The Best Outdoor Pizza Ovens for Perfect Pies at Home

There’s something magical about a homemade pizza night. It’s one of the rare cooking rituals where everyone gets involved, crowding around the counter to stretch dough, layer toppings, share a laugh, and maybe even attempt to toss a pie in the air. But to make truly great pizza at home, there's a few things you need in addition to good company: fresh dough, quality toppings, and a pizza oven that gets far hotter than any standard home oven or grill ever could.

• Best outdoor pizza oven overall: Gozney Arc XL
• Best budget pizza oven: Solo Stove Pi Prime
• Best for hands-off cooking: All-Clad Outdoor Rotating Stone Gas Pizza Oven
• A great larger pizza oven: Ooni Koda Max 2
• Best electric pizza oven for outdoor use: Current Model P Smart Pizza Oven

A bad pizza oven ends up stranded on the island of forgotten appliances, alongside abandoned breadmakers and panini presses. But a good one earns its keep. It comes out on summer nights under string lights and again on cold winter weekends when the oven throws off just enough heat that you barely need a jacket.

The best pizza ovens we tested all got blisteringly hot and turned out pizzas with crisp bottoms, chewy interiors, and beautifully charred edges. Still, they’re not all created equal. Ahead, the pizza ovens we think are truly worth the space and the investment and will keep you turning out great pies for years to come.

New in this update: We tested six new outdoor pizza ovens this round: two electric and four gas. After retesting, the Gozney Arc XL is now our top overall pick, the Current Model P replaced the discontinued Ooni Volt 12 as our best outdoor electric pizza oven, and All-Clad’s Rotating Stone Gas Pizza Oven earned a spot for its hands-off rotating stone feature.

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Gozney

Arc XL

$1,000 $900 (10% off)

BBQ Guys

$1,000 $900 (10% off)

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What we love: After testing over a dozen pizza ovens, Gozney’s Arc XL is the one senior commerce editor Olivia Tarantino uses regularly. It’s why we named it one of the best new products of 2025 in our Gear of the Year awards. The thing about the Arc XL—and all Gozney products, for that matter—is that you can tell it’s designed by people who think about every small detail. For example, it comes with a tiny metal tool that lets you adjust the pizza stone’s position by fractions of an inch until it’s exactly where you want it. And while some ovens require you to buy a separate infrared thermometer to measure temperature, this one has a built-in digital thermometer.

The Arc XL’s signature feature is its namesake flame that arcs over the top of the oven. Most pizza ovens have long lines of side or rear burners, but this design mimics a traditional wood-fired oven. The single burner gave us way more control over the cook; whereas leaving a pie a little too long in one spot in other double-burner ovens would result in half the pie charring, it was much easier to recover from mistakes in the Arc XL. And with over 300 square inches of cooking space, there’s plenty of room on the stone to move a pie away from the direct flame. During our testing, we got far fewer burnt crusts and a perfect Neapolitan-style char every time. The rolling flame also allowed us to lift each pie to the flame to get blistered, bubbling cheese on top without worrying about burning the crust—something trickier to accomplish with shorter flame rows.

While compact enough to live on a backyard table, the Arc XL also looks beautiful sitting on its custom stand, which keeps everything at the right height for a seamless pizza-making experience.

What we’d leave: It's hard to find faults with the Arc XL. The only thing we can say is that it’s on the pricier end of our recommendations, but we think it’s well worth the investment.

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Solo Stove Pi Prime

$450

Solo Stove

What we love: If you’re looking for an easy-to-use, inexpensive outdoor pizza oven, it’s hard to beat the Solo Stove Pi Prime. While the oven was $350 during our first round of reviews, it has since increased in price to $450, but that price point still puts it on the low end of the ovens we considered. While the Pi Prime doesn’t have the bells and whistles of more expensive ovens, it does its most important job very well: It gets hot fast. In just 15 minutes, the stone preheats to more than 900℉ and is able to cook a Neapolitan-style pizza in 90 seconds. Weighing in at just 30 pounds, the Pi Prime is also relatively portable. The simple, familiar stainless-steel design requires no setup or additional accessories, and it’s easy to clean and store.

