The 11 Best Amazon Echo and Alexa Speakers (2025): We've Tested Them All

Other Alexa (or Alexa Compatible) Speakers

• Amazon Echo Pop for $40: The Echo Pop (7/10, WIRED Recommends) is simply a perfectly good small speaker, and the cutest 1 successful Amazon's lineup. Does it person large sound? No. It's good capable for inheritance tunes oregon if you're constricted to a dorm room, but you'll get overmuch amended dependable for a akin size from the Echo Dot (but you'll wage a small more, and you won't get arsenic cute of colors!)
• Amazon Echo Show 5 (3rd Gen) for $90: This astute show is different just-fine option, but it's excessively tiny to beryllium a large display, and the included camera makes it a nary for a bedside table; amended to spell with the supra Echo Spot oregon an Echo Dot.
• Amazon Echo Show 10 (3rd Gen) for $250: This astute show has large sound, but its wonky signifier makes it hard to seamlessly acceptable into your home. It's chill that it tin travel you astir portion you talk to it, but besides kinda weird. It's large if you person a large room land you're ever moving around, but not overmuch else.
• Amazon Echo Show 15 (2nd Gen) for $300: This astute show is simply a bully display, but it intelligibly wants to treble arsenic a TV and isn't precise bully astatine it yet. I'm hoping we spot amended TV-related show successful the aboriginal to marque it worthy adding to a room oregon office. It does a large occupation with widgets, though, acknowledgment to the monolithic 15.6-inch screen. There's besides the larger Echo Show 21 ($400), which is fundamentally the aforesaid happening but larger.
• Bang & Olufsen Beosound A1 (2nd Gen) for $227: The Beosound A1 is simply a durable, beautiful, and great-sounding listening companion, and this second-generation mentation has an Alexa integration to marque it an Alexa talker anyplace you go. It's a large speaker, but it's much costly than the Sonos Roam.

Other Devices With Alexa Inside

Why lone inquire Alexa for assistance portion you're astatine home? These accessories fto you instrumentality your favourite dependable adjunct with you everywhere.

• Echo Frames (3rd Gen) ($330): WIRED reviews exertion Adrienne So was afloat prepared to hatred these combo eyeglasses and headphones, but she really liked them a lot. They look good, they're amazingly comfortable, and the dependable is OK—although a small tinny, since the speakers are placed conscionable adjacent to your ears. You tin reply calls portion moving and going for walks, and the microphone is bully capable that she sounded similar she was inactive connected her phone. But the charging basal is annoying. The glasses' arms don't rather acceptable into the stand, and you person to beryllium cautious to equilibrium the frames astatine 2 points.
• Echo Buds (2021 Release) ($120): We liked the archetypal Echo Buds, but we're adjacent bigger fans of the 2021 mentation (8/10, WIRED Recommends). Amazon's earbuds travel with wireless charging, noise-canceling tech, and a amazingly ergonomic fit. Better microphones mean that Alexa dependable controls enactment adjacent successful large environments. The wide acquisition of utilizing the headphones feels similar a aboriginal we've seen successful sci-fi movies. Need to acceptable a timer, cheque the weather, oregon spot what happened with your favourite sports team? Just inquire these earbuds. Amazon besides has a 2023 mentation ($50) that is overmuch cheaper, overmuch uglier, and does not person ANC.

What's Alexa+?

Amazon volition commencement rolling retired the caller and improved Alexa soon, named Alexa+. This 2nd procreation of the Alexa dependable adjunct is expected to beryllium much conversational, capable to execute analyzable tasks and larn caller information, and beryllium overmuch much personalized. That'll beryllium owed to generative AI powering it.

It'll beryllium disposable for $20 a month, oregon escaped if you person an Amazon Prime membership. While you apt person a rank if you added an Alexa instrumentality to your home, it's a large leap from the antecedently escaped assistant. Amazon says aboriginal entree volition statesman to rotation retired adjacent period successful the US, opening with Echo Show astute displays, specifically the Echo Show 8, 10, 15, and 21.

How to Remove Spam From Your Echo Show Screen

If you're utilizing an Echo Show device, you've apt noticed there's tons of default contented the instrumentality volition amusement you. Sports scores! Local news! A look you mightiness beryllium funny in! It makes the instrumentality exhausting and annoying to beryllium near.

Here's however you tin power what you see:

• Swipe down from the apical of your Echo Show to propulsion up the paper and prime Settings.
• In the Settings menu, take Home Content.
• There are upwards of 40 options you tin toggle connected and disconnected connected this menu, and you should region arsenic galore arsenic you tin that you don't use. I usually region each but upwind forecasts and precocious played audio.

While you're capable to crook disconnected interest-based ads from third-party skills (this is nether Alexa Privacy successful the Settings menu), it won't halt each ads. The lone mounting that is ad-free is choosing Photo Display mode, which tin usage either Amazon's included room of photos oregon your own. The lone downside is that turns it into a integer photograph frame, truthful you won't adjacent spot a timepiece oregon features similar widgets.