Changelog

A running log of dataset changes — new hardware builds, removed ones, price refreshes, rating adjustments, and bug fixes. Latest first.

The home-page footer "data last refreshed" date matches the most recent entry below. Older entries are kept for transparency. For ecosystem news (runtime releases, vendor moves, benchmark shifts) see /news.

2026-07-11 — Tencent Hy3 goes fully open (Apache-2.0), GLM-5.2 benchmarks backfilled, DGX Spark DE +25 %

Tencent re-released Hy3 under Apache-2.0 with its full benchmark card, and GLM-5.2 finally has independent leaderboard cells — enough to lift it to frontier-tier ratings. DGX Spark's German street price jumped a quarter on the DRAM / storage crunch.

Models

• Tencent Hy3 295B-A21B (MoE) — the April preview's full open-weights release (2026-07-06), relicensed from the custom Tencent Hy terms to Apache-2.0. Model card lands GPQA-Diamond 90.4, SWE-Bench Verified 78, SWE-Bench Pro 57.9 (up from the preview's 87.2 / 74.4).
• GLM-5.2 753B (MoE) — benchmark cells backfilled from benchlm.ai: SWE-Bench Pro 62.1 (highest open-weight in the catalog), GPQA-Diamond 91.2, HLE 54.7. Ratings raised to GLM-5.1 parity (coding / agents / reasoning 3 → 5) — it beats its predecessor on every measured cell.

Regional pricing

• NVIDIA DGX Spark (128 GB) — DE €4,389 → €5,479 (+25 %), Founders Edition street on the DRAM / storage shortage (Geizhals / alza.de, in stock).

Reviews

• Dual RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell — two Mukul Tripathi dual-card LLM-server benchmarks added. Intel Arc Pro B70 32 GB — Donato Capitella's llama.cpp / vLLM local-LLM review added.

2026-06-27 — GLM-5.2, Apple +25–32 % global hike, GB10 family JP / IT catchup, used-card spread re-anchored

Apple raised Mac prices globally on 25 June citing the AI-driven DRAM / storage shortage — Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96 GB +33 %, M4 Max 36 GB +25 %, MacBook Air M5 +18 %. The GB10 family (DGX Spark, ASUS Ascent, Dell Pro Max GB10, Lenovo PGX) carried 30–60 % moves in JP and IT as launch retail caught up with the FX-converted USD basis. Used-card BOMs re-anchored against current eBay spread — 3090 down, MI50 up. GLM-5.2 lands at agents / long-context / frontier.

New models

• GLM-5.2 753B (MoE) — 39 B active / 753 B total, MIT, native 1 M-token context via IndexShare sparse attention, two thinking-effort levels. Successor to GLM-5.1; Q4_K_M weights ~455 GB, comfort on 8×H200-141G or 4×B200-180G. Ratings conservative (coding 3, agents 3) pending leaderboard cells.

Apple price hike (25 June 2026)

• Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96 GB US $3,999 → $5,299 (+33 %); UK £4,199 → £5,299 (+26 %); DE / FR €4,399 → €6,299 (+43 %); IT €4,499 → €6,399; ES / NL €4,449 → €6,349; JP ¥649,800 → ¥899,800 (+38 %); AU A$6,299 → A$9,099 (+44 %); CA $5,499 → $7,499 (+36 %). Biggest single hike in the line. MacRumors / Hoxton Macs.
• Mac Studio M4 Max 36 GB US $1,999 → $2,499 (+25 %); UK £2,099 → £2,499; DE / FR €2,199 → €2,999 (+36 %); IT €2,249 → €3,049; ES / NL €2,329 → €3,029; JP ¥332,800 → ¥419,800 (+26 %); AU A$3,499 → A$4,299; CA $2,699 → $3,499.
• MacBook Air M5 16 GB US $1,099 → $1,299 (+18 %); UK £1,099 → £1,299; DE / FR €1,199 → €1,399; IT €1,099 → €1,449 (+32 %); ES €1,099 → €1,429 (+30 %); NL €1,199 → €1,429; JP ¥184,800 → ¥224,800 (+22 %); AU A$1,799 → A$2,099; CA $1,499 → $1,799 (+20 %).
• MacBook Pro M5 Pro 48 GB DE / FR €3,299 → €3,699 (+12 %); IT €3,349 → €3,799; ES / NL €3,299 → €3,749 (+14 %); JP ¥494,000 → ¥569,800 (+15 %); CA $3,899 → $4,599 (+18 %).
• MacBook Pro M5 Max 64 GB UK £3,899 → £4,299 (+10 %); DE / FR €4,599 → €5,899 (+28 %); IT €4,699 → €5,999; ES / NL €4,649 → €5,949; JP ¥649,800 → ¥879,800 (+35 %); AU A$6,849 → A$7,899; CA $6,049 → $7,299 (+21 %).
• MacBook Pro M5 Max 128 GB DE / FR €5,949 → €7,659 (+29 %); IT €6,049 → €7,759; ES / NL €5,999 → €7,709; JP ¥824,800 → ¥1,167,800 (+42 %); AU A$8,499 → A$10,299; CA $7,249 → $9,699 (+34 %).
• Mac mini M4 24 GB DE €999 → €1,179; IT €999 → €1,209 (+21 %); ES / NL €1,199; JP ¥154,800 → ¥164,800; AU A$1,599 → A$1,699. M4 16 GB JP ¥94,800 → ¥134,800 (+42 %).
• MacBook Air M4 16 GB marked discontinued: true — Apple removed M4 from the Air buy-mac page globally; the M5 Air is the current SKU.

