If you're looking for the best air fryer brands, you'll want options with models that produce evenly crispy, golden-brown food quickly and reliably. The best air fryers make evenly cooked food without drying out or burning a large proportion of it. If you want to use your air fryer for other cooking methods, like baking and dehydrating, getting a model with a range of settings and fan speeds is also worth considering. Beyond these considerations, however, the best brand for you also depends on your desired capacity, features, and price.
We've tested more than 50 air fryers, and below is an overview of the best air fryer brands. We haven't ordered these picks by performance; instead, they're listed alphabetically, so you can pick the one that best matches your needs. If you want more to consider, you can also see our picks for the best 4-quart air fryers, the best large-capacity air fryers, and the best air fryers for French fries.
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Beautiful
Air Frying7.0French Fries7.3Chicken Wings7.1Cooking Speed7.7Cooking Versatility7.6See all our test resultsMeasured Capacity5.9 qt (5.6 L)Beautiful, also known as Beautiful by Drew Barrymore, is a collaboration by the actress and 'Made by Gather.' The brand mainly produces kitchenware products, including blenders, toasters, and cookware sets, but their lineup also includes home goods, like furniture and decor. Regardless of the category, Beautiful's products stand out for their design. Unlike most kitchen appliances, Beautiful products are available in a wide array of colors to better match your home decor. Their small lineup of air fryers ranges from 3- to 9-quart models, and while they may not always be the fastest or most versatile on the market, they offer reasonable performance overall and produce decent-quality fried food at a budget-friendly price. The brand's products are available exclusively at Walmart.
The Beautiful 6qt Digital is the best air fryer we've tested from the brand, and it performs well compared to similar-priced options. It makes good-quality fried food and finishes cooking pretty quickly. On the downside, it cooks fresh veggies and proteins more slowly and less evenly. It's also not very versatile. Unlike higher-end options that typically offer more preset cooking modes and a wider range of temperature and fan speed settings, this unit is somewhat limited, with a particularly low maximum fan speed that hinders its performance.
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Chefman
Air Frying7.3French Fries7.6Chicken Wings7.5Cooking Speed7.9Cooking Versatility9.6See all our test resultsMeasured Capacity8.3 qt (7.9 L)Chefman is an affordable kitchen brand that makes a wide variety of small kitchen appliances, including ice machines, pizza ovens, waffle makers, and air fryers. Their air fryers come in a range of designs, including single- and dual-basket models and oven-style air fryers with multiple racks. This variety in overall design also means their air fryers tend to perform very differently, with some excelling at cooking speed and others offering fantastic versatility. That said, they typically offer good performance for large-batch cooking without taking up a ton of counter space, and they're all very affordable compared to similar models.
The Chefman Crispinator 8 Qt. is the best Chefman air fryer we've tested. It's a fairly simple single-basket air fryer, but it has a window in its basket and a light in the cooking chamber, so you can keep an eye on your food as it cooks. It cooks quickly and leaves fried foods, like frozen onion rings or spring rolls, and fresh foods, like raw wings or Brussels sprouts, mostly crispy and well-browned, though some in each batch remain undercooked or burn early, too. What really makes it stand out, however, is its versatility. It's a great choice for baking, roasting, and dehydrating, thanks to its wide range of temperature settings and fan speeds. Plus, its digital display includes a mute button for status beeps and shows the current fan speed, both of which aren't common features.
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COSORI
Air Frying8.2French Fries7.8Chicken Wings7.9Cooking Speed7.7Cooking Versatility9.7See all our test resultsMeasured Capacity6.3 qt (6.0 L)COSORI is one of a few brands owned by the Chinese parent company VeSync. In addition to air fryers, they produce a variety of small appliances, including multi-cookers, food dehydrators, and kettles. Their products generally have a sleek, modern look, and some models also offer app connectivity, so you can look up recipes and monitor your food as it cooks. Most COSORI air fryers have square baskets, which provide more surface area for arranging food in a single layer than round baskets. They feature digital controls that enable more precise adjustments, and most models have a slanted control panel, making it easy to read when standing above the appliance on your counter.
The COSORI TurboBlaze is our top pick from the brand. This model has more surface area for cooking than other options with the same capacity, which helps it cook evenly, whether you're making frozen fries, fresh wings, or a steak. Unlike most manufacturers, COSORI provides the fan speed for each setting in the manual. This is helpful if you want to use your air fryer for alternate cooking methods, since you can set it to a medium fan speed for baking and a lower speed for dehydrating. However, while it cooks quickly, it preheats somewhat slowly, which isn't ideal if you're looking to feed a crowd in a hurry. It also maintains a less stable temperature throughout than similar models, making it more difficult to follow recipes accurately.
