The 12 Best Tablets With a Keyboard: 2026 Edition

Which tablets are the best with a keyboard? Nearly every premium tablet from iPads, Android slabs and even Windows tablets have optional keyboard covers, and it’s easy to see why. With a good keyboard cover, you can transform your entertainment device into a full notebook, especially since many of them have an inbuilt trackpad as well. 

We at MyNextTablet have been independently testing and reviewing nearly every tablet released in the US since 2008. So no company can buy a good rating from us. With that being said, let’s get into what we think are the best choices if you want a tablet with a keyboard.

Best Tablets With a Keyboard: Overview

Here are our top recommendations, ranked by how well we think they perform as a notebook alternative with a keyboard cover. 

• Best notebook replacement and Windows Tablet: Microsoft Surface Pro 11 and Pro 12’’ (on Amazon*). The Microsoft Surface tablets bring full Windows support and great keyboards, making them one of the best laptop alternatives. 
• Best iPads with a keyboard: Apple iPad Pro 11’’ and iPad Pro 13’’ (on Amazon*). These aren’t just some of the best tablets money can buy, the Magic Keyboard is also excellent.
• Best iPad Pro alternative: Apple iPad Air 11’’ and iPad Air 13’’ (on Amazon*). The iPad Air 11’’ and 13’’ do the same job as the Pro at a more reasonable price.
• Best Android tablet with a keyboard: OnePlus Pad 3 (on Amazon*). The OnePlus Pad 3 has a great keyboard cover and is one of the best value Android tablets.
• Best massive, midrange Android keyboard tablet: Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 FE+ (on Amazon*). Go all in on size with the 13.1’’ display and full sized keyboard for a midrange price. It also comes with a stylus included.
• Affordable and powerful Galaxy Tab S10 FE alternatives: Lenovo Yoga Tab and Yoga Tab Plus (on Amazon*).  The Yoga Tabs have great performance, a solid desktop mode and a very affordable high-quality keyboard.
• Best budget Android tablets with a keyboard: Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 FE & S10 Lite (on Amazon*). These are the cheapest entry point for Samsung’s excellent pen and keyboard tablets, and we think they offer great value.

Best Tablets With a Keyboard: Detailed Breakdown

Now we’ll take a more detailed look at the specific strengths and weaknesses of each tablet. Links to a full review and YouTube are also attached.

Best Notebook Replacement and Windows Tablet: Microsoft Surface Pro 11 and Pro 12’’

Microsoft’s Surface lineup of Windows tablets are nearly unbeatable for doing actual work. These tablets come with Windows 11, which is both their greatest strength and biggest weakness.

The Surface Pro 11 is the larger, more pricey 13’’ Microsoft tablet while the Pro 12’’ has a 12’’ display, as the name suggests, and a lower price. However, if you factor in the keyboard cover and Surface Pen, you’re looking at paying around $1,000 for either of these tablets. That’s a lot to spend and hard to justify, considering that these tablets don’t offer the most high-end specs compared to something like an iPad Pro. 

Windows 11 is pretty clumsy when using touch controls, so you’ll be spending most of your time with this tablet using the keyboard cover with the trackpad. So it’s relieving that the keyboards are high quality and include an accurate and responsive trackpad. 

These tablets both come with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Plus chipset, which is an 8-core ARM chip. The advantage of this chipset over a standard Intel or AMD chip is power efficiency, but they lack x86 support for native Windows apps. Although software support has gotten much better since their release, many apps like most of Adobe’s suite still aren’t supported. Microsoft Office does run natively, though. 

The larger Surface Pro 11 can also be configured with a Snapdragon X Elite chip if you want to maximise performance, and even an OLED display variant is available for a little more. If you stick with the base models, both tablets have nice and sharp LCD displays. The speakers are some of the best on the Pro 11, but the Pro 12’’s are just average. So choose carefully between the two.

We can really recommend these tablets, especially the Surface Pro 11. Both of them are fully functional laptops, which make them much more appealing for working on the go than an iPad or Android tablet. But you’re paying a real premium just to be able to use Windows. 

Best iPads With a Keyboard: Apple iPad Pro 11’’ and iPad Pro 13’’ 

Second place goes to Apple’s iPad Pro 11’’ and 13’’, respectively. These aren’t just the best tablets overall, we think they are among the best keyboard tablets too.

