Monitors are the one thing I tell people to wait for Black Friday on. Laptops sell through, SSDs are a shortage lottery, and cameras don’t move, but the same handful of editing monitors goes on sale every November, the cuts are real, and the panel you buy on the 27th is the same panel you’d have paid full price for on the 20th. I’ve been through this cycle enough times to know which numbers to wait for, so this page is the watch list from my best monitor for video editing guide with the September price next to each one and the price that should make you buy.
Every link here goes to a listing sold by Amazon itself, because the monitor category is where marketplace sellers do their best work relisting refurbished panels as new. From November 20 through Cyber Monday I re-check every line on the live page and update it here; until then, the September numbers are the baseline, and the targets are mine.
Last updated: October 2026. Some links below are affiliate links. Buy through them and it helps keep the site running, at no extra cost to you. Baseline prices were read on the live Amazon listings on September 2, 2026, with Amazon as the seller. Deal prices land here the week of November 20. The broader list for every category is on the Black Friday deals for video editors page.
TLDR
Two prices to set an alert for. The Dell UltraSharp U2725QE, the best IPS editing monitor for most people, was $626.49 in September; under $550 it’s the buy of the season. The ASUS ProArt PA279CRV, the only sub-$450 monitor with a real calibration report, was $399; under $350 it’s the cheapest accurate 4K panel you’ll see all year. If you want the OLED I edit on, the ASUS ROG Strix XG27UCDMG was $861.99, and gaming OLEDs are the category ASUS discounts hardest in this window.
The watch list
The one I use: ASUS ROG Strix OLED XG27UCDMG
September price: $861.99. Target: under $750. The XG27UCDMG is the 27-inch 4K tandem QD-OLED on my desk, 240Hz, 99% DCI-P3, and months of daily Resolve with no burn-in. Gaming monitors are the panels ASUS and Amazon push hardest on Black Friday, so this is the pick I’d expect to move the most. What you give up at any price: no calibration report and no dock features, which is why it’s my editing monitor and not my grading monitor.
Best IPS for most editors: Dell UltraSharp U2725QE
September price: $626.49. Target: under $550. The U2725QE is 27-inch 4K IPS Black at 120Hz with a factory calibration report, a Thunderbolt 4 input with 140 watts for a laptop, Ethernet, and a KVM, which makes it the monitor that replaces a $300 dock. Dell’s UltraSharps are the most reliably discounted pro monitors on Amazon every November. If it hits the target, buy it before you finish reading this sentence.
Best 32-inch IPS: Dell UltraSharp U3225QE
September price: $819.99. Target: under $700. Same board as the 27, stretched to 32 inches so the Resolve Color page fits at 100% scaling. The U3225QE is the one I point most Resolve editors at, and the $200 gap to the 27 tends to shrink in deal week, which changes the answer for anyone with the desk depth.
Best budget: ASUS ProArt PA279CRV
September price: $399. Target: under $350. The PA279CRV is 27-inch 4K, 99% DCI-P3 and Adobe RGB, Calman Verified, USB-C at 96 watts, for less than a good keyboard costs some people. The catch with this listing is stock: it has flipped to third-party sellers at $500 before, and a Black Friday rush could do it again, so if the buy box says anything other than Amazon, the BenQ PD2706U, $399.99 in September, is the fallback with a KVM and a slightly narrower gamut.
Best 5K for Mac editors: ASUS ProArt PA27JCV
September price: $699. Target: under $600. 5K at 27 inches is the 218 ppi macOS was drawn for, and the PA27JCV gives you that with a calibration report for less than half of what Apple wants for a Studio Display. Apple’s own panel was $1,503.76 on Amazon in September and gets a token cut at best; the ASUS is where the Mac money should go.
The 6K pro pick: LG UltraFine 32U990A-S
September price: $1,099.99, already well under LG’s $1,999 list. Target: under $1,000. The 32U990A-S is a 32-inch 6K Nano IPS Black panel with Thunderbolt 5, the “Mac 5K but 32 inches” answer for a Mac Studio desk. It’s the newest panel on this list, so its Black Friday behavior is a guess; I’d take four figures as a yes.
