Best Clothes Dryer Brands
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If you’re shopping for a new clothes dryer, you likely have many questions. What features should you look for? How much should you spend? Which model offers the best mix of options at the lowest price?
Consumer Reports’ performance and reliability ratings for more than 140 electric, gas, and compact dryers can help answer some of those questions. But for all the models in our ratings, there may be dozens more available at your local retailer or online. So we created brand scores for electric and gas dryers to help you find the exact model you need from a manufacturer that consistently produces high-performing, reliable dryers.
You can also check CR’s guide to the most and least reliable dryer brands, which estimates how long a particular manufacturer’s dryer should last before it develops problems. Our reliability data is based on our members’ feedback on 96,315 new clothes dryers purchased between 2015 and 2025.
Below, CR members can view our brand rankings for electric dryers and gas dryers. For each of those categories, we rank only brands with at least three models in our current ratings. (We don’t include compacts in our brand ratings because the sample size is too small.)
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