Umbrel Pro €599 vs Umbrel Home €479: 8 or 4 cores

Umbrel Pro is a home server that costs €599 without SSDs, and €1,719 with 8TB in it. Umbrel Home, the smaller model, starts at €479. Both run the same umbrelOS, and therefore the same Bitcoin node with the same apps.

Anyone who only wants to run that node needs neither of them. More on that below.

In short

Umbrel Pro: €599 without SSDs, €1,719 with 8TB · 8-core Intel Core i3-N300 at 3.8 GHz · 16GB LPDDR5 · four M.2 2280 NVMe slots · 2.5 Gbps Ethernet · FailSafe on RAID. Umbrel Home: from €479 · four cores · up to 4TB · 16GB LPDDR5 as well.

What Umbrel Pro costs

From the ‘Choose your Umbrel Pro’ configurator on umbrel.com, read on 16 August 2026:

Shipping is free, the machine is listed as ‘ships now’ and delivery takes five to eight days. Import duties sit inside that amount and the tax line reads €0. The total in the configurator is what you pay, not a starting price with something added at the final step.

What is inside

• Processor: Intel Core i3-N300, eight cores, 3.8 GHz.
• Memory: 16GB LPDDR5.
• Storage: four M.2 2280 NVMe slots.
• Networking: one 2.5 Gbps Ethernet port.
• Ports: two USB 3.2 Gen 2.
• FailSafe, Umbrel's redundancy, runs on RAID.

Umbrel ships up to 8TB, not up to 32TB

Four slots sound like unlimited room, but the store sells at most 8TB in them: four 2TB drives, and then every slot is taken. Larger drives fit, that is what an M.2 slot does, but you buy those yourself and you fit them yourself. What Umbrel delivers to your door is 8TB, and not a byte more. The difference between what the store ships and what the machine can take is exactly the kind of difference that disappears in a spec table.

Umbrel Home: from €479

The product page lists Umbrel Home from €479, with free delivery in the Netherlands and all customs duties and taxes included. That buys a quad-core Intel N150 at 3.6 GHz, 16GB LPDDR5 and up to 4TB of SSD storage, with active cooling at a 6W TDP.

That 16GB is not a typo: the memory is identical on both models. Buy the Pro for the RAM and you are paying for something you get without it.

What we have verified for this model right now is on our Umbrel Home page.

The difference between the two

€120 separates the two. For that you get double the cores, two and a half times the network, twice the storage from the store, and FailSafe. What stays identical is the memory and the software: umbrelOS runs on both, so the Pro adds no app and no feature that the Home lacks.

FailSafe costs storage capacity

FailSafe is RAID under another name. Umbrel describes it as ‘Even if any one SSD fails, your data doesn't’ — if one drive dies, your data carries on.

That only works with more than one SSD, because FailSafe spreads your data across several drives, and the space that goes into that redundancy is space you cannot use. Four 2TB drives are therefore not 8TB of usable room once FailSafe is on. Exactly how much remains depends on the RAID level, and Umbrel does not publish which level it uses. Not established, then.

When this machine is too much

umbrelOS is free and open source. You are paying for hardware only, which is exactly why the sum has to be honest.

If you run a Bitcoin node and nothing else, this machine is overspecified. A Raspberry Pi with an external SSD has done that job for years, for a fraction of the money. The blockchain fits on it comfortably and a node does not need eight cores; it verifies blocks, and that is all. umbrelOS runs on that Pi too. For that reader, €599 is money thrown away.

The Pro starts to earn its keep the moment more has to sit on it: household file storage alongside the node, media, an ad blocker for your whole network, and then the redundancy so that a dead SSD does not cost you a weekend.

Why running your own node makes sense at all is covered in why more and more people run their own Bitcoin node at home. What we have verified for the Pro right now is on our offer page.

What we could not verify

• How much storage remains usable with FailSafe on. Umbrel does not publish the RAID level.
• The maximum capacity per M.2 slot if you fit larger drives yourself.
• What an Umbrel Home costs above the entry storage. The product page gives only a starting price.

Sources: umbrel.com, the ‘Choose your Umbrel Pro’ configurator and the Umbrel Home product page, both read on 16 August 2026 on the Dutch locale of the store. Last verified: 16 August 2026.

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