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Notable mechanical keyboards by size, connectivity, mounting and hot-swap support, each linked to the article that explains it.
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Akko
A 108 key budget full-size at $59.99, hot-swap, on double-shot Cherry profile PBT. Two versions exist and they differ more than the name suggests: wired with a white LED, or 2.4 GHz wireless with no backlight at all, running on two AAA batteries that international orders ship without.
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Akko
The most expensive board in this batch at $99.99, and the most built: a gasket mount on a dual-section flex-cut PC plate, tri-mode, hot-swap, with Akko Creamy Yellow U1 linear switches and jelly-style double-layer keycaps. A full-size gasket board under a hundred dollars is the clearest sign of how far this bracket moved.
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Akko
A full-size tri-mode at $71.99 against an $89.99 list, hot-swap, on MOA profile dye-sub PBT. Most of the 5108B Plus line is sold out by now and this Yier and Bubu theme is one of the few colourways still stocked. Akko publishes no mount, plate or weight for it.
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Keychron
A wired full-size at $64.99 with 8000 Hz polling, tray mounted, hot-swap, 975 g, on OSA double-shot PBT, with QMK and VIA through Keychron's Launcher. Keychron publishes no plate material for it, so that field is blank rather than assumed from the rest of the C range.
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Keychron
A gasket mounted full-size magnetic board at $99.99, wired, 8000 Hz, 970 g, Cherry profile PBT, QMK and VIA. Its spec sheet claims 84 keys against a full-size tag and full-size dimensions, which reads as boilerplate, so the layout here follows the measurements. Out of stock when checked.
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Keychron
A full-size at $89.99, tray mounted, Bluetooth or wired, on double-shot PBT with QMK and VIA. Its product page renders no spec table at all, checked in a browser as well as a fetch, so weight, plate and the hot-swap claim are blank here rather than taken from a retailer.
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Keychron
A full-size QMK board at $74.99, wired, hot-swap, steel plate, tray mount, double-shot PBT. Full size is the only layout here with a numpad, and it is the one layout that is cheaper to buy than to make room for: measure your desk against the board before ordering.
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Redragon
A 104 key full-size at $39.99 on Redragon's quiet red linears, with double-injection ABS keycaps and 6 backlight themes. Redragon makes no hot-swap claim anywhere on the page, so this is recorded as not hot-swap rather than assumed either way. No mount, plate or weight is published.
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Redragon
A full-size at $49.99 with 104 keys plus four shortcut keys, hot-swap sockets and 3.5 mm of sound-absorbing foam, which is the sort of thing budget boards used to leave out. In stock when checked. The ISO variants for Germany, Spain, Italy and France are $59.99. No mount or plate published.
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Ticktype
A full-size board on a butterfly leaf spring mount with triple layer shock absorption, which is Ticktype's own reading of a sprung plate rather than a gasket sandwich. Tri-mode and hot-swap on a PP plate with dye-sublimated PBT caps, and the switch choice is the decision that matters: Rye linears for the deep sound both shops describe, or Cloud silent tactiles if the board has to live in an office. Polling is 8000 Hz wired and over 2.4 GHz but 125 Hz on Bluetooth. Price is blank because each shop charges two different amounts depending on the finish.
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Ajazz
An 87 key tri-mode with a screen and hot-swap, listed from $57.99. Treat that as the entry price rather than a shelf price: when checked, nearly every variant across the family showed sold out, and the one in stock was the wired magnetic version at $76.99. Ajazz publishes no mount or plate.
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Ajazz
The current AK870, $51.99 to $72.99 on Ajazz's own store, tri-mode with a 10000 mAh battery, a screen and hot-swap on the variants labelled for it. The V2 page states no key count, so the 87 key TKL figure comes from Ajazz's own family page. Mount and plate are not published.
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AULA
AULA F87 Pro is an 87-key tenkeyless mechanical keyboard with gasket mounting, hot-swappable switches, Bluetooth, 2.4GHz wireless, USB-C and molded PBT keycaps. The F87 Pro uses a PC positioning plate and layered internal dampening, with Greywood V4 or Nimbus V3 switch options listed by AULA. Its product page advertises preorder dispatch delays, and its specifications should not be confused with those of the separate F87 Pro V2.
