2025 Honda Accord vs. Toyota Camry: One Only Comes as a Hybrid Now, and It Shows

The Accord is cheaper to start and quicker to option up with real power — but the Camry's every trim is a hybrid now, and the fuel economy gap between them is not a close one.

Toyota made a real, structural decision with the 2025 Camry that changes this whole comparison: every single trim is a hybrid now, no gas-only option left at all. Honda kept the Accord's lineup split — a standard turbocharged 1.5-liter four-cylinder as the base engine, with the hybrid powertrain reserved for the Sport trim and above. That one decision explains most of the real differences below.

**Price.** The Accord starts cheaper — $29,690 versus the Camry's $30,895, a real $1,205 gap at the entry point. But that Accord entry price buys the non-hybrid engine; matching the Camry's standard hybrid means stepping up to the Accord Sport at $33,655, which flips the price advantage to Toyota. At the top end the gap reopens the other way: the loaded Accord Touring reaches $39,300, well past the Camry XSE's $34,900 ceiling — Honda's top trim costs real money the Camry lineup doesn't ask for.

**Power and fuel economy — the real trade-off.** Honda's base 1.5-liter turbo makes up to 192 horsepower; its own hybrid option reaches 204. The Camry's hybrid, standard on every trim, makes 225-232 horsepower depending on configuration — genuinely stronger than either Accord engine. Where the Camry really pulls away is fuel economy: an EPA-estimated 52 city / 49 highway mpg against the Accord's 29 city / 37 highway on the non-hybrid engine. That's not a marginal difference — it's a car that costs meaningfully less to actually run, every trim, no upgrade required.

**Everyday tech.** Both make a touchscreen standard, but the Camry's base display is larger (8 inches versus 7), and Toyota made wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto standard where Honda still wires those features in on lower Accord trims — a real everyday-use difference for anyone tired of plugging a phone in every trip. Both offer all-wheel drive as an option, so neither has an advantage there.

Owners rate the two almost identically — 4.3 out of 5 for both on TrueCar, from a larger sample for the Accord (5,948 ratings) than the Camry (3,777). That parity suggests the real decision here isn't about overall satisfaction, it's about which trade-off actually matters to you: Honda's cheaper entry price and available real power at the top of the range, against Toyota's standard hybrid efficiency and simpler one-powertrain-fits-all lineup.