The Best Air Fryers of 2024

• Capacity: 6 quarts
• Dimensions: 13.8 x 14.1 x 12.4 inches
• Weight: 16 pounds

When it comes to air frying, the Ninja Speedi provides some of the best results we’ve ever seen. During our tests, french fries, and chicken nuggets came out exceptionally evenly cooked, and were as brown and crispy as if they had been cooked in a deep fryer.

While it easily ranked as the best air fryer we've tested, the Speedi does more than air frying. It’s also a multicooker with steam technology that allows it to cook Speedi Meals, which combines several cooking features simultaneously to make meal time quick and easy. Plus, it has nine additional settings for everything from baking to proofing bread.

In spite of its many functions, the Ninja is exceptionally easy to program. The lever to select air fry or rapid cooker is large and easy to flip. Once you switch it into place, the cooking functions for your selection become available and are easy to toggle through.

The cooking pot and crisper tray have a nonstick coating and can be placed in the dishwasher. It also comes with a comprehensive manual, a Speedi Meals guide, and a helpful recipe booklet. You can also access the Speedi Meal Builder online, which suggests various combinations of foods and cooking times.

Our top pick is heavier and a little bulkier than most traditional air fryers, but it also offers many more functions. Neither the cooking pot nor the crisper tray have handles, so you should be extra careful when removing them—we recommend silicone grippers rather than traditional pot holders. And be aware that during air frying, the appliance makes a whooshing noise that sounds like a hair dryer on low speed.

Read our full Ninja Speedi Rapid Cooker & Air Fryer review.

• Capacity: 0.6 cubic feet
• Dimensions: 17 x 21.73 x 15.75 inches
• Weight: 20.3 pounds

This multipurpose appliance from Cuisinart not only air fries, but it has all the versatility that comes with a toaster oven, and it ranks as our best air fryer toaster oven.

Everything we “fried” cooked up brown and crispy, including batter-fried chicken that came out as crunchy as those fast-food wings and tenders that come in a bucket. Bread toasted exceptionally evenly and matched the shade we selected. When baking, we got great results when we reduced the time and oven temperature to prevent over-browning.

The digital Cuisinart is among the more expensive air fryer toaster ovens on the market, but it’s handsome and has digital controls with pre-programmed settings for air frying. For bake and pizza, there’s an automatic preheat; no preheating is required for air frying.

This model isn’t as wide as a typical toaster oven, so it won’t take up as much countertop space. While it is taller, it will fit under a standard cabinet. Despite its relatively compact size, it’s large enough to accommodate 3 pounds of fries, six slices of bread, and a 4-pound roast chicken. With a low setting for slow cooking and braising, as well as dehydrating and proofing modes, it gives a lot of versatility for the money.

The interior has a nonstick coating and the air fryer basket and baking pan can be tossed in the dishwasher. Cuisinart provides a helpful manual complete with cooking charts and appealing recipes as well as a quick reference guide that stores in a slot in the bottom of the oven so it’s easy to find when needed.

• Capacity: 4 quarts
• Dimensions: 8.5 x 12.1 x 11 inches
• Weight: 10.58 pounds

The Ninja Air Fryer performed so well, you could have convinced us that both the breaded and battered chicken was fried in a cast iron skillet.

French fries were good but not perfect. They didn’t quite have the crunch that you get from a deep fryer or out top pick, the Ninja Speedi. However, this Ninja is about half the price of its cousin and is nowhere near as big or heavy.

On the Ninja, you’ll find digital temperature controls and settings for reheating, roasting, and dehydrating. More options make for more complicated controls, but it’s not difficult to master the necessary steps. The nonstick basket can be washed in the dishwasher, too. It also includes a stainless-steel rack for multilevel cooking.

• Capacity: 6 quarts
• Dimensions: 12.8 x 11.8 x 14.9 inches
• Weight: 16.3 pounds

This sleek, basket style air fryer features a unique ClearCook window that allows you to visually monitor your food as it cooks: a plus that we absolutely loved during testing. But this appliance isn't just visually appealing—it also crisps food quickly and evenly. Everything from fried chicken to frozen fries to Brussels sprouts came out with impressively tasty results during testing.

We also love how easy it is to use. The touch screen is beautiful and intuitive, and we love that the dial made navigating time and temperature quick and seamless. We didn't even have to read the manual to learn how to navigate between cooking mode, time, and temperature settings.

This machine also boasts an OdorErase filter—which is designed to minimize residual food smells in your home—but we didn't find that it worked particularly well. As long as that's not a deal-breaker for you, though, this air fryer is an excellent pick.

Read our full Instant Vortex Plus review.

• Capacity: 4 quarts
• Dimensions: 12.7 x 17 x 12.4 inches
• Weight: 17.5 pounds

The Philips Airfryer XXL was one of the most user-friendly appliances we tested. During testing, we tasted a ton of french fries, and this appliance made ones that we couldn’t stop noshing on. They had the perfect combination of crispy crunchiness, tenderness, and potato flavor—even when we loaded the basket with more than 3 pounds of them.

The battered Nashville hot chicken tenders we made finished with a crackling crust as if they’d been deep-fried, and hamburgers tasted like they were made on the grill.

This appliance was consistently fantastic at air frying, even with large family-size portions of healthier fried foods. Plus, it's a well-built machine and easy to use—no preheating is required. If you really love fried food without all the fat, the Philips is definitely worth the investment.

That said, it’s a big, heavy machine that’s noisier than most of its competitors while operating. And with no digital control panel, it’s hard to set cooking times and temperatures precisely.

With a few more parts than most other models, there’s more to clean. Fortunately, all the parts are dishwasher safe.

While it will eat up considerable shelf and counter space, the results are worth the payoff. An easy-to-read recipe book with lots of cooking ideas is also included.

• Capacity: 5.6 quarts
• Dimensions: 17.3 x 15.5 x 9.6 inches
• Weight: 20.5 pounds

The Typhur Dome isn't your typical air fryer. Its dome-shaped design means it's wide enough to fit an entire 12-inch pizza and crisp up large batches of food in a single layer. During testing, we found its unique design to be a huge advantage: Batches as large as 10 strips of bacon and 32 chicken wings can crisp up quickly and evenly.

Perhaps most noticeably, the Typhur Dome works extremely quietly. We barely noticed that it was on while food cooked, and as soon as we finished our testing and switched back to using a traditional air fryer, the sound pollution change was extremely evident.

We also love that this air fryer has a self-clean setting that uses high heat to clean off any caked-on residual food or grease, which is not commonly found in most air fryers.

Of course, the downside to large capacity air fryers is that they monopolize counter space. This machine has a width of over 15 inches and it weighs over 20 pounds, which means you likely won't want to lug it in and out of cabinet space for each use, and it'll require a large amount of permanent counter space.

Read our full Typhur Dome review.