Snips
🗣️Hey Snips! Voice platform that allows you to create a Private by Design voice assistant that runs on the edge.
Est 2013|Valuation $36.3M|Raised $21.2M
🗣️Hey Snips! Voice platform that allows you to create a Private by Design voice assistant that runs on the edge.
Published Sep 19, 2026
The reported shutdown of Snips' tooling prompted active communities to migrate to alternative stacks such as Rhasspy and Home Assistant Assist. Independent coverage documented community movement following the acquisition.
| Starting Price | Not publicly available (product largely discontinued) | Low-cost voice preview hardware plus Home Assistant setup | Published pricing varies by SDK/product; typically commercial licensing |
| Suitable For | Legacy deployments; experimentation with Hermes ecosystem | Smart homes seeking local privacy-first voice control | OEMs/developers needing on-device wake word and speech/NLU components |
| Key Strength | On-device processing and Hermes protocol ecosystem | Active ecosystem and local-first integrations | Packaged on-device technology and commercial support options |
| Key Weakness | Availability, support, and tooling continuity risk | Feature breadth compared with major cloud assistants | Commercial licensing costs; integration effort |
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