Stuck at 450F, the Best Toaster Oven for Pizza Competes on Inches

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Every toaster oven on this page that publishes a top temperature publishes the same one. 450°F. Eight listings, eight identical ceilings, from a budget BLACK+DECKER to a premium Ninja.

That is a little below the oven already in your kitchen, which runs to roughly 500°F. So the honest starting point is this: a toaster oven is not a hotter way to make pizza. It is a smaller, faster-to-heat, cheaper-to-run way to make the pizza you were going to make anyway, without firing up a full-size cavity for one disc of dough.

Once temperature stops separating them, something else has to. On these listings it is a number every maker volunteers and almost nobody compares: the largest pizza the oven will take.

Nine of the ten state one. The range runs from 9 inches to 13. That sounds like four inches. It is not. Area scales with the square of the diameter, so a 13-inch pizza is more than twice the pizza a 9-inch oven can bake — 133 square inches against 64.

The figures are not always tidy. One listing says 12 inches in its bullets and 11 inches in its own size field. Another says 12 inches but adds the word “frozen”. And the oven with the largest interior here, a Ninja with a dedicated pizza programme, publishes no pizza size at all.

Only four of the ten have a pizza setting of any kind. One of those is not really a toaster oven: the Gourmia is a countertop pizza oven that also toasts, and it is the single product here that goes past 450°F — to 800°F, though its own spec table reserves that figure for preheating the stone.

So read this roundup in inches first, then in whether there is a pizza mode, then in watts. Degrees mostly tell you nothing, because they are all the same.

Ten toaster ovens below. The largest stated pizza is 13 inches; the smallest is 9.

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At a Glance

Ten Ovens, Sorted by the Largest Pizza They State

Largest pizza exactly as each listing gives it, from 13 inches down to 9, then the one that never says. Read the temperature column for how little it varies.

#	Model	Pizza Fits	Max Temp	Pizza Mode	Best Sellers Rank	Standout	Main Drawback	Check Price
1	Ninja SP101 Flip-Up	13 in	450°F	No	#1 in Toaster Ovens	The largest pizza stated on this page	No pizza setting, and 1750W vs 1800W conflict	View on Amazon
2	Elite Gourmet ETO2530M	12 in	450°F	Yes	#46 in Toaster Ovens	Publishes interior dimensions: 13.25 x 13.50 in	1500W into a 25-litre cavity	View on Amazon
3	Gourmia GPM1270A	12 in	800°F	6 presets	#23 in Countertop Pizza Ovens	800°F and a cordierite stone included	800°F is stated for stone preheat; 500°F otherwise	View on Amazon
4	TOSHIBA 10-in-1 Convection	12 in (or 11)	450°F	Yes	#32 in Toaster Ovens	Pizza setting plus convection and rotisserie	Its own size field says 11-inch pizza	View on Amazon
5	Cuisinart TOA-55	12 in frozen	450°F	No	#12 in Air Fryers	1800W and four heating elements	4.5 stars across just 21 ratings	View on Amazon
6	Hamilton Beach Easy Reach	12 in	450°F	No	#9 in Toaster Ovens	The cheapest 12-inch oven here	Listing gives both 1400W and 1200W	View on Amazon
7	BLACK+DECKER 6-Slice Air Fry	12 in	450°F	No	#4 in Convection Ovens	12 inches plus air fry and a 60-minute timer	One shelf position listed	View on Amazon
8	BLACK+DECKER Crisp ’N Bake Pro	10 in	Not stated	No	#3 in Toaster Ovens	12.35 in wide — narrowest body here	No maximum temperature published anywhere	View on Amazon
9	BLACK+DECKER TO1745SSG	9 in	450°F	No	#14 in Toasters	Cheapest here, with a 2-year warranty	A 9-inch pizza is under half a 13-inch	View on Amazon
10	Ninja Prestige DT501	Not stated	450°F	Yes	#17 in Toaster Ovens	Pizza programme and two-level convection	Never states what size pizza fits	View on Amazon

Ratings and specifications are taken from each manufacturer’s Amazon listing as displayed on 5 October 2026 through a United States connection, and may change. Pizza sizes are reproduced exactly as published. The TOSHIBA gives 12 inches in its bullets and description but “6 Slice Toaster/ 11 Inch Pizza” in its own size field; both are shown. The Cuisinart’s figure is stated as a “12-inch frozen pizza”. The Ninja DT501 publishes a Pizza function but no pizza size, and the BLACK+DECKER Crisp ’N Bake Pro publishes no maximum temperature; neither gap has been filled in. The Gourmia’s spec table states 170–500°F for most functions and 800°F for pizza stone preheat. Two listings give conflicting wattages (Ninja SP101: 1800W in the bullets, 1750W in the spec table; Hamilton Beach: 1400W in the bullets, 1200 in the spec table) and both figures are reported. Sales ranks are shown as displayed and can be pooled across a variant family.