What we’d leave: The only real downside to the Pi Prime is the 12-inch stone, which we generally find to be just a bit too small for our liking. However, if you’re just starting out with homemade pizza or don’t have a ton of space or money to spend, this is a great option.

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All-Clad 16" Outdoor Rotating Stone Gas Pizza Oven

$1,300 $800 (38% off)

All-Clad

What we love: One of the most important skills you need to develop when making pizza in an outdoor oven is understanding when to rotate the pie. Wait too long, and you burn half the pie. Turn it too quickly, and you may not get the crispy bottom you're looking for. That problem is solved with All-Clad’s Outdoor Rotating Stone Pizza Oven. The battery-operated rotating pizza stone is timed so that when you set the flame height and launch your pie, all you have to do is sit back and wait until the crust is done to your liking. Not only is it nice to be hands-off, but it also means you don't have to invest in a separate pizza-turning peel. The All-Clad pizza oven is also powerful. Its curved flame lines the back of the oven and generates impressive heat. It was one of the fastest to come to temperature and easily exceeded 900℉.

What we’d leave: If you don’t get the placement on the stone just right, the pie won’t rotate properly and can cook unevenly, which happened to us the first time we tried it. If you're just starting out in your pizza-making journey, we’d recommend starting with smaller pies and really nailing your launch before graduating to larger doughs in this oven. While the oven comes with its own peel, we’d recommend buying Gozney’s Pro Placement Peel, which we’ve found lets dough slide off as easily as a hockey puck on ice.

A great larger pizza oven: Ooni Koda 2 Max

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Ooni Koda 2 Max

$1,199

Ooni

$1,199

Backcountry

What we love: If you have the budget and space to upgrade, the 24-inch Ooni Koda 2 Max is as good as it gets without committing to some sort of immovable brick oven. At $1,199, the Koda 2 Max is on the pricey side for our tests, but it’s still less expensive than most professional-grade pizza ovens. The Koda 2 Max shares the same basic design as other ovens in the Koda line, with one big exception: two separately controlled burners, one on each side of the oven. This dual-burner functionality gives you greater control of the temperature and enables two-zone cooking. Because of its size, this oven takes longer to heat up, but thanks to the dual-burner setup, once it does it stays very hot. It continues to fire in even the coldest, windiest conditions.

What we’d leave: As we said, it’s big, and as such, it burns through propane at approximately twice the rate as the smaller ovens we tested, so always be sure to have a backup tank in hand.

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Current Model P Smart Pizza Oven

$699

Current Backyard

What we love: Electric pizza ovens have improved significantly over the past few years, and the Current Model P is an example of an electric oven that produces results rivaling those of gas ovens. Electric pizza ovens are quite large if you think of them as countertop appliances (as big as some outdoor models), which makes them particularly hard to store inside. That’s why we appreciate that the Model P can be kept outside year-round as long as you use a cover.

The controls are intuitive and helpful. It has presets so you can pick the style of pizza you want and the corresponding temperature the oven should reach—for example, 850℉ for Neapolitan or 635℉ for New York—along with an estimated cook time. We made both Neapolitan and New York style in the Model P, and the bottoms came out evenly cooked with just the right amount of browning and bubbling on top, with no rotating required. The Model P is also a more versatile appliance than many electric pizza ovens. Thanks to a recent firmware update, the temperature settings can dip down to 350℉ so you can bake bread, roast vegetables, or even reheat pizza you previously made in it.

What we’d leave: Although the presets are a nice touch, they can be a bit restrictive. At the moment, it's not possible to adjust the oven temperature once it reaches the set temperature. You have to turn the oven off and then back on to set a new temperature, which can be frustrating.

Editor’s note: We mentioned at the top that Ooni’s original excellent electric pizza oven, the Volt, was discontinued. Ooni released the Volt 2 to replace it, and it is an excellent, versatile electric pizza oven. However, the big change between the original Volt and the Volt 2 is that the bulk that made the original suitable for outdoor use was removed (Ooni didn’t think enough people were using its electric oven outside, so that capability was unnecessary). That’s what we recommend the Current here, for its outdoor functionality. If you want to know more about the Volt 2, we chose it as a winner in our 2025 Gear of the Year Awards.

