The iPad Mini just got $100 cheaper, at least until Prime Big Deal Days ends.
Apple's seventh-generation iPad Mini is on sale at Amazon ahead of October's Prime Big Deal Days event. The Wi-Fi model with 128GB of storage is down to $499, the 256GB version is $599, and the cellular 128GB configuration is $649. Apple hiked prices across several devices in June, and this is the first discount on the Mini since then. It's worth noting the base model regularly sold for closer to $400 throughout most of 2025, so $499 is a partial rollback, not a return to last year's going rate.
That gap matters more than the headline discount. A tablet that routinely cost $400 a year ago is now being marketed as a deal at $100 more, which says less about generosity and more about where Apple has reset expectations after June's price hike. The seventh-gen Mini still runs the A17 Pro chip with Apple Intelligence support and works with the Apple Pencil Pro, specs unchanged since its 2024 launch, and a hands-on review at the time flagged it as missing some of the quality-of-life upgrades that larger iPads picked up in the same cycle.
If a new iPad Mini lands later this year, as expected, this could be the last chance to buy the current model before it either disappears or gets pricier still. Call it a decent deal on aging hardware, not a steal.