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How We Chose These Ten

We researched current listings, compared manufacturer specifications and documentation, and examined recurring patterns in customer feedback. We did not carry out hands-on testing, and nothing below is presented as measured performance data.

• The largest stated pizza, recorded exactly — it is the one specification that genuinely varies across this category, and one listing never gives it
• Maximum temperature read against a domestic oven — roughly 500°F; eight of these publish 450°F, one publishes nothing, one publishes 800°F
• A dedicated pizza setting noted only where the listing names one — four of ten do; “bake” is not counted as a pizza mode
• Wattage from both the bullets and the spec table — two listings disagree with themselves, and both numbers are shown
• A verified live buy box — all ten confirmed in stock and deliverable in the United States on 5 October 2026
• One outlier included on purpose — the Gourmia is a pizza oven with toaster functions, kept here so you can see what leaving 450°F behind costs
• Limited overlap with our other toaster oven guides — two models appear elsewhere on the site; a third near-duplicate was left out

The Ten Toaster Ovens in Detail

Inches on Paper: The Pizza Each Listing Promises

The one number that genuinely varies on this page, reproduced exactly as each listing gives it, with the area it implies. Area is what you eat; diameter is what gets advertised.

Four inches of diameter separate the smallest stated pizza from the largest, and that four inches more than doubles the food: 64 square inches at the bottom, 133 at the top. Six listings cluster at 12 inches, which is the size of most supermarket frozen pizzas and most home pizza pans, and that cluster is where the real choice for most buyers sits.

Price follows size only loosely. The cheapest 12-inch oven and the dearest 12-inch oven state the same pizza. The one oven that beats 12 inches sits near the top of the range. And the most expensive oven on the page is the only one that will not tell you a size at all. If pizza is the reason you are buying, you are not paying for inches above the cheapest 12-inch oven; you are paying for power, functions, doors and, in one case, a stone and 800°F.

Two of the figures need reading carefully. The TOSHIBA states 12 inches in its bullets and 11 in its own size field, and an 11-inch pizza is 16% smaller than a 12-inch one. The Cuisinart says “12-inch frozen pizza”, a rigid disc rather than a stretched dough that can spread. Neither is necessarily wrong. Both are worth a tape measure on arrival.

Every Toaster Oven Here Stops at 450°F

If inches separate these ovens, degrees conspicuously do not. Here is the full temperature and power picture, as published.

Eight of nine toaster ovens publish exactly 450°F; the ninth publishes nothing. Whatever the reason, it is slightly below a domestic oven, which runs to about 500°F. The practical consequence is simple. No toaster oven on this page will produce a crust your kitchen oven cannot, and the pizza it makes will be the same style of pizza: a longer bake, a drier and crisper base, cheese that melts and browns rather than blisters.

What a toaster oven does better than a full-size oven is everything around the temperature. It heats a far smaller volume, so it is ready sooner — Ninja claims 60 seconds on the SP101 and 90 seconds on the DT501 — and it puts the heating elements a few inches from the food rather than a foot away. For a single 12-inch pizza on a weeknight, that is the argument, and it is a good one.

Power is where the ovens differ, from 1150W to 1800W. More watts into a similar cavity means faster preheat and faster recovery when the door opens, which matters if you bake two pizzas back to back. But 1800W is also the whole of a standard 15-amp, 120-volt kitchen circuit. Run any of the four 1800W units beside a kettle on the same breaker and the breaker will trip, usually mid-preheat.

The Gourmia is the exception, and it is honest about how. Its spec table states 170–500°F for most functions and “up to 800°F for pizza stone preheat”. It is a pizza oven that toasts, and the 350-degree gap between it and everything else here is the clearest picture on this page of what a toaster oven is not.

Four Pizza Settings, and None Says What It Changes

Four of the ten listings name a pizza function: the Elite Gourmet, the TOSHIBA, the Ninja DT501 and the Gourmia. None of the three toaster ovens among them explains what the setting does. On a 450°F oven it cannot be a hotter mode, so the likely candidates are an element balance that favours the bottom, a preset temperature and time, or a fan setting — and we have not guessed which, because the listings do not say.

The Gourmia is the only one that explains itself, by naming six presets — Neapolitan, New York, thin crust, pan, frozen and manual — and by stating that its upper and lower elements are independently adjustable. Those are genuinely different bakes: a thin crust wants intense heat from below; a pan pizza wants longer and gentler heat so the thick middle sets.

