PC market data
Original, normalized, free to cite · as of 2026-07-25
Everything we know about what computers cost, published openly. Across 5,849 in-stock systems, the median matched-model price is flat over the last 30 days.
The PC Price Index
Median prices and 30-day matched-model price movement for complete systems, by category and by brand.
Open the index →The PC Value Table
The cheapest in-stock machine at every RAM and storage tier — tiers derived per category, so a server grid isn't a laptop grid.
Open the table →Notes & analysis
What the numbers actually mean — written up when something in the data is worth a paragraph.
Read the blog →Price-drop feed
An RSS feed of the biggest genuine, in-stock discounts across every brand we track.
Subscribe →Every category
| Category | In-stock models | Median price | 30-day change | Cheapest by tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laptops | 1,207 | $1,900 | 0.0% | Value table |
| Desktops | 1,045 | $2,400 | 0.0% | Value table |
| Workstations | 465 | $5,259 | +0.5% | Value table |
| Mini PCs | 828 | $897 | 0.0% | Value table |
| Servers | 1,181 | $5,616 | +0.9% | Value table |
| Storage | 22 | $16,962 | 0.0% | Value table |
| All-in-Ones | 104 | $1,414 | 0.0% | Value table |
| Thin Clients | 97 | $879 | 0.0% | Value table |
| Tablets | 53 | $550 | +5.8% | Value table |
| Phones | 45 | $800 | 0.0% | Value table |
| Chromebooks | 82 | $504 | 0.0% | Value table |
| Single-Board Computers | 291 | $301 | +5.0% | Value table |
| Gaming Handhelds | 20 | $1,299 | 0.0% | Value table |
| NAS | 101 | $577 | 0.0% | Value table |
| Network Appliances | 174 | $245 | +8.4% | Value table |
| Network Switches | 114 | $399 | — | Value table |
From the blog
- How we measure PC prices, and why the average listing price lies · 2026-07-24
Averaging what's on sale today tells you which machines got listed, not what happened to prices. The fix is the same one inflation statistics use: follow the same machine over time. - A server is not a big laptop: why our value table now derives its own tiers · 2026-07-24
A fixed 8/16/32/64 GB ladder is a laptop ladder. Applied to servers it produced four rows with the same answer, and applied to single-board computers it produced an empty grid. Here's the fix. - The permanent sale: what a struck-through price is actually worth · 2026-07-24
Some manufacturers list a price that has never been the selling price, so the machine is eternally 60% off. Here's how to spot it, and how we keep it out of our discount figures.
Using this data
Every table on these pages is built from the Plug PCs catalog — manufacturer-listed prices for complete systems, normalized to one schema across 89 brands and re-checked continuously. It is all free to cite and republish with attribution under CC BY 4.0; link the page you took the figure from. Machines are queryable directly through our open read-only catalog API and MCP endpoint, and every product page carries structured data. Want a cut we don't publish — a specific category, brand, or time range? Use the Feedback button on any page.