Most Reliable Laundry Appliance Brands

CR’s second annual laundry appliance brand reliability rankings show how reliable machines from a given laundry brand are relative to others in the marketplace. The results are based on survey data we collected from our members about 204,923 washers and dryers purchased new between 2015 and 2025. That represents 49 percent more machines than the previous year’s survey results.

Our data reveal which brands are most reliable in the four washing machine categories we test (front-loaders, top-load agitators, high-efficiency top-loaders, and compacts), as well as across dryers, including full-sized electric and gas models and compact models. Current survey results are based on CR members’ experiences with 108,608 washing machines and 96,315 dryers purchased new between 2015 and 2025.

To calculate predicted reliability, we asked members whether their washer or dryer broke or stopped working properly. We used that information to estimate how well a given brand’s new models would hold up over the first five years of use. The overall predicted reliability ratings for a brand’s laundry machines are an average of the ratings for all types of that brand’s laundry appliances. Those ratings also help us determine the most reliable washer and dryer brands.