Best Pool Vacuums of 2025: Effortlessly Clean Every Type of Pool
Wireless VS Cordé
Nautilus CC of Dolphin impressed us with its cleaning power and the anti-Ganglion cord worked as announced.
There are advantages to have a vacuum of the cuddly robot, in particular not to worry about recharging the device or losing lithium battery with time. Spilled pool robots are recommended for most pool owners, as they are less prone to engine problems or malfunctions. The cord robots also need to be taken from the pool and recharged after each use, unlike all the wireless models on our list, with the exception of the Wybot S2 with solar load quay.
That said, wireless robots are ideal if your pool is not near a power supply. Putting a long extension through the courtyard, in places subject to humidity, is not recommended in the long term.
Wireless vacuum cleaners performed as well as those with cable. We have been testing some of these wireless models for two years and we have not noticed a decrease in the battery life.
Power aspiration and battery life
If you choose a wireless model, consider the life of the battery and the suction power as well as the size of your pool. A larger swimming pool requires a longer cleaning session, so it could be worth doing follies on a more expensive model with longer and more power execution time. The power is measured in the gallons per hour, or GPH, which the void supports. The low -end models start at around 3,000 GPH, the best pool cleaners exceeding around 7,000 or 8,000 GPH.
Filter type
Most robot pool cleaners will filter large debris, but the finest things require a nanofilter.
All robotic pool cleaners should catch large debris such as gravel and leaves. To sift the finer debris and prevent your swimming pool water from becoming cloudy, you will need a nanofilter. The pump and the main filter of your swimming pool are intended to catch a large part of these finer things, but a powerful robot with a nanofilter will help.
Pool type
The larger robotic pool vacuum cleaners we tested cleaned faster and had better suction than smaller models.
There are small pool robots designed for pools above the smaller floor and soil, and large robots designed to manage up to swimming pools up to 40,000 gallons on a single cleaning cycle. Depending on the size of your swimming pool and the quantity of debris which is regularly found, choose a robot which can clean it effectively and effectively in a single cleaning cycle. This is particularly important to consider with wireless robots, because they will have to be loaded between each use.
There are pool cleaners specially designed for pools above the ground. They are generally smaller and less powerful because they have less ground to cover. An above -ground pool cleaner must also be lighter, as it is more difficult to remove from the pool after use.
Sides and stairs
Handling manually the walls and stairs of your pool does not require a ton of effort, so we have not weighed these cleaning modes as strongly as we did the cleaning on the ground.
About half of the models we tested could clean the sides of the pool, and some even had modes to clean the stairs. It is a good feature to have, but brush the debris on the steps or the side of your pool to the floor, where it can be more easily cleaned by the robot, generally does not take more than a few minutes. For this reason, we weighted the robot’s ability to clean the sides and stairs less strongly than its ability to clean a pool floor.
If you don’t want to make this little brushing chore before activating your robot, choose a model that has a side cleaning mode.
Cost and value
Beatbot’s Aquasense line has premium characteristics and long -term batteries, but with price labels to match.
Reliable pool robots start at around $ 500 and go up to around $ 2,000. We found that robots between $ 700 and $ 1,200 were perfectly acceptable to clean a 25,000 gallon swimming pool. Choose a robot greater than $ 1,200 and you mainly pay special features that are not necessarily worth it.
For wireless robots, the battery life was higher on more expensive models, but cleaning performance was often similar to those of cheaper vacuum cleaners.
Correction: An earlier version of this story has poorly loaded the suction power. It is measured in gallons per hour.
