The 9 Best Dyson Vacuums (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Dyson doesn't instrumentality to chronological bid erstwhile naming its instrumentality vacuum models. Sometimes it skips numbers, and sometimes it'll present a little fig arsenic a aboriginal exemplary than a higher number. For example, Dyson introduced the V15 instantly aft the V11, and past the V12 aft the V15. In the broadest sense, the numbers look to loosely turn larger with each passing release—the V11 is newer than the V10, and the V10 is newer than the V8. But Dyson's naming strategy is cryptic capable that adjacent we can't foretell what the consequent exemplary volition be.

Dyson besides has a batch of sub-models, due to the fact that its naming strategy isn't confusing enough. Each 1 has a antithetic fig of included instrumentality attachments and accessories. Every exemplary (V7, V8, V10, V11, V15, etc.) seems to present caller sub-models, truthful the database conscionable keeps growing, and past determination are discontinued sub-models that amusement up arsenic aged banal connected websites, typically connected sale.

Detect isn't precisely a sub-model, but alternatively portion of the sanction of the V15 Detect and V12 Detect Slim. It refers to the laser detection strategy that measures particle size and number to customize suction power.

Absolute is usually the king-of-the-hill mentation with the astir attachments. We can't database them all, due to the fact that they alteration based connected genitor model, but expect a assortment of brushwood nozzles, crevice attachments, and motorized roller heads to scrub pugnacious grit disconnected hard floors and retired of deep-pile carpets.

Allergy utilized to mean that it came with an upgraded filter that traps 99.99 percent of bacteria and dust, truthful it expels cleaner aerial than regular models, but aft the V7, each Dyson instrumentality vacs started including the upgraded filters. It's mostly a bequest designation now, and it hasn't been utilized connected newer models.

Motorhead sounds fancy, but it's the low-end sub-model that comes with a motorized head, a mates of basal brushwood and crevice tools, and that's astir it. It's mostly a holdover from the V7 days. Dyson has recovered different names for basal sub-models.

Origin, Fluffy, and Animal travel with comparatively fewer attachments. The Fluffy and Animal don't travel with immoderate unsocial attachments peculiar to usefulness successful cleaning up aft pets; it's conscionable go shorthand for "base exemplary with less attachments." The aforesaid is existent for the Origin, though its sanction makes much sense.

Dyson isn't supra combining sub-model names. The much names Dyson slaps onto a model, the much attachments it comes with. For example, the V8 Animal Pro comes with much worldly than the Animal, but the Animal Pro+ comes with adjacent much than that.

You volition besides announcement that we notation the antithetic accessories successful each model, which alteration depending connected the exemplary you buy. These marque your vacuum much versatile, making it easier to tackle circumstantial parts of the house. If your vacuum doesn't travel with an accessory you want, you tin ever acquisition it separately. But it tin beryllium pugnacious to discern which 1 does what, particularly if this is your archetypal Dyson vacuum. (Save connected apical Dyson vacuums and accessory bundles with our exclusive Dyson promo codes.)

Below, we interruption down immoderate of the astir communal accessories Dyson offers and what each 1 is specifically designed for.

For cordless vacuums:

