Mini PC Prices: What N150, 8845HS and AI Max+ 395 Boxes Cost Now

Mini PC prices didn’t climb because the chips got dearer. The memory and SSD inside them did, which is why a Minisforum UM880 Plus barebone with a Ryzen 7 8845HS still sells for $349 on Amazon while the same box with 32GB and 1TB costs $829. When you compare mini PC prices today, the RAM and storage line on the listing decides most of the number, and the CPU class decides the rest.

This tracker groups new Amazon US listings by CPU class instead of by model. You get the low, median and high price for Intel N150 boxes at 16GB and 500GB, Ryzen 7 8845HS boxes at 32GB and 1TB, and Ryzen AI Max+ 395 boxes at 64GB and 128GB. Barebones get their own rows, and each class gets the price a Black Friday deal has to beat. Every band price below was pulled from Amazon’s product API on November 1, 2026, from 114 in-stock listings, every store link was rechecked for stock on November 6, 2026, and the page is refreshed monthly.

Mini PC prices by CPU class

At the median, an N150 mini PC costs $349, a 32GB Ryzen 7 8845HS box costs $879 and a 128GB Ryzen AI Max+ 395 box costs $3,799.99. The spread inside each class is wide, so anchor on the median rather than the cheapest listing, which is often one storefront having a good day. Each row compares the same RAM and SSD configuration, and the last column links the cheapest listing that was in stock on November 1:

Read the table in this order, because each line changes what you should pay:

1. the median, which is what a normal day costs
2. the barebone row, which only looks like a discount
3. the 8745HS row, which costs more than some 8845HS boxes
4. the AI Max+ 395 gap between 64GB and 128GB, about $1,100 at the low end

Two classes have too few barebones to give you a median. That is not a gap in the data: an N150 box is usually sold complete, and an AI Max+ 395 box has its memory soldered to the board, so a no-RAM version cannot exist.

An N150 mini PC costs $349 at the median

We matched 15 in-stock N150 listings with 16GB of RAM and a 500GB or 512GB SSD, and they ran from $280.79 to $549.99. The median lands on $349 because 6 different Beelink Mini S13 listings sit at exactly that price, from five Beelink storefronts selling the same box. If you see an N150 at $349, you’re looking at the going rate, not a deal. Check the Beelink Mini S13 price on Amazon.

The cheap end is the MegaPC at $280.79 and the Bmax at $284.99, both with 16GB and 512GB. The expensive end is MeLE’s fanless boxes with Windows 11 Pro at $549.99, so you’re paying about $200 for silence and a Pro licence rather than for a faster chip. The N150 is a 4-core, 4-thread part in every one of these boxes, which means anything you pay above the median buys chassis, ports and software, never compute.

What moves an N150 price, from the biggest effect to the smallest:

1. a fanless case and Windows 11 Pro, about $200
2. the brand, about $65 between MegaPC and Beelink
3. the storefront, up to $50 on the same Beelink model
4. 16GB of DDR4 instead of 12GB of LPDDR5, $10 to $20

The 12GB Mini S13 listings sell for $329 to $339, only $10 to $20 under the 16GB version. LPDDR5 is soldered, so you can never add memory to that box, and that small saving costs you 4GB for the life of the machine. Spend the extra $10. For which N150 box suits a Home Assistant server, and how the N150 stacks up against Intel’s newer chips, see the Core 3 304 vs N150 vs N355 comparison.

8845HS mini PC prices split on RAM, not CPU

Only 4 listings matched a Ryzen 7 8845HS with 32GB and 1TB, and they ran from $829 to $939, with a median of $879. Three are Minisforum UM880 Plus listings and one is a Beelink SER8. The three UM880 Plus listings, all with 32GB and 1TB, ran from $829 to $919, so the same box costs $90 more depending on which listing you click. The Beelink SER8 topped the band at $939 on November 1, but that listing had sold out by November 6. The cheapest box in the band is still in stock: check the UM880 Plus price on Amazon.

The 8845HS price ladder on November 1 shows you where the money goes as RAM grows:

• barebone, no RAM or SSD: from $349
• 16GB and 1TB: $549.99 to $699.99
• 24GB and 1TB (Beelink SER8): $799
• 32GB and 1TB: $829 to $939

On the UM880 Plus itself, moving from 16GB to 32GB with the same 512GB SSD costs $136 ($639 against $775). A single 16GB DDR5 SO-DIMM costs $239.99 at retail today, so the maker’s memory upcharge is still cheaper than doing it yourself. When two 8845HS boxes look identical and one costs $300 more, check the memory line before you blame the brand.

The 8745HS row catches people out. AMD rates the Ryzen 7 8745HS at 4.9 GHz boost against 5.1 GHz for the 8845HS, with the same 8 cores and 16 threads. Yet the Beelink SER8 with an 8745HS, 32GB and 1TB was $859 at three storefronts, $30 more than the cheapest 8845HS box. By November 6 one of those listings had sold out and the other two had jumped to $1,099, while the same 32GB, 1TB, 2.5GbE SER8 from Beelink’s own storefront was $819 with a later ship date, $10 under the UM880 Plus: check the SER8 8745HS price on Amazon. The slower chip doesn’t reliably save you money, so buy whichever of the two is cheaper on the day. For a Proxmox node, our homelab mini PC picks explain which ports and NICs matter more than the 200 MHz.

