Cricut Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2026

What each Cricut cost on Black Friday 2025

These are the prices on cricut.com during Cricut’s 2025 sale, read from Internet Archive copies of Cricut’s own pages. Cricut called them its lowest prices of the year. The machines below reached these prices by 23 November and kept them through Cyber Monday; the Venture came down later, from $499 to $449 in Black Friday week.

Bundles were on sale too. The Maker 4 with Cricut’s Everything Bundle was $429, the Explore 4 bundle $279 and the Joy Xtra bundle $169; the same bundles with a Cricut Access subscription added were cheaper still, at $379, $239 and $149.

This year’s machines already cost what last year’s did on sale

Cricut brought out three new machines in 2026 and priced them below the ones they follow. The Joy 2 and Explore 5 came out on 27 February, the Maker 5 on 4 September. On 3 November 2026 cricut.com listed the Maker 5 at $349 (out of stock that day), the Explore 5 at $199 and the Joy 2 at $99: the prices the Maker 4, the Explore 4 and the original Joy sold for on Black Friday 2025.

A sale was already running that day: up to $60 off machine bundles, 50% off materials and accessories, and up to 25% off heat presses. Machines on their own were at full price, except the Maker 4 at $379.

Maker 5, Maker 4 or Maker 3 on Black Friday

Price any Maker deal against the Maker 5. It lists at $349, cuts and engraves material up to 3 mm thick where the Maker 4 stops at 2.4 mm, and takes up 30% less space, by Cricut’s own figures. The Maker 4’s Black Friday price on cricut.com in 2025 was the same $349, so a Maker 4 deal is worth it only well below the newer machine’s everyday price.

Cricut no longer sells the Maker 3 new: its old product page now leads to the Maker 4, and cricut.com offers it only as a certified refurbished machine, at $269 but out of stock on 3 November. Its Black Friday price on cricut.com in 2024 was $349, from $429.

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Explore 5, Explore 4 or Explore Air 2

The Explore 5 lists at $199, the price the Explore 4 sold for on Black Friday 2025 (list $249) and the Explore 3 in 2024 (list $319). Cricut sells the Explore 4, Explore 3 and Explore Air 2 only refurbished now, at $199, $179 and $149, all three out of stock on 3 November, and the Explore 4 and Explore 3 product pages lead to the Explore 5. An older Explore at $199 elsewhere only matches the everyday price of the newer machine, which Cricut says is 30% smaller.

Joy 2, Joy Xtra or the original Joy

The Joy Xtra drops reliably: to $129 from $199 on Black Friday in both 2024 and 2025. Its list price is now $179, so $129 again would be $50 off. The Joy 2, which replaced the original Joy, lists at $99, what the old Joy sold for from mid-November 2025.

Choose between them by width, not by the discount. The Joy 2 cuts up to 4.5 in wide and can score fold lines; the Joy Xtra cuts up to 8.5 in wide but has no scoring tool, so cards and boxes are folded by hand.

Venture

Cricut shows the Venture at $499 against a “$999 value”, a figure Cricut says adds up the worth of everything in the box. The Venture sold for $499 for most of November 2025 and dropped to $449 in Black Friday week; $999 minus $449 is the $550 in Cricut’s 2025 headline, “save up to $550 on a Cricut cutting machine”. A Venture deal is a price under $499.

Mug Press, EasyPress and AutoPress

Heat presses got Cricut’s deepest cuts in 2025. On Cyber Monday the Mug Press was $99.99 (list $199.99), the EasyPress 3 was $149.99 in the 12 × 10 in size ($249.99) and $89.99 in 9 × 9 in ($199.99), and the AutoPress was $249 ($999), down from $299 on Black Friday.

The lineup has changed since. On 3 November 2026 the Mug Press listed at $149.99, the EasyPress 3 was sold only refurbished, the EasyPress SE cost $119 (12 × 10 in) or $99 (9 × 9 in), and the AutoPress 2 cost $249.

Cyber Monday

Cricut’s Cyber Monday carries on its Black Friday sale rather than starting a new one. In 2025 “Cyber Monday early access” opened on 30 November, the deals were billed as ending on 1 December and again on 3 December, and machines kept their Black Friday prices throughout. The bigger changes were on heat presses, such as the AutoPress going from $299 to $249.

Some prices outlasted the sale. On 9 December the Maker 4 was still $349 and the Explore 4 $199, while the Joy Xtra had gone back up to $149 and the Venture to $499.

When Cricut’s 2026 sale starts

Cricut had not announced its 2026 dates on 3 November. Its Black Friday page still showed last year’s “deals may be over” message, with a $20 code off a first cutting machine for signing up to its emails; Cricut’s terms say the code cannot be combined with other offers.

This year Black Friday is 27 November and Cyber Monday 30 November. In 2025 the Maker 4, Explore 4 and Joy Xtra reached their sale prices by 23 November, five days before Black Friday, and kept them until 3 December, so waiting for Cyber Monday saved nothing on those machines. Last year’s sale ran like this on cricut.com:

1. 13 to 19 November 2025: up to $80 off a machine, with the Maker 4 at $379, the Explore 4 at $229 and the Joy Xtra at $149.
2. By 23 November: the “Make It Yours” sale, with the Black Friday machine prices.
3. By 26 November: “Black Friday early access”. Free shipping on everything ran until 6 December, and spending $100 or more earned $20 to use from 14 to 20 December.
4. 28 November: Black Friday, and by that night “Black Friday sale extended”.
5. 30 November to 3 December: Cyber Monday early access, Cyber Monday on 1 December, then two more days billed as its end.

Cricut’s Black Friday page →

What Cricut has on sale today →

How to tell a real Cricut deal

Compare with the machine’s own price, not a “value”. Cricut prints a value on bundles and on the Venture: everything in the box at separate prices. A saving measured from it is bigger than the money you keep. Other shops set their own Cricut prices; compare theirs with cricut.com’s for the same model.

Check the generation. The Maker 5, Explore 5 and Joy 2 are the 2026 machines. A Maker 4, Explore 4 or Explore Air 2 on sale is a deal only if it costs clearly less than its replacement does on an ordinary day.

Price a bundle by what you will use. Its materials and tools are worth the stated value only if you would have bought them anyway.

Check what an Access bundle signs you up for. In 2025 the bundles with Cricut Access cost less than the same bundles without it, and Access renews until you cancel it: $9.99 a month or $95.88 a year for the Standard plan on 3 November 2026. You do not need it to upload and cut your own SVG files, including every file on this site. Members do pay 10% less on cricut.com, machines included (up to $50 an item, by Cricut’s terms on 3 November 2026); in the 2025 sale that made the Maker 4 $314.10.

Half-price supplies are not a Black Friday special. Cricut’s materials and accessories were already 50% off on 3 November 2026, the discount it also gave on Black Friday 2025; in 2024 it went up to 75%.

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