The Rand Price of Compute
What hardware actually costs in South Africa.
Nobody publishes it, so we do. The rand price of enterprise and AI hardware, by category — from a named local source, not a US list price you can’t buy at. Indexed from our live catalogue.
Updated 9 September 2026 · 6 595 products across 22 categories · VAT-inclusive rand
| Category | Products | From | Median | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accessories | 1786 | R20 | R720 | R58 310 |
| Components | 818 | R60 | R3 730 | R370 500 |
| Datacenter | 650 | R100 | R42 510 | R995 000 |
| Storage | 482 | R60 | R3 955 | R1 644 500 |
| Wearables | 407 | R1 029 | R1 029 | R58 350 |
| Printers & Scanners | 357 | R80 | R4 060 | R135 590 |
| Networking | 302 | R30 | R2 555 | R70 950 |
| Laptops | 292 | R6 890 | R32 400 | R269 100 |
| Peripherals | 285 | R90 | R1 830 | R38 220 |
| Crafting & Cricut | 261 | R30 | R440 | R25 510 |
| Monitors & TVs | 216 | R1 290 | R8 560 | R130 000 |
| Desktops | 132 | R1 050 | R16 510 | R299 000 |
| Unified Communications | 106 | R200 | R5 950 | R217 050 |
| Tablets | 98 | R1 950 | R24 780 | R83 740 |
| Power & UPS | 91 | R360 | R7 730 | R72 510 |
| Surveillance | 82 | R260 | R8 180 | R44 850 |
| Point of Sale | 65 | R510 | R18 920 | R67 310 |
| Software | 57 | R170 | R4 260 | R48 530 |
| Phones | 44 | R2 180 | R19 999 | R29 999 |
| Audio | 27 | R650 | R2 999 | R10 580 |
| Server Cabinets | 24 | R340 | R2 520 | R14 210 |
| Smart Home & IoT | 13 | R100 | R670 | R3 870 |
Methodology
How the index is built, so you can argue with it.
Each band is the spread of VAT-inclusive rand prices we publish across live products in that category — the low, the median, and the high. It is compiled straight from our catalogue, the same prices shown on every product page.
What it is: a named, dated, local reference for what hardware costs here — the number the market has never had. What it isn’t: a claim about any one supplier, or a forex-versus- supplier breakdown, which would need cost data we don’t publish. Placeholder and non-hardware lines are excluded; a category appears only once it has enough products to describe a real range.