Smart Lights / Wyze
Wyze Bulb Color A19, 4-Pack
1,100 lumens and 90+ CRI for $11 a bulb, with a three-year warranty and a hard cloud dependency.
Overall score 6.7/10
Pros
- + 1,100 lm and 90+ CRI for $11.11 a bulb — the same brightness as the $25-a-bulb LIFX with a higher published CRI
- + 1800 K is the warmest bottom end of any Wi-Fi bulb here; Tapo stops at 2500 K and LIFX's warm end is 1500 K but at CRI 82
- + Three-year express warranty on Wyze Bulb products, the longest in this table apart from the flagship Hue's spec-sheet three years
- + Wyze documents power-loss recovery behaviour, which most makers here simply do not address
Cons
- − Cloud-only: no Matter, no local API, and every schedule and automation dies with your internet connection
- − Wyze explicitly says it is not for totally enclosed or recessed fixtures, which rules out a lot of the ceiling cans people buy colour bulbs for
- − The 30 lm floor is about 2.7% — visibly brighter at minimum than Tapo's 1% and nowhere near Hue's 0.2%
- − No colour-mode lumen figure, so the 1,100 lm headline says nothing about saturated colour output
- − Wyze's account and app have had well-publicised reliability wobbles, and everything here depends on that account
Wyze Bulb Color A19, 4-Pack review: what the specs say
1,100 lumens and 90+ CRI for $11 a bulb, with a three-year warranty and a hard cloud dependency. At $44.44, Wyze's 2021 model sits among the cheapest we cover — the smart Lights we compare run from $21.95 to $189.99. It scores 6.7/10 overall, calculated from published specifications across 8 categories rather than from a subjective impression.
Its strongest showing is Setup & Hub Burden at 9.0/10 — what extra hardware you must buy and how painful commissioning is. The weakest is Local Control at 2.0/10, which is the trade-off to weigh before buying: if that is the specification you care about most, one of the alternatives below will serve you better.
Worth knowing before you buy: cloud-only: no Matter, no local API, and every schedule and automation dies with your internet connection; and wyze explicitly says it is not for totally enclosed or recessed fixtures, which rules out a lot of the ceiling cans people buy colour bulbs for. Every specification on this page comes from Wyze's own documentation or a verified retail listing — where a figure is not published, the table says so rather than estimating it.
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Full Specifications
| Brightness (white) | 30-1,100 lm (12 W). Wyze publishes the floor as an absolute lumen figure, which nobody else here does |
| Brightness (saturated colour) | Not published by the manufacturer |
| Colour Temperature Range | 1800-6500 K |
| CRI (colour rendering) | 90+ |
| Radio & Protocol | 2.4GHz Wi-Fi plus Bluetooth for setup. No Matter, no Thread, no Zigbee |
| Hub / Bridge Required | No |
| Works in an Internet Outage | No — Wyze control, schedules and automations all run through the Wyze cloud |
| Lowest Dimming Level | 30 lm, roughly 2.7% of the 1,100 lm maximum — higher than Tapo's 1% and far above Hue's 0.2% |
| Behaviour After a Power Cut | Configurable — Wyze publishes a dedicated 'Power Loss Recovery' setting for these bulbs, one of only three products here with a documented answer |
| Rated Life & Ingress | 25,000 h; damp-location rated, but Wyze states it is 'Not for use in totally enclosed or recessed luminaires' |
| Lights in the Box | 4 units |
| Price per Light | 11.11 $ |
| Connectivity | 2.4GHz Wi-Fi, Bluetooth |
| Material | |
| Warranty | 36 months |
Compare Wyze Bulb Color A19, 4-Pack With
Cheaper Alternative
TP-Link Tapo L530E Multicolor Smart Wi-Fi Bulb, A19, 4-Pack — $21.95
Premium Alternative
Philips Hue White and Color Ambiance Essential A19 800 lm 4-Pack (046677592592) — $47.95