Gozney Arc XL vs Ooni Koda 16: Which 16-Inch Oven?

The Gozney Arc XL and the Ooni Koda 16 are both propane-fired outdoor ovens built for the same 16-inch pizza, and both are rated by their makers to the same published maximum: 500 °C (932 °F). Pizza size isn't the choice here — it's weight and footprint. The Arc XL weighs 26.5 kg (58 lb); the Koda 16 weighs 18.2 kg (40 lb), a lighter oven at the same deck size. Both run on propane alone, with the burner built into the body rather than sold as a separate attachment, so the two line up on fuel before anything else splits them apart.

The short answer

Choose the Arc XL if…

• You want the narrower footprint side-to-side: 53 cm wide against the Koda 16's 63 cm.
• You'd rather have the lower-profile of the two: 34.2 cm tall against the Koda 16's 37 cm.
• You need the narrower oven: the Arc XL is 53 cm wide against the Koda 16's 63 cm, though it runs 62.9 cm deep against the Koda 16's 58 cm.

Choose the Koda 16 if…

• You'd rather have the lighter of the two: 18.2 kg (40 lb) against the Arc XL's 26.5 kg (58 lb).
• You want the shallower footprint front-to-back: 58 cm against the Arc XL's 62.9 cm.

Where they differ

Weight

The Arc XL weighs 26.5 kg (58 lb); the Koda 16 weighs 18.2 kg (40 lb) — the Arc XL is the heavier of the two by 8.3 kg (18 lb), despite the two ovens sharing the same 16-inch pizza size. Proportionally, that's a large gap: the Arc XL carries roughly 45% more weight than the Koda 16 for the identical deck size, which is a bigger spread than the two ovens show on any other published figure. That gap is worth checking against whatever stand or cart you plan to use.

Footprint

The Arc XL's published footprint is 53 x 62.9 x 34.2 cm; the Koda 16's is 63 x 58 x 37 cm. The two don't move in the same direction on every dimension. Side to side, the Arc XL is narrower at 53 cm against the Koda 16's 63 cm — a 10 cm gap. Front to back, that flips: the Arc XL is deeper at 62.9 cm against the Koda 16's 58 cm. And the Koda 16 stands taller at 37 cm against the Arc XL's 34.2 cm — a 2.8 cm gap in height.

Neither Gozney nor Ooni publishes the oven's plan shape, so the width, depth and height above are bounding dimensions only, not a usable counter area. Which footprint actually fits depends on which direction your table, cart or shelf is tight on, rather than one oven simply being smaller than the other across the board.

It's worth measuring all three dimensions against your own setup before deciding on either oven, rather than assuming the lighter weight or the smaller footprint area tells the whole story — the Koda 16 pairs a larger base and a taller stance with its lower weight, while the Arc XL pairs a narrower, lower-profile build with its extra weight.

What doesn't separate them

Pizza size is not a difference between the two: both the Arc XL and the Koda 16 are built for pizzas up to 16 inches, per each maker's own spec sheet. And published maximum temperature isn't either — Gozney rates the Arc XL to 500 °C (932 °F), and Ooni rates the Koda 16 to the same 500 °C (932 °F). Fuel is also shared: both run on propane alone, with the burner built into the oven rather than sold as a separate accessory.

What neither tells you

Neither Gozney nor Ooni publishes a maximum floor temperature for either oven, so that figure can't be compared between the Arc XL and the Koda 16 at all — it's simply absent from both spec sheets.

Preheat time is published for only one of the two: Ooni states the Koda 16 reaches its working temperature in about 20 minutes. Gozney publishes no equivalent preheat figure for the Arc XL, so there's nothing to set that 20-minute number against — it describes the Koda 16 alone, not a comparison between the pair.

Gozney's own description also calls the Arc XL's cordierite stone deck removable. Ooni's description of the Koda 16 makes no equivalent removable claim for its own deck, so that's a build detail stated for only one of the two.

Both ovens sit on the outdoor pizza oven hub alongside the rest of the gas, wood and electric lineup, where the Arc XL is the heaviest build in the group and the Koda 16 is one of two ovens sharing its 16-inch deck. If 16 inches is more size than you actually need, Ooni Koda 2 vs Koda 16 covers the step down to a 14-inch deck using the same Koda 16 as one side of that comparison.

Whichever of these two you end up with, if the bake comes out uneven once the oven is in regular use, pizza cooks unevenly covers the fix — finding your own oven's hot side and, in a gas oven like either of these, turning the pizza a quarter-turn every 20–30 seconds rather than waiting for a single midpoint rotation, which applies the same way on a 16-inch stone whether it's the Arc XL's or the Koda 16's.