Leak: Samsung’s next flagship tablet line may not have an entry model under $1,000 at all. Leaked US pricing for the Galaxy Tab S12 series, posted by leaker Roland Quandt, starts at $1,199.99 — roughly $400 above where the Galaxy Tab S11 line started last year. Samsung has confirmed a Tab S12 launch is coming but has not announced a date or any prices, and nothing below is official.
The Galaxy Tab S12 price leak, tier by tier
Quandt published the list on Bluesky, labelling it “(some) US pricing for Galaxy Tab S12 series”. The figures he gives:
- Galaxy Tab S12+ (12GB/256GB) — $1,199.99
- Galaxy Tab S12+ (12GB/512GB) — $1,399.99
- Galaxy Tab S12+ 5G (12GB/256GB) — $1,349.99
- Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra (12GB/256GB) — $1,399.99
- Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra (12GB/512GB) — $1,599.99
- Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra (16GB/1TB) — $1,999.99
The missing entry model is the real story
The obvious number to fix on is the $100 increase across every Ultra storage tier. That is real, but it is the smaller of the two changes here.
The bigger one is structural. Samsung is expected to drop the plain base model that anchored the Tab S11 series and bring back a Plus model in its place. Last year the cheapest way into the flagship Tab line was the $799.99 Galaxy Tab S11. On these numbers, the cheapest way in becomes a $1,199.99 Tab S12+. If you were the person for whom the base Tab was the sensible buy — enough tablet, S Pen included, not flagship-priced — the leak suggests that option may not exist in the S12 range at all.
That is a $400 gap Samsung would be leaving open at the bottom of its own lineup, and it is worth being clear that pruning a cheaper variant is not the same thing as a price rise. It reads better on a spec sheet and costs buyers more either way.
How much weight to put on this
Quandt has a long track record with European and US retail pricing, and this is the kind of information that typically comes out of retailer systems ahead of launch, which is why it tends to hold up. It is still a leak: Samsung has not confirmed a single figure, prices can move between a retailer database and a launch keynote, and the list is explicitly incomplete — Quandt’s own wording concedes it covers only “(some)” of the range, with no 5G Ultra figures and only one 5G Tab S12+ configuration listed.
There is also precedent for Samsung revisiting tablet prices after launch rather than only at it. The company added $100 to some Galaxy Tab S11 configurations in April, with the 1TB Tab S11 Ultra going up by $280 at the time. Whatever the Tab S12 launches at, that is not necessarily where it stays.
Samsung’s next Galaxy event is set for August 27, though that one is billed around a new Galaxy S26 model rather than tablets. The Tab S11 series arrived in early September last year, so a Tab S12 launch is unlikely to be far off.
Sources: Roland Quandt on Bluesky; Android Authority for Samsung’s Tab S11 pricing history and lineup change
