Amazon Echo Hub vs Amazon Echo Studio

They do different jobs. The Amazon Echo Hub is the better control panel, with a wall-mountable 8-inch touchscreen, Ethernet and sensors, and it is the cheaper of the two. The Amazon Echo Studio is the better speaker and the one that can listen for glass break and smoke alarms.

A screen against a speaker. The Amazon Echo Hub is an 8-inch touchscreen control panel for a smart home, while the Amazon Echo Studio is a large music speaker with no display at all. Both share the Zigbee coordinator, Thread border router and Matter bridge.

Yes. Both carry a Zigbee coordinator, a Thread border router and a Matter bridge, so either can connect and control those devices. The difference is that the Amazon Echo Hub gives you a screen to operate them and the Amazon Echo Studio does not.

Yes, it can listen for glass breaking and for a smoke or CO alarm, with a subscription. The Amazon Echo Hub has no built-in sound detection of that kind, so it is not the pick for those alerts.

A household with many smart devices, especially Ring cameras and locks, that wants one always-on wall panel to see and control everything instead of switching between phone apps.

An Alexa home that wants a large room filled with sound, may add a second for stereo or a Fire TV, and values a 3.5 mm line-in and sound-based alerts more than a screen.