Quick Answer: The Ooni Koda 2 Max is Ooni’s largest oven ever — a 24” × 20” gas deck with two independently controlled burners, 35,000 BTU and a 95 lb body — and it is worth buying if you cook for a crowd rather than for two. The real feature is not the size but the dual-zone control: it is the only Ooni that can hold Neapolitan heat on one half of the stone and a lower temperature on the other simultaneously. The catch is the price and the mass. Ooni raised it from $999 to $1,199 effective January 2, 2025 (per CookOut News), the legs do not fold, and independent testing by Pala Pizza measured a real peak of about 910°F after 25-30 minutes of preheat. Buy it as a fixed outdoor-kitchen appliance, not as a portable oven.
Ooni Koda 2 Max at a glance
| Spec | Ooni Koda 2 Max (UU-P2B100) |
|---|---|
| Cooking surface | 24" wide × 20" deep — largest Ooni ever made |
| Burners | Two independently controlled G2 gas burners (dual-zone) |
| Output | 35,000 BTU |
| Max temperature | Up to 950°F rated; ~910°F measured (Pala Pizza) |
| Preheat | ~25-30 minutes to reach ~900°F |
| Stone | 0.8" (20mm) cordierite — thicker than the 15mm stones in earlier Kodas |
| Weight | 95 lb (43 kg) unboxed — legs do not fold |
| Fuel | Propane (gas only — no wood or charcoal option) |
| Instrumentation | Built-in digital thermometer with probes + Ooni Connect Bluetooth |
| Materials | Powder-coated carbon steel body, stainless internals/base/legs, borosilicate glass visor |
| Warranty | 1 year standard; 5 years with registration inside 60 days |
| Price | ~$1,199 (launched at $999; some retailers list $1,299) |
| Rating | ★★★★☆ |
Ooni Koda 2 Max
- 24" × 20" deck — two 12" Neapolitan pizzas at once, or one 20" New York-style pie.
- Two independently controlled burners: a hot zone and a low zone on the same stone.
- Built-in digital thermometer plus Ooni Connect app — no separate IR gun needed.
- 20mm cordierite stone recovers heat faster than the thinner stones in smaller Kodas.
A 24-inch deck eats through 00 flour, mozzarella and San Marzano tomatoes faster than you expect — Amazon Fresh will drop the whole pizza-night shop at your door the same day.
The number that actually matters is two, not 24
Every headline about this oven leads with the 24-inch stone. That is the wrong number. The Koda 2 Max is the only oven in Ooni’s range with two independently controlled burners, and that is the feature that changes how you cook.
On a single-burner oven — the Ooni Koda 16, the Koda 2, a Gozney Arc XL — the whole stone lives at one temperature. You preheat to 900°F, you bake pizzas, and anything that isn’t pizza either burns or waits until the oven cools down. With two zones you can park the left burner near 900°F for Neapolitan and run the right at a much lower setting for focaccia, wings, roasted vegetables or a tray of garlic bread, in the same session.
That is a genuinely different appliance, and it is why this oven belongs in an outdoor kitchen rather than on a folding table. Ooni also rates the Pro and Max models down to a 320°F low end, versus the narrower band on the entry Koda 2 — the low zone is real, not a marketing line.
Heat: 950°F rated, ~910°F measured
Ooni quotes up to 950°F, the same ceiling as almost every high-heat gas oven on the market. Independent testing by Pala Pizza measured a real-world peak of about 910°F, reached after roughly 25-30 minutes of preheat.
Both numbers are worth stating plainly:
- 910°F is Neapolitan-capable. The Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana (AVPN) associates authentic Neapolitan pizza with a bake around 905°F in 60-90 seconds. The Max clears that bar, unlike rotating-stone ovens such as the Halo Versa 16, whose stone plateaus near 805°F.
- 25-30 minutes is a long preheat. A 12-inch oven is ready in 15-20 minutes. You are heating 480 square inches of 20mm cordierite here, and physics charges for that. Plan pizza night around it.
For scale: a typical home kitchen oven tops out near 550°F per the U.S. Department of Energy, so the Max runs roughly 360°F hotter than anything you own indoors.
The 95 lb problem
This is the part most reviews soften, so here it is directly: the Koda 2 Max weighs 95 lb (43 kg) and its legs do not fold. Assembly requires flipping the oven over to attach them. It ships in the “portable pizza oven” category and is nothing of the kind — the Koda 2 is 35 lb and the Koda 2 Pro is about 66 lb by comparison.
Practical consequences, in order of how often they bite people:
- You need a stand rated for it. A 95 lb oven plus a peel-lean is more than a light folding table should carry. See our outdoor pizza oven stand guide — anything you pick must be non-combustible, level, and comfortably over 100 lb of static load.
- It lives outside permanently. Which means a proper pizza oven cover is not optional on this one.
- It is a two-person lift. Budget accordingly if the oven has to move at all.
