Best Duxtop Induction Cooktops of 2026

Two zones, one 1800-watt budget. The 9620LS gives you two independently controlled cooking areas on a single 15-amp plug, which means the zones share that 1800 watts instead of each getting a full burner's worth. For the jobs a second burner actually covers, a pot of sauce next to a skillet of onions or stock on one side and a grill pan on the other, that's plenty, and it's why this is the Duxtop we point to when one burner isn't enough.

The controls come from the same family as the single burners: a touch panel with 20 preset levels per mode, a temperature mode meant for frying and steaming, a child safety lock, and a low and high voltage warning. The dark glass top over a stainless body looks like a small appliance rather than a hot plate, and at 17 inches wide it doesn't ask for much counter.

What it won't do is behave like two full-size burners. Each zone heats a tighter circle than a wide skillet covers, so a 12-inch pan browns in the middle. Match your pan to the ring and it cooks evenly. At 12.8 pounds it's countertop furniture, not something you'll put away after every meal.

Twelve and a half pounds is a lot of burner to lift onto a counter, and the P961LS earns it. The body is stainless steel, the surface takes a loaded stockpot without complaint, and the angled control panel puts a large LCD up where you can still read it with a full pot parked in front of the unit. Nothing about it feels like a hot plate with a nicer lid.

Where it earns its place is the heavy end of cooking: canning, crab boils, a stockpot that outweighs the appliance itself. On build quality it's the strongest of these picks, and the 7-blade fan with a back vent moves heat out of the housing quickly after you switch off. It also heats as fast as anything else here, bringing a big pot up to a boil without drama.

The limitation is length. A long, low cook, the kind where a pot of stock sits at a bare simmer for three hours, can trip the overheat protection and shut the unit down. That's a real constraint for set-and-forget cooking and no constraint at all for the searing, boiling, and frying this burner is good at.

The 8600BI is the one burner here that lets you decide where it lives: drop it into a counter cutout for a flush glass surface, or set it on top and treat it like any other countertop burner. That choice is why it's our built-in pick. You can buy it now, cook on the counter this month, and cut the hole when the new counters arrive.

The rest of the package is sensible rather than fancy: 15 power levels from 200 to 1800 watts, 15 temperature settings from 140 °F to 460 °F, a 170-minute timer, a safety lock, and a sensor-touch panel with an LCD. At 6.8 pounds and a little over three inches tall it still stores in a cabinet, and the glass-ceramic surface wipes down with a damp towel.

The 140 °F floor is the thing to settle with yourself first: this is a cooking burner, not a melting one, so chocolate, butter, and proofing dough belong somewhere else. If you're installing it, get the cutout dimensions and the clearance underneath from the spec sheet before you touch the counter, because the fan needs air.

The pitch is short. The 9120MC carries the same 20 power levels, from 100 to 1800 watts, and the same 20 temperature settings, from 100 °F to 460 °F, as our top pick, and it costs noticeably less. What you give up is the display, a push-button panel instead of the LCD touch panel, and the finish, which is gold-trimmed rather than silver.

The glass top is oversized for its footprint, which leaves a wide pan more room to sit, and the body is just over two inches thick, thin enough to stand on edge in a cabinet. Auto-pan detection shuts it down if the pot comes off, and at 6.2 pounds it matches the 9600LS pound for pound.

The 9120MC is the one we hand to anyone who wants the finest control in this group without paying for the panel that goes with it. Cook in power mode for searing and frying, use the low end for a slow hold, and put the savings toward a pan with a flat, magnetic base.

A 170-minute timer is the sort of feature you don't appreciate until you've walked away from a pot of beans. The 8100MC counts down in one-minute steps up to that limit, and it's the least expensive burner here, which makes it the long-cook, low-stakes option in this group.

Around the timer sit 15 power levels from 200 to 1800 watts and 15 temperature settings from 140 °F to 460 °F, push-button controls, auto-pan detection that shuts the unit off after a minute without a pot, diagnostic error codes, and low and high voltage warnings. At 5.8 pounds it's the lightest full-size burner of these picks, and the 13-inch width fits a small counter.

What we like is how little you give up for the money: a timer, a full 1800 watts, and a body you can lift with one hand. It's a searing-and-boiling tool rather than a delicate one, since the temperature mode starts at 140 °F and the control steps are coarser than the 20-level models. As a first burner or a holiday second, it's the one we point to.

Cutting a hole in a counter is a one-way decision, and that's the right frame for the 9720LCBI. It's a two-zone induction cooktop meant to be installed rather than carried around, so the question it answers isn't which burner to buy but where the burner should live.

The specification is the familiar Duxtop package scaled to two zones: 1800 watts in total, 20 temperature settings, 20/10 power levels for the burners, an LCD readout, and an all-glass panel that wipes clean. Two independently controlled zones mean a sauce and a skillet at once, in a fixed unit rather than on a cord.

Before you commit, confirm the cutout dimensions and the clearance the fan needs underneath. A built-in burner boxed into a tight cabinet with nowhere for the air to go is the installation mistake that turns into a unit running hot and shutting itself off mid-recipe.

For a permanent two-zone setup in a small kitchen, a basement bar, or a rental you're fitting out, we think it's the right call, and the LCD and independent controls are what a fixed unit should have. If there's any chance you'll want to move it, buy the 9620LS instead: same two zones, no cutout.

The second purchase nobody mentions is the cookware. Induction needs a magnetic base at least 5 inches across, and most kitchens hold a pan or two that will work and several that won't. This bundle removes that step by putting a 5.7-quart stainless steel pot with a lid in the box.

The burner underneath is the familiar 15-level Duxtop: 200 to 1800 watts of power, 140 °F to 460 °F in temperature mode, a 170-minute timer, and a compact 13-inch body about two inches tall. It's the same control set as the budget single burners, capable but coarser than the 20-level models.

The pot is the more interesting half. It's 18/10 stainless steel with a heavy impact-bonded base, the layer that makes it induction-ready in the first place, and a wide mouth that's easy to stir in and easy to get a ladle into. For soup, stock, pasta, or a one-pot dinner, it's sized right for a family.

For a first induction setup, a gift, or a cabin kitchen starting from zero, we think it's the least fussy way in: one box, one pot that works, no magnet test at the store. If you already own induction-ready cookware, buy the burner on its own, because the pot is the whole of what the bundle adds.