Omi’s CES pitch is three days. Its hardware is an open pendant.

Omi is the other always-listening pendant on the CES 2025 floor. TechCrunch, covering the unveil, put the consumer orb at $89 with shipping in Q2 2025, and a developer unit at about $70 available immediately (TechCrunch, 8 January 2025). WIRED, after interviewing the founder, printed “Its battery lasts for three days” (WIRED, 8 January 2025).

Three days would put Omi nearer Bee’s week than a nightly charge. It is also, at this moment, an interview figure, not a specification sheet. Shevchenko told TechCrunch the product is built on an open-source platform so users can see where data goes or store it locally, and that developers can use the model of their choice. That is a more checkable claim than the battery sentence. The “brain interface” — tape the orb to a temple, skip the wake word — is a demo TechCrunch did not independently verify.

Bee is the cheap always-on clip already on sale. Omi is the hobbyist always-on orb, with the consumer SKU still a Q2 promise. They will be marketed together because they both listen without a button. They do not share a battery class, a price class or a data story. The Omi page will use the specification table when it disagrees with the interview, and will not fill in a pickup range Based Hardware has not published.