The Best Budget QLED TVs You Can Buy in 2026

The 65-inch Hisense U8QG was released in April of 2025 and is still the best QLED you can buy in 2026 without breaking the bank. It's a solid, well-rounded TV that will work great in bright rooms and excels when you're watching sports and movies or playing video games. The brightness, black levels, and colors are its most impressive specs. PCMag review labels it an "excellent" TV for its bright picture, deep blacks, accurate colors, and Apple AirPlay and Google Cast integrations. It usually hovers between $900 and $1,200 for the 65-inch model.

The QM7K is a mid-range QLED TV lineup from TCL, with the 65-inch model hovering somewhere between $800 and $1,000, depending on sales. The highlight is the super bright panel, making it great for sunlit rooms. It has deep blacks and almost no light bloom, giving it that premium picture quality. Gamers will appreciate the 144 Hz native refresh rate and 288 Hz support panel with VRR and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro, making it a smooth experience. Since it's a Google TV, it has hands-free Google Assistant and Google Cast, which makes streaming almost anything from your phone or computer a breeze. It can also do the same for iPhones with AirPlay. If you're a color stickler, you might notice that the colors run a little warmer out of the box, according to PCMag's "excellent" review, but that's something you can edit easily in the picture settings.

The "art TV" trend that started with Samsung's The Frame is no longer onlyfor people with deep pockets. Hisense has made its own version, called the CanvasTV. These sets are made to look like a piece of art, and they display an image of your choosing when not in use. I've been loving it for the months it has been in my living room. Unlike Samsung set, both the art and the frames come free with the CanvasTV. There is virtually no glare due to the low reflection Hi-Matte display, and it offers 4K resolution and a 144Hz refresh rate in Game Mode Pro, according to CNET's review. The biggest downside of this TV is the lack of a local dimming feature, which weakens the contrast. You can find this TV for under $900 during shopping holidays.

TCL's QM lineup offers a solid value regardless of which size you pick. The QM6K is a big improvement compared to last year's rendition, newly offering local dimming zones (500 of them, according to CNET's review) and a mini LED panel, improving contrast dramatically. The color accuracy is also surprisingly accurate out of the box for HDR content, which is great for people who don't like to mess with settings. You get a 144Hz native refresh rate, HDR formats like HDR ULTRA with Dolby Vision IQ, HDR10+, HDR10, & HLG, Dolby Atmos Audio, an anti-glare screen, 4 HDMI Inputs (one of which is an eARC), and the Google TV Smart OS (my favorite OS) with Google Cast built in, meaning you can cast your phone to it. You also get Apple AirPlay 2 and Alexa built in, according to ZDNet's review. If you're looking for the best bang for your buck on a QLED, look no further than the QM6K—it can usually be found for $700 or less.

The Roku Plus Series TV is the cheapest QLED you can get on this roundup—I don't recommend going any cheaper. The Roku Plus Series TV is Roku's first TV (though many other TVs are preloaded with its operating system), and it did an excellent job with it. It's a great value for your money, with strong colors, low input lag, and a Roku Voice Remote Pro that makes it feel more premium. It has 4K resolution, a just-OK 650 nits of brightness, a decent contrast ratio of 65,000:1, and a low input lag of 3.1 ms in Game Mode. You can read more about this TV in PCMag's review.