For the six ovens without a pizza setting, the method is the same one every toaster-oven owner arrives at: Bake at the top of the range on the lowest rack, then, if the top is pale when the base is done, a short burst on Broil. The settings are a convenience, not a capability. A plain oven that takes a 12-inch pizza will bake the same pizza as one with a pizza button, at the same 450°F.

What does improve a toaster-oven pizza is the surface underneath it. A thin stone or steel that fits the cavity stores heat and pushes it into the base, which is the half of the pizza a 450°F oven struggles with. Check the internal clearance first, because elements sit close; our pizza stone guide and pizza pan guide both cover sizes, and a perforated 12-inch pan is the simplest fit for most of the ovens here.

Best Alternatives

If pizza is occasional and toast is daily, the wider field in our countertop toaster oven roundup is the better starting point; the ovens there are chosen for everything else a toaster oven does.

What Each Step Up Actually Buys

Budget — BLACK+DECKER TO1745SSG, BLACK+DECKER Crisp ’N Bake Pro, Hamilton Beach Easy Reach. The size tier, and it is wildly uneven. The first bakes a 9-inch pizza and has the longest warranty here; the second takes 10 inches, with the narrowest body and no published temperature; the third takes a full 12 inches, with a roll-top door and 4.5 across 7,948 ratings. A small step up separates 64 square inches from 113.

Mid-range — BLACK+DECKER 6-Slice Air Fry, Elite Gourmet, TOSHIBA, Cuisinart. All four state 12 inches, and the money buys features rather than pizza: air frying, French doors and a published interior, a pizza button and convection, or 1800W and four elements. Two of the four have a pizza setting. This is where most buyers who bake a pizza a week should be looking.

Premium — Ninja SP101, Gourmia, Ninja DT501. Three different arguments. The SP101 is the only 13-inch oven. The Gourmia is the only one that goes past 450°F. The DT501 cooks on two levels and declines to state a pizza size. Only the first two are buying you something for pizza specifically.

What to Check Before You Buy

Measure Your Pan or Stone Against the Stated Size

The stated pizza size is a promise about the pizza, not about the tray you bake it on. A 12-inch pizza on a 13-inch pan needs a 13-inch oven, and a stone with a lip or handles adds more. Only one listing here, the Elite Gourmet, publishes the inside of the cavity — 13.25 by 13.50 inches with 8.95 inches of height — and it is the most useful single figure on the page because you can check your own equipment against it. For every other oven, take the stated pizza size as the outer limit of the pan, not the dough, and measure your pan before you order. It takes thirty seconds and saves a return.

Read the Qualifier Next to the Number

Two listings here state a pizza size with a catch attached. Cuisinart writes “12-inch frozen pizza”, which is a rigid disc of known size rather than a hand-stretched dough that spreads in the heat. TOSHIBA writes 12 inches in its bullets and “11 Inch Pizza” in its own size field, and those two figures differ by 16% in area. A third, the Ninja DT501, names a Pizza programme and publishes no size at all. None of this is necessarily misleading. All of it is a reason to read the whole listing rather than the headline before deciding the oven fits the pizza you make.

Do Not Pay Extra for Degrees That Are Not There

Every toaster oven on this page that publishes a ceiling publishes 450°F, from the budget end to the premium end, and one publishes nothing. That is a little under a domestic oven’s 500°F. So a dearer toaster oven is not a hotter one, and no toaster oven will give you the blistered, leopard-spotted crust that needs 700°F and more. If that crust is the goal, the only product here that reaches it is the Gourmia, at 800°F for its stone-preheat pizza mode, and it is really a pizza oven with toaster functions attached. Spend on inches, power and convenience instead.

Check the Wattage, and Check It Twice

Power here runs from 1150W to 1800W, and it decides how quickly an oven reaches 450°F and how quickly it gets back there after the door opens — the moment a second pizza is most likely to come out pale. Two listings disagree with themselves: the Ninja SP101 says 1800W in its bullets and 1750W in its spec table, and the Hamilton Beach says 1400W and 1200. Then check the circuit. A standard 15-amp kitchen circuit supplies about 1800W, so the four 1800W ovens here will trip a breaker shared with a kettle or microwave.

Treat the Pizza Button as a Preset, Not a Power-Up

Four ovens name a pizza function and three of them are toaster ovens with a 450°F ceiling, so the button cannot make them hotter. It is a preset combination of elements, temperature or time, and none of those three listings says which. That is useful if you want to press one button and walk away, and irrelevant if you are happy to set Bake to 450°F yourself and finish under the broiler. Do not pay a premium for the word alone: a plain 12-inch oven without a pizza button will bake the same pizza.

