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

About 32.8¢ a month, assuming 3 W, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at 14.99¢/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?

Florida has the 15th cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $4.77 a year.

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

At 14.99¢ per kilowatt-hour — Florida's average residential price in August 2026 — running a smart speaker costs $3.94 a year. That is 17% less than the national average of $4.77. Florida's residential rate is down 2.2% from August 2025, which moves this appliance from $4.03 to $3.94 a year.

Per hour: under 0.1¢
Per day of use: 1.1¢
Per month: 32.8¢
Per year: $3.94

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 Florida compares

Florida pays 14.99¢/kWh, the 15th cheapest residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to 83.3¢ less 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
Oklahoma	14.82¢	32.5¢	$3.89
North Carolina	14.95¢	32.7¢	$3.93
Florida	14.99¢	32.8¢	$3.94
Arizona	15.05¢	33.0¢	$3.96
South Dakota	15.15¢	33.2¢	$3.98

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

What else costs about the same in Florida

Toaster$5.25 a year in FL Vacuum cleaner$5.40 a year in FL Clothes iron$2.47 a year in FL

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 Florida?: About 32.8¢ a month, assuming 3 W, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at 14.99¢/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?: Florida has the 15th cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $4.77 a year.