AYN raises prices on Thor, Odin 3 and Odin 2 Portal handhelds
AYN’s Thor, Odin 3 and Odin 2 Portal are getting more expensive again, with U.S. buyers facing the new pricing Thursday night. A short AliExpress sale opens July 1 before the bump lands.
AYN is about to make its Thor, Odin 3 and Odin 2 Portal handhelds more expensive again, and the timing leaves only a narrow buying window for anyone still debating a premium Android emulation setup. The new prices take effect on Friday, July 3 at 10 AM BJT, which lands on Thursday, July 2 at 7 PM Pacific Time for U.S. buyers.
The Thor line takes the sharpest hit. The Thor Lite will rise to $259, the Thor Base to $329, the Thor Pro to $409, the Thor Max 512GB to $479, and the Thor Max 1TB to $579. The Odin 3 and Odin 2 Portal will each go up by $10 across their available models, a smaller jump on paper but one that still pushes both devices farther from their earlier value positioning.
This is the sort of move that changes a buying decision fast. The Thor, Odin 3 and Odin 2 Portal remain among AYN’s strongest Android handhelds for higher-end emulation and broad compatibility, so they still make sense for buyers who want a single device that can cover a lot of ground. But once the price floor climbs, the argument for waiting gets weaker unless a sale is already lined up. Retro Handhelds says an AliExpress Choice Day sale begins on July 1, giving bargain hunters a brief chance to shave off some cost before the increase lands.
The new pricing also fits a pattern that has become hard to ignore. Android Authority says this is at least the third time AYN has raised Thor prices in 2026, following earlier increases in January and March. Notebookcheck adds that AYN had already bumped Thor and Odin 3 prices earlier this year, and that the latest round now reaches the older Odin 2 Portal as well.
The pressure behind those changes has shown up in the hardware itself. AYN previously switched newer Thor and Odin 3 batches from UFS 4.0 to UFS 3.1 because UFS 4.0 had become too expensive, a sign that storage costs are already shaping what buyers get in the box. Fusion Worldwide said on March 11 that eMMC allocation was tightening sharply, with some customers receiving only 10% to 20% of requested volume. Even AYN’s own site still presents the company as consumer-focused and low-price minded, which makes the repeated hikes stand out all the more for anyone comparing an Odin or Thor against the rest of the emulation market.
AYN’s last cheap window is now easy to define: buy before Thursday night if the Thor, Odin 3 or Odin 2 Portal is already the handheld you want, take the July 1 sale if it meaningfully offsets the bump, or wait and accept that the baseline has moved.
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