Research profile · last verified 2026-08-08

Amazon Smart Plug

Compiled by SmartHomeWorkflow Research · Amazon · Plugs & Outlets · ~$24.99 ($24.99 is Amazon's own published price, unchanged from the launch release; Amazon's retail listing is not a page we can re-read, so treat this as a list price rather than what you would pay today)

Exactly which product this is^[1]

Model number: Not established
Generation: Not established
Region this page covers: Not established
Also sold or listed as: Not established

“Not established” means we have not sourced that detail yet — not that the product has no model number, generation or regional variant. We publish the gap rather than filling it.

Compatibility

Ecosystem	Support	The catch
Amazon Alexa	WorksWorks with this ecosystem^[5]	This is the only supported path. Voice control additionally requires an Alexa device (Echo, Fire TV, Fire Tablet) or the Alexa app.
Google Home	Doesn't workVerified: does not work with this ecosystem^[5]	Amazon's spec sheet: 'Amazon Smart Plug is optimized for simple setup and exclusive use with Alexa. Amazon Smart Plug does not support other voice assistants or smart hubs.'
Apple Home	Doesn't workVerified: does not work with this ecosystem^[5]	Excluded by the same official statement; no HomeKit or Matter path exists.
SmartThings	Doesn't workVerified: does not work with this ecosystem^[5]	Excluded by the same official statement ('does not support other voice assistants or smart hubs').
Home Assistant	Doesn't workVerified: does not work with this ecosystem^[3]	No official route exists. Amazon publishes no way for other software to control this plug — not over your own network and not through its cloud — and the plug's spec sheet rules out other smart hubs.

Protocols: WIFI^[4]

What it can do^[8]

You can tell it to

On/off

It reports

Not established — we could not confirm this from vendor documentation

None of these platforms' documentation says which of these its automations can use.

Listed capabilities are what we could establish from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished — not necessarily absent.

Subscription reality^[1]

✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.

Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.

Amazon: 'No smart home hub required.' Core control via the free Alexa app needs no paid plan. The listing promotes Alexa+ (free with Prime, paid for non-Prime), but that is an assistant tier, not a requirement for plug operation.

Maintenance reality^[5]

Works without the internet: Inconclusive — we read the vendor's own material and it does not answer this either way. It does not mean the product fails without the internet.
Requires the Alexa app and an Amazon account. Network: 2.4 GHz only, 802.11 b/g/n; no 5 GHz. Electrical: 120 VAC, 15 A max. Indoor use only. 1-year limited warranty.
Security updates: No security-update support date is on record for this model yet. We haven't yet checked whether Amazon publishes one, so this is a gap in our research — not a statement about the manufacturer.

The catch

Ecosystem lock-in is the design, not an omission: Amazon states it 'works exclusively with Alexa' and 'does not support other voice assistants or smart hubs.' No Matter support, no energy monitoring, and switching away from Alexa later strands the device.

Who it's for

Committed Alexa households that want the lowest-friction plug for that ecosystem, with setup measured in minutes via Wi-Fi Simple Setup. Wrong fit for anyone using or considering Apple Home, Google Home, SmartThings, or Home Assistant, or anyone who wants energy data.

Sources & method

Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →

Where these facts come from

No mark: Everything on this page without a mark comes from the people answerable for it: the manufacturer, the platform's own documentation, or a certification register. That is the standard we hold ourselves to.
Seller's spec sheet: This fact comes from a retailer's or a reviewer's specification listing instead of from the manufacturer. A few compatibility answers still rest on one, and we are replacing those with the maker's own word as we find it. The date is when we last checked, because these listings change without notice.
Someone's observation: This fact comes from an owner, a forum, or a community project — someone with the product in front of them rather than the company that makes it. Worth knowing, and not the same as the maker saying so.

Below is every source behind the facts on this page, numbered so you can trace any one of them. Each is quoted in the source's own words, with the date we last read it — we keep the wording exact rather than tidying it, so you can check what was actually said.

