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Bring Kalea home.

Two versions of Kalea. Both are local, private, embodied, and voice-first. The difference is how much capability lives under the hood.

Which Kalea?

Same soul, different headroom.

Both are local, private, embodied, and voice-first. The difference is memory: how many minds she can hold ready at once.

Kalea liteKalea Pro
Price$594$835
Best forSingle users, tutoring, companionmulti-model optimization, multi-user households, agents, and swarms
Memory8GB LPDDR516GB LPDDR5
Storage64GB eMMC256GB eMMC
FinishBlueBlack
Models kept warmOne at a timeFast + deep brain together · both brains resident
Brain switchingA reload — about 45 secondsInstant
Small Council (multi-model)Available, slowerPrewarmed — fast
Household swarm (forthcoming)Joins the graph as one sealed nodeBuilt for multi-node, multi-user households

Every Kalea includes

  • The Personality Deck: five knobs, two sliders, one Interrupt button
  • Five voices to choose from: Coral, Tide, Firth, Harbor, Keel
  • Off-grid messaging over Bluetooth
  • Tutor, coach, mentor, and family companion
  • The Kalea Console, on-device
  • Her brain, ears, and voice on the device — your words stay in the room
  • No account, no subscription, nothing to cancel
  • Model-agnostic and built to trade up as better small models arrive
  • A die-cast enclosure, USB-C power adapter, and quick-start card in the box
Owned
not rented — no subscription to use her
Private
runs on-device; data stays in the room
Off-grid
useful with the Wi-Fi off
Before you order

The practical questions

Kalea is built in runs. Lot #1 is the first 125 of each model and ships late October to mid-November. When Lot #1 sells out, orders move to Lot #2, shipping early December. You always see which lot you are buying before you pay, and we email you the moment yours is on its way.

Lot #1 ships within the United States only. Orders to Canada, the UK and Australia ship with Lot #2, early December.

So the first run reaches as many homes as it can, one order takes at most one of each model from Lot #1 — if you order more, the rest ship with Lot #2, and we tell you that at checkout.
Cancel any time before your unit ships and we refund everything, including the $30 shipping & handling. Once she arrives you have 30 days to send her back for any reason — you cover the return postage, we refund the device. If she turns up faulty or we sent the wrong model, we cover it all and send you a label. She also carries a one-year limited hardware warranty on the device. Returns & warranty →
$30 shipping & handling per order, added at checkout. Checkout currently ships to the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

Orders shipping outside the United States may owe import duty or VAT on arrival. The carrier collects it before delivery; it isn't included in the price or the $30 shipping & handling.
No to both for the core experience. Kalea is built to be useful off-grid. When you want to configure her or message her without the internet, off-grid messaging lets you do it from a nearby phone over Bluetooth.
Same soul, different headroom. Both are local, private, voice-first, and come with the Personality Deck and off-grid messaging. Kalea lite (8GB) keeps one model warm at a time, so switching to her deep-reasoning brain takes a moment. Kalea Pro (16GB) keeps both the fast brain and the deep brain warm — switching is instant — and has the headroom to run the multi-model Small Council without evicting a brain between candidates. Heavy use, multiple users, or multi-model work: choose Pro. One learner or a family companion: lite is lovely. Compare the lineup →
Safety is built in and age-aware, running on-device: under-18 protections for sensitive topics, gentle correction over harsh refusal, and a parent in the loop. We're candid that a young child can't fact-check, so we designed Kalea as a learning companion with a caregiver involved — not an unsupervised authority. How safety works →
Yes. Kalea is model-agnostic — she runs the best small models today and swaps in better ones as they arrive. The board is just the vessel; the intelligence keeps improving for as long as you own her.
Checkout runs on Stripe's secure payment page. We never see or store your card details. Terms & Conditions →

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