Regional pricing

• RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB DE €9,890 → €13,589 (+37 %); IT €11,500 → €13,249 (+15 %); JP ¥1,993,000 → ¥2,188,000 (+10 %); AU A$16,899 → A$14,999 (-11 %); CA $18,011 → $17,000.
• RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48 GB DE €4,728 → €6,669 (+41 %); UK £4,500 → £6,000 (+33 %); JP ¥1,036,420 → ¥1,118,000; CA $7,496 → $9,000 (+20 %).
• Dell Pro Max GB10 UK £4,061 → £6,125 (+51 %); IT €6,050 → €7,265 (+20 %); JP ¥777,803 → ¥1,134,750 (+46 %); AU A$10,207 → A$7,999 (-22 %).
• DGX Spark 128 DE €4,800 → €4,389 (-9 %); FR €4,800 → €5,745 (+20 %); UK £4,200 → £4,600 (+10 %); IT €4,800 → €6,599 (+37 %); JP ¥900,000 → ¥1,190,000 (+32 %).
• ASUS Ascent GX10 DE €4,390 → €3,659 (-17 %, 1 TB); IT €4,390 → €4,699; JP ¥670,000 → ¥1,091,000 (+63 %).
• Lenovo ThinkStation PGX DE €4,700 → €5,399 (+15 %); IT €4,700 → €8,099 (+72 %); JP ¥785,273 → ¥858,730.
• Intel Arc Pro B70 32 GB DE €1,248 → €1,149; UK £1,650 → £1,200 (-27 %, currently out of stock); IT €1,248 → €1,179.
• AMD R9700 32 GB DE €1,399 → €1,499; IT €1,346 → €1,699 (+26 %); JP ¥247,059 → ¥259,800; CA $2,400 → $1,850 (-23 %).
• Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB ES €649 → €719; IT €618 → €859 (+39 %).
• RTX 4090 24 GB AU A$3,500 → A$2,800 (-20 %, channel narrowing as the card hits EOL); JP ¥662,000 → ¥611,000.
• RTX 5090 32 GB DE €3,800 → €3,999; FR €3,850 → €3,999; ES €3,850 → €4,469 (+16 %); NL €3,900 → €4,049; UK £3,059 → £3,189; JP ¥697,800 → ¥600,000 (-14 %); CA $5,499 → $4,999. ×2 derived per region.
• Mac mini M4 16 GB minor regions SG S$849 → S$1,149 (+35 %); HK HK$4,599 → HK$6,499 (+41 %); NZ NZ$1,499 → NZ$1,599.

Used-card BOMs re-anchored against eBay spread

• RTX 3090 24 GB $1,750 → $1,500 (cards $295-$970, ~$600 average — the Q1-2026 GDDR6 contract spike has unwound). ×2 $3,100 → $2,800; ×4 $6,900 → $6,000.
• Tesla P100 16 GB $600 → $500 (cards $54-$100, down from May's $148-$170 — Pascal HBM2 cratered).
• AMD MI50 32 GB $700 → $900 (cards $422-$570, up sharply from May's $150-$250 — demand-driven by the vLLM-gfx906 budget build). ×4 $2,300 → $2,500.

Closed-frontier references

• Gemini 3.1 Pro — pricing $2/$12 (≤200 K) / $4/$18 (>200 K) re-confirmed. Vendor-reported SWE-Pro 54.2 vs Scale SEAL leaderboard 46.1 — 8.1-pt gap flagged in benchmarkNotes.
• ChatGPT 5.5 — $5/$30 unchanged. GPT-5.6 Sol / Terra / Luna shipped 2026-06-26 to a ~20-org limited preview; 5.5 remains GA.
• Claude Sonnet 4.6 — $3/$15 unchanged. Anthropic consolidated rate limits to Start / Build / Scale tiers.
• Claude Opus 4.8 — apiSpeed outputTps 58 → 58.9. Tokenizer-change note added: Opus 4.7+ may use up to 35 % more tokens for identical text — at the same $/M this is an effective price increase. Opus 4.7 fast mode deprecates 2026-07-24.

Reviews

• Mac Mini M4 16 GB +3 Tech-Practice videos.
• AMD Instinct MI355X 288 GB +3 Level1Techs launch-event reviews.
• DGX Spark family — ASUS Ascent GX10 +2 (Alex Ziskind, Level1Techs); MSI EdgeXpert +1 (Jeff Geerling); Dell Pro Max GB10 +1 (Bijan Bowen); Lenovo ThinkStation PGX +1 (Jeff Geerling); DGX Spark ×4 +Level1Techs; DGX Spark ×8 +ServeTheHome.
• B200 180 GB / H200 141 GB +ServeTheHome cluster tours.
• Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512 GB +xCreate "M3 Ultra vs RTX 5090".

State of local AI

• Tesla V100 SXM2 mod tps["30b"] 11 → 27 (dense-anchored).
• AMD MI50 ×4 tps["14b"] 50 → 38 — a 14 B dense Q4 fits one 32 GB card, so multi-GPU doesn't accelerate dense decode at that size.
• Tesla P40 recipes — expectedTps nulled honestly: no published Pascal-era benchmark exists at the configured quant / context.
• vLLM recipes — tpsSource added on the H100-side Qwen 3.6-27B / 35B-A3B / Mistral Medium 3.5, 8×H100 Mistral and 8×H100 / H200 Kimi K2.6 picks, pointing at recipes.vllm.ai.

