The price of the Apple AirPods Pro 2 has dropped again: Amazon is currently offering the AirPods Pro 2 for just $169, down from $249.
That’s not quite the lowest price we’ve ever seen — it briefly dipped $20 lower back in July 2025 — but it’s significantly less than the usual sale price of around $200, and it’s unlikely to go any lower this side of Black Friday.
Today’s best AirPods Pro 2 deal
Should you buy these AirPods Pro 2 instead of the AirPods Pro 3?
That’s a very good question, and we wrote an entire feature to answer it. The tl;dr version is that the AirPods Pro 2 are very good, and the AirPods Pro 3 are slightly better, but right now, notably more expensive. They’re very similar in design (the AirPods Pro 2 are a bit lighter and have a soft in-ear tip), and they both have the same H2 chip.
The newer model gets better battery life, adds heart rate monitoring and has improved noise cancellation, but isn’t really that different overall.
In our updated AirPods Pro 2 review, we gave the earphones 4.5 out of 5 stars for their impressive noise reduction, “super” sound and spatial sound quality, and their “fantastic” Active Transparency mode: commenting on the launch of the updated USB-C model, which is the one offered by Amazon, we said that “compared to their own sounds, and they still have no sound to the new, cancellation is only just behind the Bose QuietComfort Earbuds 2.”
Your writer is a long-term AirPods Pro user, and to be honest, I don’t see any compelling reason to upgrade from my AirPods Pro 2: at $169, the second generation are great earphones at a good price, even with a newer generation available.
But if you want to take advantage of these discounts, it might be wise to move sooner rather than later, because Apple has already removed the second generation from its own stores and website. Obviously, the second generation won’t be around for too much longer – there’s no guarantee these will be cheaper over Black Friday, as they might not last that long.
