Amazon's 5 new Echo devices: prices and Alexa+

What Amazon announced and what each device costs

Echo is Amazon's line of smart speakers and smart displays built around its Alexa voice assistant. On October 28, 2026, Amazon announced five new Alexa devices for the home: a redesigned Echo Show 16, a new Echo Dot, Echo Studio with Home Camera, the Echo Time smart alarm clock and the Alexa Photo Frame.

Four of the five devices went on sale on October 28, and only Echo Show 16 is on preorder, starting at $499.99 and shipping later this year. Here is how the lineup breaks down in the US.

Four are on sale now and Echo Show 16 ships later this year

Echo Dot costs $99.99, Echo Time $199.99, Alexa Photo Frame starts at $199.99 and Echo Studio with Home Camera costs $249.99, while Echo Show 16 preorders get $100 off. The photo frame's $199.99 price is for the black frame; the birch and walnut wood versions cost $229.00.

Echo Show 16 costs $499.99 with the standard screen and $569.99 with Nanomatte, a matte finish that cuts glare by more than 90%. Amazon has not given a ship date beyond "later this year." Kids versions of Echo Dot and Echo Time start at $109.99 and $209.99 and include a year of Amazon Kids+.

Echo Dot gets a smart home hub and an eero extender

The new Echo Dot can run Zigbee, Matter and Thread devices without a separate hub and extends an existing eero network by up to 1,000 square feet. Zigbee, Matter and Thread are wireless standards that smart bulbs, plugs and locks use to talk to a hub, and eero is Amazon's mesh Wi-Fi brand.

It is also the first Echo Dot with Amazon's AZ3 chip, which handles more speech processing on the device. A fourth microphone helps Voice ID tell who is talking, so Alexa can play your playlist instead of your partner's. Amazon says the speaker puts out 50% more bass than the previous model.

What can the new Echo devices do?

Two of the five are new product types for Amazon: Echo Time is its first smart alarm clock, and Alexa Photo Frame is its first photo frame with Alexa built in. The other three upgrade devices Amazon already sells.

Besides the hub in Echo Dot, each device gets one headline feature: a room map on Echo Show 16, a camera on Echo Studio, sleep-timed alarms on Echo Time and automatic photo picking on the frame. That makes five devices with five different main uses.

Echo Show 16 maps lights and locks to where they are

Echo Show 16 has a 16-inch full HD screen with 10% more viewing area than Echo Show 15, in an aluminum frame that is nearly 40% thinner. Screen Styles turn the home screen into a family organizer, a digital photo frame or a smart home dashboard.

The new Alexa Home Map places every light, lock, thermostat and camera where it sits in your home, so you can tell which room a device is in before you tap it. The map lives in the smart home dashboard.

The display also has full Fire TV built in and a 13-megapixel wide-angle camera. Visual ID, which recognizes who is in front of the screen, now works from up to 17 feet away, and Echo Show 16 is the first Echo Show with night vision.

Echo Studio with Home Camera can see what you hold up

Hold up a board game box and Alexa+ explains the rules, or show it a cereal box and Alexa helps you reorder it. Live View in the Alexa app also lets you check the room while you are away, and Amazon says the speaker will soon pair with a compatible Fire TV for video calls on the TV.

A button turns off both the microphones and the camera, and an LED lights up whenever the camera streams images or video to the cloud. If you would rather not have a camera at all, the regular Echo Studio stays on sale at $219.99.

Echo Time wakes you during lighter sleep

Echo Time is a camera-free alarm clock for the nightstand with a 3.2-inch circular touchscreen and hundreds of clock faces. It has earned the National Sleep Foundation's SleepMark, a label for sleep products that meet the foundation's evidence-based criteria.

An ultrasound sensor tracks your breathing, and the optional smart alarm wakes you within 10 to 60 minutes of your set time, with nothing worn on your wrist. Alexa picks the moment it detects lighter sleep within that window. As the alarm nears, the screen brightens like a sunrise and the tone builds gradually.

Alexa Photo Frame chooses which photos to show

Alexa Photo Frame has a 10-inch anti-glare touchscreen and pulls pictures from Amazon Photos, which gives Prime members unlimited photo storage. You can ask Alexa to show photos of a person, a pet or a trip, and add voice notes that tell the story behind a picture.

The frame pulls photos from Amazon Photos and shows the ones where people are smiling and the season matches, while leaving out screenshots. New photos of the people you choose appear on the frame as you take them.

What Alexa+ adds and who pays for it

Alexa+ is the generative AI version of Alexa. It holds more natural conversations, asks clarifying questions and pulls from several sources at once to handle requests with more than one step. Amazon's Bee wearables also connect to it (related: Amazon's Bee Frontier and Eclipse AI note-takers).

Amazon says certain features on all five devices require Alexa+, which costs nothing extra for Prime members. The posts tie several headline features to it, such as asking Alexa+ about a board game held up to Echo Studio and the photo frame's automatic picking.

Prime includes Alexa+, and the photo frame adds 90 days

Without Prime, a frame buyer still gets Alexa+ free for a limited period, a trial Amazon does not mention for the other four devices. Amazon's photo frame post says every frame comes with 90 days of Alexa+.

The four other product posts end with the same line: certain features require Alexa+, which is included with Prime. None of them says which features stop working without it, so the posts alone do not tell you what a non-Prime owner loses.

Japan gets Echo Time, Echo Dot and Alexa+ early access

Buyers in Japan pay 35,980 yen for Echo Time and 17,980 yen for Echo Dot, and Alexa+ will cost 3,000 yen a month after the free period unless they have Prime. Amazon Japan put only those two devices on sale on October 29, the same day Alexa+ Early Access began there.

Japan joins the list of Alexa+ countries, which already includes the US, the UK, Canada, Mexico, India, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Brazil, France and Australia, and Amazon plans to bring Alexa+ to more than 10 additional countries in 2027. Japanese customers ran over 2.6 billion smart home actions through Alexa in the last 12 months.