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Outdoors · Anker · 2025

Anker SOLIX C1000 Gen 2

2,000 watts out and a 49-minute recharge, in a body that cannot take an extra battery later.

Power stations: the label overstates every battery here — #1

Overall

8.3

out of 10

Axis scores

Strongest on Performance (8.9), weakest on Durability (7.9), a 1.0-point spread. The 8.3 overall is the plain average of all 4 Outdoors axes, with no weighting.

Anker SOLIX C1000 Gen 2 — axis scores out of 10Horizontal bar chart of editorial scores out of 10 across 4 axes. Bars run from a shared zero baseline; longer is better. Anker SOLIX C1000 Gen 2: Performance 8.9, Value 8.1, Durability 7.9, Design 8.2.PerformanceAnker SOLIX C1000 Gen 2 — Performance 8.9 out of 108.9ValueAnker SOLIX C1000 Gen 2 — Value 8.1 out of 108.1DurabilityAnker SOLIX C1000 Gen 2 — Durability 7.9 out of 107.9DesignAnker SOLIX C1000 Gen 2 — Design 8.2 out of 108.2Editorial score out of 10 — higher is better
  • Performance — How well it does the core job
  • Value — What the same money buys elsewhere
  • Durability — Failure and fade reports past the one-year mark
  • Design — Build quality and how it sits in a room

Specs

Capacity
1,024Wh, LiFePO4
AC output
2,000W continuous, 3,000W peak
Weight
24.9 lb
Wall recharge
49 min with UltraFast (1,600W), enabled in the app
Rated cycles
4,000 to 80% capacity
Solar input
600W max
UPS switchover
Under 10ms
Outlets
5 AC, 3 USB-C (two at 140W), 1 USB-A, 12V car

As published by the manufacturer. We didn't measure these ourselves.

Is it for you

Buy it if

  • You want the highest continuous output here without going past 25 pounds
  • Tools, a microwave, or a small induction plate at a campsite
  • It may sit for months between outages

Skip it if

  • You might want more capacity later, because there is no expansion port
  • Firmware updates through an app are something you would rather never deal with

Two thousand continuous watts is the headline, and it covers appliances the 1,500W units have to refuse. OutdoorGearLab got about 890Wh of usable output, 87 percent of the rating and the best ratio on this page.

MacRumors left one on a shelf for a month and found it still at 100 percent. For a unit that exists mostly for the day the power goes out, that matters more than anything in the output column.

The five AC outlets are spaced far enough apart that bulky plugs do not fight each other, a detail OutdoorGearLab singled out and one that the Jackery gets wrong.

Anker cut two things from the first generation. The expansion battery port is gone, so 1,024Wh is what this unit will ever hold. The built-in light went too. Both reviewers found the fan loud during fast charging and at high load, and MacRumors hit firmware updates that failed before later ones went through.

UltraFast charging is off until you switch it on in the app. Without that step the recharge runs at 1,200W and takes noticeably longer than the 49-minute figure.

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