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Keychron
The cheapest TKL here at $54.99: wired, hot-swap, QMK, 8,000 Hz polling, OSA profile double-shot keycaps. Keychron does not publish a plate material for it, so that cell is blank. The C line is the plastic-cased range below the V boards, which is where the saving comes from.
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Keychron
A gasket mounted magnetic board at $89.99 on Keychron's Lime switches, wired, 1125 g, Cherry profile PBT, QMK and VIA. Keychron's own page tags it 100% full size while its dimensions match the tenkeyless C3 Pro, so it is filed TKL on the measurements. Out of stock when checked.
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Keychron
The original K8 tenkeyless at $59.99, tray mounted, hot-swap on the Gateron and Keychron Super versions, Bluetooth or wired, on OEM double-shot ABS. Weight is blank: 740 g plastic and 887 g with the aluminium bezel, with no way to tell which ships at this price. Configurations reach $89.99.
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Keychron
A tenkeyless at $74.99, tray mounted, hot-swap, Bluetooth or wired, on OSA double-shot PBT with QMK and VIA. The 1146 g figure is the aluminium frame, which is the only configuration in stock at this price; the plastic one is 990 g. No plate material is published.
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Keychron
A TKL at $74.99, wired, hot-swap, 8,000 Hz polling, steel plate on a tray mount, Keychron Super switches and OSA profile PBT. A TKL keeps the function row and the navigation cluster and loses the numpad, which is the layout most people move to from a full size before going smaller.
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QwertyKeys
A tenkeyless board on a leaf spring mount, where the plate sits on sprung arms instead of gaskets, which returns faster than a gasket stack does. Plate choice is the real variable here: the FR4 plate is flex cut while the aluminum, POM, PC and carbon fiber plates are not, so one case can be built soft or stiff. Hot-swap is blank because neither listing says the PCB is hot-swap, and switches, keycaps and price are blank because the two shops are selling different things: Divinikey sells a kit with no switches or caps, Mechanical Keyboards a prebuilt with Neo Oats and PBT.
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Redragon
The long-running 87 key Kumara at $44.99, wired, on plate-mounted Outemu Red linears with an alloy and ABS base. Redragon makes no hot-swap claim, so the switches it ships with are the ones to judge it on. Out of stock on Redragon's own store when checked, with the price still displayed.
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Royal Kludge
A magnetic tenkeyless at $73.99 with actuation adjustable from 0.01 mm to 3.5 mm, wired, 770 g, Cherry profile PBT, driven from a web page rather than QMK. Hot-swap takes Royal Kludge's magnetic switches only. The maker publishes neither a mount style nor a plate material.
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Royal Kludge
A gasket mounted tenkeyless at $89.99, tri-mode, hot-swap, 840 g, on Cherry profile PBT with Royal Kludge's own Cream linears. Remapping goes through RK Launcher rather than QMK or VIA. No plate material is published, which is a recurring gap across this maker's pages.
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Royal Kludge
A wired gasket mounted tenkeyless at $64.99, hot-swap, 760 g, on Cherry profile PBT with QMK and VIA, shipping on Royal Kludge's pre-lubed Creamy linears. One configuration, one price, which makes it easier to compare than most of this range. No plate published.
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Royal Kludge
The tri-mode R87 Pro at $75.99, gasket mounted, hot-swap, 760 g, Cherry profile PBT, QMK and VIA, on Matcha or Light Gray switches. Both variants were out of stock when checked, so the price is what the page asks rather than what you can pay today.
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Womier
A top-mounted 87 key TKL with a knob and a display, $89.99, tri-mode, hot-swap, on Cherry profile double-shot PBT. At 1850 g in a plastic case it is heavy for what it is. Womier publishes no plate material. Remapping is Womier's own software, with no VIA claim made.
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Womier
A tri-mode TKL at $49.99 with QMK and VIA support, hot-swap, a PC plate and a small display. Cherry profile double-shot keycaps and Womier POM Beige switches. Womier does not publish the mount type, so that field is blank here rather than guessed. Cheap for a wireless TKL on open firmware.
