Amazon’s best Echo speakers and screens just got their biggest discounts

Mar 16, 2026 10:14 PM - 2 months ago 47289

Cameron Faulkner

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined successful 2018, and aft a two-year stint astatine Polygon, he rejoined The Verge successful May 2025.

While Amazon’s erstwhile lineup of Echo speakers and smart displays was boring, frankly, its precocious 2025 hardware refresh brought better hardware, improved performance, and Alexa Plus to respective models. If you consciousness for illustration your room(s) could use from speakers to present tunes, audiobooks, aliases podcasts to much corners of your home, aliases screens to show recipes, photos, aliases videos, location are immoderate awesome early Big Spring Sale deals that are worthy checking out.

In position of smart displays, Amazon’s Echo Show 11 is simply a awesome woody astatine $169.99 (was $219.99), while the smaller Echo Show 8 pinch an 8.7-inch surface is $139.99 (was $179.99). Our Jennifer Pattison Tuohy has utilized both, and considers their screens “light-years ahead” of the erstwhile model, though the larger instrumentality has a 1080p surface while the smaller is astatine 720p resolution. Moving to speakers, the $189.99 (usually $219.99) Echo Studio gives the Apple HomePod 2 a tally for its money, pinch room-filling sound and Atmos support. Even Amazon’s smaller, cheaper Echo Dot Max astatine $74.99 (was $99.99) is simply a coagulated value, acknowledgment to its improved creation and performance.

Here are each of the deals successful 1 place:

$170

The Echo Show 11 features an 11-inch surface and 1080p resolution. It includes Alexa Plus and tin beryllium utilized arsenic a smart location hub, supporting Thread, Matter, and Zigbee smart location protocols.

$140

The updated Echo Show 8 features an 8.7-inch show pinch 720p resolution, wider viewing angles, and higher contrast. It includes a 13MP camera, caller stereo speakers, and supports Alexa Plus, while doubling arsenic a smart location hub pinch support for Zigbee, Matter, and Thread.

The 2025 Amazon Echo Studio sitting connected a woody support adjacent to a postulation of books, pinch a achromatic wall down it.

$190

The latest Echo Studio is 40 percent smaller than its predecessor, but packs amended sound. It’s the amended prime compared to the Echo Dot Max if you intend to perceive to a batch of spatial audio. Read our review.

$80

The Echo Dot Max features a level creation and a redesigned sound system, which delivers astir 3 times the bass arsenic its predecessor. It besides offers improved speech discovery and amended sound filtering, acknowledgment to Amazon’s caller AZ3 chip. Read our review.

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