Straight answer up front: KeebTracker is not a live, automated scraping service today. Stock status, prices, and switch specs are manually checked and dated by our team. Every row in the stock table and every switch spec carries a "last checked" date so you can judge freshness yourself instead of taking our word for it.
📋 Where Stock & Price Data Comes From
Each keyboard in the stock tracker is checked directly against its vendor's own product page — Keychron.com, KBDFans, Glorious, Mode Designs, CannonKeys, NovelKeys, Qwertykeys, Wuque Studio, and Amazon for boards with a direct listing. We record the vendor's listed price, current availability, and the date we looked.
Group buy status (Interest Check → Live → Production → Shipping → Closed) is sourced from the designer's or proxy's own announcement — usually a GeekHack thread, a vendor product page, or the designer's Discord/social announcement.
We do not estimate, guess, or carry forward a status without checking it. If we haven't re-verified an item recently, its "last checked" date will say so plainly — that's a feature, not a hidden flaw.
🔩 Where Switch Specs Come From
Actuation force, bottom-out force, travel distance, and material specs are cross-referenced against the switch manufacturer's published spec sheet and/or the listing from an authorized vendor. Where community-measured data (as opposed to marketed specs) differs meaningfully from the manufacturer's number, we favor whichever is more consistently reported across multiple independent sources rather than a single listing.
Switch specs sometimes vary between production runs — this is normal for the hobby, not a sign of bad data. If your unit measures differently than what we list, it may simply be from a different batch.
🕓 Update Cadence — Honestly
We manually re-check listings on a recurring basis, not continuously. We're moving toward a structured weekly review cycle that rotates through the tracked catalog rather than trying to touch everything at once — realistic for a small, independently-run site, and more honest than pretending to be a live feed we don't operate.
If you notice something that looks stale, the "last checked" date on that row tells you exactly how old it is. When in doubt — especially before an actual purchase — confirm directly with the vendor.
🧭 How to Use Our Buying Guides
Our buying guides aren't personal reviews from hands-on testing — we're upfront that we haven't physically tested every board we cover. They're built by cross-referencing published specs, pricing, and community consensus (r/MechanicalKeyboards, r/mechmarket, GeekHack, and switch-focused reviewers like ThereminGoat) against a specific use case, so you get a reasoned starting point rather than a random keyword-stuffed list.
Still not sure what fits you? The Keyboard Finder Quiz walks through layout, budget, and switch-feel preference in about a minute.
⚖️ How We Resolve Conflicting Sources
Vendor pages, manufacturer spec sheets, and community threads don't always agree, and we don't just default to whichever one loads first. For stock and price, the vendor's own current product page always wins — it's the closest thing to ground truth for "can someone buy this right now." For switch specs, we favor the manufacturer's published sheet first, then cross-check it against an authorized vendor's listing and, where one exists, consistently-reported community-measured data (the kind published by switch-focused reviewers) rather than a single outlier number.
When a source can't be reached at all during a check — a vendor page timing out, a product listing pulled without explanation, a group buy's official channel going quiet past its stated close date — we don't guess at a status to fill the gap. Several rows in the stock tracker are flagged with an explicit "needs manual follow-up" note for exactly this reason: it's more honest to mark something as unconfirmed than to carry forward a stale status as if it were current.
⚠️ Known Limitations of This Data
Being upfront about what this methodology can't guarantee: we don't have a live API into any vendor's inventory system, so there's always a gap between our last manual check and the moment you're reading this page — that gap can range from hours to (rarely) a couple of weeks for lower-traffic listings. Group buys are especially prone to schedule slippage that isn't always announced clearly by the designer, which is why GB status pages lean on official designer/proxy channels rather than assuming a stated ship date will hold.
We also don't physically own or test every board and switch in this database — see the Buying Guides section above for how those are built from cross-referenced specs and community consensus rather than hands-on review. Where a page does reflect hands-on testing, we say so explicitly; where it doesn't, we'd rather you know that than assume a review is more authoritative than it is.
🛠️ Correcting an Error
Use the contact form with the specific keyboard or switch name, the field that's wrong, and the correct value.
Include a source where possible — a manufacturer spec sheet, a vendor listing, or a link to the current status. This lets us verify instead of just taking a claim at face value.
We aim to review and fix confirmed errors within 24 hours and update the "last checked" date accordingly.
💬 Editorial Independence
KeebTracker is independently operated by Berean Defense L.L.C. We have no paid placements, sponsored rankings, or commercial agreements with any tracked vendor or manufacturer. Our revenue comes from display advertising, not from ranking one vendor above another. If we ever add affiliate links, they'll be clearly disclosed and won't change what data we show or how we rank anything.