Best Refrigerators for $1,000 or Less

When you’re shopping for a refrigerator, it can be difficult to find models that offer the right combination of price, performance, and reliability as well as the features you want or need. Many of Consumer Reports’ highly rated refrigerators cost a pretty penny. But if you do a little digging, you can find some great options for $1,000 or less.

In CR’s labs, we put refrigerators through their paces. After a fridge gets wired up with thermocouples, we monitor it for more than a month in a climate-controlled chamber to evaluate thermostat control and temperature uniformity. CR’s test engineers collect more than 5.4 million temperature readings for each model to detect warm and cold spots and to determine which refrigerators will keep your food fresh longer.