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AI hardware prices — 2026-10-15

Daily AI hardware price/supply snapshot with illustrative landed costs (sales tax ~10%).

Daily digest — 2026-10-15 PT
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Report 2026-10-15 PT Illustrative landed (sales tax ~10%) No invented prices

Highlights

In-stock buy picks (observational, not financial advice): (1) Mac Studio M5 Max 36GB/512GB @ B&H $2,299 (~$2,529 illustrative landed, sales tax ~10%). Eighth straight day at its tracked low (median $2,449), $200 under Apple, limited supply at this price. 36GB is tight for a 27B model plus agents. (2) Framework Desktop Mainboard Max+ 395 128GB @ Framework $3,149 (~$3,464). In stock at its tracked low; mainboard only. (3) GMKtec EVO-X2 128GB+1TB @ GMKtec $3,499.99 (~$3,850). At its tracked low; complete 128GB system. Honorable: B&H Mac Studio M5 Max 48GB/2TB $3,899 in stock; B&H 48GB/1TB $3,399 in stock; B&H 36GB/1TB $2,579 limited (sale); Beelink GTR9 Pro back at $4,349 in stock (store recovered from yesterday's 502); BuyDirectNY AI Box $5,499 in stock. Excluded: NVIDIA Marketplace DGX Spark FE $6,950 (Add to Cart shown but no stock text, unverified) and Newegg rows blanked by HTTP 403 (not price drops).
Stock: Beelink GTR9 Pro flipped unknown → in stock at $4,349 (store back after yesterday's HTTP 502). B&H AI Box $5,099.99 now Temporarily Out of Stock (was OOS/priced yesterday). Micro Center MSI Ventus and Gigabyte Gaming OC 5090s still "Not carried" with no price; Micro Center AI Box and Zotac 5090 still no price / 0 in stock. All tracked GB10 boxes remain OOS/Discontinued/NLA; Best Buy DGX Spark still "no longer available". NVIDIA Marketplace DGX Spark FE ($6,950) again shows Add to Cart with no stock text, logged unknown/unverified.
Movers: Beelink GTR9 Pro: null → $4,349 in stock (real recovery, not a drop). Five Newegg rows that had prices yesterday are null/unknown today because Newegg returned HTTP 403 on curl — not real price moves (PNY DGX 2-pack was $11,149.99 OOS; Ventus 3P $7,246.90; AI Box 3P $7,354.21; Skytech PC $9,299.99). No other tracked retail price changes.
DGX Spark: NVIDIA Marketplace $6,950 (unverified Add to Cart); B&H ATOM $5,299.99/$5,999, GX10 1TB $5,999, GX10 kit $6,088.99, Lenovo PGX $5,859, GX10 4TB $7,999, HP ZGX $7,699 all OOS; ASUS eShop GX10 2TB $6,999 OOS; Newegg 2-pack blanked by 403 (was $11,149.99 OOS).
Mac Studio: Apple unchanged at $2,499 / $5,399 / $5,499 / $9,499 / $10,799. B&H M5 Ultra preorders: 30-core early Jan 2027, 36-core mid Feb 2027. B&H M5 Max 36GB/512GB $2,299 limited; 36GB/1TB $2,579 limited; 48GB/1TB $3,399 and 48GB/2TB $3,899 in stock; 36GB/2TB $3,299 preorder.
AI Box deal watch: no first-party discrete RTX 5090 price was readable today (Micro Center cards still "Not carried"/no price; Newegg card blank via 403). Against the last first-party card read (Micro Center MSI Ventus $5,059.99 on 2026-10-13): B&H AI Box $5,099.99 is +0.8% but temporarily OOS; BuyDirectNY AI Box $5,499 is +8.7% and in stock, both within the ~+10% band. Observational only; TB5 is well below PCIe x16.
Flat: Framework DIY $3,449; GMKtec 2TB $3,649.99; Amazon EVO-X2 $3,649.99; Minisforum MS-S1 Max $3,879; Best Buy ROG Astral $8,044.99 sold out; Amazon TUF 5090 and AI Box still no buy box.
Local resale (Bay Area, cash, observational): Craigslist and OfferUp scanned, 13 listings; FB Marketplace and Nextdoor need a login (skipped). Still up: a DGX Spark / ASUS GX10 128GB/1TB "like new" at ~$4,999 (below every tracked retail GB10 ask; all retail GB10 OOS). New: an MSI Gaming Trio 5090 ask ~$6,800; a suspiciously low ~$1,500 ROG Astral OfferUp ask (treat as likely scam/bait — do not use as a street low). Gone: the ~$6,395 FE ask and the ~$7,000 water-cooled AIO ask. Other asks: 5090 FE/Astral ~$6,500; custom Suprim 5090 PC ~$4,800; M3 Ultra Mac Studios $6,500–$14,999 (M3, not M5 — family proxies).

Price table

Illustrative landed costs (sales tax ~10%). Product · Retailer · Landed · Stock · Link — scroll horizontally if needed. Stock shows qty when a retailer exposes it (e.g. in stock (3)); otherwise status only.

Product	Retailer	Landed	Stock	Link
Mac Studio M5 Max (base)	B&H	$2,528.90	limited	Open
Mac Studio M5 Max (other configs)	B&H	$2,836.90	limited	Open
Framework Desktop (Ryzen AI Max+ 395 / Strix Halo)	Framework	$3,463.90	in stock	Open
GMKtec EVO-X2 (Ryzen AI Max+ 395 / Strix Halo)	GMKtec official	$3,849.99	in stock	Open
Minisforum MS-S1 Max (Ryzen AI Max+ 395 / Strix Halo)	Minisforum	$4,266.90	in stock	Open
Beelink GTR9 Pro (Ryzen AI Max+ 395 / Strix Halo)	Beelink official	$4,783.90	in stock	Open
Gigabyte AORUS RTX 5090 AI BOX 32GB	B&H	$5,609.99	OOS	Open
Gigabyte AI TOP ATOM (DGX Spark platform)	B&H	$5,829.99	OOS	Open
Mac Studio M5 Max 128GB	B&H	$5,938.90	preorder	Open
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 96GB	B&H	$6,048.90	preorder	Open
Lenovo ThinkStation PGX (DGX Spark platform)	B&H	$6,444.90	OOS	Open
ASUS Ascent GX10 (DGX Spark platform)	B&H	$6,598.90	OOS	Open
NVIDIA DGX Spark (Founders / NVIDIA-branded)	NVIDIA Marketplace	$7,645.00	unknown	Open
HP ZGX Nano G1n (GB10)	B&H	$8,468.90	OOS	Open
GeForce RTX 5090 32GB	Best Buy	$8,849.49	OOS	Open
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 256GB	B&H	$10,448.90	preorder	Open
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 256GB 80-GPU	B&H	$11,878.90	preorder	Open

Inventory snapshot

Inventory snapshot (best observed retail/MSRP row per product): 4 in stock, 2 limited, 4 preorder, 6 OOS. Most retailers expose status only (no shelf count).