Original research · updated with the daily price feed
The MSRP Honesty Report
By the BatteryRank Engineering Team · Updated
Every brand in this category prints a list price. We tracked 693 price changes across 24 models to find out how often anyone could actually pay it.
Computed from tracked street prices as of 2026-07-26.
For every brand we can measure, the list price is a fiction
Across 4 brands, 24 models and 6,721 model-days of tracked street price, the highest share of days any brand spent at its own list price was 0.5%. Jackery was at list on 0.0% of tracked days, with a typical street price 44% below list.
That is the practical takeaway for a buyer: a percentage-off badge in this category is measured against a number that is not a price. The question worth asking is never “how big is the discount” but “is this cheap against what this model has actually sold for” — which is what every deal verdict on this site is computed against, and why none of them quotes a percent-off figure.
Brand by brand, least honest list price first
Jackery
List price is fiction
at or above list on under 5% of tracked days
- Days at list price
- 0.0%
- Typical discount
- 44%
- Deepest tracked
- 63%
- Evidence
- 163 changes
| Model | List | Lowest tracked | Typical discount | Days at list | Changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackery Explorer 2000 v2 | $1,499 | $680 | 47% | 0.0% | 43 |
| Jackery Explorer 1000 v2 | $799 | $349 | 46% | 0.0% | 55 |
| Jackery Explorer 2000 Plus | $2,199 | $811 | 45% | 0.0% | 32 |
| Jackery HomePower 3600 Plus | $2,799 | $1,603 | 36% | 0.0% | 16 |
| Jackery Explorer 5000 Plus | $4,299 | $2,736 | 33% | 0.0% | 17 |
EcoFlow
List price is fiction
at or above list on under 5% of tracked days
- Days at list price
- 0.1%
- Typical discount
- 32%
- Deepest tracked
- 60%
- Evidence
- 144 changes
| Model | List | Lowest tracked | Typical discount | Days at list | Changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EcoFlow DELTA 2 Max | $1,899 | $849 | 53% | 0.0% | 21 |
| EcoFlow DELTA 3 Ultra | $2,499 | $1,004 | 44% | 0.0% | 24 |
| EcoFlow DELTA Pro 3 | $3,699 | $2,002 | 35% | 0.0% | 42 |
| EcoFlow DELTA 3 Plus | $799 | $599 | 19% | 0.0% | 12 |
| EcoFlow RIVER 3 | $239 | $179 | 18% | 0.0% | 17 |
| EcoFlow RIVER 3 Plus | $299 | $249 | 10% | 0.6% | 28 |
Anker SOLIX
List price is fiction
at or above list on under 5% of tracked days
- Days at list price
- 0.3%
- Typical discount
- 32%
- Deepest tracked
- 64%
- Evidence
- 254 changes
| Model | List | Lowest tracked | Typical discount | Days at list | Changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anker SOLIX F2000 | $2,199 | $802 | 59% | 0.0% | 42 |
| Anker SOLIX C1000 | $999 | $397 | 55% | 0.0% | 41 |
| Anker SOLIX C300 DC DC-only (no AC inverter) | $250 | $150 | 32% | 0.0% | 33 |
| Anker SOLIX C2000 Gen 2 | $1,099 | $681 | 28% | 0.0% | 43 |
| Anker SOLIX C1000 Gen 2 | $599 | $350 | 25% | 0.0% | 34 |
| Anker SOLIX F3800 | $2,000 | $1,700 | 10% | 0.9% | 17 |
| Anker SOLIX C300 | $270 | $200 | 7% | 1.7% | 29 |
| Anker SOLIX F3800 Plus | $2,499 | $2,204 | 4% | 0.7% | 15 |
Bluetti
List price is fiction
at or above list on under 5% of tracked days
- Days at list price
- 0.5%
- Typical discount
- 19%
- Deepest tracked
- 60%
- Evidence
- 132 changes
| Model | List | Lowest tracked | Typical discount | Days at list | Changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bluetti AC70 | $599 | $299 | 45% | 0.0% | 20 |
| Bluetti Elite 100 v2 | $499 | $395 | 14% | 0.0% | 34 |
| Bluetti Apex 300 | $1,699 | $1,303 | 12% | 0.6% | 21 |
| Bluetti AC200L | $899 | $749 | 11% | 0.5% | 30 |
| Bluetti AC180 | $499 | $199 | 10% | 1.8% | 27 |
How this is computed
- 01Each model resolves to one price series — the Amazon new-condition spine where it exists, otherwise the brand storefront. Bundles are dropped; they are not unit prices.
- 02The feed records price changes, so each change carries forward to the next one to produce a daily street price. Out-of-stock and MSRP-snapback spans are excluded — a price nobody could pay is not price history.
- 03A day counts as “at list” when the street price is within 2% of the manufacturer list price. Typical discount is the median across all tracked days.
- 04Brand figures are day-weighted across its qualifying models, so a model tracked for a year counts for more than one tracked for seven months.
- 05Discontinued models are excluded. A brand’s clearance pricing on a model it no longer sells says nothing about what its list prices mean today.
Why most brands are not in the table
A carried-forward day is not an observation. One tracked price change stretched across a year would look like a year of evidence and prove nothing, so the evidence bar counts real price changes: a model needs 12 changes over at least 180 days, and a brand needs 3 such models before we will characterise its pricing. These brands are in the catalog but below that bar, and we will not publish a verdict the data cannot carry:
- DJI — 2 models in the catalog; no model reaches 12 tracked price changes over 180+ days.
- Goal Zero — 2 models in the catalog; no model reaches 12 tracked price changes over 180+ days.
- FlashFish — 1 model in the catalog; no model reaches 12 tracked price changes over 180+ days.
- Fossibot — 1 model in the catalog; no model reaches 12 tracked price changes over 180+ days.
- Oupes — 1 model in the catalog; no model reaches 12 tracked price changes over 180+ days.
- Pecron — 1 model in the catalog; no model reaches 12 tracked price changes over 180+ days.
- VTOMAN — 1 model in the catalog; 1 clears the evidence bar, 3 needed to characterise a brand.
- Zendure — 1 model in the catalog; no model reaches 12 tracked price changes over 180+ days.
What this report does not show
It measures list price against tracked street price, and nothing else. A deep discount is not evidence of a good product, a shallow one is not evidence of a bad one, and a brand whose list price is fiction is not thereby dishonest about anything else — permanent discounting is a category-wide convention, not a scandal at any single company. Our own coverage is Amazon-weighted, so a brand that sells mostly through its own storefront or through retailers we do not track will be represented by a narrower slice of its real pricing than these numbers suggest.
The underlying per-model history is published on each model’s price-history page, the scoring and fair-price formulas are in the methodology, and the identity table is downloadable from /data.