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Freezer finder: match a freezer to your space

Four questions about how much you need to store and where it will go. Every result is measured against the median freezer of its own form factor and size class.

The finder searches every freezer in this corpus. It does not rank them by anything we were paid to prefer, and it does not hide a unit because its listing is incomplete — a freezer whose manufacturer never published a defrost type still appears, labelled not stated, because an incomplete listing is not a worse appliance.

Your requirements

How much do you need to store?

Roughly 35 lb of packed food per cubic foot.

What can you spend?

A ceiling, not a band — each option includes everything cheaper. We show price bands rather than exact prices, because a price captured on a scrape date is wrong by the time you read it.

Chest or upright?

Chest holds more per cubic foot and stays cold longer in a power cut. Upright is easier to organise and takes less floor space.

Defrosting

Manual costs an hour or two a year and runs cheaper. Auto-defrost cycles warm air through, which is easier on you and harder on ice cream.

Garage or unheated space

An unheated room needs a unit rated to keep cycling when the room itself gets cold.

706 freezers match

Smad Upright freezer 13.8 Cu. Ft., Upright Freezer Frost Free, Convertible Freezer Refrigerator, Stand Up Freezer with Single Door for Home, Kitchen, Restaurant, White

UprightAuto-defrostGarage ready$300–700
W x D x H
29×28×62in
Floor area
5.7sq ft
Weight
144lb
Shelves
4
Door hinge
right
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Capacity

14cu ft

Convertible · 7-15 cu ft · 46 units

Space efficiency

2.44cu ft per sq ft of floor

+7% vs the 2.29 median — typical for its class

Capacity is +27% against the class median of 11.

11.5 Cu. Ft Upright Freezer, Commercial Certified Convertible 4-in-1 Refrigerator/Freezer with Frost-Free, Garage Ready Digital Control, Freestanding Stand Up Freezer for Home, Kitchen, Basement

UprightAuto-defrostGarage ready$700–1,500
W x D x H
24×29×61in
Floor area
4.7sq ft
Weight
112lb
Shelves
5
Door hinge
right
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Capacity

11cu ft

Convertible · 7-15 cu ft · 46 units

Space efficiency

2.34cu ft per sq ft of floor

+2% vs the 2.29 median — typical for its class

Capacity is 0% against the class median of 11.

11.5 Cu. Ft Upright Freezer, Commercial Certified Convertible 4-in-1 Refrigerator/Freezer with Frost-Free, Garage Ready Digital Control, Freestanding Stand Up Freezer for Home, Kitchen, Basement

UprightAuto-defrostGarage readyUnder $150
W x D x H
24×29×61in
Floor area
4.7sq ft
Weight
112lb
Shelves
5
Door hinge
right
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Capacity

11cu ft

Convertible · 7-15 cu ft · 46 units

Space efficiency

2.34cu ft per sq ft of floor

+2% vs the 2.29 median — typical for its class

Capacity is 0% against the class median of 11.

KoolMore 7 Cu. Ft. Garage Ready Convertible Upright Manual Defrost Freezer/Refrigerator in Stainless Steel

UprightManual defrostGarage ready$300–700
W x D x H
22×22×50in
Floor area
3.3sq ft
Weight
89lb
Shelves
7
Door hinge
reversible
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Capacity

7.1cu ft

Convertible · 7-15 cu ft · 46 units

Space efficiency

2.15cu ft per sq ft of floor

-6% vs the 2.29 median — typical for its class

Capacity is -35% against the class median of 11.

KoolMore 7 cu. ft. Convertible Garage Ready Upright Freezer/Refrigerator in White (KM-RUF-7S)

UprightManual defrostGarage ready$300–700
W x D x H
22×22×50in
Floor area
3.4sq ft
Weight
89lb
Shelves
7
Door hinge
reversible
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Capacity

7.1cu ft

Convertible · 7-15 cu ft · 46 units

Space efficiency

2.10cu ft per sq ft of floor

-8% vs the 2.29 median — typical for its class

Capacity is -35% against the class median of 11.

Koolatron 7.0 Cubic Feet Capacity White Upright freezer – 4 fixed grid shelves, Garage Ready, Meat Storage, Manual Defrost, Space Saving, Congelador For Home, Apartment, Basement, Dorm, Room

UprightManual defrostGarage ready$700–1,500
W x D x H
21×21×56in
Floor area
3.2sq ft
Weight
90lb
Shelves
4
Door hinge
reversible
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Capacity

7cu ft

Garage-ready · 7-15 cu ft · 11 units

Space efficiency

2.18cu ft per sq ft of floor

+57% vs the 1.39 median — more freezer for the floor space

Capacity is 0% against the class median of 7.

