🇺🇸 Headphones · Amazon.com · prices in USD
Every quoted battery life is measured with noise cancelling off, at half volume, on the cheapest codec. Turn ANC on and it can halve. We list both figures, flag the spec sheets that contradict themselves, and tell you which codecs your phone can actually use.
Each one wins at something different. Open them and compare.
4.6 out of 5, the highest rating on this site — tied with a $13.99 pair of children's school headphones.
Nine of Amazon's fourteen best-selling on-ear headphones are children's school headphones. This is the highest placed.
100,823 ratings — more than every other model on this page put together.
Amazon's #1 over-ear headphone, 73,732 ratings at 4.5, and forty dollars.
57,702 ratings at 4.5 for $19.99 — and a spec table with the draft notes still in it.
Amazon's #2 earbud, and its listing does not state the battery life anywhere.
This one isn't our call: these are the models Amazon flags as #1 in their category. We keep them separate on purpose, because the best seller and the best rated model are almost never the same one.
100,823 ratings — more than every other model on this page put together.
Amazon's #1 over-ear headphone, 73,732 ratings at 4.5, and forty dollars.
The world's best-selling earbud has an almost empty spec table on Amazon.
30 grams, IP55 and two years of warranty: the only model here built for running in traffic.
How we work
The 0-to-10 scores in the charts are ours, not the manufacturer's. They follow the same rule every time, so two models can actually be compared instead of judged by how well their listing is written.
How you'll use it matters more than the brand.
Models below their usual price on Amazon.
4.6 out of 5, the highest rating on this site — tied with a $13.99 pair of children's school headphones.
Amazon's #1 over-ear headphone, 73,732 ratings at 4.5, and forty dollars.
57,702 ratings at 4.5 for $19.99 — and a spec table with the draft notes still in it.
Amazon's #2 earbud, and its listing does not state the battery life anywhere.
Amazon's #3 best-selling earbud is a $14.88 cable that will not fit a current iPhone.
88,709 ratings — more than the AirPods Pro 3 and the AirPods 4 on this page put together.
Open-ear with IP55 and 16 mm drivers for $27, against the $180 of the category leader.
The world's best-selling earbud has an almost empty spec table on Amazon.
45,738 ratings at $26.98 — and a page that counts the same forty hours twice.
$49.57 for a headphone listed at $179.99 — on a page that says it takes 50 hours to charge and weighs 99 grams.
Its frequency response field says 2.4 GHz. That is the Bluetooth band, on a $298 audiophile headphone.
Bluetooth 6.0 and IP55, and a spec table with no row for the driver size it advertises.
4.1 out of 5 — the lowest score of any earbud in this comparison, and the only one under 4.2.
What you need from day one, picked by how many buyers stand behind it.