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Ajazz
The wired AK820 at $45.90, a 75% with a volume knob, hot-swap sockets and OEM height PBT. Ajazz states on its own page that 2.4 GHz and Bluetooth belong to the Pro and that other AK820 styles are wired, so this is filed wired only. No mount or plate is published.
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Ajazz
A 75% with a TFT screen and a knob at $69.90, gasket mounted on a flex-cut PC plate and PCB, hot-swap, and wired or Bluetooth or 2.4 GHz. Ajazz publishes no keycap material or battery capacity, so both are blank here. It was $59.90 when this entry was first written in September 2026, and the Gift Switch colourways are $72.90.
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Ajazz
A low-profile 75% with 81 keys and a 1.06 inch display, $72.99 and tri-mode. Ajazz states plainly that it does not support hot swapping, so the Outemu low-profile switches it ships with are the ones it keeps. Sold out on Ajazz's own store when checked. No mount, plate or weight published.
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Akko
A magnetic 75% at $59.99, which is cheap for Hall effect, with 8K polling and a gasket-mounted structure. Akko's page offers a wireless variant but never names the protocol, so only wired is recorded here. Keycaps are a transparent PBT and PC hybrid. Colourways run to $79.99.
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Akko
Akko's current 75% at $99.99, gasket mounted on a flex-cut PC plate, tri-mode, hot-swap on 3-pin and 5-pin, with an 8000 mAh battery and dye-sub PBT. Remapping is Akko's own web driver rather than QMK or VIA. This price is the Cinnamoroll theme; other collab colourways cost more.
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Akko
An 82 key magnetic 75% from $84.99, gasket mounted, tri-mode, with dual 8K polling, a 10000 mAh battery and actuation adjustable in 0.005 mm steps. Akko says it takes mainstream magnetic switches rather than only its own. The default variant on its page is $104.99, so check which one you are buying.
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Akko
A low-profile 75% at $99.99 with a native macOS layout and Windows keycaps in the box, gasket mounted, tri-mode, 4500 mAh. Hot-swap is limited to Kailh low-profile switches, which Akko states plainly, so the usual MX-style stock does not fit. No plate or weight is published.
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AULA
AULA F75 is an 80-key, 75% wireless mechanical keyboard with hot-swappable switches, gasket mounting, Bluetooth, 2.4GHz wireless, USB-C and a 4,000mAh battery. AULA lists ANSI and ISO layouts, several switch options, Cherry-profile keycaps and a rotary knob. The standard tri-mode F75 is advertised as a preorder, so dispatch timing and the exact switch configuration matter at checkout. The separately listed F75 Wired Version is a different product.
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AULA
AULA F75 Max is an 80-key 75% keyboard with a TFT screen, knob, gasket mount, hot-swap sockets, three connection modes, a PC plate, and double-shot PBT keycaps. AULA specifies a 4,000 mAh battery, a partly flex-cut PC plate and double-shot PBT Cherry-profile keycaps. The listed Reaper linear switch applies to the selected ANSI configuration. Screen features and switch choice differ from the standard F75, and AULA lists preorder dispatch delays.
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Chilkey
A low profile 75% that ships built, and the interesting part is that the same case supports two mounting styles, a silica gel particle gasket mount or a top mount, so it can be made soft or firm without buying a second board. The Aster low profile linears are quoted at 45 g actuation and 3.0 mm of total travel, which is shorter than a standard MX switch and part of why the front height is 9.3 mm. Plate is blank: the only listing that carries this version names both an aluminum plate and an FR4 plate without saying which one goes where. CannonKeys has an ND75 page in this data whose description is for a different keyboard entirely, so it is not cited here.
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Epomaker
Eighty keys plus a swappable knob at $89.99, gasket mounted on FR4, magnetic, with 8000 Hz polling wired and over 2.4 GHz but 125 Hz on Bluetooth, and actuation adjustable from 0.1 mm to 3.5 mm. Hot-swap covers some Hall effect switches only. The TMR version is $129 and sits outside this index.
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Epomaker
A wired 75 percent with Epomaker's MagneX Hall effect switches at $69.99, gasket mounted on FR4, hot-swap for magnetic switches, Cherry profile PBT. Adjustable actuation and rapid trigger on a layout that still has a function row. Wired only, which for a board sold on input latency is a reasonable omission.
