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Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer (BOV860)

The Pro's brain in a smaller box. The same 1,800-watt rating plate, the same published-spec discipline, two fewer functions, and a footprint that clears the depth problem the Pro creates. Here is everything Breville publishes, and who should still buy the bigger one.

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The short answer

Quick picks

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Breville Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer (BOV860BSS)
Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer (BOV860BSS)

The same documentation, a smaller box

1,800 W
8.5
$349.95Amazon

#ad · Prices pulled live from the Amazon Product API, last checked Aug 8, 2026. Where we have no verified live price we show none — we would rather leave a gap than print a number that has gone stale. The wattage column is what the manufacturer publishes; “not published” means exactly that, and we have not estimated one. Scores are ours, compiled from published specifications, and are not test results.

What you actually gain over the Pro

Counter space, and very little else you will miss. The BOV860 is the Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro with the same Element IQ control system in a chassis measuring 18.9 by 15.9 by 10.9 inches — about two and a half inches narrower than the Pro, and shallow enough to sit on a standard 24-inch counter without the door swinging into the backsplash. Breville reproduces a 120 V, 60 Hz, 1,800 W rating plate line in the instruction book, so the running cost is identical to the Pro's and to every other 1,800-watt oven on the site. You are not buying efficiency by spending less; you are buying a box that fits.

What Breville publishes, and what it does not

More than almost anyone in the category, and still not everything. The rating plate figure of 1,800 watts is in the manual rather than on the product page, where Breville quotes only a relative claim — “up to 35% less power compared to a built-in oven” — with no absolute wattage. You have to open the instruction book to find the number, which we did. What Breville does notpublish for this model is an interior volume, so you cannot line its usable space up against the Pro's stated one cubic foot on paper. Eleven functions are listed, two fewer than the Pro's thirteen, and the two it drops are the kind most households never select.

What it costs to run

The same few cents an hour as any 1,800-watt oven, because that is the ceiling of a 15-amp kitchen circuit and the BOV860 sits right at it. Spending Breville money buys independently driven elements and build quality, not a lower electricity bill — the exact figure, with the arithmetic, is in the by-model table. The honest way to think about the price is that you are paying for control over the heat and for the documentation, and both of those are real.

The honest catch

Two of them. First, the price: this is still several times the cost of an oven that toasts and bakes to the same temperatures, and if you mostly reheat and make toast, none of what makes it special is recovered on those jobs. Second, the missing interior figure: on a site that scores documentation, an oven with no published cubic-foot volume loses points it did not have to. If you want the biggest usable interior for the money and can live without the Element IQ finesse, the Ninja DT201 gives you two cooking levels for a fraction of the price. If you bake and roast with ambition and keep appliances for a decade, this is the Breville to buy over the wider Pro.

In detail

The full spec

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Breville Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer (BOV860BSS)

The same documentation, a smaller box

Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer (BOV860BSS)

Rated power:120 V ~ 60 Hz 1800 WDimensions:18.9" x 15.9" x 10.9"Functions:11
Wattage published in the manual
8.5/10

The Pro's electronics in a chassis two and a half inches narrower, at meaningfully less money. Same 1,800 W rating plate, same published-spec discipline, two fewer functions and a noticeably more realistic footprint for a normal kitchen.

Power
9.5
Usable space
8
Footprint
8
Documentation
8.5
Value
8.5

What it gets right

  • Identical 1,800 W rating to the Pro, so the running cost is identical — you are not buying efficiency by spending more
  • 18.9 inches wide clears the depth problem that makes the Pro awkward on a standard 24-inch counter
  • Breville publishes an instruction book with a real rating plate reproduction, which is rarer in this category than it should be

What it doesn't

  • Breville's own product page quotes a relative claim — 'up to 35% less power compared to a built-in oven' — and no absolute wattage; you have to open the manual to find the number
  • No interior volume is published for this model, so you cannot compare its usable space to the Pro's 1 cubic foot on paper
  • Still several times the price of an oven that toasts and bakes to the same temperatures

What it costs to run

About 33.9¢ an hour at full draw, or $61.86 a year at 30 minutes a day, 365 days a year and 18.83¢ per kWh.

1,800 W ÷ 1000 × 182.5 h × 18.83¢ = $61.86

120 V ~ 60 Hz 1800 W is the rating plate line reproduced in Breville's instruction book for all BOV860 models. This is an upper bound: the elements cycle off once the cavity is at temperature, and no manufacturer publishes a duty cycle, so we compute at full rated draw rather than invent a correction factor. The full method is published.

Skip this if…

…you were buying it for lower running costs than the Pro — it draws exactly the same 1,800 W, and the only thing that changes your electricity bill is how long you leave it on.

$349.95on Amazon

Price last checked Aug 8, 2026. Prices move constantly — Amazon's at checkout is the one that counts.

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How we picked

Ovens we claim to have cooked in: 0

Everyone in this category tells you they roasted forty chickens. We have roasted none, and we say so. Here is what we do instead: read the manufacturer's manual and spec sheet, record the published wattage, interior volume, temperature range and warranty term, work out what the oven costs to run for an hour and for a year, show the arithmetic so you can redo it with your own electricity rate, and cite all of it. Where a brand publishes no wattage, we print no running cost rather than borrowing a number from a similar model. Prices come live from Amazon's API and disappear rather than go stale.

The scores above are judgments from that documented research — not test results. One of the five metrics is Documentation: whether the manufacturer will tell you what its oven draws at all. The full rubric, including what disqualifies an oven, is published in full.

Questions

Frequently asked

What is the difference between the Breville BOV860 and the BOV900 Pro?
The Pro (BOV900) is wider, has a published one-cubic-foot interior and thirteen functions; the BOV860 is two and a half inches narrower, lists eleven functions, and publishes no interior volume. Both draw the same 1,800 watts and cost the same to run. For most kitchens the narrower BOV860 is the more practical fit; the Pro review is here.
Is the Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer worth the money?
If you bake and roast seriously and keep appliances a long time, yes -- the independently driven Element IQ elements and Breville's published documentation are real advantages. If you mostly toast and reheat, it draws the same power and costs the same to run as ovens a quarter of the price, and you would not use what you paid for.

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We have not cooked in these ovens and we do not pretend to have. Specifications come from the manufacturer's own published documents; electricity rates come from the US Energy Information Administration; prices come from the live Amazon API. Where a figure is not published, the page says “not published” rather than guessing. Read the full method.