2026-06-13 — Kimi K2.7 Code added, tps audit (10 cells fixed), prices refreshed across all regions, 3 tinybox v1 EOLs

• New: Moonshot Kimi K2.7 Code 1T (MoE) — 1 T / 32 B-active, 384 experts top-8 + 1 shared, 256 K ctx, Modified MIT. Built on K2.6, ~30 % fewer thinking tokens for the same long-horizon coding task. In the coding use case.
• Type fix: Qwen 3 Coder 30B → Qwen 3 Coder 30B-A3B (MoE). HF SKU has always been the 30B-A3B MoE; stored type=dense corrected.
• Tinybox Red (6× 7900 XTX, 144 GB), Tinybox Green (6× RTX 4090, 144 GB), Tinybox Pro (8× RTX 4090, 192 GB) — all three v1 chassis marked discontinued: true; tinycorp ships only v2 SKUs now.
• Prices refreshed across all regions (US / UK / EU / DE / FR / IT / ES / NL / JP / AU / CA) — verified against vendor / canonical-regional-retailer pages.
• MoE → dense tps conflation: 10 CRITICAL cells nulled (MI300X / MI325X / MI355X 70b, R9700 / MI50 30b, RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell ×2 / ×4 / ×8 / ×12 120b_moe). Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512 GB 671b_moe ↔ 1t_moe swap.
• rtx-spark-128 — Computex 2026 announcement added to AMAZON_EXEMPT_BUILDS (pre-release, no MSRP yet).

2026-06-10 — DiffusionGemma 26B-A4B added (Google's first text-diffusion open model), Gemma 4 benchmark backfill

Google released DiffusionGemma today — an experimental Apache 2.0 dLLM on the Gemma 4 backbone that denoises 256-token blocks in parallel instead of generating token-by-token: 1,000+ tok/s on H100, 700+ on RTX 5090, runs quantized on 18 GB cards, with day-0 native vLLM support. It trades quality for speed (below Gemma 4 26B-A4B on every published benchmark). Also backfilled the Gemma 4 family with the full official model-card benchmark set and fixed a mislabeled HLE cell.

New models

• DiffusionGemma 26B-A4B (diffusion-MoE) — 25.2 B total / 3.8 B active, Apache 2.0, 256 K ctx, vision encoder included. MMLU-Pro 77.6, AIME 2026 69.1, LCB v6 69.1, GPQA Diamond 73.2, τ2-bench 56.2 — all below Gemma 4 26B-A4B by design; the headline is 1,107 tok/s vs 303 on 1×H100 FP8. Ratings kept conservative (coding 3, agents 2) pending community track record.

Updated models

• Gemma 4 26B-A4B (MoE) — HLE corrected 17.2 → 8.7 (17.2 is Google's with-search figure; no-tools is 8.7 per the official model card). Benchmark notes backfilled with the model-page set: τ2-bench 68.2 avg / 85.5 retail, MMMLU 86.3, MMMU Pro 73.8, MATH-Vision 82.4, BBEH 64.8, MRCR v2 44.1, Codeforces ELO 1718, Arena Elo 1441.
• Gemma 4 31B (dense) — benchmark notes backfilled: τ2-bench 76.9 avg / 86.4 retail, MMMLU 88.4, MMMU Pro 76.9, MATH-Vision 85.6, MedXPertQA MM 61.3, MRCR v2 66.4, OmniDocBench 0.131, Arena Elo 1452. Existing benchmark cells confirmed against the official model card (no changes).
• Gemma 4 agentic cells filled from a third-party source — Google never published SWE-Bench / Terminal-Bench for Gemma 4, but the Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B model card comparison table carries Qwen-team measurements: 31B SWE-V 52.0 / SWE-Pro 35.7 / TB2 42.9; 26B-A4B SWE-V 17.4 / SWE-Pro 13.8 / TB2 34.2 (SWE via Qwen's internal agent scaffold, TB2 via Terminus-2 — harness-sensitive, flagged in each model's notes; the 26B-A4B collapse matches its 4 B-active agent ceiling). With TB2 present, both models now enter the best-agent bucket ranking.

2026-06-06 — NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B added (frontier MoE, 1M ctx)

NVIDIA's new frontier hybrid Mamba-2 + LatentMoE released 2026-06-04 under the commercially-permissive OpenMDW-1.1 license. Native 1M context (RULER@1M 94.7); benchmark cluster — SWE-V 71.9, LCB v6 89.0, GPQA 87.0, MMLU-Pro 86.8 — sits a notch below DeepSeek V4-Pro / Kimi K2.6 on agentic but matches them on raw code reasoning. Day-0 vLLM + SGLang + TRT-LLM support with MTP-5 speculative decoding; 8× H100/B200 minimum, so deployment is data-center class.

New models

• NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B (MoE) — 55 B active / 550 B total, OpenMDW-1.1 (commercial OK), 1 M ctx, hybrid Mamba-2 + LatentMoE + attention + MTP. SWE-V 71.9, LCB v6 89.0, GPQA 87.0, HLE 26.7, MMLU-Pro 86.8. Added to long-context and frontier use cases. Ratings: coding 4, agents 4 (TB2.0 not yet on the leaderboard, capped), reasoning 5, long-context 5. AIME 2025 reported on an IOI 600-point scale (570) — cell kept null to avoid mixing scales.

2026-06-03 — MBP M5 Max 128 GB added, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell +15-44 % global, MiMo V2.5-Pro + StepFun Step 3.5 Flash added, NVFP4 Spark benchmark

RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell repriced sharply across US/UK/JP. Three high-traffic OpenRouter models added (MiMo V2.5-Pro is #1 weekly by tokens). Direct vLLM benchmark on a DGX Spark serving NVFP4 Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B: 97 tok/s single, 322 tok/s decode-only at 8-concurrent.