We made a lot of pizza. For each oven, we started by cooking a basic Neapolitan-style Margherita at the maximum temperature of each oven (between 800–900 degrees), as well as a simple New York–style pie with raw sausage cooked between 600–700 degrees. From there, we played with a variety of different pizza doughs (e.g., sourdough, prefrozen, gluten-free, etc.), temperatures, and toppings to determine overall ease of use, quality of the finished product, and relative value for the price.

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Koda 2 Pro - 2nd Generation

$800

Ooni

Ooni’s second-generation Koda 2 Pro got some upgrades that really improved the cooking experience compared to the first generation. For starters, the flames are now on opposite sides of the oven rather than in an L-shape in the back, which we found not only helped with heat retention but also cooked the top of the pie more evenly. It also has a larger 18-inch cooking stone, giving it 33% more capacity than gen one. Although it comes with a Bluetooth-enabled digital temperature hub, it was finicky and disconnected when we went inside (but were still within range), so it didn’t end up being as useful as we’d hoped. We also found that the oven had trouble getting above 800℉ even on full power (although Ooni says it can reach 950℉). This didn’t affect pie quality, but it’s worth noting. Our pies came out evenly cooked with tender crusts, crispy bottoms, and bubbly cheese. This is absolutely a great pizza oven, but we enjoyed the Arc XL’s cooking experience, heat retention, and build quality a bit more.

The Ooni Koda 16 was previously our top pick, but Ooni has since come out with a second-generation option, the Koda 2 Pro, which we tested for this review. We still like the first-generation Ooni Koda 16 for its size, price, and overall performance. The L-shaped burner ignites easily and heats the stone to 950 degrees in less than 20 minutes. From there, the oven can crank out a perfectly charred Neapolitan pizza in just 90 seconds. Like any pizza oven, there’s a learning curve to heat management, though this task was easy with the Koda 16. The 16-inch surface also offers plenty of space for maneuvering or using with a cast-iron skillet to sear and roast steak, chicken, fish, and vegetables. As mentioned, the upgraded Koda has a Bluetooth digital thermometer, which is a nice-to-have, but not essential, so if you're okay with using an infrared thermometer, the Koda 16 is still a great option.

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Gozney Tread

$500

Gozney

$500

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Gozney Tread Portable Pizza Oven

$550

Gozney

The idea of traveling with a pizza oven may seem ridiculous, but the new Gozney Tread (an evolution of the original Gozney Roccbox portable oven) almost has us convinced that a portable pizza oven could be a thing. Almost. With Tread, Gozney promises “pizza in places you never thought possible.” According to the company’s promotional imagery, this includes beaches, deserts, and snow-covered mountain peaks. At only 30 pounds, this seems somewhat feasible, until you add a sturdy carrying bag, telescoping stand, top rack, propane tank, and accessories to the scale. Nevertheless, every element of the Tread is sturdy and well designed, and it’s not hard to imagine taking the oven along for tailgating, car camping, or a day at the beach. Wherever you take it, the Tread is fully capable of cooking a perfectly charred, leopard-spotted 12-inch pizza. It gets hot fast, retains heat well, and, just as important for portability, cools to the touch in less than 30 minutes. Even if you never take it anywhere but your back patio, the Gozney Tread is one of our favorite small outdoor pizza ovens. And it should be, considering it’ll cost you more than $1,000 once fully accessorized.

Gozney’s top-of-the-line oven is an excellent performer. It heats up quickly, has a generous mouth to accommodate full-size pizzas, and features dual fuel capabilities that let you choose between the ease of gas or the hands-on flavorful option of wood. This is a heavy oven, though—nearly 130 pounds—and should be elevated for comfortable use. To that end, it’s a little disappointing that the stand is sold separately (and costs an extra $350), especially when the price tag of the oven itself is quite high. But if you’re in the market for a pro-quality home pizza oven, you’ll be happy with the Dome.

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