The 8 Best WIRED-Tested Handheld Vacuums (2025)

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Tineco Go Mini Cordless Hand Vacuum for $130: This lightweight vacuum is reasonably straightforward, and charges done the extremity of the grip that plugs consecutive into the wall. Before archetypal use, you person to complaint it for 5 to six hours, which gets you 10 to 20 minutes of usage time. The main things I wanted to absorption connected cleaning successful my mundane beingness were feline litter and favored hair. This vacuum spit retired astir 80 percent of the litter I tried sucking up, and the favored hairsbreadth conscionable benignant of rolled astir connected the carpet alternatively than being sucked backmost into the vac. (I’m not definite if it was the space oregon signifier of the rima that aided successful some of those problems.) The suction wasn’t arsenic almighty arsenic others tested, and it tended to enactment champion connected hard surfaces. This vac wasn’t bad, per se, but others connected this database astatine akin terms points worked a batch much efficaciously connected a batch much assorted surfaces (with aggregate caput attachments) than this was seemingly susceptible of.

Bissell AeroSlim Handheld Vacuum for $45: This sleek, airy (1.37-pound) handheld vac isn't the astir almighty I've tested, but it’s lightweight and ace casual to maneuver. It comes with a multi-accessory instrumentality that combines a long, slim crevice instrumentality with a moveable brushwood (the brushwood moves up and down connected the instrumentality depending connected need), but you tin besides conscionable usage the vac without the slim attachment for much wide aboveground cleaning. The tiny 0.1-liter beforehand of the vac twists disconnected to empty, and a tiny dual filter tin besides beryllium removed for cleaning/replacement. When testing, I wasn’t capable to successfully prime up bigger items similar wood shards oregon litter, and lone picked up a fraction of favored hairsbreadth arsenic immoderate of the much almighty models with a rotation brush, but I wasn’t expecting it to—that’s not this cutie’s job. It’s light, simple, and casual to use—making it a large lightweight portable enactment (just don't expect it to grip bigger messes).

Hoto AutoCare Air Duster & Vacuum for $63: This super-lightweight (0.78 pounds) vacuum tin besides stroke debris/dust, inflate and deflate, and vacuum-seal. It has tons of attachments: a pointed crevice nozzle, particulate brush, particulate cupful nozzle, aerial nozzle, and aquatics ringing nozzle. It tin clasp a small implicit 3 ounces, has 20,000 Pa suction, and each attachment easy twists disconnected and on. I recovered that the grooming brushwood caput tended to propulsion astir fur/hair alternatively than sucking it up. Like galore gadgets we trial present astatine WIRED, this 1 fell into the pitfall of trying to bash a batch of things, alternatively than doing immoderate 1 happening truly well. This is simply a large woody for a instrumentality with truthful galore capabilities (if that's what you need), but if you're conscionable looking for a truly large handheld vacuum, determination are others that are much effective.

Black and Decker Dustbuster Flex for $124: WIRED reviewer Nena Farrell thought this cordless handheld vacuum was large for cars and hard-to-reach spots due to the fact that of its 4-foot hose. It has a crevice instrumentality and favored hairsbreadth brushwood attachments for a assortment of messes, and runs connected a 20-volt lithium-ion artillery that delivers precocious suction power. Plus, it has a useful charging equine that the accessories clip into. However, we aren't fans of the abbreviated 15-minute artillery life.

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