Korg, Roland and Behringer sell synthesizers in almost every form at Thomann, from keyboards to desktop boxes. Where each one wins says a lot about the brand: Korg in big keyboards, Roland in grooveboxes, Behringer at the cheap end.
The three brands in numbers
| Korg | Roland | Behringer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings | 67 | 40 | 125 |
| Models | 60 | 35 | 114 |
| Median price | $492 (€439) | $783 (€699) | $111 (€99) |
| Under $300 | 19 | 5 | 94 |
| Top-10 spots | 16 | 7 | 20 |
| #1 spots | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Behringer has more synth listings than Korg and Roland together, and 60 of its 125 are Eurorack modules and modular systems, 50 of them under $100. Roland is the most expensive of the three and has the fewest models.
Korg: the workstation brand
Korg makes 7 of the top 10 workstations at Thomann, led by the Nautilus at #1; Yamaha's Montage fills the other three spots. Among general synthesizers, the Monologue, the microKORG and the Minilogue all sit in the top 10.
Korg Nautilus 61, $1,637
A 61-key workstation and the #1 in its chart. #2 of 13 workstations.
Roland: the groovebox brand
Roland holds the top two grooveboxes, the MC-707 and the TR-8S, and the MC-101 at #10. Its SP-404MKII is the #2 sampler and the Juno-X the #3 general synthesizer.
Roland MC-707, $1,020
An eight-track groovebox with sampling, first among grooveboxes. #1 of 30 groove boxes.
Behringer: cheap and everywhere
Behringer's 20 top-10 spots are spread over 15 charts, from Eurorack modules at $21 to the System 55 modular at $1,369. Its #1 is the TD-3, a bass line synth after the Roland TB-303.
Behringer TD-3, $106
The #1 sound module at Thomann for about the price of a pedal. #2 of 146 sound modules.
And the #1 synthesizer is an Arturia
None of the three wins the general synthesizer chart. The #1 is Arturia's MicroFreak at $291, ahead of Arturia's AstroLab and Roland's Juno-X.
Arturia MicroFreak, $322
A small hybrid synth with a flat touch keyboard. #4 of 209 general synthesizers.
Questions
Which brand is best for a first synthesizer?
By price, Behringer or a small Korg: the TD-3 costs $106 and the Monologue $301. The MicroFreak, at $291, is the #1 synthesizer in our index.
Why does Behringer rank so high with such cheap gear?
Our index counts how many units of a model are for sale on Reverb, and cheap Behringer gear changes hands a lot. It also covers almost every Eurorack chart, so it collects many top-10 spots.
How we measured. All synthesizers Thomann listed as in stock on October 23, 2026, in its synthesizer department: 1,622 listings in 31 categories, including Eurorack modules, workstations and grooveboxes. Variants of the same model are grouped. A "top-10 spot" is a place in the top 10 of one of our 30 synthesizer rankings by the AudioFu Index. Prices are in euros, converted at the European Central Bank rate.
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Denis Kataev runs AudioFu. Every night the site records the prices of more than 38,000 instruments and studio tools at Thomann, and he writes about what those numbers show: what got cheaper, what just arrived, and which discounts are real.
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