Kenmore Upright freezer – Convertible Refrigerator/Freezer, 5 Shelves, Garage Ready, Meat Storage,Auto Defrost, Congelador For Home, Apartment, Cottage, Basement, Dorm, 7.0 Cubic Feet Capacity White

UprightAuto-defrostGarage ready$300–700
W x D x H
22×22×56in
Floor area
3.4sq ft
Weight
99lb
Shelves
5
Door hinge
reversible
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Capacity

7cu ft

Convertible · 7-15 cu ft · 46 units

Space efficiency

2.07cu ft per sq ft of floor

-10% vs the 2.29 median — takes more floor space for the capacity

Capacity is -36% against the class median of 11.

Koolatron 5.9 Cubic Feet Capacity Upright freezer – 5 fixed grid shelves, Garage Ready, Meat Storage, Manual Defrost, Space Saving, Congelador For Home, Apartment, Basement, Dorm, Room, White

UprightManual defrostGarage ready$300–700
W x D x H
21×23×56in
Floor area
3.4sq ft
Weight
79lb
Shelves
5
Door hinge
right
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Capacity

5.3cu ft

Garage-ready · 3-7 cu ft · 14 units

Space efficiency

1.57cu ft per sq ft of floor

+24% vs the 1.27 median — more freezer for the floor space

Capacity is +6% against the class median of 5.

Danby DUFM032A3WDB-3 3.2 cu. ft. Upright Freezer in White Environmentally friendly R600a refrigerant 3.2 cu. ft. (90 L) capacity upright freezer

UprightManual defrostGarage ready$300–700
W x D x H
21×23×33in
Floor area
3.2sq ft
Weight
59lb
Shelves
2
Door hinge
reversible
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Capacity

3.2cu ft

Upright · 3-7 cu ft · 53 units

Space efficiency

0.99cu ft per sq ft of floor

-18% vs the 1.21 median — takes more floor space for the capacity

Capacity is 0% against the class median of 3.2.

Koolatron 3.1 Cubic Feet Capacity White Upright freezer – 3 Wire Baskets, Garage Ready, Meat Storage, Manual Defrost, Space Saving, Congelador For Home, Apartment, Basement, Dorm, Room

UprightManual defrostGarage ready$300–700
W x D x H
20×21×34in
Floor area
2.9sq ft
Weight
56lb
Shelves
3
Door hinge
reversible
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Capacity

3.1cu ft

Garage-ready · 3-7 cu ft · 14 units

Space efficiency

1.08cu ft per sq ft of floor

-15% vs the 1.27 median — takes more floor space for the capacity

Capacity is -38% against the class median of 5.

Coolski Commercial Freezer 82" W, 72 Cu.ft Stainless Steel Reach In Upright Freezer 3 Door, Auto-Defrost, 12 Adjustable Shelves, -13 to -5℉ Temp Control, LED Light, 5 Wheels

UprightAuto-defrostOver $1,500
W x D x H
82×32×83in
Floor area
18.2sq ft
Weight
594lb
Shelves
12
Door hinge
left
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Capacity

72cu ft

Too few units in this class to publish a baseline.

ROVSUN 54"W Commercial Freezer, Reach in Freezer ETL NSF Certified, 49 Cu.Ft Upright Freezer Stainless Steel with Auto Defrosting, LED Light & 8 Adjustable Shelves for Restaurant Cafe Garage

UprightAuto-defrostOver $1,500
W x D x H
54×32×84in
Floor area
12.2sq ft
Weight
363lb
Shelves
8
Door hinge
left
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Capacity

49cu ft

Too few units in this class to publish a baseline.

How to read the results

The figure on the right of each result is its capacity, and beneath it the percentage by which it differs from the median for its own size class. A unit at +23% is genuinely roomier than its peers; one at −5% is ordinary for what it is. The bar shows where it sits across the full range of that class, with the median marked.

Where a class holds fewer than eight units, no comparison is shown. That is a deliberate limit, not a missing feature.

Why incomplete listings still appear

Specification coverage across this corpus is uneven. Capacity is published by most listings; defrost type by well under half. A filter that dropped everything it could not confirm would discard most of the catalogue the moment you answered the defrost question — and the units it discarded would not be worse freezers, only less completely described ones.

So a filter here excludes a unit only when its listing positively contradicts what you asked for. A freezer silent on defrost type still appears when you ask for manual defrost, marked not stated, and you can decide what to do with that. The alternative is a tool that quietly hides two thirds of the market and looks decisive doing it.

What the finder cannot tell you

It cannot tell you how quiet a unit is, because noise figures are too sparse across this corpus to compare. It cannot tell you running cost, because wattage is stated by roughly a quarter of listings. And it cannot tell you whether a freezer is well built, because that is not a specification — it is an outcome, and measuring it would require testing we do not do.

Corpus last computed 2026-08-27. How we compile these figures · Affiliate disclosure · About this site.