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

About 34.8¢ a month, assuming 3 W, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at 15.90¢/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?

Georgia has the 21st 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 Georgia (August 2026 rates)

At 15.90¢ per kilowatt-hour — Georgia's average residential price in August 2026 — running a smart speaker costs $4.18 a year. That is 12% less than the national average of $4.77. Georgia's residential rate is up 2.3% from August 2025, which moves this appliance from $4.09 to $4.18 a year.

Per hour: under 0.1¢
Per day of use: 1.1¢
Per month: 34.8¢
Per year: $4.18

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 Georgia compares

Georgia pays 15.90¢/kWh, the 21st cheapest residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to 59.4¢ 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
Montana	15.57¢	34.1¢	$4.09
South Carolina	15.76¢	34.5¢	$4.14
Georgia	15.90¢	34.8¢	$4.18
Texas	15.91¢	34.8¢	$4.18
Oregon	15.92¢	34.9¢	$4.18

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

What else costs about the same in Georgia

Toaster$5.57 a year in GA Vacuum cleaner$5.72 a year in GA Clothes iron$2.62 a year in GA

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 Georgia?: About 34.8¢ a month, assuming 3 W, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at 15.90¢/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?: Georgia has the 21st cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $4.77 a year.