The Best Cordless Vacuum

We measured airflow (CFM)

• At the cleaner head of the vacuum
• On its highest power setting

We measured suction (inches of water lift)

• At the main body of the vacuum
• On its highest power setting

Here are our test results:

We measured battery life

• with a cleaner head attached to the vacuum and
• with it running on its highest power setting

This describes how most consumers will use most of these vacuums most of the time - most consumers will primarily use them with a cleaner head attached and on high power, as performance drops off dramatically switching from high to lower power modes on most models.

Only a few models we tested offer adequate performance on lower power settings. Those models are listed in a separate table below.

Additional context

Note that we’ve included each vacuum’s performance in our carpet deep clean testing to add context to the battery life test results below.

Our carpet deep clean testing involved pushing the vacuum back and forth three times over an area of carpet embedded with 30g of fine debris. The tables below show how much of the 30g of debris was picked up by the vacuum in this test.

All models running on high power:

Models that get good performance on lower power: