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It's fine for a thermostat and thin on everything else. Abt has the Nest Learning Thermostat 4th gen at $239.99 against its $279.99 list, which is the same $40 off the line has carried for months, and the entry Nest Thermostat sits at $129.99 there. The interesting money is in the alternatives: ecobee sells its certified refurbished Smart Thermostat Premium at $219.99 against $259.99 with the same warranty as new, and the used Nest market on eBay is unusually safe because a thermostat has no battery to age. Black Friday goes deeper on the cameras, so wait on those.
Before you compare camera prices, work out the subscription, because it costs more than the hardware over any reasonable ownership period. Google Home Premium, which is what Nest Aware became, is $10 a month or $100 a year for 30 days of event video, intelligent alerts and familiar faces, or $20 a month and $200 a year for 60 days of events plus 10 days of 24/7 history on cameras and wired doorbells. One subscription covers every device in the house rather than each camera, which is the detail that makes a multi-camera setup affordable and a single camera expensive.
Top 3 Nest Deals on Amazon
The three Nest thermostat listings with the steepest discounts on Amazon, ranked by markdown. The thermostat is the one Nest device that pays for itself, and the numbers are more modest than the advertising. Google's own real-world figures are 12% off heating bills and 15% off cooling, based on studies across 41 states and reassessed in 2024. The much larger "up to 31%" you sometimes see compares against holding a house at a constant 72 degrees, which nobody does. Even at 12 and 15 percent, a $99 thermostat is the cheapest energy upgrade in most homes.
When Nest Devices Actually Go On Sale
Nest follows electronics pricing on the cameras and heating-season pricing on the thermostats, which gives you two separate calendars in one brand.
| When | What to expect |
|---|---|
| Black Friday and Cyber Monday | The annual low across the range, and the only week the cameras and doorbells get properly cut rather than trimmed. Multi-camera bundles show up here too. |
| Autumn, as heating season starts | The thermostat window. Retailers discount them into the first cold snap, and many utilities add a rebate on top that can cover most of the purchase. Check your utility before you check the price. |
| Early Columbus Day, into October | Modest. The Learning Thermostat 4th gen sits at its standing $239.99 at Abt, the cameras hold list, and the real cuts are on the rival brand, with ecobee's certified refurbished thermostats at $40 off. Worth taking if you want a thermostat installed before the weather turns; wait on cameras. |
| Whenever a generation is replaced | The outgoing model drops hard and keeps the same subscription and the same app. Nest hardware changes slowly, so a previous-generation camera is doing the same job for less. |
| Any time, on used thermostats | The most overlooked route. A pre-owned 3rd-generation Learning Thermostat runs under $40 and a 4th-generation around $100, and a thermostat has no battery to wear out. |
| Spring and early summer | The dead zone for thermostats, because nobody thinks about heating. Camera pricing stays flat here too, so there's rarely a reason to buy in this stretch. |
What Actually Counts as a Good Nest Deal
Price the hardware and the subscription together, because on cameras the second number quickly overtakes the first.
- Nest Thermostat under $100. List is $129.99 and it lands under $100 in the bigger events. The entry model does the scheduling and the remote control, which is where most of the saving comes from.
- Nest Learning Thermostat under $240. The 4th generation is $239.99 against $279.99 at Abt, which is the standing price rather than a sale. The temperature sensor matters if one room is always the cold one.
- Nest Cam Indoor under $90. The 3rd-generation wired camera is $86.99 against $129.99. Wired rather than battery is the right choice indoors, because charging a camera gets old fast.
- Nest Cam Outdoor under $200. The wired 2nd-generation model sits at $199.99. Battery versions cost less up front and more in effort.
- Used 3rd-gen Learning Thermostat under $50. Around $38.99 pre-owned with hundreds of units sold. A thermostat has no battery and no moving parts worth worrying about.
Where to Shop Google Nest
Worth checking beyond Amazon, because the rival brand discounts through refurbished and the used thermostat market is unusually good.
How to Pick the Right Nest Setup
Start with the thermostat, because it's the only one that pays you back. Google's real-world figures are 12% off heating and 15% off cooling, and the company puts total user savings at around $14 billion and 200 billion kilowatt hours since 2011. Treat the "up to 31%" claim carefully, though, since it compares against holding a house at a flat 72 degrees rather than against a normal schedule.
Check your utility for a rebate before you check the price. Plenty of energy companies subsidize smart thermostats directly, sometimes covering most of the cost, and the rebate stacks on top of whatever the retailer is doing. This is routinely worth more than the sale and almost nobody looks.
Price the subscription over three years, not one month. Google Home Premium is $100 a year at the standard tier and $200 at the advanced one, and a single subscription covers the whole house. That makes the second, third and fourth camera much cheaper than the first, and it means a lone camera carries the full running cost on its own.
Choose wired over battery wherever a cable can reach. Battery cameras and doorbells are wonderful for the ten minutes it takes to install them and tiresome every few months after that. Wired units also unlock the continuous 24/7 recording on the advanced tier, which battery ones can't do.
Fix the Wi-Fi before you add more cameras. Most Nest complaints are network complaints wearing a costume: dropped feeds, laggy doorbells, notifications that arrive after the visitor left. A mesh system in the right places solves more of that than a newer camera ever will.
Google Nest Sale FAQ
The Bottom Line
Buy the thermostat first, because it's the only device here that hands money back: 12% off heating and 15% off cooling by Google's own real-world numbers, before any utility rebate. Then, if you're adding cameras, price the subscription over three years rather than one month, since $100 or $200 a year covers the whole house and quickly outweighs the hardware. Go wired wherever a cable reaches, sort the Wi-Fi before adding more devices, and look at used thermostats, which are unusually safe secondhand. The early Columbus Day window is a standing $40 off the Learning Thermostat at Abt and $40 off ecobee's refurbished rival, which is a fair moment to start on the thermostat and a reason to wait on the cameras.