Price: the $999 oven that became a $1,199 oven
The Koda 2 Max launched at $999. Ooni raised the price to $1,199 effective January 2, 2025, as reported by CookOut News — a $200, roughly 20% increase with no change to the hardware. Some retailer and bundle listings now sit as high as $1,299, and reviews published across that window quote anything from $1,000 to $1,200 depending on when the reviewer bought.
Two things follow from that:
- Check two retailers, always. This is one of the widest price spreads in the category, and older articles quoting “$999” are simply out of date.
- The value math changed. At $999 the Max was a stretch above the $799 Koda 2 Pro. At $1,199 it is
within $300 of the gas-only Gozney Dome S1 (
$1,499) and inside $800 of the full dual-fuel Dome ($1,999) — which puts it in a fight it did not used to be in.
Koda 2 Max vs the rest of the Koda 2 line
| Model | Deck | Weight | Burners | Max temp | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ooni Koda 2 | 14" | ~35 lb | 1 × G2 | ~950°F | ~$499 |
| Ooni Koda 2 Pro | 18" | ~66 lb | 1 × G2 | ~950°F | ~$799 |
| Ooni Koda 2 Max | 24" × 20" | 95 lb | 2 × G2, independent | ~950°F (910°F measured) | ~$1,199 |
Read down the temperature column and the buying decision gets much clearer: all three ovens reach the same peak heat. Moving up the Koda 2 line does not buy you a better pizza — it buys you deck area, stone mass and, at the top, zone control. If you cook two pizzas a night for two people, the $499 Koda 2 makes exactly the same 90-second Neapolitan pie as the $1,199 Max.
Koda 2 Max vs the wider field
| Oven | Fuel | Max pizza | Zones | Weight | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ooni Koda 2 Max | Gas | 20" NY / 2 × 12" | 2, independent | 95 lb | ~$1,199 |
| Gozney Dome (dual-fuel) | Gas + wood | 16" | 1 | ~128 lb | ~$1,999 |
| Gozney Dome S1 | Gas | 16" | 1 | ~128 lb | ~$1,499 |
| Gozney Arc XL | Gas | 16" | 1 | ~46 lb | ~$799 |
| Ooni Karu 2 Pro | Wood/charcoal/gas | 16" | 1 | ~63 lb | ~$849 |
| Ooni Koda 16 | Gas | 16" | 1 | ~40 lb | ~$599 |
The Max is the only oven on this list that can cook two 12-inch pizzas simultaneously at two different temperatures. That is its entire case. Nothing here is hotter, and three of the alternatives are cheaper. If throughput and zone control are not your problem, one of the 16-inch ovens in our best 16 inch pizza oven guide will serve you better for less money.
Who should buy it
Buy the Koda 2 Max if: you host regularly and six-plus pizzas per session is normal; you want to cook non-pizza dishes alongside pizza without cooling the oven down; you are building a permanent outdoor kitchen; or you want a built-in thermometer you can actually trust instead of chasing stone temperature with an infrared thermometer.
Skip it if: you cook for two — the Ooni Koda 16 ($599) or a
Gozney Arc XL ($799) makes the same pizza. Skip it if you want wood-fired
flavor, which this gas-only oven cannot produce; the Ooni Karu 2 or the
Gozney Dome covers that. And skip it if you need to move the oven — at 95 lb
with fixed legs, the ovens in our best portable pizza oven guide are
in a different world.
24-Inch Pizza Peel
- A 12" peel cannot reach the back of a 20"-deep stone — you will need a longer handle.
- A turning peel matters more here: two pizzas in two zones means twice the rotation.
- Perforated aluminium sheds excess flour and keeps the launch clean on a big pie.
The bottom line
The Ooni Koda 2 Max is the best gas pizza oven you can buy for feeding a crowd, and a poor purchase for anyone else. Two independently controlled burners across a 24” × 20” deck let you run Neapolitan heat and a low zone at the same time — something no other Ooni, and none of the Gozney line, will do. It backs that with a 20mm stone, 35,000 BTU, a trustworthy built-in digital thermometer and a five-year warranty once you register.
What it asks in return is $1,199 — up from $999 since January 2025 — 95 lb of permanent patio real estate and a 25-30 minute preheat. Measured peak heat is about 910°F, comfortably past the AVPN’s ~905°F Neapolitan reference, but so is the $499 Koda 2’s. You are buying area and control, not temperature. Decide which of those you actually need, then see where the Max lands against the whole field in our best gas pizza oven and best Ooni pizza oven guides.
Specs cited from Ooni product information and retailer listings; measured stone temperature and preheat figures from Pala Pizza’s independent review; the January 2, 2025 price change as reported by CookOut News; temperature benchmarks from the AVPN and the U.S. Department of Energy. Prices are 2026 figures with a wide retailer spread — check current pricing before you buy.