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 45 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 air fryers, the best affordable air fryers, and the best air fryers for French fries.
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Beautiful
Air Frying7.7Large Batch Cooking7.6Cooking Speed8.1Measured Capacity5.9 qt (5.6 L)See all our test resultsCrispy Fries75.0%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, theirs come in a wide array of colors. 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 a sleek model that offers good performance at a great price. It holds the spot for the best cheap air fryer in our recommendations for the best budget and cheap air fryers, performing impressively well compared to options at a similar price point. It makes good-quality fried food and finishes cooking pretty quickly. On the downside, it's not very versatile. Higher-end options tend to offer more preset cooking modes and a wider range of temperature and fan speed settings, whereas this one is somewhat limited, with a particularly low maximum fan speed that hinders its performance somewhat.
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Chefman
Air Frying7.8Large Batch Cooking8.0Cooking Speed7.9Measured Capacity8.3 qt (7.9 L)See all our test resultsCrispy Fries61.8%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 of 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 counterspace, and they're all very affordable compared to similar models.
The Chefman Crispinator 8 Qt. is the best model we've tested from the brand, and it claims the spot for the best budget air fryer on our list of the best 8-quart models. 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 recipe. It offers impressive performance, especially for the price. It preheats and cooks quickly, resulting in a batch of fries or wings that is pretty evenly cooked and mostly crispy. What really makes it stand out, however, is its versatility. With a wide range of temperature settings and fan speeds, it's a great choice for baking, roasting, and dehydrating. Plus, its digital display includes a mute button and shows the current fan speed, which isn't a common feature.
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COSORI
Air Frying8.0Large Batch Cooking7.8Cooking Speed8.0Measured Capacity6.3 qt (6.0 L)See all our test resultsCrispy Fries81.2%COSORI is one of a few brands owned by the Chinese parent company VeSync. Along with 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 an impressive medium-sized air fryer that features on our list of the best small air fryers. This model produces good-quality air-fried food and has a larger cooking surface area than other options with the same capacity. 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 and maintains a less stable temperature throughout than similar models, making it more difficult to follow recipes accurately.
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Dreo
Air Frying7.8Large Batch Cooking7.7Cooking Speed8.4Measured Capacity6.4 qt (6.1 L)See all our test resultsCrispy Fries67.7%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 technological innovation. 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 only produces one air fryer, the Dreo ChefMaker, a popular model with a spot on our list of the best 6-quart air fryers. Like many Dreo products, it includes some unique features, the main one being 'Chef Mode,' which is meant to make cooking cuts of 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. Compared to other models, it performs well, making good-quality fried food very quickly. However, it only offers 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 Frying8.2Large Batch Cooking8.5Cooking Speed8.8Measured Capacity10.1 qt (9.6 L)See all our test resultsCrispy Fries84.4%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 Foodi DZ550 is our choice for the best air fryer. It has a big cooking surface area and produces great-quality air-fried food. Your 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, you can use the 'Smart Finish' setting when making different recipes in each basket to 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 Frying7.5Large Batch Cooking8.2Cooking Speed6.7Measured Capacity5.7 qt (5.4 L)See all our test resultsCrispy Fries79.3%Typhur, like Dreo, is a technology-focused brand with a limited 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-connected 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 5.7-quart air fryer that features on our list of the best air fryers for French fries. Its wide design provides enough space for a full 12-inch pizza, and Typhur says its dual heating elements make this air fryer 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 good-quality fried food with a 250 g batch of fries. Even with a double batch, its performance only suffered slightly, making it a good choice if you need to cook large quantities. 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, this isn't the fastest model; it preheats very slowly, but cooks a bit quicker.
Recent Updates
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.
Jan 13, 2026:
We've removed the brand BELLA from our picks due to product availability and made small edits for clarity.
Dec 09, 2025:
We've checked to ensure our picks remain the best options for most people and made small edits for clarity.