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Epomaker
A tri-mode 75 percent at $68.99, gasket mounted on a flex-cut PC plate, hot-swap, with Creamy Jade linear switches and Cherry profile double-shot PBT. The 75 percent layout keeps the function row that a 65 percent drops while staying narrower than a TKL, which is why it is the most crowded size in this bracket.
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Epomaker
The Pro adds to the TH80 V2 at $77.99, keeping the gasket mount, flex-cut PC plate, tri-mode radios and hot-swap sockets. Keycaps differ by colourway: PC dye-sublimated on the black version. Worth comparing directly against the standard V2 at $68.99, since the shared specification is most of the board.
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Keychron
A gasket mounted 75% magnetic board at $99.99, wired, 8000 Hz, 780 g, on Cherry profile PBT with QMK and VIA. The key count line in its spec table says 84 keys at 100%, which contradicts both the photo and the layout tag, so the size here comes from those. Out of stock when checked.
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Keychron
The heavier J series 75% at 956 g, $99.99, gasket mounted, wired, 8000 Hz, Cherry profile PBT, QMK and VIA. Its spec table carries the same mistaken 84 key line as the J2, so the layout follows Keychron's own tag instead. Out of stock at that price when checked.
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Keychron
The board that put Keychron on most desks: a 75% at $59.99, tray mounted, hot-swap, Bluetooth or wired, on ABS keycaps. Weight is blank because Keychron lists 794 g for the aluminium frame and 663 g for plastic without saying which ships at this price. Its firmware claims disagree across its own page.
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Keychron
A low-profile 75% at $84.99, tri-mode, hot-swap, 525 g, on low-profile double-shot PBT with QMK and VIA. Low profile means the keycaps and switches are not interchangeable with normal ones, which is the trade for a board you can carry. Configurations run to $99.99.
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Keychron
A 75% gasket-mounted board in a full aluminium case, the Q1 Max is Keychron's wireless flagship: it keeps the QMK/VIA firmware of the wired Q series and adds Bluetooth plus a 2.4 GHz dongle with 1000 Hz polling. It ships hot-swappable, so it is an easy place to start experimenting with switches and keycaps, and because it runs VIA, every key and macro can be remapped without flashing firmware. If you want one board to learn the hobby on, this is a popular first 'serious' keyboard.
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Keychron
The 75 percent in the V line at $69.99: wired, hot-swap, QMK and VIA, steel plate, tray mount, double-shot PBT. It is the board most of the roundups point at, and the specification is deliberately plain. What you are buying is open firmware and a hot-swap socket rather than a mount or a material.
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Keychron
The V1 with an 8,000 Hz polling rate and a PC plate instead of steel, at $74.99, using Keychron's Super switches and OSA profile PBT. A PC plate flexes more than steel, so it reads softer than the standard V1. The polling rate matters for gaming and is invisible for typing.
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Luminkey
A 75% that arrives built, gasket mounted onto a 1.5 mm polycarbonate plate. PC is a softer plate material than aluminum or FR4, so it compounds the gaskets rather than fighting them, and the five layer foam stack both shops list is aimed the same way. The top case comes off through a quick release rather than screws, which matters more than it sounds: it is the difference between swapping switches in a minute and stripping the board down. Polling is 1000 Hz wired and over 2.4 GHz, dropping to 125 Hz on Bluetooth, so the radio you pick has a real cost.
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MonsGeek
An aluminium 75% at $94.99 that opens without tools, on a ball catch, gasket mounted with a PC plate and 5-pin hot-swap. This is the non-VIA model and MonsGeek says so explicitly: remapping is its own web driver, not QMK or VIA. No weight is published.
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MonsGeek
A barebone magnetic kit at $94.99: the switches are included but the keycaps are not, so budget for a set. Aluminium case and plate, gasket structure, a 32000 Hz scan rate and rapid trigger to 0.005 mm. Magnetic switches do not interchange with mechanical ones.
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MonsGeek
The same aluminium 75% in a contour-line theme with side-printed backlit legends, $99.99 against a $109.99 list, gasket mounted, 5-pin hot-swap, with a separate encoder PCB. QMK and VIA are not supported. The page showed a waitlist rather than stock when checked.
