Your guide to the best Google Home sales happening online. We’re rounding up the best deals on Google’s smart home speakers, including the Google Home, Google Home Mini, Google Nest Hub (formerly known as the Google Home Hub) and Google Home Max. We’ve also got the latest deals on the new Google Added Nest Hub Max and Google Nest Mini devices.
The Google Home family of smart speakers are some of the most popular smart speakers on the market that take advantage of the convenience of voice control. And don’t tell Alexa, but Google Assistant proved to be a lot smarter in answering our queries. The Google Home and Google Home Mini are roughly on par with the Amazon Echo range in terms of audio quality for music, but the newer Google Home Max frankly beats all of Amazon’s Echo speakers for music fans who want to feel every beat.
After you’ve saved your new smart speaker, getting started is as easy as a voice command. All you have to do is say “Ok Google” and ask your Google Home any question you want. Google Assistant uses the tremendously powerful Google search engine to bring you the answer.
More features and apps are being added all the time, but for now you can stream music from Google Play, Spotify, Tunein or your phone. There are also smart home tech features you can pair it with smart lights and thermostats are told what to do. Even the basic functions prove incredibly useful, like adding items to shopping and to-do lists or setting alarms – finally no more burnt pizza!
The Google Home Mini is a smaller, cheaper version of the Google Home that was first introduced in 2017. Instead of a pricier £129/$129 like its bigger older brother, you’ll pay for the Home Mini but at $49 in the US and £49 in the UK you can get it for a lot less on a regular basis throughout the year.
Of course, the Google Home Mini comes with Google Assistant, which means you can ask it questions by simply starting with “Ok, Google”. And with the power of the Google search engine behind it, and now a super cheap price to match, Alexa’s time might be up.
Color options include chalk (grey), charcoal (black), coral (pink), and the newest entry is mint (light green). At such a cheap price, you might be tempted to buy more than one, especially for single-family homes, as a new broadcast app lets you talk to every Google Home device in the house.
Google Home Mini deals have been strong lately as Google aims to catch up with the Amazon Echo Dot sales, meaning you’ll rarely have to pay the full MSRP. Check out our full Google Home Mini review for the full review of the tiny smart speaker.
There are some modest upgrades in the Google Nest Mini – the long-awaited successor to the Google Home Mini. However, nothing has changed as far as the visual design is concerned, which to be honest is a little disappointing and certainly won’t make many people upgrade their older model right away.
The Nest Mini features slightly improved capacitive controls for volume and playback, with sensor-activated LEDs guiding your hand to the right control points. While Google Nest Mini is still powered by Google Assistant, it now uses built-in machine learning to optimize your queries and speed up response times over the Home Mini. There’s also a new slot on the bottom of the unit that allows you to hang the speaker on a wall.
The speaker is backed by improved bass and an overall larger speaker system housed in the same enclosure. We found the original version surprisingly loud for a cheap music player, and the extra bass is appreciated here. The Nest Mini has the same starting price as the Home Mini, but the older device often sells for a lot less, and we expect the Nest Mini to follow suit to keep up with Amazon’s Echo Dot series.
The standard Google Home was the first smart speaker Google released. It costs quite a bit more than the Home Mini, but the more powerful speaker can be worth it if you want to play louder music. It’s a great mid-range option between a choice of three speakers, and considerably cheaper than the high-end Google Home Max.
So how much does the original Google Home cost? Prices started around the $129/£129 mark, but retailers are slowly becoming more competitive these days. We see more discounts to keep the price well below. Would you like to know more? Then take a look at our complete Google Home review.
The Google Home Hub has now been renamed the Google Nest Hub. However, it takes retailers a while to update their listings. The two articles are actual exactly the same, it’s just a name change. So don’t be alarmed if the retail box simply has a sticker over the old name.
We’ve been waiting for a screen on one of Google’s smart speakers for a while, and in late 2018 we finally got one with the Google Home Hub. With an RRP of just $149 / £139 / AU$219, the Nest Hub is a lot cheaper than the similarly sized Amazon Echo Show.
Of course, the Google Nest Hub supports a wide range of smart home products like Hue bulbs, Nest thermostats and so on. Unlike the Amazon Echo Show, you get full YouTube support, which is great for watching music videos, trailers, cooking videos, how-to guides, etc. – a huge advantage over the competing device. We frequently find that the voice-activated Google Assistant also outperforms Amazon’s Alexa on almost every corner.
The Nest Hub doesn’t have a built-in camera, so you can’t use it for video calls. If that’s what you really want, we’ve rounded up the latest ones Amazon Echo Show pricing for you too or take a look at the Google Home Hub Max below. However, for more details on this topic, see our Google Nest Hub Verification.
Want something bigger than the Google Nest Hub (aka the Google Home Hub)? Then you should check out the latest member of the Google Smart Speaker family, as it comes with a 10-inch display.
Unlike the smaller version, there is also a camera on this version, giving you the option of making video calls via the free Google Duo app, which is also available on smartphones and PCs. There is also a switch on the device to turn off the camera and microphone for added privacy.
With a Chromecast built-in, you can also stream content directly to the screen, though you can place the Nest Hub Max close enough to enjoy it on its 10-inch screen, as it’s not exactly designed to be held in your hands will. The new gesture control is a handy add-on option to control media playback without raising your voice or touching the screen.
If the camera features, gesture controls, and larger display aren’t major points for you, then the smaller version is considerably cheaper than this and might be your better option.
Ok, so you fancy a real boom for the tunes? Then you should check out the monster-sized Google Home Max. This large speaker houses dual 4.5-inch woofers for high-fidelity music playback, as well as the Google Assistant technology that has proven so popular in the Google Home line of smart speakers. Technically, this speaker is what we would call super-smart, automatically adjusting its music output based on room size and placement. The microphone has also been improved and is more than capable of picking up your requests from across the room, even when music is blaring at a significant volume.
Google Home Max pricing is usually in line with the name, with a $399/£399 price tag. However, prices have come down recently so as shown above you should be able to get a better deal. If you want to see the full overview, take a quick look at ours Google Homemax Verification.
What are Google Home base stations?
The bottom part of the original Google Home speaker can be swapped out with different “bases” to replace the standard gray one. However, they are not cheap and the official ones are only available from Google store at the time of writing.
Cloth bases are the cheapest at $20/£18 and come in mango (orange), navy (green) and purple. Metal bases cost $40/£36 and come in Carbon (black), Copper, and Snow (light grey). But maybe we just have to pretend to be this purple.
We’ve seen some third-party sales and knockoffs, mostly leather-style ones Amazon and ebaybut not particularly tempting so far and the prices aren’t much cheaper either.