Look at Rack Positions and Element Distance

In a toaster oven the top element is a few inches above the food, so the height of the rack decides whether the cheese browns before the base is done or long after. More rack positions mean more control. The Elite Gourmet offers three; the Hamilton Beach and the Ninja SP101 two; the BLACK+DECKER 6-Slice lists one. The Ninja SP101’s cavity is the lowest here, at 7.56 inches outside, which suits a flat pizza and leaves little room for a thick pan pie. If you make deep-dish or heavily loaded pizza, the taller cavities of the Cuisinart and the Ninja DT501 are kinder.

Plan the Counter, Including the Door

Footprints run from 12.35 inches wide on the BLACK+DECKER Crisp ’N Bake Pro to 21 inches on the Gourmia, and depths from 11.63 to almost 20 inches. Most of these doors drop down, and a dropped door needs clear counter in front of it — exactly where you want to set the pizza down. Two designs here avoid that: the Elite Gourmet’s French doors swing sideways, and the Hamilton Beach’s roll-top door lifts above the cavity. The Ninja SP101 flips up against the backsplash when you are done. Measure the space you have, then add the door.

Common Mistakes

• Paying for degrees. Eight of these publish 450°F, from the budget end to the premium end.
• Comparing diameters instead of area. A 13-inch pizza is more than twice a 9-inch one.
• Measuring the pizza, not the pan. A 12-inch pizza on a 13-inch pan needs a 13-inch cavity.
• Missing the qualifier. One listing says 12 inches and also 11; another says “frozen”.
• Assuming a pizza button means more heat. On a 450°F oven it is a preset, not a higher ceiling.
• Sharing a circuit with an 1800W oven. Four here draw it; add a kettle and the breaker trips.
• Buying the biggest box for the biggest pizza. The Ninja DT501 never states a pizza size.
• Calling the Gourmia a toaster oven. At 800°F for pizza it is a pizza oven that also toasts.

Who Should Buy Which

Buy the Ninja SP101 if your pizza is bigger than 12 inches. It is the only oven here to state 13, it flips up out of the way, and 4.6 across 26,192 ratings is the strongest record on the page.

Buy the Elite Gourmet ETO2530M if you want a pizza setting and a known interior. 12 inches, a named Pizza function, three racks, French doors, and 13.25 x 13.50 inches inside to measure your pan against.

Buy the Gourmia GPM1270A if you want pizza that tastes baked rather than reheated. 800°F for pizza, a cordierite stone and six presets; toast and air fry come along for the ride.

Buy the TOSHIBA 10-in-1 if you want a pizza button and a fan. Convection, a rotisserie and ten functions — then measure, because it says both 12 and 11 inches.

Buy the Cuisinart TOA-55 if you bake frozen and sheet-pan pizza. 1800W, four elements and a 9 x 11 in pan limit, on a rating of only 21 people.

Buy the Hamilton Beach Easy Reach if you want 12 inches for the least money. The roll-top door keeps the counter clear and the spills off the glass.

Buy the BLACK+DECKER 6-Slice Air Fry if it is replacing your air fryer too. 12 inches, 1500W and a 60-minute timer.

Buy the BLACK+DECKER Crisp ’N Bake Pro if counter width is the limit. 12.35 inches across and a 10-inch pizza, with no published temperature.

Buy the BLACK+DECKER TO1745SSG if you mostly reheat slices. A 9-inch pizza, a 2-year warranty and 14,572 ratings behind it.

Buy the Ninja Prestige DT501 if you cook two things at once. Two-level convection and a pizza programme, but no stated pizza size.

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Final Verdict

Eight of these toaster ovens publish the same ceiling: 450°F. The ninth publishes nothing. That is a little under the oven already in your kitchen, which means no toaster oven here will make a hotter pizza; it will make the same pizza sooner, for less energy, on the counter.

So the number that decides the purchase is inches. Nine of ten listings state one, from 9 to 13, and the area behind that range more than doubles — 64 square inches at the bottom, 133 at the top. Read the qualifiers: one oven says 12 and 11, another says “frozen”, and the dearest oven here never says at all.

Then, and only then, look at the extras. Four have a pizza setting, which is a preset rather than more heat. Power runs from 1150W to 1800W, and the top of that range is a whole kitchen circuit. The Gourmia is the honest outlier at 800°F for pizza, and it is a pizza oven that toasts, not the other way round.

If you buy one thing from this page, make it the Ninja SP101 — the only 13-inch toaster oven here, the best-rated on the largest sample, and the most pizza a 450°F box will hold. If 12 inches is enough, the Elite Gourmet gets you there with a pizza setting and a tape-measurable interior.