Finally: Some Pricing Information On The Power S1112 Entry Server

September 14, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The entry “Bonnell+” Power S1112 server based on the Power11 processor – the only machine that has a P05 software tier for the IBM i operating system – has been shipping for six weeks now, and I have been digging around trying to get detailed, feature-level pricing for the new machine. I have yet to find that fine-grained pricing that I love to have my hands on, but I did get some help from some friends in the reseller community to get current prices for six different configurations of the Power S1112 – two tower configurations and four rack configurations.

For now, just to be quick because you need to know this information, which Big Blue has seen fit to not supply to the market and which is necessary to make price and price/performance comparisons, I am just going to get the pricing out to you and do a more detailed analysis comparing the Power S1112 to Power S1012 machines that preceded it to market in the Power10 generation of processors.

This data comes compliments of Ann Dayton, president of Data Tech Computer Services, which is located in the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta and which is an IBM midrange reseller, and Robert Knutson, technical sales representative at the company. I am grateful for the pointer so you can get a sense of what the Power S1112 machine costs after so many price hikes for CPUs, systems, DRAM memory, and flash components since the beginning of the year. It has been crazy, and these machines are going to look very expensive compared to what P05-class systems cost a few years ago. And it is not the fault of the CPU, but those other components.

Without further ado, here is the price and configuration of the Power S1112 with four cores activated with the PowerVM hypervisor fired up on the four cores. The machine has 64 GB of main memory and 1.6 TB of flash storage for $42,300:

The next Power S1112 configuration shown has 128 GB of memory and 12.8 TB of flash and adds a feature #EJ2C SAS tape adapter card. The extra memory and flash – which will be necessary for many customers – doubles the cost of the Power S1112 configuration to $89,000. Take a look:

You will note that there is not really a one-core option, as was the case for prior P05 machines. You have to take four cores on the Power S1112, and you can load IBM i on from one to four of those cores and load AIX or Linux on the remaining cores in the system.

Now, for the rack machines, which many IBM i shops prefer. Here is the pricing for an entry four-core Power S1112 rack server, which costs $41,950 with four cores, 64 GB of memory, and 1.6 TB of flash:

If you opt for the 10-core version of the Power S1112, which is in the P10 IBM i software group, the price for the system is only $52,000 for the same 64 GB of memory and 1.6 TB of flash.

This seems like an unbalanced configuration to me – far too much compute and far too little main memory. The cores are cheap by comparison to memory and flash, however.

Here is what a heavier configuration of the Power S1112 rack machine looks like with 128 GB of main memory, 12.8 TB of flash, and the tape drive adapter card, which costs $88,000:

And finally here is what it looks like when you activate 10 cores on the Power S1112 CPU card, for $98,000, with the same basic configuration:

I presume this is list pricing for the new machine and there is no discount on it. IBM and resellers typically do not discount much on shiny new machines, especially in recent decades. That didn’t used to be the case, of course.

I will keep digging for the detailed pricing and try to compare this Power S1112 to the prior Power S812, Power S814, Power S914, Power S1012, and Power S1014 machines so you get a historical trend as well as for current Power S1012 and Power S1014 machinery that is still available in the channel.

Note: These hardware prices have feature codes to put IBM i 7.6 on the machines, but do not include the cost of monthly subscriptions for the IBM i licenses. There are no perpetual licenses available for Power11-based machines.

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