Added builds

• MacBook Pro M5 Max 128 GB (2026-03-11 launch, added now) — $5,099 US / £5,249 UK / €5,949 EU (14" / 18C-CPU / 40C-GPU / 128 GB / 2 TB CTO). Same 614 GB/s die as the 64 GB SKU; 128 GB unlocks gpt-oss-120 B Q8 (~65 t/s measured) and Qwen 3-235B-A22B Q4 (fits structurally; tps pending direct measurement). 16" same config $5,399. US/UK confirmed on apple.com via Google product-listing snippets; EU/JP/AU/CA derived from Apple memory-upgrade ratios.

Updated builds

• RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB US $10,500 → $12,200 (+16 %), UK £9,900 → £11,446 (+15.6 %), JP first entry ¥1,993,000 (+44 % vs USD×FX fallback). Newegg lowest $11,099.99 vs $8,900-$9,999 in May; ×2 mirrors at $19,500 → $24,400 (+25 %), £19,000 → £22,893.
• RTX 5090 32 GB JP ¥450,000 → ¥638,000 (+41.8 %, Kakaku ZOTAC SOLID OC); ×2 → ¥1,276,000.
• Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B (MoE) vision tag + rating 4 added (HF card lists vision encoder).

Added models

• Xiaomi MiMo V2.5-Pro 1T-A42B (MoE) — #1 OpenRouter weekly tokens May 2026; Xiaomi captured 21.1 % of all OpenRouter traffic (~3× OpenAI). Omnimodal, 1 M context, 384 experts top-8, MIT, SWE-Pro 57.2. Inserted top of coding/agents/frontier.
• Xiaomi MiMo V2.5 310B-A15B (MoE) — mid-tier sibling; 256 experts top-8, MIT, omnimodal. Fits 256 GB clusters at Q4.
• StepFun Step 3.5 Flash 197B-A11B (MoE) — #5 OpenRouter weekly (~2.73 T tokens). Apache 2.0, 256 K context, MTP-3 head, SWE-Pro 56.3; free on OpenRouter.

Verification

• 12 builds re-verified to 2026-06-03 (5 Apple via Apple Store across 9 regions; 7 GPU via Newegg/Scan UK/Kakaku). MBP M5 Max 128 US/UK prices browser-confirmed on apple.com.

2026-05-30 — Claude Opus 4.8 (closed ref), AMD prosumer EU prices −20 to −48 %

• Claude Opus 4.8 (Anthropic, released 2026-05-28) updated in place on the closed-frontier reference column: SWE-Pro 64.3 → 69.2, SWE-Ver 87.6 → 88.6, HLE 54.7 → 57.9, GPQA 93.6 unchanged. Same $5/$25 standard tier; new Fast mode $10/$50 (Claude Code 2.1.154+). Anthropic reports TB2.1 74.6 % — our tb2 field tracks the 2.0 leaderboard so the cell stays null until tbench.ai updates.
• AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700 32 GB EU/UK/AU/CA/PL repriced after region-local street verification: UK £1,528 → £1,200 (−21.5 %), DE €1,764 → €1,399, FR €1,764 → €1,452, IT €1,764 → €1,346, ES €1,764 → €1,305, NL €1,764 → €1,413, AU A$2,588 → A$2,399, CA C$2,118 → C$1,900, PL 7,412 zł → 6,199 zł. The stored EU values were inflated MSRP-aligned anchors; street has settled €1,300-1,450 across the region.
• AMD Radeon Pro W7800 32 GB DE/FR/IT/ES/NL/AU/JP repriced: DE €3,317 → €2,133 (−35.7 %), FR €3,317 → €2,150, IT €3,317 → €2,187, ES €3,317 → €2,152, NL €3,317 → €2,262, AU A$4,978 → A$3,864, JP ¥450,370 → ¥418,690. Same pattern as R9700 — stored EU values were stale launch anchors.
• AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB EU/AU/CA/JP/PL repriced sharply: DE €1,199 → €669 (−44.2 %), FR €1,199 → €659, IT €1,199 → €618, ES €1,199 → €649, NL €1,199 → €659, AU A$1,699 → A$889, CA C$1,399 → C$999, JP ¥160,000 → ¥87,800, PL 4,799 zł → 3,000 zł. Consumer GDDR street prices have eased materially since the March contract spike.
• Vibes refresh: OpenRouter coding weekly tokens — Kimi K2.6 dropped #1 → #7, Tencent Hy3-preview #2 → #3, DeepSeek V4 Flash #3 → #4 (MiMo V2.5 entered at #1; not in dataset yet).
• Reviews: dropped FD6i0htqLew from MacBook Pro M5 Pro 48 GB (video reviews M5 Max, correctly stays on the M5 Max 64 GB build). Added Tech Notice, Xiao Yang, and george hotz archive to the trusted-channel allowlist.

2026-05-27 — Strix Halo +5 %, Intel Arc Pro B70 EU −34 %, Cohere restored

• Strix Halo 128 GB Framework UK £2,999 → £3,159, EU/DE/FR/IT €3,379 → €3,559 (+5.3 %); x2 scales.
• Intel Arc Pro B70 32 GB EU/DE/FR/IT/ES €1,900 → €1,248 (−34.3 %) — stored was a pre-launch estimate; street has held €1,248-€1,458 since the March $949 MSRP launch.
• RTX 5090 32 GB UK £3,300 → £2,879 (−12.7 %); x2 → £5,760.
• MacBook Pro M5 Pro 48 GB UK £2,799 → £3,099 (was stored at the 24 GB tier).
• Mac Studio M4 Max 36 GB AU A$3,199 → A$3,499 (was education price).
• Benchmarks: GPT-5.5 HLE 44.3 → 52.2, GLM-5.1 GPQA 94.0 → 86.2, Sonnet 4.6 GPQA null → 89.9.
• Reviews: 27 untrusted videos dropped, 10 verified added, 19 channels promoted.
• Cohere Command A+ 218B-A25B (MoE) restored — silently dropped from db after its 2026-05-23 add.

