The M5 iPad Pro is already discounted at multiple retailers, and the 11th-gen base iPad is selling for $299.99 at Amazon and Costco, $50 off its $349 list price. The 2026 iPad Air with M4 is available for as low as $556.50 at Amazon. These are not Black Friday anomalies. This is the current baseline.
The generational gaps matter here. The 11th-gen iPad runs an A16 Bionic chip, 30 percent faster than its predecessor, but it cannot run Apple Intelligence. For that you need the A17 Pro in the iPad Mini 7, the M4 in the new Air, or the M5 in the Pro. The iPad Mini 7 starts at $499 for 128GB, a price that previously bought you only 64GB on the sixth-gen model. It has hit $349 historically. Today it sits at $474.
The full article maps current prices across every active iPad model, 11th-gen base through M5 Pro, with links to Amazon, Best Buy, Costco, and Walmart. The value is in the comparison table, not the headline number. If you are deciding between the Air and the Mini, or the base iPad and the Air, the pricing breakdown makes the tradeoffs concrete.
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