Hub · under $500

Jetson and boxes under $500

Cheap local AI is almost all Jetson. This hub only lists machines that run models on-device without a cloud bill and cost under $500 new.

What under $500 can and cannot mean

At this price you get an edge computer, not a 70B workstation. Memory is the wall. 8GB unified memory can hold a small language model or a camera stack. It cannot hold Spark-class weights.

Jetson Orin Nano Super

The only new kit on this hub today. $249, 8GB, 67 TOPS, JetPack.

Street: $249
Memory: 8GB LPDDR5
Bandwidth: 102 GB/s
Runs: 1B–8B class / cameras

Buy for robots, students, and JetPack. Not for 24B+ desk inference.

Not on this hub yet

Used Orin NX / AGX boards — specs vary too much to stamp a single card.
Raspberry Pi 5 class boards — different software world.
A $200 dongle plus a $400 NUC. That is two products.

A hub with one honest listing beats a hub with twelve filler cards.