The best smart locks of 2026

BHMA is the Builders Hardware Manufacturers Association, and it runs the certification program behind the ANSI/BHMA standards that residential locks are graded against. Its Certified Products Directory is public. Pick the standard from the drop down and search, then open the advanced search panel to reach the brand filter, which is collapsed by default and easy to miss. Every certified product comes back with its grades and the manufacturer's own model number. Two standards cover the locks on this page: A156.40 for residential deadbolts and A156.36 for auxiliary locks.

The catch is that those two standards do not share a scale, so grades from one cannot be compared with grades from the other. A156.40 grades three separate things, and the directory labels its columns strength, durability and finish, each A, B or C, which is where a phrase like grade AAA comes from. Makers usually print the first one as security. A156.36 grades a product 1, 2 or 3, where 1 is best. Schlage sits at the top of A156.40. The eufy sits at the bottom of A156.36. An A is not better or worse than a Grade 3, because the two are not measured against each other. What does survive the mismatch is where each one sits inside its own scale, and that is the only comparison we draw from it: top beats bottom, and it is why Schlage ranks above the eufy here.

Match on the model number, not the product name, and expect to trim it. Once you have filtered a standard by brand, read down the model column rather than the description, because the directory records what the maker calls the model and the retail name it is sold under can be different. The string in the Amazon spec table is the part number, and it usually carries a trim and finish suffix the directory does not: Schlage lists BE489WB where the listing says BE489WB CEN 622, and eufy lists T8531 where the listing says eufy Video Smart Lock E330 T85311Y1. Strip back to the base and you find that BE489WB is there and 99390 is not.

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission publishes its whole recall register. No lock from any of these five brands has been recalled. Yale's only appearance is a corporate parent listed as the importer of a gate closer, Anker's seven records are power banks, speakers, coolers and toys, and searching for eufy, kwikset, august home, smart lock or keyless entry returns nothing at all.

The register is more useful for what it says about the category. It holds seven door access lock recalls: six were recalled because the lock would not open, trapping people inside, and one for a fire risk. None was recalled for letting an intruder in. Read those seven with their limits in view, because six share one corporate lineage and all seven are commercial or institutional hardware rather than the consumer locks here. It is still the wrong direction from the one being advertised: Kwikset ticks intrusion detection in its own chart, and Schlage's bullet 4 promises an alarm for forced entry attempts.

That is worth carrying into the buying decision in one practical way: check what happens when the batteries die or the electronics fail. Every lock here leaves you a mechanical way in, and each one words it differently. Schlage's bullet 7 says one physical backup key is included, Kwikset's included components list two keys and the SmartKey tool, eufy's lists two physical keys, Yale's selector calls this build keypad with key, and the August keeps the cylinder already in your door, so bullet 1 can say keep your keys. Read that selector before you buy, because Yale sells key free versions of this same lock.

All five of these listings sell more than one product under a single page, so what arrives depends on a selector rather than on the name at the top of a review. Yale's runs to 29 child products, and the selector crosses four colors with four keypad and key combinations and four connectivity options, one of which is a two pack rather than a connection at all. The one we link is Black Suede, Wi-Fi, keypad with key. The touchscreen is a different purchase with a different part number, and a review that praises the touchscreen while linking the keypad is describing a lock you will not receive.

Schlage's is stranger. The title says Greenwich trim. The spec table says style name Century, the model name field says Encode Century WiFi Deadbolt Smart Lock, the part number reads BE489WB CEN 622, and the dimension drawing in the gallery is captioned Century trim. Three of those are fields of one specification table, so read them as a single surface agreeing with the gallery caption, not as four witnesses. Greenwich is a different child product on this same page, which is exactly the trap this section is about.

The habit that protects you takes ten seconds: open the specification table, find the manufacturer part number, and check it against the picture and the title before you buy.