There are 2 reasons why the iPads don’t beat the Microsoft Surface at being keyboard tablets. The first is that iPadOS 26, despite hugely improved multitasking features and even new MacOS apps like Preview, still isn’t a full desktop operating system. Windows actually lets you install software from any source you’d like, and of course file management and window management are far more advanced. 

The second reason is regarding Apple’s Magic Keyboard. It has a “floating” design, so the tablet levitates a bit above the keyboard. This design has significant weaknesses despite the cool visuals. It doesn’t allow you to adjust the tablet beyond a ~45 degree angle, and also pushes the tablet’s center of balance all the way to the back of the keyboard. That means you’ll have to constantly hold the keyboard in place when using it in your lap. This makes the iPad pretty hard to work with when commuting or taking a plane. Apple’s Magic keyboard is also very heavy, half defeating the point of having a tablet. 

It’s conflicting though. The backlit keys on this keyboard have good travel distance, don’t feel sticky and have good, tactile feedback. And you also have the haptic trackpad, which beats any Android tablet keyboard trackpad by a long shot. The iPad can even charge through the USB-C port on the keyboard cover.

Everything else about the iPad Pro is also excellent. The M5 chipset is the fastest tablet chip we’ve ever tested, the tandem OLED display gets insanely bright and battery life is still solid despite all that. The speakers are super well-tuned, the build is premium. There’s really nothing else to complain about.

That’s besides the price, of course. You can easily spend more than $2000 by getting a 13’’ iPad Pro, a Magic Keyboard and an Apple Pencil Pro. That’s a lot of money you could be saving by going with a cheaper tablet, which you should consider if you already have a high-performing laptop.

Best iPad Pro Alternative: Apple iPad Air 11’’ and iPad Air 13’’

The iPad Pros are great, sure, but the pricing is just insane. If you’d like to save some money, but still want to stay in the Apple ecosystem, the Apple iPad Air 11’’ and iPad Air 13’’ are the next best choice.

The iPad Air has an almost identical Magic keyboard as the iPad Pro. So the typing feeling is just as good. The trackpad sadly doesn’t have haptic feedback like the iPad Pro keyboards. Naturally, the iPad Pro’s keyboard weaknesses also apply. The viewing angle adjustment is limited, and it’s basically impossible to type with the iPad Air on your lap because of the center of weight being in the back.

There are considerable compromises that come with the iPad Air itself. The screen is an LCD panel instead of OLED, so the contrast and black levels are worse than the Pro, and it also means worse battery life in general. The refresh rate is only 60 Hz instead of 120, meaning animations will feel laggier. There’s less RAM and storage, and the performance is a little bit slower too.

In our view, the iPad Pro brings a lot more to the table compared to the Air. And if you factor in the price for the keyboard and an Apple Pencil Pro, the iPad Pro almost looks like a better bundle deal. But the iPad Air is the cheapest entry to Apple’s iPadOS 26 desktop features since the base iPad 11’’ doesn’t have them, so it’s still worth getting.

Best Android Tablet With a Keyboard: OnePlus Pad 3

Now we get to one of our best-performing Android tablets and 4th place for the best tablet with a keyboard: The OnePlus Pad 3. We all agree here at MyNextTablet that it currently offers the best price-performance of any tablet, and that also extends to its use as a keyboard tablet, with a couple caveats. 

So first of all, the OnePlus Pad 3 comes with the blazingly fast Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, 12GB of RAM by default and 256GB of storage space. The display is also absolutely massive at 13.2’’. And it’s packing all of that hardware for $580 and often less. The display isn’t an OLED, but it’s really sharp, has 144HZ refresh rate and still looks great in Netflix or YouTube. 

The keyboard cover for it is much cheaper than the ones from Apple or Microsoft, but it feels just as good to type on, and it has a decent trackpad. The built-in kickstand lets you adjust the angle to anything you’d like, and the back cover can be removed and used separately. 

We do have a couple complaints about this keyboard cover though. The trackpad sensitivity can’t be adjusted, and we find the default just a bit too fast. And maybe more importantly, the back cover comes off too easily, so you really have to be careful when handling the tablet lest it slips out of the cover when you’re trying to adjust the viewing angle.

Also, OnePlus doesn’t offer an official desktop mode like Apple or Samsung if that’s important to you. Despite those weaknesses, the OnePlus Pad 3 is still our favourite Android keyboard tablet. The price to performance is practically unbeatable. 

