Ducky Cushion 98: Specs, Price, Pros & Cons

The Cushion 98 is the keyboard Ducky built to be quiet, and the two things that make it so are both new. The Nest Mount is Ducky's replacement for a gasket: a dedicated cushioning layer under the plate that absorbs and spreads keystroke force across the whole board, and the aluminium top case opens tool-free with a quick latch so you can swap between the two included cushioning layers of different softness. The Shush switches, in silent linear or silent tactile form, sit in hot-swap sockets on an aluminium plate, under Cherry-profile double-shot PBT keycaps.

The layout is what Ducky calls 100 keys in an 80 percent footprint, a 96-percent-class board with a full numpad in 386 x 147 mm, 41.7 mm tall, at 1,216 g. Connection is tri-mode: USB-C wired at Ducky's stated 1,000 Hz report rate, 2.4 GHz through the included dongle, and Bluetooth with up to four paired hosts selected from the Fn row. Rollover is NKRO wired and 6KRO wireless. The advertised 2 kHz figure is the internal matrix scan rate, not the polling rate, and the sheet records the polling figure. The 4,200 mAh battery is rated for up to 63 hours with the RGB off.

Configuration runs through DuckyHub in a Chromium browser or through VIA, with three onboard profiles, Fn-layer media keys and three typing angles from the feet. There is no rotary knob, no USB passthrough and no magnetic sensing, so adjustable actuation, rapid trigger and analog input are all absent by design.

What Ducky does not publish is an actuation force or any latency figure, and its own store shows no price, so those rows are empty; the authorised US retailer prices every colour and switch combination the same. The Amazon listing's Silent Green switch is not a name Ducky uses on its own pages. Colours are Nickel and Silver. It is the full-layout board for an office or a shared room where sound is the constraint and a numpad is not negotiable.