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Cost to run a smart speaker in Arizona (June 2026 rates)
At 15.18¢ per kilowatt-hour — Arizona's average residential price in June 2026 — running a smart speaker costs $3.99 a year. That is 17% less than the national average of $4.82.
- Per hour
- under 0.1¢
- Per day of use
- 1.1¢
- Per month
- 33.2¢
- Per year
- $3.99
Assumption: 3 W, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year — 26 kWh a year. Idle listening. Playing music at volume draws several times more, but only while it plays. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.
How Arizona compares
Arizona pays 15.18¢/kWh, the 17th cheapest residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to 83.0¢ less a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same smart speaker costs $3.45 a year in Nevada and $13.85 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $10.41 a year.
| State | Rate | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 15.10¢ | 33.1¢ | $3.97 |
| Montana | 15.14¢ | 33.2¢ | $3.98 |
| Arizona | 15.18¢ | 33.2¢ | $3.99 |
| Wyoming | 15.24¢ | 33.4¢ | $4.01 |
| South Dakota | 15.36¢ | 33.6¢ | $4.04 |
States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for a smart speaker.
What else costs about the same in Arizona
Cutting the number down
- The interesting number is the idle draw, because that is the one that runs 8,760 hours a year.
Questions
- How much does a smart speaker cost per month in Arizona?
- About 33.2¢ a month, assuming 3 W, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at 15.18¢/kWh.
- How many kilowatt-hours does a smart speaker use?
- Roughly 26 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.00 kWh for every hour it runs.
- Is that expensive compared with other states?
- Arizona has the 17th cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $4.82 a year.