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NuPhy
The low-profile Air75 at $119.95, tri-mode, QMK and VIA, 1000 Hz polling. NuPhy's page text captured no switch list, mount, plate, keycap or weight figure, so every one of those fields is blank here rather than filled from a review. Low profile means low-profile keycaps and switches only.
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Redragon
An 81 key 75% at $64.99, tri-mode, with a knob and five layers of damping: PO foam, IXPE switch foam, a PET sound pad, socket foam and silicone. That is a lot of foam for the money. Redragon does not publish the mount, plate or whether the sockets are hot-swap.
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Royal Kludge
A wired gasket mounted 75% at $59.99, hot-swap, 680 g, with VIA drivers, on MDA profile PBT. The wireless page for the same board lists Cherry profile instead, so the two disagree and only what each page says for itself is recorded. No plate published.
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Royal Kludge
An 81 key tri-mode gasket board at $64.99, hot-swap, 680 g, 4000 mAh, on Cherry profile PBT with QMK and VIA. A gasket mount with VIA support under $65 is the sort of thing that used to cost three times as much. No plate material is published.
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Royal Kludge
The blue-backlit RK84 at $54.99, tri-mode, hot-swap, 803 g, on double-shot ABS, with blue, brown and red switch options. Some switch and colour combinations ship only to particular regions, which is worth checking before ordering from outside the maker's main markets.
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Royal Kludge
A wired 84 key 75% at $54.99, hot-swap, 803 g, on double-shot ABS. Royal Kludge says DIY software is supported but never names it, so the firmware field is blank. Not every switch and colour combination is actually in stock, so check the variant before counting on the price.
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Royal Kludge
A wired 75% at $59.99 on oil-resistant Cherry profile PBT, hot-swap, 803 g, with macros through a web driver. Silent Violet is one of the two switch options, which is worth knowing if the board is for an office. Prices across the layouts reach $69.99.
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Royal Kludge
The tri-mode RK84 at $59.99, hot-swap, 803 g, on shine-through double-shot ABS. In-stock configurations run from that to $89.99, so the figure here is the entry point rather than the whole range. No mounting style and no software name are published.
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Royal Kludge
The RGB limited edition at $69.99, tri-mode, hot-swap, 803 g, on double-shot ABS with Royal Kludge's yellow linears. Only Macchiato White is in stock at that price. One line on the page calls it 80% while an 84 key body is 75%, so the layout follows the key count.
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Womier
An 81 key aluminium 75% at $119.99, the one board in this batch above the hundred dollar line. Gasket mounted with an external mirror weight, a 1.2 mm hot-swap FR4 PCB, Cherry profile double-shot PBT, VIA and tri-mode. It weighs 1860 g, which is where the money went.
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Womier
An 81 key gasket-mounted 75% at $69.99 with a display, wired only, on dye-sublimated Cherry profile PBT. Batches before July 2024 shipped Outemu White linears rather than Womier's own POM switches, so a used one may not match. No plate material is published and there is no VIA claim.
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YUNZII
An 82 key 75% at $66.99 against a $108.90 list, tri-mode, hot-swap on 3-pin and 5-pin sockets, shipping on Gateron G Pro switches rather than a house brand. Five-side dye-sub PBT, with XDA and SA sets also offered. Yunzii publishes no mounting style, so that field is blank.
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Chilkey
A 65% aluminum board with swappable RGB cat ear diffusers, sold as a barebones kit and as an assembled board. Gasket mount on an FR4 plate, tri-mode with Bluetooth 5.0 across three paired devices, and two 2250 mAh cells, which is the same 4500 mAh Keebs for All quotes from the other direction. Hot-swap is blank because neither shop says the 1.2 mm tri-mode PCB is hot-swap, and price is blank because the barebones and assembled editions are separate listings at different money and the two shops do not agree on the barebones figure either.
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Epomaker
A 65 percent Hall effect board at $49.99, wired only, with Epomaker's Clear Mag switches and a PC plate on a tray mount. Double-shot PBT in Cherry profile. The switches are soldered, which at this price is the usual trade: adjustable actuation and rapid trigger, but the switch choice is final.
