If you are looking for a new snowboard but you are on a low budget then you might want to check out my list of good cheap snowboards below.
Below have chosen what I think are the best snowboards you can buy at a price that won’t break the bank.
Because everyone needs a different type of snowboard I will be providing the following:
- Best cheap beginner snowboard
- Best cheap freestyle snowboard
- Best cheap freestyle-all-mountain snowboard
- Best cheap all-mountain snowboard
- Best cheap freeride snowboard
How Each Board was Chosen
The snowboard chosen isn’t necessarily the cheapest but the best value for money but has to be at least a good bit cheaper than the average price of board in the category.
Under each category I will show:
- the average cost of boards in that category
- the cheapest board I found in that category; and
- the reasons why I chose the board I chose
All prices shown in USD. Note that this post covers men’s snowboards – for the best cheap women’s snowboards check out the link below.
The Best Cheap Freestyle Snowboard
Board: Slash Happy Place
Price: $399
SnowboardingProfiles.com Rating Score: 86.8/100
| Number of freestyle snowboards looked at: | 31 |
| Cheapest Board I Looked at: | $299 |
| Average price of freestyle snowboards: | $442 |
| Average Rating Score: | 80.3/100 |
Why this board was chosen
The Slash Happy Place is a great freestyle board even without having a good price. It rates way above the average score in this categoty but costs a good $43 less than the average price.
Yes there are cheaper freestyle snowboards – but in terms of value for money you can’t go past the Happy Place.
The average score for the 11 boards that cost less than $399 was 77.1. The Happy Place scored way above that – the next closest in score for boards under $399 was the Rossignol Retox (79.7 points). The next best value was the Rome Factory Rocker ($369 with 79.1 points).
The Best Cheap All-Mountain-Freestyle Snowboard
Board: YES Basic
Price: $399
SnowboardingProfiles.com Rating Score: 84.3/100
| No. of all-mountain-freestyle snowboards looked at: | 28 |
| Cheapest Board I Looked at: | $299 |
| Average price of freestyle-all-mountain snowboards: | $509 |
| Average Rating Score: | 79.9/100 |
Why this board was chosen
This was a bit of a no brainer. It’s my 5th overall pick for all-mountain-freestyle snowboards (not taking price into account), yet it’s also more than $100 cheaper than the average snowboard in this category.
So with a score well above the average and a price well below the average, and ranking above a number of boards that cost a good bit more than it, the YES Basic is the obvious choice here.
There were actually only two boards that I looked at that were cheaper – and they scored 70.8 and 69.7 points (well below the average) and ranked 26th and 28th respectively out of 28.
The Best Cheap All-Mountain Snowboard
Board: Slash Brainstorm
Price: $449
SnowboardingProfiles.com Rating Score: 90.9/100
| No. of all-mountain snowboards looked at: | 26 |
| Cheapest Board I Looked at: | $329 |
| Average price of all-mountain snowboards: | $510 |
| Average Rating Score: | 81.8/100 |
Why this board was chosen
I really wanted to put something different here – since I already have a Slash board above and because this is already topping my Top 10 All Mountain snowboards list (which doesn’t take price into account). But it’s just too good a value to ignore.
This board is $61 less than the average price – but it’s as far above the average score as any of the boards I rated. I couldn’t go past it as the best value all-mountain board going around.
Yes you can get cheaper all-mountain boards – but not ones of this quality.
The next cheapest boards that I looked at scored significantly lower $399 (76.8 points), $399 (69.8 points), $329 (65.2 points).
Honorable mention to the YES Typo which is also $449 and wasn’t far behind the Brainstorm with 88.4 points.
The Best Cheap Freeride Snowboard
Board: Salomon Super8
Price: $449
SnowboardingProfiles.com Rating Score: 81.5/100
| No. of freeride snowboards looked at: | 20 |
| Cheapest Board I Looked at: | $359 |
| Average price of freeride snowboards: | $599 |
| Average Rating Score: | 81.9/100 |
Why this board was chosen
This board only score around the average for freeride snowboards but it’s significantly cheaper than the average price – $150 less to be precise. If you’re on a budget that’s some serious coin to be saving. Especially for a board that is still of good quality that can do for you what you need it to.
Yes there are a lot of boards that ranked higher (Super 8 was 15th out of 20) but all of the boards above it were at least $100 more apart from one (Rossignol Krypto $499 with 82.6 points – this was the winner of this section last year but it was only $399 then).
The Best Cheap Beginner Snowboard
Board: Rossignol District
Price: $299
SnowboardingProfiles.com Rating Score: 100/100
| No. of beginner snowboards looked at: | 44 |
| Cheapest Board I Looked at: | $299 |
| Average price of beginner snowboards: | $451 |
| Average Rating Score: | 85.4/100 |
Why this board was chosen
This was the cheapest equal board that I looked at – and it was the highest that I rated as a beginner board – enough said!
Price is taken into account for the scores for beginner boards – so this is somewhat skewed in this case – but I still don’t think you’ll find a better beginner board for a better price without going into the budget brands and then you’ll be sacrificing on quality and a board that won’t enable you to progress very far.
Over to you
Thanks for reading and I hope this has helped you to find the right cheap snowboard for you.
If you have any questions, comments or opinions on what your favorite cheap snowboards are, just leave a comment in the comments section below.
For the latest season’s good cheap snowboards list, check out the link below.
>>The Best Good Cheap Snowboards (latest season)
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