Same name. Four different phones.
Buy an iPhone 18 Pro or Pro Max in 8 different markets and you get four physically different devices. Two of them cannot take a SIM card at all, only one receives mmWave 5G — and the same phone costs hundreds of dollars more in some markets than in others.
Compare two markets, prices includedWe sample 8 markets only — United States, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, United Kingdom, Germany. Other countries Apple sells in are not covered here.
Where should you buy it?
The cheapest market is the United States at USD 1,199 for 256GB, against EUR 1,449 in Germany, and it is the only market that receives mmWave 5G. What it costs you is the SIM tray: the US model is eSIM only, and so is Japan's. The other six markets still take a physical nano-SIM. If you travel and buy local SIM cards, that is the trade. Compare the prices with care: tax treatment differs from market to market.
What actually differs
Select a finding to see which markets it applies to.
All 8 markets
Storage tiers and colours are identical everywhere: 256GB / 512GB / 1TB / 2TB, in Black, Burgundy, Glacier and Silver. Everything that differs is below.
Converted at rates from exchangerate-api.com (12 Sep 2026). Tax treatment differs by market — see the label under each price — so a converted figure is an indication, not a like-for-like comparison.
China
CH/AHong Kong
ZA/ATaiwan
ZP/AJapan
J/AAustralia
X/AUnited Kingdom
QN/AGermany
ZD/ACompare two markets
Where this comes from
apple.com/<market>/iphone-18-pro/specs/apple.com/<market>/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-18-proLast updated 2026-09-12