# AI Gadget Price Index: Maker Store Prices, Checked Daily > Daily maker store prices for tracked AI gadgets, with the date and source link on every row, a free CSV, and the method and limits written out. - Canonical URL: https://webofmike.com/ai-life/data/price-index/ - Author: Mike Moore (https://webofmike.com/about/) - Published: 2026-11-14 - Last modified: 2026-11-14 - Tags: AI Life - Cite as: Mike Moore, "AI Gadget Price Index: Maker Store Prices, Checked Daily", Web of Mike (webofmike.com), 2026-11-14. https://webofmike.com/ai-life/data/price-index/ [AI Life](/ai-life/) / [Data](/ai-life/data/) **Short answer:** on {{< data-stat "as_of" >}}, {{< data-stat "priced" >}} tracked AI gadgets had a median price of {{< data-stat "median_price" >}} at the maker's own store, and {{< data-stat "changed" >}} had changed price since the baseline. These are maker store prices only, never Amazon. *Last updated {{< data-stat "as_of" >}} (Pacific time). First snapshot: {{< data-stat "first_snapshot" >}}. Next update: the daily snapshot, about 9:15 AM Pacific. Maker store prices on this page are dated observations. The rest of AI Life does not list prices; see [how I evaluate products](/ai-life/how-i-evaluate/).* ## What does an AI gadget cost right now? Each row is a device that AI Life already reviews, read from the maker's own store. The group medians show only when a group has at least {{< data-stat "min_group_n" >}} devices, because a median of three products says very little. {{< price-groups >}} Every device, with the date its price was checked: {{< price-table >}} ## Which AI gadgets changed price this month? A change shows here when two daily snapshots of the same device disagree. The baseline is still forming: it is the median of each device's first three snapshots, so changes measured against it start to appear after the third day of data. Today {{< data-stat "price_went_down" >}} devices are below their baseline and {{< data-stat "price_went_up" >}} are above it. {{< price-changes >}} ## Which AI gadgets does the store itself mark as on sale? Some maker stores state a regular price next to the current price. Right now {{< data-stat "marked_down" >}} of the tracked devices show a store-stated list price above the price on the page, and the table above says how much. That is the store's own claim. This index cannot tell you how long a markdown has been running unless a change shows up in the daily history, so I do not call it a "price drop" until the history supports it. The [Black Friday report](/ai-life/data/black-friday-price-drops/) applies that rule to the sale window. ## How was this data collected? - **Source.** The maker's own online store page for each device. Each row stores the exact page, so you can open it and compare. - **Frequency.** One request per product page per day, spaced at least three seconds apart, with a user agent that names this site. Before any fetch the script reads the host's robots.txt. A page it disallows is recorded as blocked and skipped. No block is worked around. - **What counts as the price.** The price the page itself states for one fixed configuration of the device. For stores that publish a product feed, the same configuration is pinned by name, so a color or bundle change cannot move the number by accident. Where the store states a regular price next to a sale price, both are recorded. - **Baseline.** The median of a device's first three snapshots on or before {{< data-stat "baseline_end" >}}. - **Missing days.** A blocked, failed or unreadable page becomes a status row with no price. A price is never copied forward, averaged in or estimated. - **Not used.** Figures from Amazon, Best Buy data, CamelCamelCamel and Keepa history, coupon sites and any retailer other than the maker. **Limits.** The index covers the devices AI Life already reviews, so it is a fixed sample and not the market. Some makers are not in it: one disallows automated access in robots.txt, and several show prices only after JavaScript runs, which a plain page read cannot see. A store price is not what you pay with a coupon, a trade-in or a retailer sale. Prices are in US dollars from US store pages. Browse the reviews behind the devices in [AI Life](/ai-life/), see which gadgets are new in the [launch tracker](/ai-life/data/launch-tracker/), or check the [deals hub](/ai-life/deals/black-friday/). ## What are the primary sources? - Each device's own maker store page, linked in the Source column of the table above, read on the date shown. - The [Robots Exclusion Protocol (RFC 9309)](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9309), which the snapshot script follows before it reads any store page. - The [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) that covers the data on this page. ## Can I use this data? Yes, under CC BY 4.0. Credit is a link to this page and the name Web of Mike. These files are rebuilt every day: {{< data-downloads "history" "latest" >}} {{< data-cite title="AI Gadget Price Index" >}} ## What changed on this page? - **{{< data-stat "first_snapshot" >}}:** first daily snapshot of the tracked devices. The baseline window runs through {{< data-stat "baseline_end" >}}.