AULA F75 Pro: problems, parts and running costs

Checked: 2026-10-05

Summary

The most consistent complaint is the proprietary driver: owners and independent testing both describe software that will not always detect the board, confusing model downloads and thin customization next to QMK/VIA. Behind that sits a minority of quality-control failures — keys that stop registering, double letters, misfires and one report of dead LEDs — on a plastic case that flexes, plus battery life that falls to about 17.5 hours whenever the lighting is on. Running costs are electricity for charging and nothing else, because there are no consumables, and the board is a good buy in the $65–75 band, where a gasket mount, PBT caps, hot-swap sockets and a 4000mAh battery are hard to find for less.

Common problems and fixes

The driver will not detect the board, or the model list is confusing — the single most repeated complaint, in independent testing and in several owner threads: software that fails to recognise the F75 Pro, confusing model downloads, a rough interface and limited customization against QMK/VIA. Basic keyboard functions work without it. The one-year warranty is stated by the AULAGAMING official store for its own orders only, so software problems fall outside it and other sellers set their own terms. [1][2][3]
Keys stop registering, double letters or misfires — a smaller but real cluster: one exact-Pro unit arrived nonfunctional and unrecognized by the software, a reviewer reported double letters, spacebar trouble and switch and keycap misfires, and aggregated review analysis reports a minority of keys ceasing to register. Nobody has published a failure rate, so treat this as a reason to buy from a seller with easy returns rather than as a defect rate; hot-swap sockets mean a single bad switch is a solder-free swap. [1][3][4]
Two RGB LEDs stopped lighting after a few months — one isolated owner report in the same threads, with no cluster behind it. Nothing to fix short of a warranty replacement, and it is not a lighting-capability limit: the board has south-facing LEDs, 16 onboard effects and 10 music-rhythm effects through the driver. [3]
Battery life collapses when the lighting is on — published figures are about 17.5 hours with default RGB against 266.5 hours with lights off, and the draw tells the same story at roughly 230mA lit versus 15mA unlit. Those are vendor and retailer numbers, not an independent endurance test. Lower or switch off the lighting, or keep the board on the cable. [1][5][6]
The very light linear causes accidental presses — the Reaper is about 45±3gf actuation over 1.8±0.3mm of travel, and some owners and reviewers report misfires. This is a preference rather than a defect, so no warranty covers it; heavier linears are the workaround, and the hot-swap sockets take standard MX 3-pin and 5-pin switches. [1][4][6]
Plastic case and deck flex — independently confirmed on the F99/F75 platform, which RTINGS states uses identical internals in F75 Pro variants: the plastic case and deck flex under pressure, and the build is called merely decent rather than premium. Nobody reports it breaking, and flex is not a warranty item; it is light for its size at about 975g bare and 1023g with cable and receiver. [1][7]
Documentation and box contents disagree — AULA’s own pages conflict on 80 versus 81 keys, Reaper total travel is listed as both 3.5mm and 3.6±0.3mm, and some retailer packing lists omit the dust cover that the official package includes. Check the key count and the box contents on delivery, and confirm the switch and keycap variant, because base F75, Pro, Max and HE are different boards. [5][6][8]

Parts and consumables

LEOBOG Reaper switches — pre-lubed linears in this variant, and the 3-pin and 5-pin sockets take standard MX switches, so a dead switch is replaced without soldering. Two spare switches ship in the box. The research contains no price for loose replacements and no owner reports describing replacing them, so there is no replacement cost or interval to quote. [3][6]
Keycaps — side-printed PBT on this listing, and keycaps are standard replaceable parts. No keycap set price appears in the research, and side-printed legends vary between revisions, so a replacement set is not interchangeable with every F75 family board. [5][7]
Internal battery — 4000mAh, nominal 3.7V. It is not advertised as a user-service part and no US spare-battery or parts catalog was found, so treat its eventual failure as a replacement event for the keyboard rather than a serviceable component. [1][5]
USB-C cable — commonly listed as 1.8m. A cable failure means buying a standard USB-C cable, not a proprietary part, but no cable price appears in the research. [6][7]
Keycap and switch puller, dust cover — the puller is combined in the box and the dust cover is part of the official package, though some retailer packing lists omit the dust cover; the research lists no separate price for either. [5][8]

Yearly running cost

There is nothing to consume: no filters, pads, liners or proprietary fluids, and no scheduled replacement parts. The only running cost is electricity for charging. The cell is 4000mAh at a nominal 3.7V and charges at 5V/700mA on one detailed listing, and it is quoted at about 17.5 hours with default lighting or 266.5 hours with lighting off, so an owner who leaves the RGB on charges it several times a week while an owner who turns the lighting off charges it rarely. Compute it as the kWh per charge (3.7V × 4Ah) times the number of charges a year times your local rate per kWh; no electricity rate appears in the research, so there is no dollar total to publish. The one real long-term cost is battery aging, and because the cell is not user-serviceable and no spare-battery catalog exists, that cost lands as replacing the keyboard rather than buying a part. [1][5][6]

When it is a good buy

$65 or below, as at Best Buy in October 2026: excellent value. Very hard to match a gasket mount, five-layer damping, PBT caps, hot-swap sockets, a knob and a 4000mAh battery at this money. [7]
$66–75: very good value and the normal buy zone. The AULAGAMING manufacturer storefront sat at about $69.90 against a $99.90 list in October 2026, right inside it. [5]
$76–85: good, but compare alternatives first. The AULA US distributor storefront was $76.49, down from $82.89, in October 2026, and the advantage narrows through this band. [8]
Above $90: weak value unless a particular color or switch matters. At that money the plastic build and rough driver are easier to justify elsewhere. [5]

Alternatives:

Keychron V1 Max — around $100–115, and the better choice when open remapping, layers and macros matter, because it adds mature QMK/VIA programmability that AULA’s driver cannot match. [9]
Royal Kludge M75 — around $110 from the RK store, and the better choice in the same 75% wireless class if you want an OLED on the board. [10]

Owners with months of stock-Reaper use report the sound and feel as the reason they keep it, and the compromises that come with the saving are plastic construction, rough software and inconsistent documentation and quality control, not a shorter feature list. [1][3]