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Picking the best ESP32 dev board is a different problem from picking the chip. A full rundown of who makes what – Espressif, Seeed, Unexpected Maker, Adafruit, SparkFun, LilyGO, M5Stack, Heltec, Waveshare, Sunton, Guition, Olimex and the rest – plus the right board for prototyping, battery builds, screens, LoRa, Matter, voice, cameras, Ethernet and video.

Working out which ESP32 version to use in 2026 is harder than it used to be. Espressif now ships eleven SoCs in mass production, with three more announced. Here is every shipping chip compared as of 1 September 2026 — and which one to pick for your build.