Freezers

Standalone freezers come in three shapes — upright, chest, and compact — and the right one depends on your floor space, how you store, and whether it’s going in a heated room or the garage. Here’s how they compare and the space each one needs.

Upright vs chest vs compact

Upright freezers fit narrow spaces and keep food at eye level; chest freezers hold more per dollar and stay cold longer in an outage, but they need floor space and overhead room to open the lid. Compact units slot under a counter.

Typical dimensions

Putting a freezer in the garage

Most freezers carry a rated ambient range. In an unheated garage that swings below the minimum, a standard freezer’s thermostat can stop cycling and let the contents thaw — look for a “garage-ready” rating before you put one in an uninsulated space.

Measure the space, not just the box

• Chest lids swing up. Add the open-lid height above the cabinet — a chest under a shelf can’t open.
• Uprights need door-swing and a rear gap like a refrigerator — about an inch at the back for the coils.
• Leave breathing room at the sides and top so the condenser can shed heat.

Will a freezer fit your space?

Enter your space below to see which freezers we’ve measured will clear it — height and width, plus depth if you know it.

Built-in freezer columns we track

We now publish the manufacturer cabinet cutout for built-in freezer columns — the exact niche each one drops into, taken from the maker’s installation spec sheet. More models and freestanding sizes follow as the dataset grows.

Showing 50 of 66 models · sorted by title · source: ENERGY STAR certified-product data.

The how to measure method applies to freezers too — measure the lid swing on a chest and the door swing on an upright.

Measured from official ENERGY STAR data + manufacturer spec sheets · Last verified July 2026