2026-05-25 — M5 MacBooks, new Mac Studio entry points, DGX Spark UK +5 %

• MacBook Air M5 16 GB $1,099, MacBook Pro M5 Pro 48 GB $3,199, MacBook Pro M5 Max 64 GB $4,099 — new. M5 Max hits 614 GB/s; runs 70 B Q4 at ~14 t/s, gpt-oss-120 B Q8 at 65-88 t/s.
• Mac Studio M4 Max 36 GB $1,999 and Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96 GB $3,999 added as the current Apple-configurator entry points (256 / 512 GB tiers pulled in March remain refurb/used only).
• MacBook Air M4 16 GB rolled to M5 on Apple Store; Amazon and Apple Refurb stock remains.
• DGX Spark 128 GB UK £3,999 → £4,200 (+5 %).
• Strix Halo 128 retailer spread widened to $2,799-$6,953 (Beelink GTR9 Pro $4,399 pre-order, HP Z2 Mini G1a up to $6,953).
• Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96 GB added as an honorable mention in the $4-5k tier on /best-build-for-local-ai and /state-of-local-ai.
• New reviews on the three M5 builds, RX 9070 XT 16 GB, and the Intel Arc Pro B70 cluster family.

2026-05-23 — Memory shortage hits the consumer GPU + AI mini-PC market

DDR5 / GDDR6 / GDDR7 contract spike that started in March pushed used 4090 / 5090 cards and pre-built Strix Halo / GB10 retail well past list. 16 builds repriced; biggest moves on the Ada cards Apple discontinued and on SKUs reliant on contract DRAM. Mac Studio 256 / 512 GB tiers — discontinued by Apple in March amid the same shortage — retain their priceUSD as the historical anchor; configurator now caps at 96 GB.

NVIDIA consumer GeForce (three regimes: used 3090, EOL 4090, new 5090)

• RTX 5090 build (current product, AI demand premium over MSRP) $3,500 → $4,500 (+29 %) — cards alone $3,658-$3,999 avg on Amazon / Newegg, MSRP $1,999 effectively paper. x2 $7,400 → $8,800.
• RTX 4090 build (production ended, partner new-old-stock) $2,500 → $3,200 (+28 %) — partner stock $2,470-$2,755 on Amazon.
• RTX 3090 build (used market, eBay anchored) $1,500 → $1,750 (+17 %) — used cards $800-$1,130, $1,050 avg + ~$700 host. Cheapest 24 GB CUDA path reopened as 5090 doubled.
• RTX 3090 x2 / x4 $2,600 → $3,100 / $5,800 → $6,900 (+19 %). Dual-3090 at $3,100 now undercuts a single 4090 build at higher VRAM.

AMD workstation

• W7900 48 GB $4,500 → $5,000 (+11 %, +15 % since March per GPUDojo). W7800 32 GB $3,200 → $3,500 (+9 %). W7900 x2 $8,200 → $9,200 (+12 %).
• R9700 32 GB $2,000 → $2,050 — partner boards $1,349 (ASRock Newegg) to $1,519 (PowerColor Amazon), above MSRP.

Intel Arc Pro B70

• Single $1,700 → $1,800 (+6 %, Newegg $1,099 card). x2/x4/x8 scaled $2,900 → $3,200 / $5,300 → $5,900 / $10,500 → $11,000.

AI mini-PCs (DDR5 / LPDDR5X exposed)

• ASUS Ascent GX10 $3,499 → $4,699 (+34 %) — Amazon street $4,723 per pricehistory.app (2026-05-21). EU €3,880 → €4,390 (asusgoldstore.it), UK £3,499 → £3,699 (PriceSpy).
• MSI EdgeXpert GB10 $4,599 → $4,670 (4 TB Gen5 SKU); UK £2,999 → £3,949 (idealo.co.uk).
• DGX Spark x8 $42,000 → $43,500 — reflects the $4,699 per-unit hike that already landed Feb 23 on the base.
• Strix Halo 128 GB $2,700 → $2,799 (+3.7 %) — Bosgame M5 $2,399 floor anchor, Corsair AI Workstation 300 $2,499, GMKtec / Beelink ~$3,300. x2/x4/x8 scaled. EU/UK regional bumps already shipped on 2026-05-16.

Notes refreshed only (priceUSD held)

• DGX Spark base $4,699 (raised Feb 23). RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell 96 GB $10,500 — retailer spread NVIDIA $8,900, Amazon $9,449, MicroCenter $9,999, B&H $11,500.
• Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256 GB / 512 GB retained as historical anchors; both pulled by Apple in March 2026. Current M3 Ultra 96 GB starts $3,999; M5 Ultra Mac Studio expected October 2026 per Macworld.

2026-05-20 — "By budget" picker mode, SE Asia + NZ regions, regional retailer expansion

"By budget" picker mode. Fourth picker mode alongside use-case / memory / model. Slider drags in the user's local currency; translated across 13 locales.

9 new regions. SG (SGD, 9 % GST, amazon.sg) · HK (HKD, no tax, amazon.sg) · TW (TWD, 5 % VAT, amazon.sg) · TH (THB, 7 % VAT, amazon.sg) · MY (MYR, 10 % SST, amazon.sg) · ID (IDR, 11 % VAT, amazon.sg) · PH (PHP, 12 % VAT, amazon.sg) · VN (VND, 10 % VAT, amazon.sg) · NZ (NZD, 15 % GST, amazon.com.au).

