Echo Dot Max vs Echo Dot

Echo Dot is $40.00 cheaper today, and has been the cheaper of the two on all 50 days we have held a price for both. They differ on speakers, smart home hub and released, as Amazon’s own comparison charts list them. Every figure below was read from the retailer by us. A dash means we have no current figure for that one.

Amazon Echo Dot Max (newest model), Alexa speaker with room-filling sound and nearly 2x bass, Great for living rooms and medium-sized spaces, Designed for Alexa+, Graphite

Amazon Echo Dot - Vibrant sounding speaker, Designed for Alexa+, Great for bedrooms, dining rooms and offices, Charcoal

Price today: Amazon Echo Dot Max (newest model), Alexa speaker with room-filling sound and nearly 2x bass, Great for living rooms and medium-sized spaces, Designed for Alexa+, Graphite: $119.99Go to Amazon; Amazon Echo Dot - Vibrant sounding speaker, Designed for Alexa+, Great for bedrooms, dining rooms and offices, Charcoal: $79.99 (the better of the two)Go to Amazon
Record behind itDays with a recorded price in the last 90. We hold a verdict until 7 of them, or until one price has held for 10 days.: Amazon Echo Dot Max (newest model), Alexa speaker with room-filling sound and nearly 2x bass, Great for living rooms and medium-sized spaces, Designed for Alexa+, Graphite: 50 days on record; Amazon Echo Dot - Vibrant sounding speaker, Designed for Alexa+, Great for bedrooms, dining rooms and offices, Charcoal: 50 days on record
Lowest we recordedAnd the last day it was that price. A floor touched last week is a different argument from one touched in March.: Amazon Echo Dot Max (newest model), Alexa speaker with room-filling sound and nearly 2x bass, Great for living rooms and medium-sized spaces, Designed for Alexa+, Graphite: $79.99 · Sep 27; Amazon Echo Dot - Vibrant sounding speaker, Designed for Alexa+, Great for bedrooms, dining rooms and offices, Charcoal: $39.99 · Sep 27
Highest we recorded: Amazon Echo Dot Max (newest model), Alexa speaker with room-filling sound and nearly 2x bass, Great for living rooms and medium-sized spaces, Designed for Alexa+, Graphite: $119.99; Amazon Echo Dot - Vibrant sounding speaker, Designed for Alexa+, Great for bedrooms, dining rooms and offices, Charcoal: $79.99
Sold by: Amazon Echo Dot Max (newest model), Alexa speaker with room-filling sound and nearly 2x bass, Great for living rooms and medium-sized spaces, Designed for Alexa+, Graphite: Amazon.com; Amazon Echo Dot - Vibrant sounding speaker, Designed for Alexa+, Great for bedrooms, dining rooms and offices, Charcoal: Amazon.com

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How they differ

Specs as Amazon’s own comparison charts list them, the differences first.

Speakers: Echo Dot Max: 0.8″ tweeter, 2.5″ woofer; Echo Dot: 1.73″ front-firing
Smart home hub: Echo Dot Max: Yes; Echo Dot: No
Released: Echo Dot Max: 2025; Echo Dot: 2022
Screen: Echo Dot Max: None; Echo Dot: None

Echo Dot MaxEcho Dot

Both lines are the best price we recorded on each day, on one money axis. Our record for each starts when we started watching it, so a shorter line is a shorter record and not a cheaper history.

How the gap has moved

Across the 50 days we have held a price for both, the gap between them was widest at $40.00 on Sep 14 and narrowest at $10.00 on Oct 15. Echo Dot has been the cheaper of the two on every one of those days. Today it is $40.00.

Measured from our own readings, carried forward day by day — a price stands until we record a different one. It starts on the first day we held a price for both, which is later than the day we began tracking one of them.

What they are

5 attributes the retailers describe differently, first. These are their words, not ours — we record prices, we do not test products.

Color: Graphite; Charcoal
Weight: 1.1 pounds; 0.75 pounds
Dimensions: 4.3 × 4.3 × 3.9 inches; 3.94 × 3.94 × 3.53 inches
Model: MA49CA; C2N6L4
Released: October 2025; October 2022
Size: Pack of 1; Pack of 1

2 products compared on the record we keep. Nothing here is ranked by what pays us, and neither of these placements was bought. Other model-against-model comparisons.