The short answer
A Gausium Omnie, the scrubber-sweeper we deploy most on large hard floors, runs about $680 a month on a 60-month financing plan, on approved credit. The floor-care labor it replaces, for the part-time hours most buildings staff, runs about $2,500 to $4,000 a month once payroll costs are included. Nobody pays list price up front for a robot the way they do for a mop bucket, so the monthly number is the one to compare. See the monthly cost on the buy or lease page, or keep reading for how each number is built.
Three ways to pay for a robot
Buy outright. One-time purchase. The robot is your asset from day one, delivery, floor mapping and operator training are included, and service is an optional plan on top. It suits a single site with a long horizon and a capital budget that can take the hit.
Lease. Fixed-term financing, which is what the $680 example is. Payments are spread across the term, the end-of-term option (purchase, renewal or upgrade) is written into the agreement, and a service plan is quoted separately. Your accountant can tell you how a lease is treated on your books.
Robot-as-a-Service (monthly service plan). A monthly fee covers the robot, software and updates, preventive maintenance and service response. We own the machine; you pay for the cleaning it does, and at the end of the term you renew, return it or change model. The buy or lease page puts all three side by side, row by row.
What $680 a month buys
An Omnie scrubs and sweeps hard floors on a schedule you set, runs the same route every shift, and produces a coverage report each time so you can see what was cleaned and when. Gausium publishes a theoretical scrubbing rate of up to 28,212 square feet per hour with the disc brush (2,621 m²/h; source: gausium.com/specs/omnie), so a large open floor is a few routes a night rather than a full shift of pushing a machine. Your crew keeps the restrooms, trash, dusting and spot work. The table below is the same one we show on the buy or lease page, so the figures match wherever you read them.
| Gausium Omnie, financed | Floor-care labor | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | About $680 / month (60-month term) | About $2,500 to $4,000 / month for the part-time floor-care hours most buildings staff (about 20 to 32 hours a week), loaded, at the regional mean wage for janitors and cleaners |
| What it covers | Scrubbing and sweeping of hard floors on a schedule, every shift, with a coverage report | The same floor area, by hand or ride-on machine, during the hours the employee is on the floor |
| Coverage | Up to 28,212 sq ft per hour scrubbing (2,621 m²/h, disc brush, manufacturer's theoretical figure; source: gausium.com/specs/omnie) | Depends on machine and shift length |
| Who does the rest | Your crew keeps restrooms, trash, dusting, spot work | Same crew |
| Term | 60 months, then you own it | Ongoing |
How we built the labor number
- Financing example: Gausium Omnie, 60-month term, on approved credit. Monthly amount varies with credit, configuration, down payment and any service plan. Ask for a written quote.
- Labor figure: for the part-time floor-care hours most buildings staff (about 20 to 32 hours a week), loaded labor runs about $2,500 to $4,000 a month at the regional mean wage for janitors and cleaners (BLS), plus payroll costs. The base wage is the regional mean for Janitors and Cleaners (occupation 37-2011) in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, $22.79 per hour (source: bls.gov, OEWS 37-2011). Adding about 25 percent for payroll taxes, insurance, supplies and supervision gives about $28.50 per hour loaded: about $2,470 a month at 20 hours a week and about $3,950 at 32. Your own payroll figures replace these in your proposal.
- A robot does not replace a person. It replaces the hours a person spends pushing a scrubber. Plan staffing on the tasks that remain.
When a robot does not pay off
Small floors. If the cleanable hard floor is a few thousand square feet, a person with a ride-on or walk-behind machine finishes it in under an hour a night. A financed robot does not cover its monthly cost on that little work; put the money into the crew instead.
Cluttered aisles and moving obstacles. Robots route around people and fixed objects, but a floor that is re-laid with pallets, carts and displays every day needs re-mapping or constant supervision. If the layout will not settle, the routes will not hold up.
No overnight or low-traffic window. A gaming floor or a transit hall can still work with a mapped zone and a fixed window, but a space that is equally busy every hour, with no quiet stretch at all, gives the robot too little time on the floor to earn the payment.
Carpet-only sites. The Omnie is a hard-floor machine. A building that is all carpet is a job for the Vacuum 40 or the Phantas, which are different machines with different monthly figures. Carpet extraction stays a manual job in any case, so ask for the quote on the right model rather than assuming this example applies.
If your building is one of these, we will tell you on the site walk. We also run janitorial crews, so recommending a person over a machine costs us nothing.
Run the numbers for your building
One site walk gives us the square footage by surface, the shift pattern and the obstacles. From that we send one written proposal with buy, lease and Robot-as-a-Service side by side, and the monthly figure for your floors rather than the example above.
Get a monthly quote for your floors
Financing subject to credit approval. Example figures are illustrative; your quote will reflect your equipment, term and rate.
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