FX fallback rates added: CZK, CHF, DKK, NOK, SGD, HKD, TWD, THB, MYR, IDR, PHP, VND, NZD.

Regional retailers across the 9 new regions (19 builds each). Apple Macs via apple.com regional stores; PC builds via Shopee/Lazada (SG/MY/PH/VN), PChome 24h (TW), JIB/Advice/Banana IT (TH), Tokopedia/Bhinneka (ID), PB Tech/Computer Lounge/JB Hi-Fi (NZ). Framework Desktop for SG and NZ. iBox/Erafone/Tokopedia for Apple Macs in ID (no Apple online store).

Intel Arc Pro B70 local retailers for FI/CH/CZ/NO/DK/AT/BE/PT (replacing bare amazon.de): Verkkokauppa/Jimm's/Power · Digitec/Brack/Galaxus · Alza.cz/CZC/Mironet · Komplett/Proshop/Elkjøp/Elgiganten · Alternate/e-tec/DiTech · Coolblue/MediaMarkt · PCDIGA/Worten. Pruned 16 redundant amazon.de entries from FI/CH/CZ/DK/AT (AMD W7800 / R9700 / RTX 5090) where locals were already present.

15 previously-orphan builds wired. H100, H200, B200, RTX A6000, RTX 6000 Ada, AMD MI300X, W7900, W7900-x2, Intel Arc Pro B70 clusters (x2/x4/x8), RTX 3060, RTX 4090, Intel B580, TinyBox Green v2 / Pro — vendor product pages where consumer retail isn't applicable.

Vendor MSRPs. Mac mini M4 16/512: SG S$849 · HK HK$4,599 · TW NT$26,900 · TH ฿27,900 · MY RM3,349 · NZ NZ$1,499. Mac mini M4 24/512: SG S$1,449 · HK HK$7,599 · NZ NZ$1,899. MacBook Air 16GB: SG S$1,599 · HK HK$8,999 · NZ NZ$2,199. MacBook Pro 14" 48GB: SG S$3,299 · HK HK$18,999 · TW NT$89,900 · NZ NZ$4,699. MacBook Pro 14" 64GB: SG S$6,149 · HK HK$33,249 · TW NT$144,400 · NZ NZ$8,499. DGX Spark TW NT$164,850.

Removed retailers: Bizgram SG, Price.com.hk, HKEPC, Coolpc TW, Sinya TW, Idealtech MY, PCHub PH.

Benchmarks. Filled three null cells from leaderboard sources: Qwen 3.5 397B-A17B SWE-Pro 50.9, GPT-OSS-120B SWE-Pro 16.2, MiniMax M2.7 SWE-Ver 78. Nulled Tencent Hy3-preview LCB (was 34.9, misattributed search-agent score). Opus 4.7 TB2 90.2 re-verified 2026-05-15 and Sonnet 4.6 TB2 53.4 re-verified 2026-05-14 (both on tbench.ai). benchmarkNotes refreshed on 10 models to flag vendor-self-report vs community-leaderboard gaps — notably Qwen TB2 Terminus-2 self-report sits ~2× community little-coder agent runs.

Vibes. Cursor Composer 2.5 (2026-05-18) is Kimi K2.5-backed at $0.50/M input — Cursor kept Composer 2's K2.5 backbone and added RL fine-tuning rather than swapping to K2.6, claiming Opus 4.7 parity on SWE-Bench Multilingual. OpenRouter weekly coding by token volume: K2.6 #1 (965B), Tencent Hy3 #2 (3.13T, free promo), DeepSeek V4-Flash #3 (2.9T). Qwen 3.6 27B remains the entrenched 24-GB daily driver on r/LocalLLaMA.

Closed-frontier. No version changes for the four refs. Gemini 3.5 Flash launched 2026-05-19 (Flash tier only); Gemini 3.5 Pro delayed per Pichai at I/O — closed-ref entry stays at 3.1 Pro. Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max (2026-05-19) is closed-only and does not enter the open-weights roster.

Regional pricing. MSI EdgeXpert GB10 EU/DE/FR/IT €3,900 → €4,700 (+20.5 %) — LDLC FR "4 699€95". DGX Spark 128 GB UK £4,699 → £3,999 (−14.9 %) — CyberPowerPC UK "£3,999.00 inc VAT".

Reviews. 8 new videos on 4 previously-bare datacenter builds: mac-studio-m3-ultra-512-x2 (Geerling 4× TB5 cluster, Alex Ziskind cluster vs single, EXO Labs setup), h100-x8 (ServeTheHome xAI Colossus, $200K 4-way, HGX 8-GPU), h200-x8 (Supermicro 8U HGX H200), b200-x8 (ASRock Rack HGX B200).

2026-05-19 — 9 missing open-weights models (Qwen 3.5, Gemma 4 31B, Llama 4, Mistral 3, Devstral 2, Nemotron 3)

Backfilled three families that previous refreshes referenced but never added as model entries, and filled three more gaps the audit surfaced. Text-model roster: 27 → 36.

