An air fryer is a small convection oven with a big fan, and most of what you hear is that fan. It runs for 15 to 30 minutes at a time, often in an open kitchen while people are talking, which is why a quiet air fryer is worth shopping for.
The trouble is the numbers. We read the makers' own US product pages for more than a hundred air fryers from a dozen brands, plus manuals and support pages. Eight US air fryers, from three brands, carry a maker's noise figure. Not one of those figures is marked A-weighted, and not one says how far away it was taken or at which setting. So this guide sorts what each maker says, puts side by side only the claims that are worded alike, and says plainly where no comparison is possible.
Our picks are listed above, with full specifications for each.
Two kinds of claim, never mixed
Upper-limit claims. These say the noise stays under a number. Cosori says its Lite 2.1-Quart Mini cooks "with noise levels lower than 48dB". Cosori's Pro LE page says in its FAQ that Air Whisper Technology "keeps noise levels under 55dB during operation". Philips says its Airfryer fan noise "can be up to 65 dB (decibel)", in a support article covering its whole range. Ranked as ceilings, the Lite mini is lowest, then the Pro LE, then Philips. That is a ranking of promises, not of machines: a ceiling says only what the maker is willing to stand behind.
Single-number claims. These give one figure with no "under" or "up to". Typhur says both versions of its Dome 2, the AF05 and the older AF03, run "at a remarkably quiet 51dB". A Typhur staff reply on the company's own blog says its Sync Air Fryer "operates at around 55dB". The Dome 2 is lowest in this group.
We do not rank across the two groups. A ceiling of 48 and a figure of 51 could describe machines that sound the same, or quite different, depending on distance, fan speed and temperature, none of which is stated. We also flag one claim that does not sit cleanly in either group: the Cosori Pro LE page says "as low as 55dB" in one section and "under 55dB" in another. "As low as" makes 55 the quietest it gets. "Under" makes 55 the loudest. The page does not say which is right, so we treat the 55 with caution.
Typhur gives the Dome 2 three numbers
The Dome 2 is sold on quiet more than any air fryer we found. Its product page says 51dB. Typhur's blog post on the Dome 2 upgrades says it "Runs at an incredibly low 55dB, as quiet as a household refrigerator". Typhur's best air fryer guide says "about 55dB". And a Typhur staff reply calls the Dome 2 "very quiet at 50dB".
Three figures within 5 dB for one machine is a sign that none of them is a controlled measurement. It does not mean the Dome 2 is loud. It means the fair reading is somewhere around 50 to 55, and that 51 is the most flattering version. We use the product page figure because it is the one on the page where you buy, and we quote the others in the catalog facts.
The same reply is also the most useful thing Typhur publishes. Asked whether the Sync matches the Dome 2, Typhur said the Sync, at around 55dB, is "a bit louder". A maker that ranks its own two machines, and puts the cheaper, bigger one second, is telling you something real about how size and design trade against noise.
What the numbers mean in a kitchen
Roughly every 10 dB is a doubling of how loud something sounds, so small gaps matter more than they look. If the makers' figures were measured the same way, a 55 would sound about 40 percent louder than a 50. They were not, so treat the gaps as a hint, not a result. Our decibel chart puts 50 to 65 dB beside a quiet office, normal conversation and a vacuum cleaner, which is where Philips itself pitches 65.
The setting matters too. Every maker here is silent on which setting its figure describes, and makers of quiet appliances tend to quote their quietest setting. The Typhur AF05 lets you choose Low, Medium or High fan speed in its app without saying which one the 51dB belongs to. Until a maker says otherwise, assume the printed number is closer to the gentle end.
Where the air fryer sits changes what you hear. On a counter in an open-plan room it competes with conversation and the TV. If your kitchen is part of your living room, our guide to a quiet open-plan kitchen covers the range hood, fridge and dishwasher that share the space.
What quiet costs
The two lowest claims come with trade-offs. The Cosori Lite mini gets its "lower than 48dB" in a 2.1 quart basket at 900 W. That is enough for one or two people, and you will run it twice for a family. The Typhur Dome 2 gets its 51dB with a brushless motor, which Typhur calls an industry first in an air fryer, and it costs $339.99 for the AF05 and $399.99 for the AF03.
Bigger baskets come with higher figures in this guide. Typhur's 8 quart Sync is around 55dB, by Typhur's own account louder than its 5.6 quart Dome 2. Philips's 9.6 quart NA555 dual basket is covered only by the range-wide "up to 65 dB". More food means more air to move, and more air usually means more fan noise.
Philips's manuals are where we expected to find numbers, because the brand prints a noise figure in the manual of at least one of its blenders, as our blender guide notes. We read the user manuals for the HD9285, HD9255, HD9650, HD9875, NA231 and NA352, the US manuals for the NA110 and HD9200, and Philips's specification data for a range of its Airfryers in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and France. None has a noise figure.
What Philips does publish is a support article, "My Philips Airfryer makes a noise". It says the cooling fan noise "can be up to 65 dB (decibel), or as loud as the noise an average vacuum cleaner would make", and that this is normal. The article lists the models it applies to, from the NA555/00 and NA110/00 to the HD9200/91 and dozens of older ones. We treat 65 as a ceiling for every Philips model it names, not a measurement of any one of them.
The only air fryer figure we found marked A-weighted comes from Tefal. Its French page for the Easy Fry Silence 7 L calls it "Le air fryer XXL le plus silencieux", with "un niveau sonore de 43 dB seulement", and the page's specification data lists "Technologie Silence" at 43 dB(A). That is still not a full declaration, with no distance or setting, but it is the only figure with the weighting stated.
T-fal, Tefal's US name, does not sell the Silence. Its US air fryer range when we checked was the Easy Fry Max 5L, the 2.1 quart Easy Fry, and three Infrared models, and none of their pages prints a noise figure. We left Tefal out of the rankings because this guide covers air fryers you can buy from a US maker.
Brands that publish nothing
Most air fryer brands make no numeric noise claim at all on the pages and documents we read. Ninja's US pages for the Air Fryer Pro XL AF181, the DoubleStack SL201 and SL451 and four Crispi models print no figure. Instant's US air fryer pages print none; Quiet Mark lists several Instant Vortex models as certified, but a certification is not a number. Chefman, Dash, Bella, Kalorik and Dreo, whose ChefMaker Combi Fryer we checked, print none on their own stores. T-fal's five US air fryer pages print none. Gourmia's manuals for the GTF1150 and GAF789, and Breville's instruction books for the Air Fryer Chef and the Smart Oven Air Fryer, contain none. Cosori's own TurboBlaze, Dual Blaze, Iconic, TwinFry and dual basket pages print none, even though the Lite mini and Pro LE do. Typhur's newer Sync AF14 page prints none.
None of this means those machines are loud. It means their makers give you no number to compare, and a guide built on published figures cannot rank them.
How we chose
We read the maker's own US page for each air fryer, and the manuals and support pages where the maker publishes them, and recorded every noise figure in the maker's exact words. We grouped the figures by what they claim: an upper limit, a single number, or both at once. We compared figures only inside a group, and never across to Tefal's A-weighted figure. Then we chose picks on what the makers do publish: capacity, power, features and the price on the maker's own store.
We did not measure any of these air fryers. Every figure is the maker's own, quoted as published, with a note wherever the maker gave no distance, setting or weighting, which in this guide is every time.
