The Best Gas Grills of 2026

The Wi-Fi-enabled Weber Spirit SX-315 includes three stainless-steel burners and performed just as well as the standard Weber Spirit II E-310 gas grill, our top pick in this roundup.

The difference beyond the price points, was the addition of the smart panel on the side table. Unlike most Weber gas grills, the SX-315 doesn’t have a thermometer on the grill’s lid. Instead, the LED panel is hooked directly into an ambient temperature probe, displaying a digital temperature on the control panel.

That panel also has two probe temperature ports, allowing you to monitor the internal temperature of the food inside the grill.

Beyond the panel, the grill is also “smart,” meaning that it’s connected via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi to the Weber Connect app on your smartphone. That allows you to view the ambient temperature of the grill, monitor the temperatures of food cooking with the built-in thermometer, use the app’s recipes and guided grilling programs, or receive low-fuel alerts on your phone, all without having to be right next to the grill.

The price difference reflects the addition of this smart technology, so you may be wondering if it’s worth spending extra on a smart grill. We can absolutely recommend this grill for beginners, as the app walks users through step-by-step instructions on how to grill meat, poultry, seafood, and more.

It also provides real-time alerts for when to flip your steaks or wrap a pork shoulder to create perfect results.

That said, if you’re not new to grilling or you just purchased a new grill, you probably don’t need to rush out and buy this one. The Weber Connect Smart Grilling Hub is available as a stand-alone purchase, and it offers much of the same functionality as the smart grill. As a bonus, it works with any grill brand.

There’s a reason that Weber dominates our top picks for gas grills: They heat quickly, sear perfectly, and have the most even heating of all the gas grills we’ve tested over the years. So, it’s no surprise that we loved using the new Weber Genesis EPX-335 Smart Gas Grill.

It took an already well-designed grill—our Editor’s Choice Award-winning Weber Genesis—and added several features. We loved this grill’s clever built-in storage area, which provided a convenient (and mostly hidden) space to store our grill accessories. This grill is built for Weber CRAFTED (a framework for dropping in a pizza stone, griddle, roasting basket, or rotisserie skewers into the grill), so this extra storage space is really helpful for stowing your extra accessories.

We also liked some of the smaller added features, like the lights for nighttime grilling. Add a few C batteries to the grill and you can say goodbye to cooking in the dark.

The lights illuminate the EPX-335’s knobs and the entire grill surface when you open the lid. It’s a game-changer for anyone who grills late into the evening!

The main selling point of EPX-335, however, is the Weber Connect technology built into its side table. It allows you to connect to the grill with your smartphone using the Weber Connect app, via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.

Once connected, you’ll be able to view the grill’s temperature or the internal temperature of cooking food via the grill’s two built-in probe thermometers.

It’s also possible to keep an eye on the EPX-335 without your phone in hand. The LED panel built into the side table shows the grill’s temperature. This is great when your grill is connected to a power source, but not great if you want to view its temperature when you’re not connected.

We would have like to have seen an analog thermometer built into the grill’s lid as well to compensate for such occasions.

Our only knock against the EPX-335 is that all of its electronic hardware made it really difficult to assemble. We have a LOT of experience building grills and it still took us almost two hours to get it into working order.

It’s worth noting that you won’t really get your money’s worth from the EPX-335 if you’re not using its smart accessories. So, opt for a regular Genesis if you don’t plan to use the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-enabled features.

If we were to describe any of these grills as being “built like a tank,” it would be the 3 Embers 4-Burner Gas Grill. It arrived in the heaviest box I’ve ever seen, strapped into a palate that almost buckled under its weight.

After building so many grills, we appreciated only having to put the side tables onto this one—especially considering that it has two drawers and a cabinet door, all of which would have been pretty tricky to put on correctly at home.

The grill itself looks gorgeous, with a large glass viewing window, stainless steel for days, and fancy features like burner knobs that light up in iridescent blue when they’re ignited. It was also the only grill we tested that had stainless steel grates, which did get stained during the course of testing but made beautiful sear marks on our burgers.

Performance-wise, the 3 Embers had the most consistent heating across all four burners, although it was notably hotter in the front area than the back. It worked really well at low temperatures too. It maintains a perfect 375° F with all the burners turned to low.

The only thing it couldn’t do? The grill grates didn’t have crossbars placed in the right spaces, so our tiny asparagus stalks fell right through. The side burner is fairly convenient, though.

Bottom line: If you’re looking for a massive grill that can cook over 24 burgers while looking like a professional staple on your deck, this is the one. Just don’t plan to move it too much (seriously, it’s so heavy!) and be ready to shell out some coin because this one doesn’t come cheap.

The Char-Broil Performance 5-Burner Gas Grill is proof that higher BTUs aren’t necessarily better.

This value-priced grill only has 40,000 BTUs, but since it had a smaller cooking area than some of the other grills, it still averaged out to a solid 84 BTUs per square inch. It wasn’t able to get as hot as quickly as the higher BTU grills, but it did do an admirable job at cooking burgers and chicken drumsticks evenly across the five burners.

Unfortunately, this grill lost a lot of points in the aesthetics department. The plastic dials felt cheap, and overall the grill was a bit flimsy and clunky. We wondered how long it would stay together!

If you need a grill for the short term and don’t want to spend a lot, this would fit the bill. For our money, we’d rather spend more on a grill that will hang around for a few years.

We really liked some of the add-on features of the Cuisinart 3-in-1 Five Burner Gas Grill–such as its stainless-steel smoke tube and heavy-duty cast-iron griddle–but the grill itself didn’t perform well enough to justify its high price tag.

The burgers in the back charred and burned before the ones in the front cooked through, and we had a hard time getting the grill to cook at lower temperatures.

This was also one of the more difficult, time-consuming grills to build. It had too many pieces and the frame was flimsy, shaking and rattling when we moved it around. The lid was so heavy that I worried the grill might fall over when you opened it!

Unfortunately, a few of the pieces warped on our original tests, but Cuisinart’s customer service was top-notch and sent us a replacement. We didn’t experience any damage with the second grill, but its performance still ranks it near the bottom of our list.