The Quietest Air Fryers of 2026

Almost nobody publishes a decibel figure

We track 20 air fryers and air fryer ovens in detail, reading every spec off the manufacturer's own listing. Two of them state a noise level. Typhur says the Dome 2 runs at 51 dB. Cosori says the TurboBlaze stays under 53 dB even on the highest fan speed. That is it. Ninja, Instant, Breville, Cuisinart, Chefman, Philips, Dash and Black+Decker publish nothing about noise anywhere in their air-fryer listings.

This matters more than it sounds, because it means that every "quietest air fryer" list that ranks ten machines by decibels is ranking nine of them on numbers nobody measured. We will not do that. What follows is the two published figures first, then the published mechanical facts that bear on noise, and then an honest account of what you cannot know before the box is open.

For scale on 51 dB: the only other appliance in our whole catalog that publishes a sound figure is Aucma's stand mixer, at ≤76 dB. Decibels are logarithmic, so that is not "a bit louder" — it is a different category of noise. A 51 dB air fryer is in the range of a quiet conversation; a 76 dB mixer is in the range you raise your voice over.

What actually makes an air fryer loud

An air fryer makes four distinct sounds, and conflating them is why people disagree about whether a given machine is loud.

• The fan. The dominant one. Air frying is convection: a fan drives hot air hard enough to crisp a surface. Faster fan, more noise — which is why the TurboBlaze's claim is phrased as "even on the highest fan speed", and why Cosori publishing a 3,600 rpm, five-speed fan is relevant rather than marketing. Five speeds means four of them are quieter than the one being rated.
• Cavity resonance. A small hard box with a fan in it rings. This is the structural argument for the two flat, wide designs on this page: the Typhur Dome 2 is 15.6 × 19.7 × 10.3 inches with an interior only 2.36 inches deep, and Breville's cavity is 16 × 13.5 × 7 inches. Wider, shallower cavities move the same air at lower pressure than a tall narrow basket does.
• Rattle. A crisper plate that is not weighed down by food buzzes against the basket floor. This is a loose-part problem, not a machine-quality problem, and it is the single most common "my air fryer got louder" complaint. It is also free to fix: seat the plate, load the food.
• Beeps. Not noise in the engineering sense and absolutely noise in the living-with-it sense. Shake reminders are the usual culprit — the Cosori Pro LE puts "Shake Reminder" in its own product title. If your complaint is that the kitchen keeps interrupting you, check whether the alerts can be muted before you blame the fan.

Three of those four are properties of the design, which is why we weight published fan data and cavity geometry when no decibel figure exists, and say so rather than inventing a rating.

The picks, in order

Typhur Dome 2 — 51 dB, and not a compromise elsewhere

The reason this is the top pick is simple: it is the only air fryer with a published figure in the low fifties, and nothing else about it is a sacrifice to get there. Typhur publishes a 5.6-quart flat capacity with a 2.36-inch interior height without the grill plate, dual top-and-bottom heating, 15 functions, and a basket Typhur describes as PFAS-free ceramic, nonstick and dishwasher-safe. It is wide and low — 15.6 × 19.7 × 10.3 inches, 20.5 lb — so it fits a 12-inch pizza flat, which a basket machine physically cannot.

The useful extras are the self-cleaning top cavity (Typhur says it runs for two hours and is triggered monthly from the app) and the claim of cooking up to 30% faster from the two-sided heating. Typhur also states its own cook times — 32 wings in 14 minutes, two steaks in eight. Treat those as manufacturer figures; we have not timed them. Same for the listing's claim of recommendations from America's Test Kitchen and Consumer Reports: that is Typhur quoting third parties, which we pass along as a quote and not as our own finding.

Two real limits. Typhur publishes no wattage, so we cannot compute its running cost — and we do not estimate one. And the warranty is a limited one year, which is short for the money. Our full Typhur Dome 2 review covers the depth trade-off in detail.

Cosori TurboBlaze — under 53 dB, and the value answer

Two decibels above the Typhur, at a small fraction of the price, and framed in the more honest way: Cosori states the TurboBlaze operates at less than 53 dB even on its highest fan speed. A ceiling is a better consumer promise than an average, because the loud moment is the one that bothers you.

The rest of the machine is the reason it appears on four other lists on this site: a 6-quart square basket, a PFAS-free ceramic coating on both basket and crisper tray, a 90–450°F range that is wider at both ends than almost anything in the category, a 3,600 rpm five-speed fan, and a two-year warranty where most of this category gives you one.

The honest gap is the same one we flag everywhere Cosori appears: Cosori publishes no wattage for the TurboBlaze, so there is no running cost figure on this page for it either. Detail in our Cosori TurboBlaze review.

Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro — the only fan you can slow down

No decibel figure, and it is on this page anyway for a published mechanical reason no other machine here offers: a two-speed convection fan. Breville documents "super" and "regular" convection as separate selectable modes, which means on a bake or a reheat that does not need maximum airflow, you can run the quieter one. Every basket fryer here decides the fan speed for you.

It is also the most oven-like machine on the page, with five independent quartz elements, 13 functions, a 16 × 13.5 × 7-inch interior that takes a quarter-sheet pan, and a two-year warranty. It draws a published 1,800 watts — the only machine on this page that publishes wattage at all — so a 20-minute cook costs roughly 10 cents at the 17-cents-per-kWh US residential average. The cost is counter space: 21.5 × 17.5 × 12.7 inches and 30 lb.

Cosori Pro LE — smaller, from the brand that measures

Cosori does not publish a figure for this model specifically, and we are not going to transfer the TurboBlaze's number onto it. What we can say is that it comes from the only basket-fryer maker that publishes noise data anywhere in its range, and it shares the ceramic basket family: a 5-quart square basket with ceramic coating on basket and crisper tray, seven presets with preheat and keep-warm, 450°F top heat, a two-year warranty, and a narrow 10.8-inch body.

Buy it if the TurboBlaze is more capacity than you need and you would rather not step down to a brand that says nothing about noise. One caveat specific to this page: the shake reminder is a core feature, so find the mute before you decide whether the machine is quiet.

What we cannot tell you

We compare published specs and compute running costs from published wattage. We do not run a lab, so we have not put a sound meter in front of any of these machines, and we are not going to describe a machine as quiet because its reviews say so. If a maker publishes no figure, this page says so in the row rather than filling the cell. Our method is spelled out on how we review.

Two practical consequences. First, if the noise genuinely matters to you — a studio apartment, a baby asleep, an open-plan kitchen on a work call — the two machines with published figures are the only ones where you are buying a commitment rather than a hope. Second, the loudest thing in most kitchens is not the air fryer. It is the blender, and no blender maker publishes a figure either; see how many watts a blender needs for why wattage is not a proxy for that.

The verdict

Buy the Typhur Dome 2 if quiet is the brief and the budget allows: 51 dB published, a flat 5.6-quart cavity, and 15 functions, with a short warranty as the price of entry. Buy the Cosori TurboBlaze if you want nearly the same promise — under 53 dB at full fan — for a great deal less money, which is what most people should do. Buy the Breville if you want the ability to choose a slower fan yourself and have the counter for an oven. And if the TurboBlaze is simply too big, the Cosori Pro LE keeps you with the one brand in the category that treats noise as a spec.