The 32-inch OLED: ASUS ROG Swift PG32UCDM
September price: $1,181.22. Target: under $1,000. The PG32UCDM is my 27’s bigger sibling, a 32-inch 4K 240Hz QD-OLED, and because ASUS has since shipped the newer PG32UCDM3, the older panel is the one most likely to get a clearance-style cut. Same caveat as mine: an editing monitor, not a grading monitor.
The ultrawide: Dell UltraSharp U4025QW
September price: $1,549. Target: under $1,300. The U4025QW is a 40-inch 5120 by 2160 IPS Black panel with the same Thunderbolt 4 dock and KVM as the smaller UltraSharps, the best single screen for a Premiere or Final Cut editor who lives on the timeline. Big Dells get big Black Friday cuts; this is the one where the discount could be a few hundred dollars.
The grading monitors
Reference and grading displays are a different market and they mostly don’t do Black Friday. The ASUS ProArt PA32UCDM, the hardware-calibratable OLED from the best monitor for color grading guide, was $1,599 in September and is the one grading panel with a realistic chance of a cut, because it sits on Amazon rather than in a broadcast dealer’s catalog. The Flanders Scientific DM242 and the rest of the reference tier are sold at the same price in November as in May. If your Black Friday budget is for grading, spend it on a Calibrite Display Pro HL probe, which does get discounted, and the TV as a grading monitor route, because OLED TVs are the single most discounted display category of the week.
Side by side
| Monitor | September price (Amazon) | Buy at | Deal-week price |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASUS XG27UCDMG | $861.99 | Under $750 | Checked from Nov 20 |
| Dell U2725QE | $626.49 | Under $550 | Checked from Nov 20 |
| Dell U3225QE | $819.99 | Under $700 | Checked from Nov 20 |
| ASUS PA279CRV | $399.00 | Under $350 | Checked from Nov 20 |
| ASUS PA27JCV | $699.00 | Under $600 | Checked from Nov 20 |
| LG 32U990A-S | $1,099.99 | Under $1,000 | Checked from Nov 20 |
| ASUS PG32UCDM | $1,181.22 | Under $1,000 | Checked from Nov 20 |
| Dell U4025QW | $1,549.00 | Under $1,300 | Checked from Nov 20 |
| ASUS PA32UCDM | $1,599.00 | Under $1,400 | Checked from Nov 20 |
How to shop a monitor deal without getting burned
Amazon as the seller, or walk. The monitor category is full of “renewed” and marketplace listings at tempting prices. A panel with a dead pixel and no warranty is not a deal.
Check the model suffix. Dell sells the U2725QE and a cheaper U2724D that looks identical in a thumbnail and lacks the Thunderbolt dock. ASUS has the PA279CRV and the older PA279CV. Read the whole model number before the price.
Ignore the struck-through list price. LG’s 6K “was $1,999” every day of the year; the September street price is what it costs. The targets on this page are below street, not below list.
Buy the probe with the monitor. A $150 calibration probe on sale turns any panel here into a trustworthy one; the calibration guide walks through it.
FAQ
Are Black Friday monitor deals real?
For the mainstream pro panels, Dell UltraSharp and ASUS ProArt especially, yes, and they’re the most predictable hardware discounts an editor will see all year. For reference-grade grading monitors, no; that market doesn’t do holidays.
Should I buy a 2025 monitor on sale or wait for the 2026 model?
Buy the sale. A monitor doesn’t get faster next year the way a laptop does; the panel that’s accurate now is accurate in 2029. The one exception is OLED, where each generation’s burn-in protection improves, so prefer a current-generation OLED over a bargain from two generations back.
Is an OLED TV a better Black Friday buy than a monitor?
For a grading and client monitor, often yes, because OLED TVs get the deepest cuts of any display category and a calibrated LG C-series over a Blackmagic I/O box is a real grading setup. For the monitor you cut on, no; you want the pixel density of a 27 or 32-inch 4K panel at arm’s length.
And that’s it! As always, what you see here is what works for me, my clients, and my crew, and the targets are my own read of what these panels have sold for. From November 20 this page gets a fresh look every morning; the full category list is on the Black Friday deals for video editors page. Spot a price I haven’t posted yet? Leave a comment.
