Weber Genesis E-325 vs E-330
Identical fire — 39,000 BTU, a 13,000 BTU sear burner, 513 sq in, 101 BTU/sq in. The E-330 adds an enclosed cabinet. What the doors are worth.
We pick the Weber Genesis E-325 Gas Grill
The cooking is identical, so this comes down to doors and price. Both fire 39,000 BTU across three main burners plus a 13,000 BTU sear zone burner through 513 sq in of primary grate, and both land on 101 BTU per square inch. The E-330 encloses the cart in a locker and adds six pounds. With the E-325 near $849 and the E-330 priced $200 over an E-315, the storage is the only thing the extra money buys.
What actually differs
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Not one extra square inch, and not one extra BTU
Main burners, sear burner, primary grate and total area all match. Our reviews score the two 8.90 and 8.84, and that 0.06 is the closest the corpus comes to calling two grills the same cooker.
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The locker is the product
Closed doors keep tools and a spare cylinder out of the weather and out of sight. That is a real quality-of-life gain on a patio and worth nothing at all in a garage with shelves.
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One of them is discontinued
Weber dropped the E-325 in August 2026, so its price is clearance and its manual page is gone. The E-330 is the one still in the range, which is the argument for paying the $200.
The scorecard, side by side
Both reviews are scored on the same six weighted categories, each bar on the same 0–10 scale, and every cell carries the reason that review gave. A row is marked won only where the two differ by a tenth or more. How we score →
A 13,000 BTU sear burner on its own knob, which the otherwise identical E-315 spec table does not carry.
A dedicated 13,000 BTU sear burner under cast iron, on top of three even mains, which almost nothing under $999 offers.
Twelve years on the shell and ten in the flame, though the paperwork now starts from a delisted model.
12 years on the cookbox and lid, 10 on the stainless burner tubes and the grates, which leads this tier outright.
Porcelain-enamelled lid over cast iron grates and stainless bars, let down slightly by painted steel cabinet doors.
Some 168 pounds of closed steel cart, carrying cast iron grates and the stainless bars that shield the burners.
Four knobs and one AA battery are easy; 162 pounds of home assembly and a vanished manual page are not.
Two-zone cooking becomes a knob rather than a plan, and the locker keeps tools where the food is.
Near $849 with a sear burner, while Weber lists the sear-less E-315 at $949 and no propane Genesis under $999.
The $200 over an E-315 buys zoning and doors, not one extra square inch, and still no side burner.
The grease tray pulls straight out, but cast iron grates and a fourth burner add to every clean-down.
The grease tray pulls straight out, but cast iron grates want oiling and their enamel is a wear surface.
Heat density
Burner output over the surface it has to heat, derived in each review from that cooker's own published figures. A bigger number is not a better grill — it says how hard the cooker can drive its grate, nothing more. All grills ranked →
Published figures that differ
Quoted from each maker's own specifications, as each review records them. Figures the two products publish identically are left out — only the differences are listed.
Which one is for you
You want the sear burner for the lowest price and can store tools elsewhere.
Check price →You want closed storage under the grill, or a current model with live documentation.
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Every score and figure on this page comes from our own reviews of these two products, linked above. We have not tested them side by side in one place; the comparison is between two full reviews, each built from the maker's published specifications and documentation. Prices move, and the ones quoted are the ones each review checked on its own date.