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Google Pixel 9a pricing leak has some good news and some bad news
Base pricing may remain unchanged, but get ready to pay a premium for extra storage.
- Google may introduce the Pixel 9a at $499 for 128GB storage.
- While this would match Pixel 8a pricing, the 256GB edition could see a price hike, hitting $599.
- Google employed a similar pricing strategy for the Pixel 9 last year.
It feels like 2025 only just got started, and here we are now with January already drawing to a close. Even with CES and now Galaxy Unpacked in the rear view, we’ve got tons of new phones we’re looking forward to making their debut across the rest of the year. While that’s going to mean a full roster of Pixel 10 phones from Google, before we get there we still need to meet the company’s next budget-priced offering, the Pixel 9a. That one’s still probably a couple months off, but as we look forward to seeing how it will arrive, a new source weighs in with some possible figures for the phone’s pricing.
The last time we saw Pixel A-series pricing change was between the launch of the Pixel 6a and Pixel 7a, when Google raised it from $449 to $499. Along with that, though, we also saw RAM get bumped from 6GB to 8GB. With last year’s Pixel 8a, Google introduced the phone at the same $499 level.
