The Best Air Fryers
A $110 Cosori beats machines costing four times as much, and it has 21,140 reviews at 4.8 stars to back that up. Here's the whole category, ranked honestly.
Cosori TurboBlaze 6-Qt
4.8 stars across 21,140 ratings — the highest-rated appliance on any list we publish. Five fan speeds and a PFAS-free ceramic basket at a hundred and ten dollars.
Air fryers are small convection ovens with good marketing, and after six years of the boom the engineering has converged. Almost all of them will produce excellent fries and very good chicken thighs. The differences that survive contact with a real kitchen are capacity, noise, how fast they preheat, and whether the basket coating survives two years.
The headline finding this year is that spending more mostly buys you size, not performance. The $110 Cosori TurboBlaze holds the highest customer rating of anything in this guide, and the $400 Breville is only here because it replaces a whole appliance category rather than because it fries better.
How we pick
We draw crisping and evenness results from RTINGS, TechGearLab, America’s Test Kitchen and Tom’s Guide, then weight against verified-owner data — which in this category is unusually informative, because the most common real-world failure is the basket coating flaking after eighteen months, and that only ever shows up in long-tail reviews.
One material note: several manufacturers have moved to PFAS-free ceramic coatings, and the Cosori TurboBlaze is among them. If that matters to you, it narrows the field considerably.
Prices and ratings are from live Amazon listings on July 26, 2026.
The honest advice
Buy the Cosori TurboBlaze unless you have a specific reason not to. Buy the Ninja DualZone if you regularly cook two things at once and are tired of doing it in shifts. Buy the Breville only if you are also retiring a toaster oven. And skip anything claiming twelve functions — you will use three.
The Rankings
Cosori TurboBlaze 6-Qt
4.8 stars across 21,140 ratings — the highest-rated appliance on any list we publish. Five fan speeds and a PFAS-free ceramic basket at a hundred and ten dollars.
- 4.8-star average across 21,140 ratings
- PFAS-free ceramic coating, not Teflon
- Five fan speeds give real control, not just a timer
- Quieter than almost anything else here
- 6 quarts is tight for a family of five
- Basket coating still needs hand washing to last
- No window
Ninja Foodi DZ401 DualZone XL
Two independent baskets with a Smart Finish mode that makes both foods land at the same moment. It is the single most useful feature in the category.
- Two genuinely independent 5-quart zones
- Smart Finish syncs different foods to finish together
- 4.7 stars across 10,230 ratings
- Handles a whole dinner without a second cook
- Takes a lot of counter space
- Two baskets means two things to wash
- Loud at full fan
Instant Vortex Plus 6QT ClearCook
42,671 ratings — the most-reviewed air fryer on Amazon. The window is the point: you can watch food crisp without yanking the basket and killing the heat.
- 42,671 ratings at 4.6 stars
- Window and interior light let you check without opening
- Genuinely easy controls
- Under $100
- Window gets greasy and needs regular wiping
- Slower to preheat than the Cosori
- Basket coating is conventional non-stick
Ninja Air Fryer Pro AF141
Tom's Guide's number one. 1,750 watts in a 5-quart footprint that will actually fit under a wall cabinet, and it crisps as hard as anything here.
- 1,750W in a genuinely small body
- 4.7 stars across 8,361 ratings
- Fits under standard upper cabinets
- Fast preheat
- 5 quarts limits you to two or three portions
- Only four functions
- Fixed basket, no rack
Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro
Not really an air fryer — a proper convection oven that air fries well and can replace your toaster oven, dehydrator and second oven outright.
- Replaces three appliances, not one
- Element IQ heat control is a class above
- 4.5 stars across 13,025 ratings
- Fits a 13" pizza or a whole chicken
- $400
- Big — this owns a section of counter
- Overkill if you only want fries
Chefman TurboFry 8-Qt
Eight quarts and a 450°F Hi-Fry setting for $120. If you cook for four or more and don't want to spend Ninja money, this is the one.
- 8-quart capacity at a budget price
- 450°F max beats most rivals' 400°F
- 16,500 ratings
- Dishwasher-safe basket
- 4.4 stars — the lowest average here
- Build feels its price
- Big footprint for the capacity