The Ninja Crispi Pro AS101 is a 5.9-quart air fryer with enough capacity to cook for about three people at a time. It features a unique design with swappable glass cooking chambers that double as storage containers. This system lets you keep an eye on your recipe without letting heat escape, and gives you fewer dishes to clean once your food is ready. It has six preset cooking modes, including Bake, Dehydrate, and MaxCrisp, which you can access using a simple interface located on top of the unit.
Our Verdict
The Ninja Crispi Pro makes crispy, evenly cooked French fries. Although it doesn't have a ton of surface area in its basket, there's enough space to spread out a portion of frozen fries, which come out quickly and evenly crisped, with only a small portion mushy or burnt. Fresh-cut fries don't crisp up quite as quickly or evenly, but you still get well-browned results, without any completely pale pieces. It's also a compact option, which is handy if you want an air fryer mainly for snacks and sides like French fries.
Evenly crisps frozen fried foods.
Evenly browns fresh vegetables and proteins.
Cooks small fried foods quickly.
Cooks thicker, moist foods within a decent timeframe.
Doesn't brown moist foods completely uniformly.
The Ninja Crispi Pro is a good option for wings. Fresh wings finish cooking decently fast and come out crispy across the batch, though not perfectly uniformly. That said, they come out a bit dry, since a fair amount of fat renders throughout the cooking process. Frozen, precooked wings come out even crispier and more evenly cooked; only one or two pieces don't crisp up enough or burn early. They also cook very quickly, which is welcome when you need a quick appetizer or dinner. The biggest downside of this air fryer for wings is its cooking capacity. While it offers a decent capacity, there's not a ton of surface area in the basket, so you can't cook too many wings at once without overlapping them, which restricts airflow and prevents them from crisping up properly.
Evenly crisps frozen fried foods.
Evenly browns fresh vegetables and proteins.
Cooks small fried foods quickly.
Cooks thicker, moist foods within a decent timeframe.
Doesn't brown moist foods completely uniformly.
Proteins lose too much fat during cooking, drying them out.
The Ninja Crispi Pro delivers great air frying performance. You get the best results with frozen fried foods, like onion rings, spring rolls, and chicken nuggets. They cook evenly, so each batch comes out mostly golden brown and crispy, with just a few undercooked or burnt pieces in the mix. Thicker foods with a higher moisture content, like fresh vegetables and proteins, cook quite evenly, too. The entire batch browns, though some pieces don't brown or crisp up completely. The downside of this air fryer for proteins is that too much fat renders during cooking. Fatty cuts of meat, like wings and steak, and especially leaner cuts, like chicken breast or pork chops, tend to come out a bit dry. On the plus side, it's exceptionally versatile. With a wide range of temperature settings and fan speeds, this air fryer is well-suited for various cooking methods, including dehydrating, proofing dough, and baking.
Evenly crisps frozen fried foods.
Evenly browns fresh vegetables and proteins.
Exceptionally versatile; ideal for other cooking methods, like dehydrating.
Doesn't brown moist foods completely uniformly.
Proteins lose too much fat during cooking, drying them out.
The Ninja Crispi Pro has a 5.9-quart capacity, which is enough to cook for about three people. Although it has a smaller surface area than many air fryers of this size, there's still an adequate amount of space to spread food out for optimal results. The smaller container is advertised as 2.5 quarts, which is just enough for single servings and snacks.
Decent capacity; can cook about three servings at once.
Relatively small surface area limits batch size.
The Ninja Crispi Pro takes a long time to preheat, but cooks food relatively quickly. Fried foods, like frozen fries, mozzarella sticks, and precooked wings, in particular, cook quickly. Fresh veggies and proteins, which tend to be bulkier and have a higher moisture content, cook more slowly, but they still finish cooking decently fast.
Cooks small fried foods quickly.
Cooks thicker, moist foods within a decent timeframe.
Preheats very slowly, increasing overall cooking time.
The Ninja Crispi Pro is a compact air fryer. It doesn't take up too much space on your counter, and it fits in an average-sized cupboard when not in use. Just keep in mind that it comes with an extra container to store.
