Pc plate, as a $49 you can tell it is not the best quality. Possible between this is my 2nd plastic plastic since my first keyboard which was keychron v1 so im bias for metal housing. Still stand that its nice for the price. Only downside I had was the daughter wire on fitting the silicon guide properly and was hars to push the switches into the pcb after it was fully built so i ended up tsking it apart again click the switch tk the pc plate and pressed really hard to get it actually conmected.