Ryzen AI Max+ 395 prices start at $2,200

The cheapest Ryzen AI Max+ 395 box in stock was the GMKtec EVO-X2 with 64GB and 1TB at $2,199.99. Only 4 listings had 64GB, topping out at $2,599 for a Minisforum MS-S1 MAX with 2TB. At 128GB with a 1TB or 2TB SSD, we found 28 listings from $3,299 to $4,699.99, and the median was $3,799.99. Check the 64GB EVO-X2 price on Amazon.

AMD lists the AI Max+ 395 as a 16-core, 32-thread Strix Halo part, and every box in this class solders its LPDDR5X memory next to the chip. That is the fact behind the price: the 64GB box can never become a 128GB box. If you’re buying one to run local models, decide on 128GB now, because the upgrade later is a second machine.

The 128GB band breaks into three groups once you sort it:

• brand storefronts with 2TB: $3,299 to $4,349, most at $3,599 to $3,999
• NIMO boxes with 1TB from resale storefronts: $3,499.99 to $4,299.99
• NIMO boxes with 2TB from resale storefronts: $3,799.99 to $4,699.99

Of the 12 in-stock 128GB listings above $4,000, 8 were NIMO boxes, several with 4TB or 8TB SSDs that push them to $5,499.99. None of that money buys you a faster chip. This page only tracks the price band. For which 395 box you should buy, read our Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC comparison, and if you’re wondering whether to wait for the newer part, see the AI Max 495 vs 395 breakdown. The local LLM mini PC guide covers cheaper ways to run 8B to 32B models.

Barebones only look cheaper

A barebone mini PC costs less than a complete one only if you already own the RAM and SSD. Price the parts today and the complete box wins by a wide margin, in both classes where a barebone exists. Take the same Minisforum UM880 Plus and price it two ways on the same day:

If you buy the parts yourself, you pay $176.76 more than for the box complete. The N150 class says the same thing louder. An ASUS NUC 14 Essential barebone at $235, plus a $239.99 16GB DDR5 SO-DIMM and a $109.99 500GB NVMe drive, comes to $584.98. You’d get the same memory and storage in a complete N150 box for $349 at the median.

The reason is on Minisforum’s own blog. Its November 4, 2025 price adjustment raised prices across the lineup but left barebone models and products without DDR5 memory or an SSD untouched. Whatever a maker pays for memory by the tray, it’s well under the price you pay for one retail kit, and our RAM price tracker, RAM price outlook and SSD price tracker show how far retail memory and storage have climbed.

A barebone still makes sense in three cases:

• you have DDR5 SO-DIMMs from a laptop or old mini PC
• you are moving an NVMe drive from a machine you are retiring
• you need a firewall appliance, which rarely ships configured

Firewall-style 8845HS barebones with extra 2.5GbE or 10GbE ports were $542.39 and $741.99, so they sit in a different price class from the desktop barebones in the table, and the same goes for the 6-port N150 firewall barebone at $349.96. If you have nothing to reuse, look at our used 1-litre business PC picks, which ship with RAM and an SSD already inside.

Mini PC prices have barely moved since September

Are mini PC prices going up? On Amazon, not over the last two months. This tracker starts with the November 1 pull, but we have earlier reads of some of the same ASINs from our own stock checks, and they barely move:

One listing fell, one rose, four held their price to the cent and the EVO-X2 stayed at about $2,200. The Mini S13 drop from $399 to $349 came between September 1 and October 19 and has stuck, and the MS-S1 MAX is $40 higher and now sells for a later delivery date. Seven listings over two months is a small sample, so read it as no sign of a fresh climb on these boxes, not as proof the shortage is over. Two of these listings had sold out by November 6, the Bmax and the $859 SER8 listing with an 8745HS, so their rows keep the November 1 price without a store link. If you wanted that SER8, the Minisforum UM880 Plus with an 8845HS, 32GB and 1TB is the in-stock box at the same memory and storage. If memory prices climb again, watch the configured rows first, since the Minisforum notice shows that’s where makers pass the cost on.

Each monthly update adds a column to this table from the dated pull files that sit with the article, so the history grows from here instead of being reconstructed later.

Where the numbers come from

Every price came from Amazon’s Creators API for the US store on November 1, 2026. We ran 41 searches across the three classes, kept 114 in-stock listings and grouped them by the RAM and SSD in the title. A listing made it into a band only if it passed these filters:

• new condition, in stock or low stock
• the CPU named in the title, not in a “beats N150” claim
• no renewed units, NAS enclosures or laptops
• RAM and SSD sizes parsed from the title
• the buy box price, not a cheaper side offer

Seller names stay out of the tables on purpose. Storefronts change daily, and the $349 Mini S13 alone appeared under five Beelink storefront names. Newegg, B&H or the maker’s own store can be cheaper on any day, and preorder listings such as the MS-S1 MAX at 128GB are excluded from the bands until they ship. The GPU price tracker and the hard drive price tracker use the same method if you want a second data point on how the shortage moves hardware prices.

Black Friday mini PC prices worth paying

Only 9 of the 114 listings carried a list price at all, so a Black Friday badge that says “30% off” is usually measured against nothing. Measure it against this table instead. A good deal beats the lowest in-stock price from November 1, a normal price sits between the low and the median, and anything above the median is a price you could have paid on a quiet Saturday.

Our Black Friday mini PC deals for homelabs post lists the discounts as they go live. Check each one against the row above, and remember the barebone trap: a $349 8845HS barebone looks like a doorbuster until you add $656.76 of memory and storage to it.