Compact design fits in most kitchens.
Performance Usages
Changelog
- Updated Oct 15, 2026: We've updated this review to Test Bench 1.1, which adds a new test for Meat and Poultry and renames the Frying Quality box to Fried Foods. We also separated the Cooking Chamber box into Cooking Chamber and Cooking Surface boxes, and changed the components of the Cooking Speed box to reflect cook times for both fried foods and meat and poultry. Finally, we updated the usages to account for the new tests. To read more about the updates, see the Changelog.
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Updated Jul 28, 2026:
We've included a link to the newly reviewed Ninja Crispi DualZone DD101 in the Cooking Versatility section to provide an alternative with two glass cooking chambers, letting you prepare two foods at once.
- Updated Feb 20, 2026: We converted this review to Test Bench 1.0.2. We've added a 'Glass Cooking Chamber' result in the Cooking Chamber section to indicate if the cooking chamber is made of glass or not.
- Updated Jan 12, 2026: Review published.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The Ninja Crispi Pro 6-in-1 is available in 'Cyberspace,' 'Bone,' 'Rose Quartz,' and 'Ash Gray.' We tested the Cyberspace variant, and you can see the label for our unit. We've also reviewed the Ninja Crispi FN101GY, the standard version of this air fryer.
Let us know in the comments if you encounter another variant, and we'll update this review.
Popular Air Fryer Comparisons
The Ninja Crispi Pro 6-in-1 is a 5.9-quart air fryer that uses swappable glass containers as cooking chambers, allowing you to monitor your recipe as it cooks and store leftovers in the containers when finished. Compared to the Ninja Crispi FN101GY, it offers a significant upgrade, especially in cooking evenness for fried foods, like French fries, mozzarella sticks, and chicken nuggets. The Crispi Pro leaves twice as much of each batch crispy and well-cooked. Thanks to its lower temperature settings, the Crispi Pro can also dehydrate and proof dough, making it more versatile, too. This improved performance compared to the original Ninja Crispi (FN101GY) brings the Crispi Pro more in line with the brand's best-performing air fryers, such as the Ninja Pro AF141 and the Ninja Foodi DZ550, although it still can't match their preheat and cooking speeds. If you like this air fryer's unique design, it's a good alternative to Ninja's more traditional air fryers, and if you're willing to spend the extra cash, it's a worthwhile upgrade over the original version.
If you're wondering what we recommend, see our picks for the best air fryers, the best 6-quart air fryers, and the best air fryers for French fries.
The Ninja Pro AF141 and the Ninja Crispi Pro AS101 have different strengths, so you may prefer one over the other, depending on your priorities. Choose the AS101 if having evenly cooked food is your priority, since it leaves frozen fried foods, like fries or chicken nuggets, as well as fresh foods, like veggies or raw proteins, more evenly crispy across each batch. It also has a unique design, with swappable glass cooking chambers that double as storage, so you may prefer it if you're trying to save time on cleanup. Go for the AF141 if cooking speed is most important to you; it preheats and cooks a variety of recipes faster. It also leaves fresh proteins more tender after cooking.
The Ninja Crispi Pro AS101 is a better air fryer than the Ninja Crispi FN101GY. The Pro version offers more capacity and cooks much more evenly, leaving less of your food undercooked, no matter what you're making. It's also more versatile, offering a wider range of temperature settings and fan speeds, as well as a few additional preset cooking modes. The Pro version is also more expensive, but you'll get much better performance for the additional cost.
The Ninja Crispi Pro AS101 and the Ninja Air Fryer Pro XL AF181 have different strengths, and you may prefer one over the other depending on what's most important to you. When it comes to frying quality, the Crispi Pro comes out ahead, leaving more of your food crispy and well-browned. Where speed is concerned, however, the Air Fryer Pro XL has the edge. It preheats and cooks faster, and it also reheats more quickly after you open the drawer to add food. Both options offer impressive versatility, making either a solid choice if you want to use your air fryer for baking, dehydrating, or roasting.
