Some pricing updates, and what we’d do if we were youDDR5 held steady. The 4TB SSD didn’t. One thing worth acting on before costs climb further.
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 | Pricing Update · April 2026 | Some pricing updates, and what you can do right now. | Memory and storage costs are still volatile. We’ve absorbed what we can, adjusted where we had to, and as always we’re walking you through exactly what changed and why. |
| Unchanged DDR5 prices for DIY Edition laptops We brought in enough inventory at previous cost levels to hold the line here this month. No changes to DDR5 pricing across DIY Edition configurations. |
| Price Increases 4TB SN850x · 128GB Framework Desktop · 250GB Storage Expansion Card The 4TB SN850x needed a reprice as older, lower-cost SSD inventory runs thin and new stock arrives at substantially higher cost. The 128GB Framework Desktop has also gone up slightly as LPDDR5x costs continue to climb. Our 250GB Storage Expansion Card has been repriced upward as NAND shortages hit our build costs too. Even with the adjustment, the 128GB Desktop remains one of the more affordable ways to get 128GB for running AI models locally. |
| Price Decreases Framework Laptop 16 — select configurations Rare good news this month. We locked in better CPU pricing and have brought some Framework Laptop 16 configurations back down to their original launch prices. The 64GB prebuilt configuration has gone up slightly to reflect memory costs, but most other configurations came down. |
What you can do right now If you’ve been considering a high-capacity SSD or storage expansion card, now is a good time to configure. We still have inventory at the older cost basis, but it’s running out. Based on what our suppliers are telling us, both the 250GB and 1TB Storage Expansion Cards are likely to see significant price increases later this year. We’re not saying that to create urgency for its own sake. We’re saying it because it’s what’s actually happening, and you should have the same information we do. |
Both DRAM and NAND are facing a significant supply and demand imbalance right now. This affects the whole industry — almost every modern device contains at least some of one or the other. Our Storage Expansion Cards use the same NAND flash that goes into NVMe SSDs, which means the same shortages that affect drives also affect our cards. We’ll keep you updated as the situation develops. |
We’re going to keep being transparent about how we’re navigating this. You should know as much as we do about what’s happening in the computing and consumer electronics industry. The Framework Team |
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