Abstract The analysis of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data acquired by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and the large-scale (ℓ ≲ 1300) Planck Telescope show a preference for the Early Dark Energy (EDE) theory, which was set to alleviate the Hubble tension of the Λ Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) model by decreasing the sound horizon rs, and gives H0 ≈ 72 km s−1 Mpc−1. However, the EDE model is commonly questioned for exacerbating the σ8 tension on top of the ΛCDM model, and its lack of preference from the late-time matter power spectrum observations, e.g., Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). In light of the current obscurities, we inspect if the high redshift galaxy abundance, i.e., Stellar Mass Function/Density (SMF/SMD) and Luminosity Function (LF), can independently probe the EDE model. Our result shows that, compared to ΛCDM, the EDE model prediction at z > 10 displays better consistency with the unexpectedly high results observed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). At lower redshift, the EDE model only fits the most luminous/massive end, with the majority of the data presenting better consistency with ΛCDM, implying that adding an extra luminosity/mass-sensitive suppression mechanism of the galaxy formation is required for EDE to explain all data around z ∼ 7 − 10.