Friday, February 13th 2026
Framework DDR5 Memory Costs $12-16 per GB of Capacity with Another Price Hike
Laptop and Mini-PC maker Framework is sharing another update with the community about the company's cost base for acquiring DRAM, such as DDR5 memory. In its latest February update, the company notes that the cost for DDR5 memory in its systems is now priced at $12-16 per GB of capacity, depending on the kit size and total capacity. This means that for a 16 GB kit, customers are expected to pay anywhere between $192-256, and as much as about $400 for 32 GB of DDR5 memory in its Laptop 12/13/16 models. According to the company blog post, this represents an average price that Framework is charging depending on the kit, as there is different pricing for a single higher-capacity sticks or dual lower-capacity DIMMs going into the system.
In late December 2025, we reported that Framework's pricing was $10 per GB for 8 GB, 16 GB, and 32 GB modules, and a bit higher for dual rank non-binary 48 GB modules. However, just two months later, the situation is now much worse, as we are seeing Framework's suppliers increasing memory costs anywhere from 20-60%, depending on the configuration.
Even models with soldered LPDDR5X memory are seeing an increase, forcing the company to raise the pricing of desktops and mainboards. Below is the company's statement:
Source:
Framework
In late December 2025, we reported that Framework's pricing was $10 per GB for 8 GB, 16 GB, and 32 GB modules, and a bit higher for dual rank non-binary 48 GB modules. However, just two months later, the situation is now much worse, as we are seeing Framework's suppliers increasing memory costs anywhere from 20-60%, depending on the configuration.
FrameworkUnfortunately, pricing of LPDDR5x memory also continues to increase, and we've needed to update our pricing for Framework Desktop systems and Mainboards again. We are again only increasing pricing enough to cover the increases in cost from our suppliers. The new system and Mainboard prices are 6-16% higher than before. We anticipate that here as well, costs from our suppliers are going to continue to increase over the next few months.
6 Comments on Framework DDR5 Memory Costs $12-16 per GB of Capacity with Another Price Hike
market in europe past weeks have shown 700€ average over many shops on stock goods for 2x32gib.
now, if instead they said that they will keep prices low and eat the increase, now, that would be news
Economy says the banhammer is inc
What's most entertaining to me is the panic at OpenAI, because you can rest assured they ain't comfy ever since Deepseek appeared, and more nails have been hammered into their coffin since. Its slowly starting to materialize that the biggest AI investors/core companies have the least interesting products now. The better AI models are the highly refined and single purpose ones, with guardrail options, checks and balances, and everything else any well-thinking human would simply demand especially in a professional environment. And as a result of all that, consumer AI will continuously devolve into something radically different and therefore, not fit for any use whatsoever. Nobody wants to be misled all the time, they just need to figure it out first.
A general purpose answering machine is certainly not what AI will be. We already have search machines that do it way better, because they invite you to actually research instead of 'read what is served' to you. If you want to get smarter, you will always look beyond the AI response. The inevitable conclusion of that dynamic is that consumer AI will breed stupidity, rather than development. Its already happening. If you never learned to look beyond the AI answer, you're stuck with whatever the model gives you, and effectively, 100% stupid now. A lemming, ready to walk off the cliff without even knowing it. Social media has adequately shown us how vulnerable a lot of people are to that. There's a whole lot of critical thinkers these days with a ten second attention span.