14 numbered sources· read them in the source's own words

[1] Amazon's own launch release — Amazon Smart Plug at '$24.99'; 'the first Wi-Fi smart plug to use Wi-Fi simple setup'; 'use your voice to control your lights, fans, coffee maker, and more'; works with 'a compatible Alexa-enabled device like Echo, Fire TV, Fire tablet, Sonos One, or even just the Alexa app on your phone'; no hub required — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-08
Backs: Product identity, Price, Subscription, Research status
[2] Checked Amazon's launch release, the aboutamazon.com devices newsroom and developer.amazon.com; none states a software-support period or end-of-updates date for the Amazon Smart Plug. Amazon's device help pages, which would be the natural home for such a statement, would not open for us at all (five attempts across two rounds, 2026-08-08) — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-08
Backs: Service status
[3] home-assistant.io/integrations/alexa_devices lists Amazon Echo Auto, Echo Dot, Echo Flex, Echo Plus, Echo Show, Fire TV Stick, Fire Tablet and Air Quality Monitor as supported — the Amazon Smart Plug appears nowhere, and no other official Home Assistant integration covers it — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-08
Backs: Home Assistant compatibility
[4] CSA certified-products registry search (csa-iot.org) for 'Amazon Smart Plug': no Amazon-manufactured Matter-certified smart plug listed; product listing contains zero Matter mentions; Amazon's official Matter materials cover Echo controllers and third-party device makers only, with no Amazon Smart Plug Matter update announced — Checked a certification register, verified 2026-07-17
Backs: Protocols
[5] amazon.com/dp/B089DR29T6 (official Amazon listing) — re-read in full on 2026-08-08 and every term confirmed verbatim. Integrations: 'Amazon Smart Plug is optimized for simple setup and exclusive use with Alexa. Amazon Smart Plug does not support other voice assistants or smart hubs.' Also, above the fold: 'Amazon Smart Plug works exclusively with Alexa.' Maintenance: 'Electrical Ratings Input: 120VAC, 60Hz 15A Max Output: 15A Max'; 'Network Connectivity 2.4 GHz only, 802.11 b/g/n. Does not support 5GHz networks or connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks'; 'For indoor use only'; 'Warranty and Service 1-year limited warranty and service'. Market: orderable with quantities 1–11+, 'Shipper / Seller Amazon.com', 30-day refund/replacement. ⚠ NO PRICE IS TAKEN FROM THIS READ: the listing gates it behind 'To see product details, add this item to your cart', so the $24.99 keeps its own date and its own source (Amazon's launch release, re-verified 2026-08-08 in the previous batch). 🔴 WHY THIS NOTE REPLACES AN ESCALATION, stated rather than quietly overwritten: on 2026-08-08 these six terms were marked unverifiable on the finding that this page 'returns a page shell with no product body to our fetcher'. That finding was an INSTRUMENT ERROR, not a fact about the page — the response was read without decompressing it, so a compressed body looked exactly like a shell: bytes present, no product markers, no title. Decompressed, the same URL returns 1,072,422 characters with a full product body, and the production fetcher (which decompresses) extracts 15,765 characters of text containing both load-bearing sentences. The claims were always sourced; our reading of the source was wrong. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-08
Backs: Amazon Alexa compatibility, Apple Home compatibility, Google Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility, Market availability, Maintenance
Checked 2026-08-08. This page no longer lets us re-check it automatically, so that date is where this fact stands.
[6] Amazon retail listing for the Amazon Smart Plug, read 2026-08-18 — what comes back is an empty frame with no product text in it, so it establishes nothing either way. This is how Amazon's retail pages behave for us, already documented, not a new finding; the record's account and Wi-Fi facts continue to rest on the reads already cited. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-18
[7] Amazon's own launch press release, read 2026-08-20: "The Amazon Smart Plug is the first Wi-Fi smart plug to use Wi-Fi simple setup, making it easy to start – and expand – your smart home with connected devices" and, on what a buyer needs, "All you need is a compatible Alexa-enabled device like Echo, Fire TV, Fire tablet, Sonos One, or even just the Alexa app on your phone to get started." — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-20
Backs: Required hub or bridge
[8] Amazon's own launch press release, already cited on this record: "With the Amazon Smart Plug, use your voice to control your lights, fans, coffee maker, and more", and "easily set a routine that turns your lights on at 6:00am and your lights off at 10:00pm". — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-20
Backs: Capabilities
[9] No page was read for this entry. It records WHY each flat 'no' on this record is a no, from the citations those answers already rest on, so the next sweep does not work it out again., verified 2026-08-22
[10] Checked 2026-09-09 without reading a page. This record's only product-level source is https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089DR29T6. Our source-grading rule types that site as a retailer that pays us commission, which supports price and identity only; Amazon is separately registered as a first-party source for its own products, but the grading step is handed a web address rather than the record, so that exception cannot be reached and the guard would reject a Wi-Fi band, app-platform or power-source claim cited there. The other two cited sources cannot answer these fields by construction: a 2018 press release and a Home Assistant integration page. Nothing was requested, because no reachable source could have been cited. Filed for a ruling rather than worked around., verified 2026-09-09
[11] Re-measured 2026-09-09, the same day, and the earlier note was wrong. Amazon's own listing DOES count as a first-party source for an Amazon-made device: our source-grading rule honours that registration when it is told whose product it is, and the guard that would otherwise block does tell it. Proof on a live record: the Echo Dot (5th gen) record carries its Wi-Fi band, app platforms and power source all sourced to Amazon's own listing at amazon.com/dp/B09B8V1LZ3, verified 2026-08-17, and passes every check. **The actual blocker is conduct**: amazon.com is a recorded refusal — the site tells us to stay out — so the page is never read and the refusal is never worked around. The three fields stay unknown for that reason, which no ruling can lift., verified 2026-09-09
[12] the record's own customer-facing prose fields as they stood before 2026-09-12 (no new external read), verified 2026-09-12
[13] The plan this record's notes name, Alexa+ (an assistant tier), was weighed against our standing test for what makes a subscription material. The owner's category expectations of 2026-09-15 set smart plugs to expect nothing of a plan, so no plan feature counts for this category and the 'none' status stands on the subscription source already on this record. No page was re-read: the ruling decides the category, not the plan's contents., verified 2026-09-15
[14] Record-keeping entry: this record's existing 'no' answer for Apple Home now names the platform rule that reason rests on, 2026-09-15, verified 2026-09-15

Compatibility and lifecycle information reflects the last-verified date above and can change without notice (firmware updates, cloud-service changes, discontinuations). It is provided as-is, for information — verify with the manufacturer before purchasing. Spot an error? Tell us and we'll fix it. Full terms: Terms of Service.

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