Name: ramprices.uk RAM price index
Creator: ramprices.uk
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

RAM prices today, median per gigabyte on Amazon.co.uk: DDR5 £17.77, DDR4 £8.22, DDR3 £5.84. A 16GB kit therefore costs roughly 16 times that, and a 32GB kit 32 times; the cheapest kits sit well below the median, so see the ranked lists for DDR5, DDR4 and DDR3.

The ramprices.uk RAM price index tracks what a gigabyte of memory costs on Amazon.co.uk: the median New price per gigabyte across every kit we follow, by generation and by kit size, today against 90 days and a year ago. Updated 4 November 2026 from 4,283 kits (3,207 with a full year of history). Medians, not averages, so a few absurd listings cannot move it.

£17.77/GBDDR5 median today+230% vs a year ago · +15% vs 90 days · 663 kits

£8.22/GBDDR4 median today+103% vs a year ago · +13% vs 90 days · 2,488 kits

£5.84/GBDDR3 median today+34% vs a year ago · 0% vs 90 days · 1,132 kits

Twelve months of RAM prices

DDR5DDR4DDR3 median £/GB at the start of each month

By generation

Generation	Median £/GB now	90 days ago	A year ago	90-day change	12-month change	Kits
DDR5	£17.77	£15.42	£5.38	+15%	+230%	663
DDR4	£8.22	£7.25	£4.04	+13%	+103%	2,488
DDR3	£5.84	£5.85	£4.36	0%	+34%	1,132

By kit size

The same index for the standard kit sizes. Larger kits use the densest chips, which is where the supply squeeze bit first, so the sizes do not move together.

Kit	Median £/GB now	A year ago	12-month change	Kits
DDR5 8GB	£21.03	£5.54	+280%	39
DDR5 16GB	£17.46	£5.11	+242%	118
DDR5 32GB	£17.82	£5.62	+217%	309
DDR5 64GB	£17.41	£5.00	+248%	119
DDR5 128GB	£20.30	£4.33	+369%	7
DDR4 8GB	£8.22	£3.93	+109%	838
DDR4 16GB	£7.26	£3.36	+116%	860
DDR4 32GB	£7.73	£4.10	+89%	377
DDR4 64GB	£9.15	£4.14	+121%	86
DDR4 128GB	£9.95	£3.85	+158%	11
DDR3 8GB	£3.46	£2.70	+28%	325
DDR3 16GB	£2.98	£2.25	+32%	149
DDR3 32GB	£3.37	£2.18	+55%	57
DDR3 64GB	£4.41	£1.83	+141%	7

Sizes with fewer than five tracked kits are left out.

How the index is built

Source. Today's figures use the live Amazon.co.uk New price of every RAM kit in the ramprices.uk catalogue, fetched from Amazon every six hours. The 90-day, year-ago and monthly figures use stored price history for the same kits. Warehouse and used offers are excluded from the index (they are tracked separately for the deal alerts).
Per kit. The price in force on the date in question, divided by the kit's total capacity in gigabytes. A 2x16GB kit is 32GB.
Per group. The median of those £/GB figures across all kits in the generation or size bucket. A kit with no price on a date (no New offer, or not yet listed) is left out of that date's median rather than guessed.
Why medians. A mean is dragged up by a handful of listings at silly prices, and RAM listings spike often. The median describes what a typical kit cost.
Refresh. Recomputed every night. The number of kits with a full year of history grows as the catalogue ages, so year-on-year figures firm up over time.

Use the data

The index is free to reuse with a link to this page. The current figures, the monthly series and the size buckets are published as JSON at /ram-price-index.json; the dataset is described with schema.org Dataset markup for discovery. To cite: "ramprices.uk RAM price index, 4 November 2026".

For what is behind the numbers, read why RAM prices are rising in 2026; for how to buy well while it lasts, the buying guides. Every kit behind the index is on the £/GB ranking.