The Ninja Crispi Pro AS101 is a better air fryer than the Ninja Crispi DualZone DD101 for most people. Whether you're making a quick plate of fries or chicken nuggets, or air-frying a batch of wings or a couple of pork chops, the Pro AS101 makes your food crispier. It also cooks a bit faster and offers more versatility for other cooking methods, like proofing dough and dehydrating, thanks to its lower minimum temperature. That said, the DualZone DD101 has two cooking chambers, so you may prefer it if you want an air fryer that can make a main and a side at the same time.
Test Results
This air fryer provides an acceptable amount of surface area, though many air fryers with a similar capacity have more room in their baskets. Still, there's adequate space to spread food out in a single layer for the best results. The crisper plate has a ceramic coating, which you may prefer if you avoid PTFE-based non-stick coatings.
The Ninja Crispi Pro comes with two interchangeable glass cooking containers: a large main container and a smaller additional container. This allows you to swap them out depending on what you're making and to keep an eye on your recipe as it cooks. They also double as storage containers, and each one comes with a lid.
With a measured capacity of 5.9 quarts, the larger container can serve about three people at a time.
Ninja advertises the smaller container as 2.5 quarts, which is enough for single servings and snacks, and it has a 5 cm chamber height.
The Ninja Crispi Pro offers fantastic versatility. With a wide range of temperature settings and fan speeds, it works well for alternative cooking methods, such as baking, dehydrating, and air frying. The additional small container is also handy for making small portions of food.
There are six preset cooking modes:
- Air Fry: 300°F-450°F, 1 min-1 hr, fan speed: 3125 RPM
- Max Crisp: 450°F, 1 min-1 hr, fan speed: 3140 RPM
- Recrisp: 300°F-400°F, 1 min-1 hr, fan speed: 3130 RPM
- Roast: 250°F-400°F, 1 min-4 hrs, fan speed: 3130 RPM
- Bake|Proof: PrF temp mode, 250°F-400°F, 1 min-4 hrs, fan speed: no fan on proof mode, 1500 RPM
- Dehydrate: 80°F-195°F, 1 hr-12 hrs, fan speed: 1260 RPM
If you want to keep Ninja's glass chambers but need more versatility to cook different foods at once, at different temperatures, consider the Ninja Crispi DualZone DD101, which uses two baskets instead of just one.
This air fryer leaves most of each batch of fried food crispy. When you air fry frozen fries, mozzarella sticks, or chicken nuggets, most pieces come out evenly cooked and golden brown, while only a few are left mushy or overcooked.
The Ninja Crispi Pro provides good performance for meat and poultry. When you cook using the Max Crisp setting, wings, lamb chops, and other fatty proteins stay fairly moist, and the entire batch comes out at least partially crisped. While not every piece browns properly on all sides, there aren't any pieces that don't brown at all.
We also tested this model's performance on Air Fry mode, which uses a slightly lower fan speed.
Wings Crisped on Both Sides: 21.1%
Wings Crisped on One Side Only: 63.1%
Wings Crisped on Neither Side: 15.8%
Rendered Fat Lost: 15g
Time to 50% Moisture Loss (Wings): 29:00
Score: 6.3
While meat doesn't come out as crispy in air fry mode, it stays moister and tenderer, suggesting this mode might be better suited to leaner proteins that dry out easily.
It cooks frozen fries, chicken nuggets, and other fried foods quickly, so you don't have to wait long for results. Thicker, moist foods, like potato wedges, wings, or pork belly, take longer to cook, but they're still ready within a decent timeframe.
Its preheat speed is disappointing, but, as expected, it preheats slightly faster with the smaller container.
It provides adequate temperature stability. After you lift the burner lid to add food, it takes a while to heat back up, but the temperature remains decently stable once it reaches your chosen setting. Using the smaller container improves the air fryer's temperature stability, which is expected. It recovers its heat a bit more quickly after you add food, and the temperature remains nearly as stable for the rest of the cooking process.
