Easee One vs EO Mini Pro 3

Two compact chargers, £34 apart

The Easee One and EO Mini Pro 3 occupy almost the same shelf — mid-price, single-phase, small enough to tuck beside a garage door without dominating the wall. The Easee costs £489; the EO, £523. That £34 gap is narrow enough to vanish inside a quote from different installers. The real differences are elsewhere: in what each charger saves you at the point of installation, in how each talks to your energy supplier, and in whether the thing on your wall needs to be very small or merely small.

• Easee One — £489, untethered, 1.5 kg, built-in RCD and eSIM. The install-cost argument.
• EO Mini Pro 3 — £523, tethered with a 5-metre cable, A5-sized footprint. The tight-space argument.

The install saving the Easee still owns

Strip away the sticker prices and the Easee's advantage widens. Its built-in Type B RCD and open-PEN detection mean your electrician doesn't need to source, mount, and wire those components separately — a saving that typically runs £100–£200 depending on your consumer unit. Add the £34 lower purchase price and the all-in gap between these two chargers is more like £134–£234 in the Easee's favour.

The Easee also carries a lifetime 4G eSIM with no subscription. If your charger sits at the far end of a detached garage where Wi-Fi drops out, it still runs schedules without a range extender or Ethernet run. The EO Mini Pro 3 offers Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Ethernet — the Ethernet port is a genuine plus in signal-dead spots — but its 4G module is an optional extra, not included.

One trade-off: the Easee is untethered. You carry and plug in your own Type 2 cable each session. For drivers who park the same car in the same spot every night, that's a minor ritual. For anyone sharing a charger between two cars or preferring a clean wall when the car's away, it's a feature. For everyone else, the EO's fixed 5-metre tethered cable is more convenient.

When the EO Mini Pro 3 earns its premium

Size. The EO measures 215 × 140 × 100 mm — smaller than a hardback novel. If you're mounting between a narrow pillar and a door frame, or recessing into brickwork where every millimetre counts, it is often the only mainstream charger that physically fits. The Wallbox Pulsar Max is marketed as compact too, but at £513 it's only £10 cheaper than the EO and doesn't include a solar CT clamp.

That CT clamp is the EO's second card. It ships in the box, no extra purchase, and enables basic solar diversion — surplus generation goes to the car before it's exported. It is not as sophisticated as the Zappi GLO's Eco+ mode, which can modulate charge current in finer increments, but it costs £76 less and doesn't need a separate harvi unit. For a household with a modest 3–4 kW solar array and no ambition to micro-manage every watt, the EO's approach is adequate.

There is also the British Gas angle. If you're on the Hive Power+ tariff, the EO Mini Pro 3's dedicated variant credits back 25% of charging costs — a structural discount that compounds over years. No other charger on the market replicates it. That alone can justify the £34 premium over the Easee, and then some.

The app question

EO is retiring its own app and migrating users to the ev.energy platform. That transition matters: the charger you buy today will not be managed by the software shown in older marketing. The ev.energy app supports scheduling for fixed-window tariffs like Octopus Go and EDF GoElectric, but it does not chase half-hourly pricing on Octopus Agile. Neither does the Easee — its scheduling is manual too. If Agile optimisation is what you need, both chargers lose to the Ohme Home Pro at £539, which is only £16 more than the EO and has a direct tariff API. The Ohme vs Easee One comparison covers that trade-off in detail.

Which to buy

Buy the Easee One if:

• You want the lowest total cost of hardware plus installation
• Your charger location has poor Wi-Fi and you'd rather not run Ethernet
• You prefer an untethered socket — cleaner wall, flexibility between vehicles

Buy the EO Mini Pro 3 if:

• Physical size is the deciding constraint — nothing else mainstream fits your wall
• You're on British Gas Hive Power+ and want the 25% charging cashback
• You have solar panels and want a CT clamp included without buying extras

For most buyers, the Easee One is the sounder purchase. It is £34 cheaper before installation and materially cheaper after it, with built-in 4G that the EO charges extra for. The EO Mini Pro 3 has a narrow but legitimate claim when the wall is tight or the British Gas cashback is in play. Outside those two scenarios, the numbers favour the Easee — or, if smart-tariff optimisation matters, the £539 Ohme Home Pro a rung above both.