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Epomaker
A $79.99 magnetic 65 percent, gasket mounted on FR4, tri-mode, hot-swap, with Epomaker Core inductive analogue switches. Wireless plus analogue input is unusual at this price, since most magnetic boards are wired. Keycaps mix PBT and PC. Analogue features depend on the software, so check what the driver supports before buying for that reason.
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Epomaker
Sixty-six keys plus a knob at $64.99, gasket mounted on a flex-cut PC plate, hot-swap, tri-mode, 700 g, with an 8000 mAh battery. The silent tactile variants are a dollar more at $65.99. Epomaker names no configuration software on the page, so that field is left blank.
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Machina
A 65% on Machina's Overture V2 tadpole mount, a silicone pin system that suspends the plate off the chassis instead of pinching it between gaskets, and which ships in four durometers so the feel is a spare part rather than a fixed property of the case. Built, it runs Geon's Venom65 Hall effect PCB with 40 gf Raw HE switches on a white carbon fiber plate; barebones, it takes either that PCB or Machina's own MX hot-swap board, which is where the hot-swap flag comes from. Connectivity is blank on purpose: neither listing names a wired or wireless standard for either PCB, only that a USB-C cable is in the box.
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QwertyKeys
A 65% on a PCB gasket mount, which means the gaskets bear on the PCB rather than the plate, so the give you feel comes from the board itself. Both shops list a polypropylene plate, Cherry profile dye-sublimated PBT caps and a tri-mode hot-swap PCB, so switches come out without a soldering iron. Qwertykeys also sells the case, PCB and plate as three separate items, and that route opens up FR4 and aluminum plates plus a 7U bottom row, which the prebuilt does not offer. No release year appears on either listing, so that field is blank.
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Redragon
A wired 68 key 65% at $47.99 with hot-swap sockets taking 3-pin and 5-pin switches, driven by Redragon's own Windows software rather than QMK or VIA. Out of stock on Redragon's US store when checked. The K631 Pro below adds tri-mode wireless for five dollars less, which makes this one hard to argue for.
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Redragon
Sixty-eight keys, tri-mode and hot-swap at $42.99, which is unusually little for wireless. Bluetooth 3.0 and 5.0, a 2.4 GHz receiver and USB-C, with remapping through Redragon's Windows software, not QMK or VIA. In stock when checked. Redragon publishes no mount, plate or weight for it.
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Royal Kludge
The tri-mode R65 at $64.99, gasket mounted, hot-swap, 580 g, with QMK and VIA. Five dollars over the wired version buys Bluetooth and 2.4 GHz. Its own page disagrees with itself on the keycaps, MDA in the spec table against Cherry in the feature list, so treat that as unsettled.
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Royal Kludge
A tri-mode 65% at $59.99, hot-swap, 600 g, on Cherry profile PBT, with a silent violet option alongside the linear and tactile ones. Configuration is through a web driver. Royal Kludge publishes no mounting style for it, so that field stays blank.
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Royal Kludge
The cheaper RK68 at $52.99 on double-shot ABS with one backlight colour, hot-swap, 600 g. Its page lists no 2.4 GHz, so it is recorded as Bluetooth and wired only: the colour-block edition above is the tri-mode one. The maker names no configuration software.
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Womier
A gasket-mounted 65 percent with a knob at $59.99, on a flex-cut PC plate, hot-swap, with VIA support and XDA profile PC keycaps. Gasket mounting at this price usually means gasket-adjacent rather than a soft float. Wired only, so the price buys the mount and the knob rather than wireless.
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YUNZII
A CNC aluminium 65% with a knob at $64.99 against a $105 list, gasket mounted on a slotted PC plate, hot-swap, tri-mode and 1145 g. Keycaps are Cherry profile PBT, double-shot and dye-sublimated. Yunzii makes no QMK or VIA claim for it, so remapping is whatever its own software offers.
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YUNZII
Sixty-six keys plus a knob at $64.99 against a $124.99 list, gasket mounted, hot-swap, tri-mode, with QMK and VIA support, which is the part that separates it from the AL66 beside it. South-facing RGB, 6000 mAh, 1205 g. Yunzii publishes no plate material for it.
