Amazon Echo Studio vs Google Nest Hub (2nd Gen)

They serve different rooms. The Google Nest Hub (2nd Gen) is the better smart display, with a touchscreen, motion and light sensors and a longer warranty, and it wins when you want to see information. The Amazon Echo Studio is the better speaker and the fuller smart home hub.

A screen against a speaker. The Google Nest Hub (2nd Gen) is a 7-inch touchscreen display with a motion sensor and a local conversation agent, while the Amazon Echo Studio has no display but a much larger speaker, a 3.5 mm line-in and a Zigbee coordinator.

No. It has no built-in camera, so it cannot make video calls or act as a monitoring camera itself, though it can show feeds from a compatible connected camera or doorbell. The Amazon Echo Studio also has no camera.

The Amazon Echo Studio, because it adds a Zigbee coordinator to its Thread border router and Matter bridge. The Google Nest Hub (2nd Gen) has Thread and Matter but no Zigbee, so it cannot control Zigbee devices directly.

A Google Home household that wants a kitchen or bedside display for recipes, timers, reminders and camera feeds, and values sleep sensing and the mic-off switch.

An Alexa household that wants a large room filled with sound, may add a second for stereo or a Fire TV, and needs a Zigbee, Thread and Matter hub in the same box.