How much does a smart speaker cost per month in Connecticut?

About 53.7¢ a month, assuming 3 W, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at 24.51¢/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?

Connecticut has the 11th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs more here than the U.S. average of $4.77 a year.

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Cost to run a smart speaker in Connecticut (August 2026 rates)

At 24.51¢ per kilowatt-hour — Connecticut's average residential price in August 2026 — running a smart speaker costs $6.44 a year. That is 35% more than the national average of $4.77. Connecticut's residential rate is down 18.8% from August 2025, which moves this appliance from $7.93 to $6.44 a year.

Per hour: under 0.1¢
Per day of use: 1.8¢
Per month: 53.7¢
Per year: $6.44

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 Connecticut compares

Connecticut pays 24.51¢/kWh, the 11th most expensive residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $1.67 more a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same smart speaker costs $3.34 a year in Nevada and $12.40 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $9.06 a year.

State	Rate	Per month	Per year
Michigan	22.99¢	50.3¢	$6.04
Vermont	23.84¢	52.2¢	$6.27
Connecticut	24.51¢	53.7¢	$6.44
New Jersey	24.61¢	53.9¢	$6.47
District of Columbia	25.98¢	56.9¢	$6.83

States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for a smart speaker.

What else costs about the same in Connecticut

Toaster$8.59 a year in CT Vacuum cleaner$8.82 a year in CT Clothes iron$4.04 a year in CT

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 Connecticut?: About 53.7¢ a month, assuming 3 W, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at 24.51¢/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?: Connecticut has the 11th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs more here than the U.S. average of $4.77 a year.