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Surface Pen

Fail

Demand is soft, at -12.3% this quarter, so Surface Pen is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Top 45% of 2,221 Cell Phones & Accessories niches · +1 vs the category median of 46
Market size
$728K/yr340K searches / yr
90-day growth
-12.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
67%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 103 sellers

Flapen Score

Surface Pen against its category

The dotted line is the Cell Phones & Accessories average. Past it, Surface Pen is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

47Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Surface Pen market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Surface Pen 340K times last year and spent an estimated $728K. The top 5 brands take 90% of clicks. Demand peaks in Sep. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 4.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 340K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 4.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -12.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $728K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
340K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-12.3%
Conversion, latest week
4.6%
Market size, estimated
$728Ka year
Peak month
September1.9× the quietest month
Top search term
microsoft surface pen70K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $46.50.

Listings sell for $46.50 on average, from $18.72 to $127.19. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 1,000 to 1,250 of them. At $46.50 that is $47K to $58K a year per listing.

Average price
$46.50inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$18.72–$127.19
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
1,000–1,250
Revenue per listing a year
$47K–$58K
Returns
4.6%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

71% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 82% ship with Prime. On an average day, 10.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #226 within Stylus Pens. It carries 1,848 reviews at 4.32 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
71%
Prime listings
82%
Out of stock, average day
10.3%
Average rank
#226in Stylus Pens
Average rating
4.32 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,848per listing
Listings tracked
17

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 44 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
44 months

Products

Top Surface Pen products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 6, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 67% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$36K$73K$109K$146K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

103

Est. top-5 brand share

90%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

67%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

7%

  • Microsoft31%
  • metapen24%
  • Milikilo21%
  • QLAYA8%
  • FKAfusiontech7%
  • iafer3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 7%)

Demand

Surface Pen search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

13K8KPrime Day '24Spike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.9×

Search terms

Top Surface Pen search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with estimated yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • microsoft surface pen70K/yr
  • surface pen70K/yr
  • surface pro pen58K/yr
  • microsoft surface pro pen25K/yr
  • surface pro 7 pen16K/yr
  • microsoft pen17K/yr
  • surface pro stylus10K/yr
  • microsoft surface stylus7K/yr
  • surface pro 11 pen9K/yr
  • surface pro stylus pen7K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Surface Pen

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

12%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
13%of negative reviews mention “Compatibility-Overall”
4.6%of orders come back
“and both do not put this pen in pair mode”
A buyer, on “Compatibility-Overall”13% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Surface Pen questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data