotiated quotes. Dealer C looks cheapest, and on the RG-series products it genuinely is by about 2%. But on six other lines it is 21-40% below Dealer B, which is not a discount so much as an older catalogue: its 3FG15 sits at $4,360.00 against $6,030.00 elsewhere, and its Eyes at $4,475.00 against $7,513.00. Confirm the SKU is current before you treat the lowest number as your budget. We unpack that pattern in what a published robot price is actually worth.
Budgeting checklist
- Add a Quick Changer ($588.00-$681.42 robot side) if you will swap tools; the dual version is $2,781.00-$3,223.52.
- Add the robot interface kit ($1,157.33-$2,101.20 depending on fieldbus) — the gripper price does not include it.
- Fingertips, suction cups and brackets run $85.00-$710.00 each and are consumables on abrasive parts.
- One gripper rarely finishes a cell; the machine-tending cells we priced this week carry a gripper plus a tool changer plus a tooling plate.
For a cross-brand view of how OnRobot compares with Robotiq, SCHUNK and soft-gripper vendors on the same dealer shelf, see our end-of-arm tooling brand comparison, or browse collaborative robots to match tooling to an arm.
*All prices read from US dealer product pages and cart endpoints on 4 August 2026, USD confirmed. Dealer list prices are not quotations and OnRobot does not publish an MSRP.*
