Best audio interfaces under £200

It’s our budget studio special so it’s time to round up the best audio interfaces that won’t break the bank for recording into your Mac, PC and even your phone…

If you want to buy a great budget interface for less than £200, you might be quite surprised at the quality of the models you can get. We’ve got the best audio interfaces under £200 from big audio hitters including SSL, Audient and Focusrite in this buyer’s guide. And pretty much all the interfaces in our roundup offer exceptional sonic quality considering their relatively low prices.

With a budget of £200 you can now also expect to get decent additional features as well as that great sound quality. Indeed most of the

interfaces in this buyer’s guide go well beyond the very basic connectivity you get just by spending double digits. Those cheaper interfaces will offer you one or two inputs and outputs to allow you to record voice and instrument into your DAW and play the results out to some decent speakers. Up the budget to £200 as we have here and you can expect extras like decent software bundles, better input quality (for better recordings), and extra inputs to allow you to record more than one instrument or voice simultaneously.

We’ve listed all of the main specifications, like audio recording quality and the number of ins and outs, but we’ve also detailed some of the software bundle highlights as this could be an equally important factor to consider in your buying decision.

You can skip to the bottom if you want to know more about interface options and how we test audio interfaces, but before we get into the detail of each interface individually, let’s break down some of the things to look out for when starting your search….