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YUNZII
A 71 key aluminium board on a leaf spring gasket mount at $55.00 against a $131.99 list, with a slotted PC plate, hot-swap TTC sockets and Cherry profile double-shot PBT. Yunzii publishes no firmware or VIA support, so treat remapping as unresolved. Silent Peach Mute linears are one of the two switch options.
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KBDfans
A 60% case that can be built as a top mount or a PCB gasket mount, which is unusual, since most cases commit to one and make you buy a second case to hear the other. Both shops list the same menu: aluminum, copper or stainless steel bottom case, five plate materials, and four PCBs covering solder, wired hot-swap, dual mode hot-swap and Hall effect, with a 9 degree typing angle throughout. Connectivity is blank because both listings call the wireless PCB dual mode without once naming the radio. Price is blank too, since the figures shown are configurator starting points rather than the cost of a finished board, and no switches or keycaps are included unless you add them.
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Keychron
A low-profile 60% at $99.99, tri-mode, hot-swap, 426 g, on Keychron's Milk POM switches with QMK and VIA. Only the Milk POM Banana configuration is in stock at that price. No mounting style is published, and low-profile keycaps do not interchange with ordinary sets.
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Keychron
A 60 percent wired board on QMK, hot-swap, with a steel plate and a tray mount. Double-shot PBT keycaps that are not shine-through, so backlighting glows around the legends rather than through them. At $59.99 it is the cheapest route into Keychron's open-firmware line, and the wired-only limit is what keeps it there.
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Luminkey
A 60% Hall effect board, meaning the switches read a magnet's position instead of closing a contact, which is the whole reason a per-key actuation point and rapid trigger are possible at all. It is wired only, at 8000 Hz polling and a quoted 0.08 ms latency, on a 1.5 mm FR4 plate. The hot-swap sockets take Magger magnetic switches, not standard MX, so the usual switch shelf does not apply to this one. Mount rests on a single source: Mechanical Keyboards calls it gasket, Divinikey names no mount, and Mechanical Keyboards also sells it as the Magger60 HE Ultra though every figure the two print matches.
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MonsGeek
The cheapest board in this batch at $29.99, and a magnetic one: Akko Astrolink switches read their position rather than closing a contact, so actuation is adjustable in software. Tray mounted with an aluminium plate, tri-mode, PBT double-shot caps. The switches are soldered, so the one thing you cannot change later is the thing the board is built around.
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MonsGeek
The Ultra takes the FUN60 to $59.99 and makes the magnetic switches hot-swappable, with TMR sensors reading the stem. Tri-mode, aluminium plate, shine-through PBT. Magnetic hot-swap only accepts magnetic switches, so the socket does not make this a board you can put ordinary mechanical switches into later.
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Redragon
The cheapest board in this index at $34.99: 61 keys, wired, with hot-swap sockets for 3-pin and 5-pin switches. Remapping is Redragon's own Windows software. Redragon publishes no mount, plate or keycap material, so those stay blank. Other Fizz colourways run to $56.99 and the magnetic K617 HE to $62.99.
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Royal Kludge
A tri-mode 60% at $59.99, hot-swap, 500 g, on PBT keycaps, with linear, silent and tactile options. Royal Kludge publishes no mounting style and names no configuration software, so both fields are blank rather than filled in from a sibling product page.
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Royal Kludge
The single-colour RK61 at $49.99 on double-shot ABS, hot-swap, 500 g, Bluetooth and wired only, with no 2.4 GHz listed on its page. Every variant was out of stock when checked, so treat the price as the listing rather than an offer.
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Womier
A 61 key magnetic board at $89.99: Hall effect switches with actuation adjustable from 0.005 mm to 3.3 mm, rapid trigger, gasket mount, a 1.5 mm aluminium plate and a CNC aluminium frame. VIA plus a web driver, 8000 Hz wired polling, 6000 mAh. Magnetic switches are not interchangeable with mechanical ones.
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Keychron
A low-profile Alice board at $99.99, tri-mode, hot-swap, 700 g, on Gateron low-profile switches with QMK and VIA. The split and angle make it a commitment rather than a quick try. Configurations run to $119.99 and Keychron publishes no mounting style for it.