Best Massive, Midrange Android Keyboard Tablet: Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 FE+

If you’re looking for a full sized keyboard and a screen that beats all but the most premium laptops, look no further than the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10FE+, which ranks at 5th place. This tablet has a huge 13.1’’ display, and even better is that it has a 16:10 aspect ratio like most laptops. That makes it great for watching videos or movies.

Samsung’s official keyboard cover for the S10FE+ is pricey, so you might want to look at used options or wait for a sale, but the typing feeling, the trackpad and the design are all premium. It also doesn’t weigh a ton. The back of the keyboard cover separates entirely and contains an integrated kickstand, so you can use it even with the keyboard detached. The physical keyboard connects to the tablet’s bottom via pogo-pins and sits securely. 

Samsung also sells the Book Cover Keyboard Slim for all of their S series tablets. It’s cheaper and lighter than the Book Cover, but there’s no integrated trackpad. It’s a fine choice if you only need to occasionally write an Email. 

For office work, having the big screen and full size keyboard makes the Galaxy Tab a perfect laptop replacement. Samsung’s DeX desktop mode also lets you manage tabs and windows like a proper desktop OS. It’s a shame that there’s no video output via the USB port for external monitors, though.

The S10 FE+ is also a good pick If you want to take handwritten notes or brainstorm using a whiteboard. The S-Pen is included like with all Samsung S-series tablets, and Samsung Notes is preinstalled. The stylus definitely feels better to use than OnePlus’ option, so get the Galaxy Tab is that’s important to you.

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Affordable and Powerful Galaxy Tab S10 FE+ Alternatives: Lenovo Yoga Tab and Yoga Tab Plus

Sitting right behind the Galaxy Tab S10 FE+ in 6th place are the Lenovo Yoga Tab and Yoga Tab Plus. These are Lenovo’s flagship tablets, and they perform much better than the Galaxy Tab S10 FE+.

The Yoga Tab is an 11.1’’ tablet while the Yoga Tab Plus is 12.7’’. That’s the biggest difference between them. Both of these tablets pack the fast Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor. So they’re slower than the OnePlus Pad 3 in absolute terms, but you’ll never notice it unless you’re editing videos on the tablet. These tablets are good if you need a bit more power for your work. 

Both Yoga Tabs can be purchased with the keyboard in a combo, but the keyboards are also super affordable by themselves. And despite the lower price, the keyboards feel great to type on. The integrated trackpads are also good, and it’s great to use with Lenovo’s Android desktop mode. These tablets also have USB 3.1 ports with display output, so you can connect an external monitor to them.

These tablets have bright, 144HZ LCD display panels and incredible speakers to go with it. So they’re good for entertainment too. And the cameras are above average and perfect for videocalls.

There is one considerable downside that makes us hesitant to recommend the Yoga Pads over other Android tablets. And that’s software support. Lenovo will only provide 4 years of security patches for the tablets, which is far off from Samsung or Apple who bring 7 years of support. Even OnePlus is better in this regard. Get something else if you want to get the longest lifespan possible out of your tablet.

Best Budget Android Tablets With a Keyboard: Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 FE & S10 Lite

Last but not least are Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S10FE and S10 Lite. These tablets have a 10.9’’ display and cost a fraction of the others on this list. They are our secret picks for the perfectly priced keyboard tablet.

There are some minor differences between the S10 FE and the S10 Lite. The S10 FE is IP 68 water and dust resistant, it’s a little bit faster and has a fingerprint reader on the power button. Whether that’s worth the extra price is for you to decide. Both tablets will get a full 7 years of Android updates. 

These two tablets are functionally identical to the Galaxy Tab S10FE+. The Book Cover Keyboard is the same, just smaller, so it also feels great to type on. Samsung DeX is supported, but there’s no external display support. Of course the Samsung S-Pen is included as well. 

Of course you can go for the Book Cover Keyboard Slim to save some money, but that won’t have an integrated trackpad.

Honestly, we think that either of these tablets will do the job for 95% of people. They are fast enough for browsing and taking notes, the keyboard isn’t any worse than more expensive ones, and even the display, speakers and build quality are premium. Yes, they don’t have an OLED screen and can’t run games at the highest settings, but those aren’t things that you need for work. We can really, really recommend them if all you need is a portable tablet that does it’s job.