New models

• Qwen 3.5 397B-A17B (MoE) — Feb 17 2026 flagship, the open-weights coding king from mid-Feb through April (SWE-V 76.4, LCB v6 83.6, AIME26 91.3, TB2 52.5). First Qwen open-weights with native vision. Apache 2.0, 262 K ctx. HF.
• Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B (MoE) — Feb 24 2026 hybrid Gated-DeltaNet MoE that fits a 128 GB DGX Spark in NVFP4 (~51 tok/s with v2.1 patches). SWE-V 72.0 / LCB v6 78.9 / TB2 49.4 / GPQA-D 86.6 / MMLU-Pro 86.7 / HLE w/ CoT 25.3. Apache 2.0, 262 K ctx. HF.
• Gemma 4 31B (dense) — Apr 2 2026 Google dense flagship, 256 K ctx, hybrid local+global attention with toggleable <think>. AIME 2026 no-tools 89.2 / GPQA-D 84.3 / MMLU-Pro 85.2 / LCB v6 80.0 / HLE no-tools 19.5 / TAU2 76.9. Apache 2.0 (the card-stated license — earlier draft incorrectly said "Gemma"). HF.
• Llama 4 Scout (109B-A17B MoE) + Llama 4 Maverick (400B-A17B MoE) — Apr 2025 Meta releases, both vision-capable. Scout's 10 M context is the longest open-weights ctx as of May 2026; Maverick at 1 M ctx, 128 experts. Llama 4 Community License. Scout · Maverick.
• Mistral Large 3 (675B-A41B MoE) — Dec 2025 frontier-scale Apache 2.0 MoE with native vision and function calling. Mistral's HF card embeds benchmarks as images only, so every cell ships null pending a text-verifiable source; Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index composite is 23. HF.
• Mistral Small 4 (119B-A6B MoE) — Mar 16 2026 unified successor to Small-3 / Magistral / Devstral. Apache 2.0, 256 K ctx, hybrid reasoning, 3× throughput vs Small 3. Only GPQA-D 71.2 is published as an explicit number; AA Intelligence Index 28. HF.
• Devstral 2 123B (dense) — Dec 2025 Mistral SWE-agent specialist. 72.2 % SWE-Bench Verified, 32.6 % TB2 — strongest sub-200B coding agent on open weights. Modified MIT, 256 K ctx. HF.
• NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B (MoE) — Mar 11 2026 Mamba-2 + Transformer + MoE hybrid with 1 M ctx, toggleable reasoning, MTP-accelerated. MMLU-Pro 83.7 / AIME 2025 90.2 / LCB v5 81.2 / SWE-Bench (OpenHands) 60.5 / Terminal-Bench Core 2.0 31.0 / HLE no-tools 18.3. NVIDIA Open Model License (commercial-OK). HF.

Use-case picks updated

• Coding — added Devstral 2 123B (best sub-200B SWE agent) and Qwen 3.5 397B-A17B (former local-coding king).
• Agents — added Qwen 3.5 397B-A17B (200B+ with verified TAU2-Bench 86.7 / TB2 52.5 — the only added model that clears the agents:4 cap).
• Long-context — added Llama 4 Scout (10 M ctx) and Nemotron 3 Super (1 M ctx, Mamba-2 prefill).
• Vision — added Gemma 4 31B, Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B and 397B-A17B (all natively multimodal).
• Frontier — added Mistral Large 3, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.5 397B-A17B.

Sources

• 15 new citations on the public sources list — Qwen / Google / Meta / Mistral / NVIDIA model cards and launch posts, plus Simon Willison's Qwen 3.5 writeup and Artificial Analysis's 397B-A17B page.

2026-05-17 — LLM picker, LLM compare, May 2026 benchmark dataset

Two new pages. /select-llm — pick a hardware build, get 2 top picks each across Fastest-decent / Full device utilization / Best local coder / Best agent driver, plus a ranked full table where every column is click-to-sort. Build's curated YouTube reviews render under the picker; every model name carries a 🤗 link to its HF card. /compare LLMs tab — put up to 5 open-weights models side-by-side; the 4 closed-frontier refs (Gemini 3.1 Pro, GPT-5.5, Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.7) always pinned. Both pages cite sources below the results.

Dataset. 27 OSS text models + 4 closed refs now carry HLE, Terminal-Bench 2.0, SWE-Bench Pro/Verified, Aider Polyglot, LiveCodeBench, GPQA Diamond, MMLU-Pro, AIME 2025, native contextK, vibes (coding + agent-driver blurbs distilled from r/LocalLLaMA, HN, Latent Space, OpenRouter), and per-model source URLs. Headline May 2026: Opus 4.7 leads TB2 90.2 % and SWE-Pro 64.3 %; GPT-5.5 SWE-Verified 88.7 %; Gemini 3.1 Pro GPQA 94.3 %. Open-weights frontier: DeepSeek V4-Pro 9/9 cells (TB2 67.9 %, LCB 93.5 % — highest of any model); Kimi K2.6 TB2 66.7 %; GLM-5.1 first open to top SWE-Pro (58.4 %). Best local under 100 GB: Qwen 3.6-27B-dense (SWE-V 77.2 %). 8 new entries in the public sources list (tbench.ai, benchlm.ai, marc0.dev, pricepertoken, llm-stats, artificialanalysis).

Latency. New apiSpeed on closed refs — output tg/s (Gemini 125, GPT-5.5 61, Sonnet 4.6 45, Opus 4.7 52), non-reasoning TTFT, and the reasoning-mode latency premium split out separately (Sonnet +103 s adaptive, Opus +22 s, GPT +28 s, Gemini +30 s). New TTFT @ 100K column on the full table — OSS reads build.ttft100k; Sonnet 4.6 at 3.0 s (linearly extrapolated to 100 K from TokenMix's verified 950 ms @ 32 K), others via ttftMs × 100 heuristic with methodology in each cell's tooltip.

