In your opinion, what’s the best brand of LED bulbs on the market from your experience, and the best specific bulbs (such as the best snow cone vs filament LED)

As far as General Purpose A19s go, TCP has been the most reliable I’ve used with zero failures in the past 10 years. Followed by Philips/Signify (2014-2026) with very minimal failures.

What about Sylvania or GE?

The current GEs aren’t very good, the Sylvanias are worse. The older ones of both brands (pre-2018) were much better.

Sylvania has served me the best. I would say a solid 60% of all LEDs in my house are Sylvania in name, including in more difficult applications like garage door openers, outside dusk-to-dawn lights, and otherwise. I had one "failure" over the course of 6 years, on their budget line ("EcoLED") and it was just one set of diodes intermittently turning on and off/lightly flickering, not the entire array failing.
Bulbrite has been junk.
GE has been junk.
Philips/Signify/K-Lite has been mediocre. DON'T BUY THEIR WarmGlo LINEUP!
Feit has been half-decent. Failures after 3-4 years, give or take, on their older stuff. Post-2021, they've been junk.
TCP seems to be decent as well.

I've actually had the best luck with GE believe it or not. My favorites are the GE Reveal LEDs that have been serving me for 5+ years. I've had the most failures with Feit with the lamps not technically "failing" but with getting so dim they barely put off any light anymore. Stay away from store brands (EcoSmart and Utilitech), those are trash. Other than that, I cannot speak on anything else because I have not had other brands in long term use like the ones I've mentioned.

Sylvania has served me the best. I would say a solid 60% of all LEDs in my house are Sylvania in name, including in more difficult applications like garage door openers, outside dusk-to-dawn lights, and otherwise. I had one "failure" over the course of 6 years, on their budget line ("EcoLED") and it was just one set of diodes intermittently turning on and off/lightly flickering, not the entire array failing.
Bulbrite has been junk.
GE has been junk.
Philips/Signify/K-Lite has been mediocre. DON'T BUY THEIR WarmGlo LINEUP!
Feit has been half-decent. Failures after 3-4 years, give or take, on their older stuff. Post-2021, they've been junk.
TCP seems to be decent as well.

It seems that many people don’t like GE. I’ve had good luck with GE’s snow cone and flood products but you can’t get the filament version of the GE, those are junk. I believe GE LEDs are actually made by Topstar which is why people’s experiences with them can be good or bad. Philips and Feit are the only major manufacturers that make their own LED bulbs.

I agree that their warm glow filament bulbs aren’t very good. Philips’s other products seem decent if you’re not buying the basic bulbs. Never tried Bulbrite and I believe Bulbrite is a contractor-grade brand and a commercial brand so they have to be bought off of websites like HD Supply or off commercial lighting vendors. Amazon might also carry them.

Philips is junk because they don't make their own lamps at Ya-Ming...
They just import cheap K-Lite products...

Yeah, the recent Philips snowcones look suspicious so I’ve never bought them. I’ve only used their filament LED (non-WarmGlow) option by default.

The non-Warm Glow filament LEDs are rather decent, but most of those are 3000K or over bulbs. I don’t think Philips makes a 2700K non-warm glow filament LED nowadays. Haven’t heard too many premature failures with the non-warm glow filaments.

Also, I didn’t know Philips bulbs were from K-Lite. Interesting. How do you know they’re from K-Lite?

The dimmable Philips snow cones seem good but the non-dimmable versions are junk. They don’t last long and when they do fail they usually crack at the plastic base. So, they just don’t have good heat dissipation. Those aren’t any better than the EcoSmart and Great Value bulbs in my opinion. Every brand of the basic LED bulbs seems just as bad. The older 60W equivalent versions of the basic bulbs (the mushroom styles) had tiny heatsinks for the lower wattage bulbs so those absolutely didn’t last either. It seems all the big name brand snow cone LEDs crack at EOL (even the GE’s). It seems that the store brand ones are less likely to crack at failure but those have a shorter lifespan when it comes to mid class bulbs so I avoid them, and a cracked LED bulb is not usually a fire hazard. It’s just a sign that it was used and heat damaged the plastic over time. It’s much rarer for an LED to catch fire than it is for a CFL. Most true LED fires are from those LED light strip things or LED tubes.

I guess even Philips stopped making their own LED bulbs. Did not know that. I think K-Lite is a distributor so how do you know it’s made by then?

We use mainly use BR30 lamps and over the past nearly 9 years:

-Satco lamps have surprisingly lasted a long time with several original ones still in use
-GE lamps had mixed lifetimes however most were around 2-3 years
-Philips has been a mix
-Fusion branded lamps lasted about 6 years, unless there are still any left in use

Our foyer and staircase lights both have slightly no-name A19 LEDs in them, but they've worked perfectly for years.

I think I’m the only one who has had good luck with GE lamps. But again, my luck is for snow cones only. GE dimmable snow cones are becoming harder to find especially in 5000K at physical stores.

I’m not even sure who makes the GE bulbs for GE. I NEVER had a failure.

I’ve had bad experiences with EcoSmart and Great Value, My EcoSmart lamps were made by Leedarson and my Great Value lamps were made by TCP. It seems that TCP-made Great Value lamps aren’t very good, but I’ve heard good things about TCP badged lamps and their high end products. My guess is TCP just uses inferior components for the Walmart brand bulbs, though their consumer grade bulbs are probably the same way.

You can tell easily who made an LED bulb for an off brand by simply searching up the UL code (it starts with the letter E).