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DELTA or RIVER. Explorer or HomePower. SOLIX C, F or S. Every brand invented its own vocabulary and none of them explain it, so most people end up picking by price or by the biggest number they can talk themselves into. When that goes wrong, it goes wrong in one direction almost every time: should have gone bigger.

Choosing the line before the model is what prevents that, and it's the step nearly everyone skips. These comparisons take it with you — what each range is genuinely built for, where two of them actually compete, and where one shared capacity number is hiding two completely different machines.

Brands covered

Comparisons: 12line vs line
Brands: 5covered
Models included: 91across all lines
Capacity range: 128–13,005Wh

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What all these names actually cover

Fifteen lines, six brands, one scale. It's the picture no manufacturer will draw for you, because it shows how much of what looks like choice is really the same shelf twice over. Where two bars sit close together you have a real decision on your hands. Where they don't, those two names were never alternatives — whatever the marketing implied.

Every product line in our catalog on one capacity scale. Where two bars sit near each other, a comparison is usually worth making — where they don't, it usually isn't.

Which line within a brand

You’ve settled on a brand, and then the range forks in two and both halves look plausible. This is usually the bigger decision — bigger than which model you eventually carry home.

Which generation

The same line, one hardware generation apart, and the older one is cheaper right now. Sometimes that’s a genuine bargain. With Goal Zero it’s a different battery chemistry, which isn’t a discount so much as a different lifespan.

Which brand’s equivalent

Two makers, the same capacity band, a real fight. We only pair lines that genuinely overlap — setting a flagship against someone else’s entry model tells you nothing you didn’t already suspect.