Picks + nav. Best Coder requires SWE-V/Pro; Best Agent requires TB2 — no editorial-only fallback. MoE decode estimated by activeParams (Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B, Gemma 4 26B-A4B etc. now correctly score at 8B-dense speed, not the previous wrong dense-30B fallback). Tie-break by editorial avg. New "Pick LLMs for your hardware →" hero CTA; "Compare exact builds" renamed to "Compare builds & LLMs". Locale now survives internal navigation (was dropping to navigator.language). LLM shortlist + floating Compare CTA on /select-llm mirror the build-picker pattern. nav.selectLlm + hero.cta.selectLlm translated to 11 non-EN locales.

2026-05-16 — Apple SKU audit + Strix Halo EU/UK bump

Apple-direct configurator walk confirmed the M3 Ultra Mac Studio now caps at 96 GB and the MacBook Pro lineup is M5-only; flagged three more builds as discontinued so the red out-of-stock pill renders. Framework lifted Strix Halo 128 GB to €3,379 (+12 %) and £2,999 (+11 %); GB productLinks repointed to the live desktop-diy-amd-aimax300 configurator slug after the previous desktop-mainboard URL was found dead.

Updated builds

• Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256 GB — newly marked discontinued: true. Apple's configurator now caps M3 Ultra at 96 GB; the 256 GB SKU is refurb / third-party only.
• MacBook Pro M4 Pro 48 GB and MacBook Pro M4 Max 64 GB — structural discontinued flag added (text was already there). Apple ships M5 / M5 Pro / M5 Max only as of May 2026.
• Strix Halo 128 GB — priceNote updated to reflect Framework EU €3,029 → €3,379 (+12 %) and UK £2,699 → £2,999 (+11 %) mid-May on continuing DDR5 shortage.

Regional pricing

• Strix Halo 128 GB: EU / DE / FR / IT €3,029 → €3,379 (+12 %); UK £2,699 → £2,999 (+11 %) — both Framework-direct. Initial cycle missed UK because the recorded frame.work/gb/desktop-mainboard slug 404'd; live page is desktop-diy-amd-aimax300/configuration/new.
• Strix Halo dual: EU / DE / FR / IT €6,058 → €6,758; UK £5,398 → £5,998 (mirrors the single-unit bump).
• RTX 5090 UK soft signal at Scan (£2,879 card-only) skipped — that's the card alone, not the whole-system price the row tracks.

Reviews / sources

• Added review videos to 8 previously-bare builds: Mac Mini M4 16 GB, MacBook Air M4 16 GB, single H100 80 GB, single H200 141 GB, single B200 180 GB, single RTX A6000 48 GB, single MI325X 256 GB, single MI355X 288 GB.
• Four new source citations: apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-studio (M3 Ultra 96 GB cap), apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro (M5-only lineup), frame.work/de/en/products/desktop-diy-amd-aimax300 (€3,379 EU anchor), frame.work/gb/en/products/desktop-diy-amd-aimax300/configuration/new (£2,999 UK anchor).

2026-05-15

Updated prices: Mac Mini M4 (16 GB), ASUS Ascent GX10, MSI EdgeXpert MS-C931, Dell Pro Max with GB10, Lenovo ThinkStation PGX (128 GB).

Marked Mac Studio M4 Max 128 GB and Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512 GB out of stock — Apple-direct SKUs pulled, used / refurbished only. New red "out of stock" pill on cards and the compatible-builds table.

New text-build metrics: pp (prompt-processing tok/s from llama-bench pp512) and ttft100k (time-to-first-token at a 100 K input). Picks cards surface all three when target memory > 96 GB; the compatible-builds table stacks tg · pp · TTFT @ 100k for every text intent. 27 new source citations.

Prompt-processing audit pass: corrected AMD MI300X (≈2× too high, was scaled from an 8-card server number) and Tinybox Pro (silicon corrected to 8× RTX 4090 over PCIe, not 8× H100 SXM). 5 new audit-trail citations.

New page /compare — pick up to three builds and see flagship-model support, software-stack maturity, extensibility, and per-class tg / pp / TTFT side-by-side. Every build now carries softwareStack, softwareMaturity, softwareNote, extensibility, extensibilityNote.

Cluster video coverage — added Donato Capitella's 4-node Strix Halo cluster demo (Q-Df49aVnMY) to the 2× / 4× / 8× Strix Halo builds, and AZisk's 8× DGX Spark cluster (QJqKqxQR36Y) to the 8× Spark build. Both promoted to top-level comparison videos so the 512 GB+ tier has footage.

2026-05-14

Added 18 new builds:

• Your own laptop (8 GB RAM)
• Your own laptop (12 GB RAM)
• Your own PC (16 GB RAM)
• Mac Mini M4 (16 GB)
• MacBook Air M4 (16 GB)
• MSI EdgeXpert MS-C931 (NVIDIA GB10, 128 GB)
• ASUS Ascent GX10 (NVIDIA GB10, 128 GB)
• Dell Pro Max with GB10 (128 GB)
• Lenovo ThinkStation PGX (NVIDIA GB10, 128 GB)
• Tesla P40 24 GB single
• Tesla P40 quad (96 GB)
• Tesla P100 16 GB
• Tesla V100 32 GB SXM2 mod
• AMD MI50 32 GB single
• AMD MI50 quad (128 GB)
• AMD Radeon Pro W7800 32 GB
• AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700 32 GB single
• AMD R9700 dual (64 GB)

New "Best all-around" pick on the results — second slot, after Cheapest. New "⚡ Only plug & play" toggle hides used / DIY-mod / homelab-cluster builds.

Prices on GPU builds now explicitly include the host PC (PSU, case, motherboard, CPU, RAM, storage). Ten card-only builds bumped by $100–$700 to reflect the full whole-system cost. Turnkey systems (Apple, Strix Halo, DGX Spark, tinybox) were unchanged.