The Best Smart Plugs and Power Strips for 2025

All smart plugs can turn your devices off and on, but only some can tell you how much power your devices are using. The TP-Link Kasa Plug Slim With Energy Monitoring generates energy reports, letting you know just how much power is going through your lamp, home theater, or appliance. With Matter support, it works with most major smart home platforms and voice assistants.

This smart plug is a bit pricey, but it can potentially save you money in the long run if you want to make sure some of your larger electronics aren’t using too much power. It’s worth picking up to keep an eye on your power-hungry appliances, though there are cheaper options for automating small household items like lamps.

Whereas most of the options on this list plug into your existing outlet, the Eve Energy Outlet replaces it for sleek and permanent smart home controls. This dual-receptacle outlet can be controlled using the Eve app (iOS only) or with Apple’s Home app, and because it supports Matter and Thread, you can add it to your Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Samsung SmartThings ecosystems if you have the proper hub. In testing, we found it easy to install, and it worked flawlessly with the Alexa, Apple Home, and Eve apps, and Alexa and Siri voice commands. It will tell you how much power each receptacle is using, offers flexible scheduling, supports geofencing triggers, and works with routines and scenes that you can create with your platform of choice.

If you’re looking for a hardwired smart outlet, the Eve Energy Outlet is a top pick for its cross-platform compatibility and energy reporting. Keep in mind that, as with any electrical outlet, the Energy Outlet must be installed in a wall box and requires working with electrical wiring. If you’re not comfortable with that, you should hire a professional to do the job. The outlet has a 15W/1800A rating and is designed solely for indoor use. As an outdoor-friendly alternative, the Leviton Smart GFCI Outlet lets you monitor out-of-the-way appliances like pool pumps.

Why limit yourself to just one or two outlets when you can remotely manage six at a time? The TP-Link Kasa Smart Wi-Fi Power Strip is a full power strip with a half dozen outlets you can individually control and automate, along with three USB ports that are useful if you want to charge anything.

This power strip is useful for managing multiple lamps and other devices at once, as long as they’re relatively close to each other. It works with Alexa and Google Assistant, but it doesn’t support HomeKit, Matter, or SmartThings.

The AiDot Linkind Matter Smart Plug is a versatile single-outlet plug built on the Matter standard, which allows it to work with all of the major home automation platforms including Alexa, Google Assistant, HomeKit, and SmartThings. The Linkind Smart Plug worked faultlessly in testing, quickly responding to Alexa, Google, and Siri voice commands to turn the plug on and off. An Alexa routine to turn the plug on when a Ring Floodlight Cam detected motion worked as intended. We also had no trouble controlling it with the AiDot, Amazon Alexa, Apple Home, and Google Home apps.

The AiDot Linkind Matter Smart Plug is a top choice if you use multiple home automation platforms to control your smart devices and want to smarten up small household items like lamps.

The Leviton Smart Mini is a bit expensive for a small one-outlet smart plug, but it has loads of features for automating your lighting. It works with Alexa, Google Assistant, HomeKit, Matter, and SmartThings, and it supports dimming for compatible bulbs.

This is the smart plug to get if you want to set up dimmer routines or otherwise adjust the light levels of your non-smart bulbs from your phone. Its wide compatibility also means it should play nice with all your other smart home gadgets and will continue to work if you decide to switch platforms or voice assistants later.

Roku is a newcomer to the smart home market, but its first products in the category have proven very capable. Roku smart home devices can work with Alexa and Google Assistant, but their big appeal is for Roku TV and media hub users, because they’re the only smart switches, bulbs, and cameras that you can control with the otherwise very limited Roku voice controls.

With a IP64 weatherproof rating, the Roku Outdoor Smart Plug is an inexpensive way to remotely control your outdoor devices. It’s appealing if you also use Roku devices since you don’t need to set up anything else to control the plug from your couch.

The dual-outlet TP-Link Kasa EP40A Outdoor Plug supports every voice assistant and smart home standard except Matter, so you can control it just as easily whether you’re an Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, HomeKit, or Samsung SmartThings fan. It even supports IFTTT routines. In testing, it was simple to set up, reliably responded to app and voice commands, and ran Alexa routines without issue.

The TP-Link Kasa EP40A’s broad compatibility and a weatherproof build make it a top choice for bringing smart features to your backyard appliances. This outdoor smart plug is specifically appealing for its HomeKit and SmartThings integrations, which many competing models lack.

The Tapo Mini is a compact smart plug from TP-Link Kasa, with a load of smart home platform options. It supports Alexa, Google Assistant, HomeKit, Matter, and SmartThings, making it one of the best-equipped mini smart plugs for handling whatever home automation standard you choose. It can’t monitor power consumption, however.

Look to this smart plug if you need one with a small footprint that won’t block the outlets beside it.

The U-tec Smart Plug is a Wi-Fi-enabled single outlet plug that supports the Alexa, Google, and SmartThings home automation platforms and works with numerous third-party smart home devices via IFTTT applets. As an added bonus, it serves as a Wi-Fi extender for other U-tec products, including the brand’s award-winning line of Ultraloq smart locks.

If you want an affordable way to turn lamps, coffee makers, and other small appliances into smart devices you can control with your phone or your voice, the U-tec Smart Plug is a top pick. Its range-extending functionality makes it especially appealing for those who already use other U-tec products. It does not offer energy usage reports or support HomeKit or Matter, but if those features aren’t a priority, it’s a solid deal.

This single-outlet smart plug lets you control whatever is plugged into it using Alexa voice commands and the Alexa mobile app. It’s a snap to install and works with some (but not all) Alexa smart home devices, but it doesn’t work with other voice platforms and it lacks IFTTT support and energy reporting.

The Amazon Smart Plug is a good option for Alexa power users who want to smarten up an ordinary device like a coffee maker or a light.

This IP66 weather-resistant Ring Outdoor Smart Plug offers two outlets that can be controlled independently of one another using the Ring mobile app or Alexa voice commands, and it works with other Ring smart home devices. It requires a Ring Bridge to connect to your network, but it’s easy to install and works well.

The Ring Outdoor Smart Plug makes the most sense if you already own other Ring smart home devices and the Ring Bridge and you’re looking for an outdoor-friendly smart plug that allows for independent control of each outlet. It’s also only for Alexa users, as it doesn’t support Apple HomeKit or Google Assistant.