Price comparison · with receipts
Advertising & wayfinding robots: buy, rent or hire? Published prices side by side
Advertising & wayfinding robots, from sellers' published prices: buying a robot costs $14,000 up front (2 prices); renting one (RaaS or lease) costs $479 a month (1 prices); we have no published price for hiring a company that does this job with a robot yet.
Buy
$14,000
one-off, per robot · 2 published prices
Rent (RaaS)
$479
per month · 1 published prices · +1 in CAD
Hire a service
No price yet
Nobody we track publishes a price for doing this job with a robot.
Lowest to highest published price on each side. Different robots on each side, so this is the spread, not a like-for-like comparison. The same-robot chart below is.
Bot or Not? Buy, rent or hire?
Buy when
- You'll run it for longer than the months-of-rent bar above
- Someone on site can change brushes, empty tanks and call for repairs
- Your floor plan and cleaning hours won't change for years
Rent (RaaS) when
- You're not sure the robot suits your building: try it before you own it
- You want repairs and software updates included (check the contract says so)
- The up-front price is the problem, not the monthly cost
Hire people (or a service) when
- The area is small or gets cleaned once a week: a person is cheaper
- Floors are cluttered, furniture moves daily, or it's mostly stairs and corners
- Your cleaning contractor already prices the job well and nobody complains
Who this is not for: homes (these are commercial machines) and anyone who needs a firm price: these are list prices, and sellers often negotiate on fleets and long contracts.
Receipts: 4 published prices
| Way to pay | Price | What it is (as the source says) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy | $14,000 per robot · US | Pudu KettyBot Pro reception/wayfinding robot with 18.5-inch ad display, reseller purchase price (RobotLAB store page; RaaS from $479/month also listed; page undated, retrieved 2026-10-26) | robotlab.com as of 2026-10-26 |
| Buy | $14,000 per robot · US | Pudu KettyBot Pro reception/promotion robot, reseller price including first year of PUDU CARE (Apollo Office Systems catalog; also $319.20/month on a 60-month lease; page undated, retrieved 2026-10-26) | apolloofficesystems.com as of 2026-10-26 |
| Rent (RaaS) | $479 per month · US | Pudu KettyBot Pro reception/promotion robot, reseller RaaS subscription (RobotLAB store page; page undated, retrieved 2026-10-26) | robotlab.com as of 2026-10-26 |
| Rent (RaaS) | C$1,250 per month · CA | Pudu KettyBot Pro (18.5" advertising display + delivery), RaaS via MaxAVT (Canadian Pudu RaaS reseller), standard 36-month agreement incl. deployment, training, maintenance, OTA updates and remote monitoring | maxavt.com as of 2026-10-27 |
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Read this before you compare
- These are sellers' published list prices, not quotes. Fleet and long-contract deals are often lower.
- What a rental (RaaS) includes varies: maintenance, software, consumables, insurance. A purchase price usually includes none of that after the warranty.
- Neither side includes the person who empties, refills and moves the robot. Our calculator lets you add those hours.
- Nothing here is converted between currencies, adjusted for inflation or scaled.
Why this page exists (and others don't)
We publish a comparison only when at least two ways to pay have at least 2 sourced, dated prices each. This one has 2 purchase, 2 rental and 0 service prices.
Also compared: Commercial floor scrubbing, Commercial carpet vacuuming, Restaurant serving robots
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Whirrwork (2026). Advertising & wayfinding robots: buy, rent or hire? Published prices side by side. https://whirrwork.com/compare/buy-vs-rent-vs-hire/advertising-guide-robot/ (accessed 2026-10-27)
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