Home Depot started the early Black Friday 2025 tool deals season with a Dewalt 20V Max free cordless power tools promo.
Dewalt changed things up this year, presumably due to the impact tariffs had on their pricing, and so there’s not much precedent for comparison purposes.
With this deal, which for now is online-only, you buy a Dewalt 20V Max starter kit with 2 batteries and a charger for $299, and get your choice of 2 free tools.
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Here’s the Dewalt starter kit, DCB245-2C. It comes with a standard-looking charger, 5Ah battery, and XR PowerPack 4Ah battery with tabless Li-ion cells.
So that’s a charger, one fairly standard battery that’s based on older Li-ion tech but still quite good, and one cutting edge premium compactish tabless battery.
You buy that for $299, and get 2 free tools.
Here’s your free tool selection, which is paltry compared to what we’ve seen from Dewalt in the past.
- Brushless drywall screwdriver
- Atomic brushless hammer drill
- Atomic brushless impact driver (DCF850 – a great premium model)
- Cordless jobsite fan
- Atomic 1/2″ ratchet
This is just the start of the holiday season deals, with lots more to come.
Acme Tools just added the same Dewalt starter kit to their online catalog, suggesting that we’ll see a similar free tool deal there too.
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The big question is whether this free tool deal is a good bargain, and if there will be better deals.
Take a look at Home Depot’s listing for the Dewalt 20V Max XR brushless router. I’m seeing that they have over 3,000 available for online delivery, and that each of the stores in my area has between 10 and 35 in stock.
Based on that, I believe that Dewalt’s free tools selection is limited with this deal, but should improve later in the season. The cordless router tends to be included in recurring free tool promos, and inventory counts suggest the same will be true this year.
This is the first deal I’m seeing from Home Depot and Dewalt, and I am sure there will be more.
Update: More Dewalt tool deals have started to pop up. Acme has 3 free tool offers – see These New Dewalt Free Tool Deals are the Best so far.
Big Richard
This deal has been going for close to a month now. I have to assume they will have a different deal for the usual BF/holiday season, or at least add more tools.
Lowes has three tiers for their holiday sale that just started today and goes thru 07Jan2026:
– Buy a 2x4Ah DCB204 for $199 get 1 free tool
– Buy 2x5Ah DCB205 and 4A charger starter kit for $299 get 2 free tools
– Buy 2x8Ah PowerPack DCB2108 and 8A charger starter kit for $299 get 3 free tools
Usual suspects of free tools – https://www.reddit.com/r/Dewalt/comments/1o7qjsf/the_deal_of_the_year_at_lowes/#lightbox
Big Richard
EDIT: typo, $449 for the 2x8Ah kit deal. Also, the caulk gun is not really part of the usual suspects, so that is cool.
PW
Seems like a fair deal to me, if you want two of those exact tools.
It seems very weird to throw in a fan for a Fall deal, a real counter-cyclical choice. Makes me think these options were picked based on existing stock / leftovers. These all strike me as slow sellers or something HD probably has a lot of knocking around.
Peter
Looking forward to the day a quiet impact is one of the “free” tools.
Big Richard
Farm & Fleet has a deal where you buy the impact for $219 you get a “free” 5Ah PowerStack – https://www.farmandfleet.com/products/1556807-dewalt-20v-max-xr-brushless-cordless-1-4-quiet-hydraulic-impact-driver.html
Peter
Thank you.
Will
Kind of slim picking so far. Hope they add more tool choices.
Lyle
The 4Ah battery is a PowerPack (tabless cells) not PowerStack (pouch).
I wish there were some deals that included the 3.5Ah PowerStack batteries. I think that’s a perfect size for most hand tools.
Stuart
Sorry – yes. I keep making that mistake with the branding, but I did specify it’s the battery with tabless cells.
It’s not clear what Dewalt is doing with the PowerStack family. I don’t think the 3.5Ah was officially announced, it simply just appeared. https://toolguyd.com/dewalt-powerstack-battery-dcbp320/
Eddie
I got a few 3.5 powerstacks through ebay and such. Like you said there have been no legitimate deals for it like the 4ah powerpack even tho it is older then the 4ah powerpack. From what ive seen from tbe pics and stuff all the new atomic grinders as kits will be paired with the powerstacks. I forget which one but i def saw a 3.5 powerstack on one of those.
Gary Schmitz
I don’t see this as a deal . I generally buy batteries @ about 14 per amp hr.
9 amp hr @ 13=117
Charger without looking is worth nothing or $40
My 887 impact bare tool was $72
The drill cheaper ( not buy much)
And since I have about 13 chargers I fall into the category – chargers worth zero
Stuart
The way you need to gauge deals is to ask “how much would this cost otherwise,” and the answer here is “a lot more.”
Your math works out to $301, and that involves scouring 3rd party resellers on various online marketplaces, rather than buying better tech brand new.
The PowerPack 4Ah battery is selling by itself for $169 at Acme Tools. It’s $151 right now at Amazon. You’re not getting their compact tabless cell battery at $13 per amp-hour anytime soon.