EIGHTREE Smart Plug vs GHome Smart Plug Outlet Extender with USB Ports: A Real Comparison

The biggest split here is shape. EIGHTREE gives you four separate mini plugs to scatter around the house; GHome packs everything into one wall-mounted strip with USB ports and three always-on outlets.

Quick specs

	EIGHTREE 4-Pack	GHome Outlet Extender
Price	$20.88	$22.98
What you get	4 individual plugs	1 unit, 9 outlets total
Smart outlets	4 (one per plug)	3 (plus 3 USB, 3 always-on)
USB ports	None	3 (group control)
Surge protection	No	Yes, 15A
App	Smart Life / Tuya	GHome

Where the EIGHTREE wins

Spread is the whole point. With four plugs you can put one behind the TV, one on the bedroom lamp, one on the coffee maker, and one on the space heater in the office — and control each from its own room. I had a similar Tuya-based four-pack running my Christmas lights two winters back, and being able to schedule the porch lights separately from the tree separately from the window candles was the thing that made it worth the money. A single strip can't do that because it lives in one spot. The mini round design also matters more than the spec sheet makes it sound. These don't hog the second outlet, so on a standard duplex wall plate you can still plug a regular cord into the bottom socket. That's not true of a lot of bulkier smart plugs that block the whole receptacle. Setup runs through Smart Life, which is the same app a thousand other off-brand devices use, so if you already have Tuya gear in the house these just fold into your existing routines. Per-plug cost works out to about five bucks, which is hard to argue with if you actually need four points of control.

Where the GHome wins

Cable mess on a desk or nightstand is where this thing earns its keep. Three smart outlets, three USB ports, and three regular always-on outlets means one wall plug handles a monitor, a lamp, a phone charger, a fan, and a couple of things you never want to power-cycle. I used a GHome strip on my work-from-home desk for a stretch, and grouping the three USB ports so my phone, headphones, and a small light all killed power at once on a bedtime schedule was genuinely useful — no fishing behind the desk for chargers. The surge protection is the real differentiator nobody talks about. A four-pack of mini plugs gives you zero surge protection; this one has overload, overcurrent, fuse, and surge built in with a V0 fire-retardant shell. If you're hanging a TV setup or a desktop PC off it, that matters. The always-on outlets are smarter than they look too: you keep your router or modem powered no matter what your automations do, so you don't accidentally schedule your own internet off.

The honest differences

• EIGHTREE covers four rooms, GHome covers one desk — and if your problem is "I have stuff scattered everywhere," four plugs beat one strip no matter how many ports it has.

• GHome has surge protection, EIGHTREE has none — and I'd never put a gaming PC or a TV on a bare smart plug, so for any expensive electronics the GHome isn't really optional.

• The four-pack blocks nothing, the strip eats a whole wall outlet — but the strip gives that outlet back as nine, so it depends on whether you're short on plugs or short on smart control.

• Smart Life is the more universal app, GHome's is its own walled garden — if you already run Tuya devices, the EIGHTREE drops in clean; the GHome makes you babysit a second app for one device.

• USB ports only exist on the GHome — sounds minor until you count how many wall warts you're trying to retire, and then it's the whole reason to buy it.

Which one I'd buy

I'd grab the EIGHTREE four-pack. My smart-home problem was never "one crowded desk" — it was lamps and fans and a coffee maker in four different rooms, and four cheap plugs solve that for the price of one strip. The per-plug math is just better when you need spread, and the fact that they don't block the second outlet means I'm not giving anything up to install them.

That said, plenty of people should buy the GHome instead, and I won't pretend otherwise. If your whole need is a media center, a home office desk, or a nightstand with a pile of chargers, the strip is the right tool. The surge protection alone would tip me toward it for anything with a screen and a price tag. And if you hate juggling apps, having one device on one app is cleaner than four plugs you'll forget you named "Plug 3."

Pick by your actual mess. Scattered house, get the four-pack. One crowded outlet you want to tame and protect, get the GHome.