Wyze Vacuums

Wyze was founded in Kirkland, Washington in 2017 by four former Amazon employees, and its first product was a $19.99 camera. The vacuums follow the same idea, a low price with the specifications printed plainly. Both here are budget machines with a 1-year warranty, and Wyze's own store now lists the robot as no longer available.

The Cordless Vacuum S ($107) is a stick with a 0.7-liter bin that weighs 4.9 pounds assembled. Wyze rates it at 6,000 Pa in Eco, 9,000 in Medium and 20,000 in Turbo, with runtimes of 40, 23 and 10 minutes, so Turbo is a short burst rather than a cleaning mode. The battery is removable, a real advantage in a price class where sealed packs end a vacuum's life. Wyze says its HEPA filter removes 95 percent of particles under 0.3 microns, below the 99.97 percent figure true HEPA is held to, and recommends it for bare floors and short, firm carpet, not plush pile. Owners like the weight on stairs and the spare batteries, and report units running two years without trouble. They also say its cleaning power is modest despite the headline figure and that the S cleans slightly worse than Wyze's original cordless.

The Wyze Robot Vacuum ($100) is a vacuum-only LiDAR robot rated at 2,100 Pa, with no mop and no self-empty dock. Owners say it maps quickly and cleans hard floors well, but pulls little embedded grit from carpet, misses socks and cables, and stalls at thresholds above about 20 mm. Because Wyze no longer sells it, check the seller's return policy and whether filters and brushes are still in stock before buying.