Hi! I’m a Finnish developer, and I’ve been scraping GPU/CPU/RAM/SSD prices across Europe for months now. I got tired of seeing the prices in Finland, so I built pricesquirrel.com, a real-time price comparison tool across 25+ European stores in 9 countries.

Some things that surprised me from the data:

GPU prices have risen ~19% across the EU over the past month, verified using a fixed basket of 176 models tracked daily at 3+ retailers, specifically to avoid the trap of cheap cards selling out and skewing the average. Germany +19.6%, France +18.1%, so it’s broad-based, not one country.

Germany is consistently the cheapest EU country for hardware overall, likely due to strong retailer competition (Alternate, NBB, Mindfactory, and others all fighting for the same customers), which keeps margins thin.

Also worth noting: Amazon isn’t always the cheapest option for PC hardware specifically, dedicated European retailers frequently beat it on price. The tool makes it easy to check without defaulting to Amazon out of habit.

Technical side, since I imagine some of you will ask: scraper on Hetzner + SQLite backend, Next.js frontend, updated every 6 hours. Fully self-built, no funding, no team.

I track ~25 stores across DE, NL, FR, FI, ES, IT, BE, PL, SE. Open to feedback on the tool, or suggestions for stores I’m missing.