Sundr-company/durability-scores

Sundr Durability Scores

Durability scores and real-world repair fix rates for 800+ consumer devices across 96 brands and 19 categories. Fix rates are aggregated from 305,000+ community repair records collected by the Open Repair Alliance.

Canonical home: https://sundr.ca/data

What the data shows

• Nokia phones are 10.5 years old, on average, when someone tries to repair one. Apple phones average 4.1 years, Samsung 4.5.
• Philips hair dryers get fixed 82% of the time; Dyson 47%. Philips dryers also average 10.8 years old at repair vs 4.5 for Dyson.
• Apple is the most fixable phone brand: 60% of repair attempts succeed, vs 46% for Samsung.
• Tablets are among the hardest devices to fix: repair attempts succeed only 43-47% of the time.

Files

File	Rows	What it is
durability-scores-v1-curated.csv	206	Reviewed cut: every durability score manually reviewed, every row backed by an Open Repair Alliance fix rate. Start here.
durability-scores-v1.csv	817	Full file, including auto-discovered models whose scores are estimates pending review.

Schema

Column	Type	Description
brand	string	Manufacturer name as sold
model_name	string	Model name as sold
product_type	string	Marketing device type (e.g. Smartphone, Vacuum)
category_slug	string	Canonical flat category slug
durability_score	int 1-5	Sundr editorial durability rating, 5 is best
ifixit_repairability_score	int 1-10, nullable	iFixit repairability score where one exists; higher = easier to repair
fix_rate	float 0-100, nullable	Percent of repair attempts that succeeded (Open Repair Alliance, brand+category level)
fix_rate_sample_size	int, nullable	ORDS records backing fix_rate
top_failure	string, nullable	Most common failure category for the brand+category
why_durable	string, nullable	Editorial note, populated for curated picks

Provenance and licensing

• fix_rate, fix_rate_sample_size, and top_failure are derived from the Open Repair Alliance dataset, © the contributing repair organisations, used and re-shared under CC-BY-SA 4.0.
• ifixit_repairability_score reproduces individual factual scores published by iFixit, with attribution. Not an endorsement by iFixit.
• Durability scores and editorial notes are Sundr's own work.

This dataset is CC-BY-SA 4.0. Suggested attribution:

Durability scores and fix rates from Sundr (https://sundr.ca/data), licensed CC-BY-SA 4.0. Fix rates derived from the Open Repair Alliance ORDS dataset.

Updates

Versioned releases; v1 published 2026-04, curated cut added 2026-08. New versions land at https://sundr.ca/data first.