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Best budget wireless mechanical keyboards

Boards with 2.4 GHz or Bluetooth. Measured latency matters more here, because wireless is where it usually goes wrong.

How this order is produced

A weighted score over the published criteria — Typing feel 25%, Build 20% for this page, with the remaining criteria keeping their site-wide weights scaled into what is left. It is computed at build time from the same numbers shown on each review, so this page cannot disagree with them. The full formula.

  1. Ferrule 75

    8.5/10$89

    Not the best in any single column and the best board here overall, which is how this usually goes. It is the only one I could hand to someone with no interest in keyboards and expect them to be happy. The stabilisers being right from the factory is worth more than any spec on the box.

    75%Tactile54.6 dB4.1 mstyping feel 8.5, build 8.0 · 4.1 ms wired at 1,000 Hz

  2. Castor 65

    8.2/10$79

    A gasket mount at this price. Skip it if: anyone on Linux or macOS who remaps constantly. The software is the whole objection and it is not fixable.

    65%Tactile53.1 dB5.2 mstyping feel 9.0, build 8.5 · 5.2 ms wired at 1,000 Hz

  3. Meridian 96

    7.4/10$95

    A numpad without the desk footprint. Skip it if: anyone who does not need the numpad. The compressed layout costs you accuracy for a cluster you will not use.

    96%Linear58.9 dB4.6 mstyping feel 7.5, build 7.5 · 4.6 ms wired at 1,000 Hz

  4. Tessera TKL

    7.5/10$84

    The sound is the whole point. Skip it if: fast typists who bottom out hard, and anyone not on Windows.

    TKL (87-key)Linear51.8 dB5.9 mstyping feel 8.0, build 7.0 · 5.9 ms wired at 1,000 Hz

  5. Vellum TKL

    6.7/10$68

    Good board, bad firmware. Skip it if: anyone who remaps anything at all, and anyone relying on Bluetooth for daily work.

    TKL (87-key)Tactile56.1 dB7.8 mstyping feel 7.5, build 7.5 · 7.8 ms wired at 500 Hz

  6. Palisade 75

    4.4/10$64

    Returned it after nine days. Skip it if: anyone considering it at retail. The Ferrule 75 is better in every measured dimension for about $25 more.

    75%Tactile61.2 dB9.7 mstyping feel 4.0, build 4.5 · 9.7 ms wired at 500 Hz

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Questions

How is this list ordered?

By a formula, not by hand. This page weights Typing feel 25%, Build 20%, with the remaining criteria keeping their site-wide weights scaled into what is left. Ordering is computed at build time from the scores, so nothing can be moved up for commercial reasons.

Why are there only a few boards here?

Because a board cannot appear on a list here until it has been bought, used for at least two weeks and reviewed. A longer list would mean including boards I have never touched, which is the thing this site exists not to do.

Do the affiliate links affect the order?

No. The order comes from the scoring formula, which runs before any link is attached. Boards with no affiliate link at all can and do rank first, and the worst-scoring board on the site is still published with its review intact.

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