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Keychron
An Alice layout at $59.99: the alphabet is split and angled so the wrists sit straighter, with a knob, hot-swap sockets, QMK, a steel plate and a tray mount. Alice layouts take a week or two to retrain on, and they keep the B key on the left half, which is the first thing most people mistype.
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Keychron
The Alice layout gasket mounted on a PC plate at $99.99, tri-mode, hot-swap, 745 g, on Gateron Jupiter switches. Only the barebone version with a knob sits at that price: the assembled configurations cross $100, so check what is in the box before comparing it with anything here.
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AULA
AULA F99 is a compact 99-key mechanical keyboard with a number pad, gasket mounting, hot-swap sockets and an 8,000 mAh battery with a Cherry-profile keycap set. Its ANSI versions support USB-C, Bluetooth and 2.4GHz wireless connections, with PC or FR4 plates depending on the option. AULA states that the ISO-ES F99 is wired-only, so do not assume every layout has the same connectivity. The site has no dedicated 96% size category, so this entry is filed under Other.
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AULA
AULA F99 Pro is a 100-key compact mechanical keyboard with a number pad and rotary knob, hot-swappable switches, gasket mounting and a built-in 8000mAh battery. Unlike the standard F99, the F99 Pro adds a rotary knob and one extra key. AULA lists a flex-cut PCB, PC plate and USB-C, Bluetooth and 2.4GHz connection modes. The catalog's size options do not distinguish a compact 96% layout, so this model is indexed under Other.
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Epomaker
A small Hall effect board at $49.99 with an aluminium alloy plate on a tray mount, wired, OEM profile PBT. Epomaker's Purple Magnetic switches are soldered. The layout does not map to a standard size, so it is filed as other: check the key count against what you actually use before buying.
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Keychron
A one-handed magnetic keypad at $59.99, tray mounted on an aluminium plate, 450 g, with QMK and VIA through Keychron's Launcher. It is a gaming pad rather than a keyboard, which is why it is filed as other. Hot-swap only takes Keychron's Ultra-fast Lime magnetic switches.
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Keychron
A 27 key number pad at $64.99, tri-mode, hot-swap, 176 g, on low-profile double-shot PBT with QMK and VIA. It is a pad rather than a keyboard, hence other. Useful beside a sixty percent if you spend time in spreadsheets. Keychron publishes no mounting style for it.
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Keychron
A low-profile 96% at $94.99, tri-mode, hot-swap, 750 g, on Gateron low-profile switches with QMK and VIA. Ninety-six percent keeps the numpad and loses the gaps, which no standard size slug covers, so it is filed as other. No mounting style is published.
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Keychron
A 96% wired board at $84.99 with 8000 Hz polling, tray mounted on a steel plate, hot-swap, 1080 g, on OSA profile double-shot PBT. Ninety-six percent has no standard size slug, so it is filed as other: it keeps a numpad while dropping the gaps. QMK and VIA.
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MonsGeek
MonsGeek calls this an 1800 compact and files it under compact full-size, which matches no standard layout, so it is recorded as other: check the key positions against what you use. From $99.99, gasket mounted, 5-pin hot-swap, tri-mode, and VIA only, with MonsGeek's own driver unsupported.
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QwertyKeys
Qwertykeys' large-format board: gasket mounted on a PP plate, with a numpad, a dot matrix display and a touch bar above the numpad for volume. Size is blank deliberately. Divinikey's blurb calls it a 98% layout and its own spec table two inches below calls it 96%, and Mechanical Keyboards gives no layout figure at all, so there is no figure here worth printing. Everything else the two shops list agrees, including the 8000 mAh battery and the 7 degree typing angle.
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Royal Kludge
A top-mounted 96% at $89.99, tri-mode, hot-swap, on double-shot PBT, with tactile, silent and linear switch options. At 1879 g it is the heaviest board in this index by a wide margin. Ninety-six percent has no standard slug, so it is filed as other. No firmware is named.
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Satechi
A low-profile board at $99.99 on tactile brown switches, 50 gf, travelling 2.6 mm rather than the usual 4. Bluetooth for two devices, a 2.4 GHz receiver for a third, or wired. Satechi says it has no VIA chip, so remapping is whatever the operating system offers. It publishes no key count, so the layout is other.
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