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Dreo
Air Frying7.8Cooking Speed8.4Cooking Versatility7.3See all our test resultsMeasured Capacity6.4 qt (6.1 L)Dreo is an American-based brand with a parent company based in China. Interestingly, they primarily make air-treatment products, like air conditioners, humidifiers, and dehumidifiers. However, they also have a small line of kitchen products, including a water filter, a milk frother, and an air fryer. Their products have a focus on adding eye-catching convenience features. Many feature app control and smart home integration, as well as product-specific smart features, like real-time water quality monitoring in a water purifier.
The brand produces only one air fryer: the Dreo ChefMaker. Like many Dreo products, it offers unique features, one of which is meant to make cooking meat easier. Once you pick a recipe, it provides preparation instructions, then uses the built-in misting feature and thermometer to track and fine-tune the cooking process. It also offers app connectivity, allowing you to send recipe information directly to the air fryer. This air fryer cooks very quickly and leaves fried food, like chicken nuggets or mozzarella sticks, quite crispy, with just a small portion remaining undercooked. However, it offers only decent versatility, mainly due to its limited fan-speed range, so it's not the best choice for dehydrating, proofing dough, or baking.
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Ninja
Air Frying8.2Cooking Speed8.3Cooking Versatility8.6See all our test resultsMeasured Capacity10.1 qt (9.6 L)Ninja is a popular U.S.-based manufacturer of a wide range of small kitchen appliances, including blenders and air fryers. This brand is a good starting point if you're looking for a mid-range option. They make air fryers in various shapes and sizes, but Ninja's lineup of dual-basket models really shines. They allow you to use a single basket for smaller snacks or both baskets to cook different foods with separate settings. The brand's air fryers, whether single- or dual-basket, tend to feature fairly shallow, square baskets that maximize usable capacity, giving you more space to spread food out in a single layer, which improves airflow and helps produce crispier results. Most models also offer a few presets that vary the fan speed for alternate cooking methods, such as dehydrating.
The 10-quart Ninja DualZone Pro DZ950 is our top pick from the brand. It was released in 2026 and shares many features with Ninja's older dual-basket models. It has a large cooking surface area and cooks fried food very evenly. Your frozen fried snacks and meals come out mostly evenly browned and crispy, with just a small proportion under- or overcooked. Like other dual-basket Ninja air fryers, it includes a setting that lets you make different recipes in each basket and have them finish cooking simultaneously. This high-end model also features a built-in thermometer, allowing the air fryer to cook meat to a specific temperature.
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Typhur
Air Frying8.1French Fries7.7Chicken Wings8.1Cooking Speed7.7Cooking Versatility8.2See all our test resultsMeasured Capacity5.7 qt (5.4 L)Typhur, like Dreo, is a technology-focused brand with a small lineup. They make a few different types of products, including countertop appliances like a sous vide station and countertop oven, as well as a line of precise, Wi-Fi-enabled meat thermometers. Each of their products utilizes technology to simplify the cooking process, featuring app support, real-time temperature monitoring, and built-in wireless thermometers.
The Typhur Dome 2 is a high-end 5.7-quart air fryer, and it's the best option we've tested from Typhur. It provides enough space for a full 12-inch pizza, and the manufacturer says its dual heating elements make it a particularly good choice for this use, as the bottom burner ensures the crust comes out crispy. It performed well in our tests, producing very evenly cooked, crispy food, whether you're making a quick batch of frozen fries, a plate of brined chicken wings, or a few portions of roasted broccoli. It's pretty versatile as well, offering 10 distinct cooking modes and a self-cleaning cycle that uses high heat to burn off grease. On the downside, it preheats very slowly, but once it gets up to temperature, it cooks very quickly.
Recent Updates
Oct 22, 2026:
We've replaced the Ninja Foodi DZ550 with the Ninja DualZone Pro DZ950 as our top air fryer from the brand. We also updated the text of this article to align with Test Bench 1.1.
Jun 03, 2026:
We've ensured all main picks are available and represent the best option for user needs. We've also made slight changes to the text of this article to explain the real-world impact of the designs and performance of our picks.
Apr 22, 2026:
We added Chefman to our list since their products tend to offer very good performance for the price.
Mar 17, 2026:
We reviewed our picks to ensure they're still available and remain the best choices for most people.
Feb 18, 2026:
We removed the listing for Gourmia, since the Gourmia GAF798 has been discontinued, and made minor text edits for clarity and concision.