I don’t see much of anything bumping the Harbor Freight 24+3 LED 3xAAA puck for value, $3 on sale. I needed some filler to hit the $35 free shipping at Amazon, and decided to pick up a Nebo Larry light 8 LED 3xAAA, mine was $8 from Amazon Warehouse as a product return, normal price is about $11. The larry is also pretty close to the EZred pocket LED flood, and there is a Larry2 with more LEDs.
HF is sort of a defuse spot from the 24 LED main bank, maybe 3 ft wide 8 ft away. Larry is flood covering most of a 8x8 wall 8 feet away. Overall light output seemed about the same, but HF brighter in the middle spot area.
HF comes with 3x el cheapo AAA alkalines, which lasted me maybe 10 hours and six months sitting around. Replacement requires removing 3 screws that at least going into metal threaded inserts, medium time consuming, but nothing to break. Eneloops were a very tight fit lengthwise. Larry has a twist off 1/4 turn lock/unlock end piece, no issues I could see, comes with 3xAAA Nebo brand, mine were dead.
Both have a kind of rubbery shell, neither one looks like dropping is a good idea. Mine came from amazon with a crack in the lens over the LEDs, maybe the reason it was initially returned, but its no issue to me, and Amazon took care of it (refunded and said keep the light due to that and dead batteries).
Puck has a strong round magnet in middle of back and hook with various positions.
Larry has a pocket clip with a strong magnet that rotates, which is handy when laying it on the ground, or clipping to your pocket facing away from you.
Larry seems a bit better construction, HF puck I’ve had one of mine fail in light use, replaced no questions over the counter within 30 days.
Bottom line, different enough and cheap enough that you should have both. I have two or three of the pucks, only issue, those cheap initial batteries aren’t going to last, Eneloops x3 cost more than the light.