Fridge.com publishes data drawn from its live catalog of refrigeration appliances, from NEW-condition retail price observations collected for each model, and from the ENERGY STAR certified record: prices, efficiency, size and space, brands, and the wine and beverage segment. Every figure is self-computed, every dataset is documented and versioned, and every table, chart and card below links straight to the products, brands and collections it describes.
Methodology v1.0·Price history May 2024 – June 2026·Computed July 2026·Free to cite · CC BY 4.0
Browse the catalog by type — every type with a live collection (22)· 22 of 22 link to a live Fridge.com page
How refrigeration prices move month by month: a fixed set of models compared only against themselves, 18 categories, 26 months, 468 rows.
What a refrigerator costs by how big it is: the median advertised price for every cubic-foot size class and appliance type, from $259.48 at 0-5 cu ft to $2,303.10 at 30+ cu ft.
Every monthly issue of the index in one place, each with figures identical to the live tables. 16 categories published in the current issue; 2 disclosed below the 30-model threshold.
Explore what the index names· 8 of 8 link to a live Fridge.com page
Certified annual energy use by appliance type — median, energy per cubic foot and the margin under the U.S. federal standard. The median certified model uses 11% less than its federal maximum; 19.1% carry the ENERGY STAR Most Efficient designation.
The 60 named models that lead 6 classes on certified energy use per cubic foot, ranked from 4,499 certified records; 12 of the winners are stocked on Fridge.com.
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Leaderboard winners stocked on Fridge.com — real catalog products, prices as of 08/17/2026
#5 · Bottom Freezer class
19.05 kWh/yr per ft³
#5 · Freezerless and Single Door class
11.53 kWh/yr per ft³
#1 · Side-by-Side class
19.85 kWh/yr per ft³
#5 · Top Freezer class
17.52 kWh/yr per ft³
How storage volume is distributed across the catalog: median and range of cubic feet for 15 types and 37 brands. French-Door run largest (24.5 ft³ median); compact most compact (3.2 ft³).
Real recorded width, depth and height by class across 1,947 measured models; 46% of the 787 full-size refrigerators sit in the 32-to-35.99-inch band and 33% record no side at or under 30 inches.
How well each class converts floor space into storage — cubic feet per square foot of footprint for 845 measured models. French-door refrigerators lead the full-size classes at 3.08; upright freezers store 19% more per square foot than chest freezers.
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Every refrigeration brand with a real line-up in the catalog: tracked models, median advertised price with its 10th-to-90th-percentile range, capacity, type breadth and — where the certified record supports it — median annual energy use.
The largest brand line-ups — tracked models, largest first
Every bar is a brand you can browse· 8 of 8 link to a live Fridge.com page
Wine coolers, beverage coolers and kegerators as their own market: model count, median price and range, the bottle-capacity distribution (median 34 bottles across 622 models that record one), zones and price by cellar size.
The biggest cellars in the index — real products, prices as of 08/17/2026
The index names a 326-bottle Allavino cellar as the largest in the segment; these are the named cellars stocked in the live catalog.
Biggest cellar
326 bottles
Runner-up cellar
289 bottles
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The Appliance Price Index measures how the price of refrigeration appliances moves over time. Rather than averaging whatever happens to be listed each month, it tracks a fixed set of individual models and compares each model only against itself, so a change in which products are stocked cannot masquerade as a price change. The current release covers May 2024 through June 2026.
A category is published only once it has at least 30 matched models in a month. 16 categories clear that threshold in this release; 2 categories are listed but held below the publication threshold.
Each category tracks a fixed set of individual models from the live Fridge.com catalog. Retailer duplicates and finish variants of one appliance collapse into a single model.
For every pair of consecutive months, only models priced in both months contribute — composition change can never masquerade as price change.
The base month, May 2024, is set to an index of 100. A later reading above 100 means the matched models are more expensive on balance than at the base month; below 100 means cheaper.
Read an index as a relative figure, not a price: it states how a category has moved against its base month, and the accompanying median price gives the level.
Treat only the rows marked published as index figures — categories below the 30-model minimum are shown for completeness but carry no published reading.
Cite the methodology version alongside any figure, because the definition can change between versions. The price index is methodology v1.0.
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Methodology v1.0 · Base month May 2024 · Latest month June 2026 · Computed July 2026 · Product cards show catalog prices as of 08/17/2026; product pages carry the live price.