• Motorbar cleaner head: This 1 comes equipped with 43 detangling vanes that automatically wrapper hairsbreadth from the brushwood barroom arsenic you cleanable your floors. That way, you don't person to interest astir it getting stuck connected the cleaner caput itself. It's compatible with the Dyson V8 and Dyson Cyclone V10 range.
• Fluffy Optic cleaner head: This 1 comes with an angled leaf of airy that Dyson says shows you “twice the amount” of invisible particulate connected hard floors arsenic its predecessor (which is compatible with the V15 Detect and V11 vacuums). It's perfect for darker flooring wherever particulate tin beryllium hard to spot. It's compatible with the Gen5Outsize and Gen5Detect.
• Combination tool: This is simply a premix betwixt a wide nozzle and brush, truthful you tin easy power betwixt cleaning and dusting with 1 tool. It's compatible with Dyson Gen5detect, Gen5outsize, V15, V12, V11, V10, V8, and V7 vacuums​. A version of this tool is besides disposable for upright vacuums including the DC41, DC47, Dyson Ball, Cinetic Big Ball, and Light/Slim Ball.
• Hair screw tool: Similar to the motorbar cleaner head, this is an anti-tangle conical brushwood that picks up some agelong hairsbreadth and favored hair. But it's designed for tiny spaces—I usage it connected the sofa and my sheets to prime up escaped strands. It's compatible with the Dyson Cyclone V10, V11 (including the models with click-in battery), V15 Detect, V15 Detect Submarine, and V8 (with prima pre-filter).
• Crevice tool: This is large for areas that are constrictive and hard to reach, similar corners oregon successful betwixt car seats. It's compatible with the Dyson Outsize, V15, V12, V11, V10, V8, and V7.
• Mattress tool: This instrumentality is for removing dirt, dust, and allergens from mattresses and upholstery—including couches and chairs. It's compatible with the Gen5detect, Gen5outsize, V15, V12, V11, V10, V8, and V7 vacuums​. It's presently retired of banal but you tin motion up to beryllium notified via email erstwhile it's back. A mentation of this instrumentality is besides disposable for an extended database of upright vacuums, which you tin spot here.

For upright vacuums:

• Tangle-free turbine tool: This 1 has a counter-rotating brushwood that removes hairsbreadth from upholstery and carpets. It's besides escaped of a brushwood bar, truthful you don't person to interest astir hairsbreadth getting wrapped astir it. The afloat database of compatible vacuums tin beryllium recovered here.
• Groom tool: The favored groom instrumentality is large for medium- and long-haired dogs. The flexible bristles seizure escaped hairsbreadth and dormant tegument cells. You tin spot the afloat database of compatible vacuums here.
• Flexi-crevice Tool: Similar to the Crevice instrumentality for cordless vacuums, this 1 is designed for hard-to-reach places. But it besides extends and bends. It's compatible with a batch of antithetic upright vacuums including the Animal 2, Big Ball, Multi Floor, and much (as good arsenic the cordless V6 and V11). You tin spot the afloat database here. It's presently retired of banal but you tin motion up to beryllium notified via email erstwhile it's back.
• Carbon-fiber brushed dusting brush: This brushwood is built to prime up good particulate connected much delicate surfaces similar blinds, lampshades, mirrors, and more. It besides has a self-adjusting brushwood sheet that automatically adjusts suction to maximize the magnitude of particulate it picks up. It's compatible with the Dyson DC47, Ball Animal, Ball, Ball Animal 2, and Multi Floor 2.
• Multi-angle brush: This brushwood is perfect for high-up areas successful your location (like the tops of cabinets oregon airy fixtures). It twists and locks astatine antithetic angles. It's compatible with a agelong database of upright vacuums (as good arsenic the cordless V6 and V11), which you tin spot here.
• Reach-under tool: The reach-under instrumentality bends, extends, and twists to region particulate and debris from awkward spaces (like betwixt car seats, down radiators, and successful pugnacious corners). It's compatible with the DC47, Ball Animal, Ball Animal 3, Ball, Ball Animal 2, Multi Floor 2, Big Ball, Light/Slim Ball, and Small Ball. It besides works with the Dyson V11 cordless vacuums.

For much options, you tin cheque retired Dyson's authoritative site, which lists accessories for some cordless and upright vacuums.

When unboxing your caller vacuum, we urge downloading Dyson's companion app—MyDyson (iOS, Android)—and registering your instrumentality to activate your warranty, which is 2 years for cordless models and 5 years for corded. The sum goes into effect connected the time you bargain the vacuum, arsenic agelong arsenic you person impervious of purchase. If you don't, the warranty volition footwear successful 90 days aft the manufacture date. The warranty covers replacement parts (including batteries and definite parts), repairs (Dyson volition cod the instrumentality escaped of charge, oregon you tin sojourn 1 of its Service Centers), and replacements. If the repairs can't beryllium done, Dyson volition afloat regenerate it for you. You tin check here for a afloat database of what it does and doesn't cover.

When your warranty is up, you'll person to buy the replacement parts. Dyson offers spare filters, batteries, chargers, circumstantial parts (V-ball wheels, axles and rollers, and rear edges), and accessories for purchase. You tin spell straight done Dyson's tract (which is accessible via the app), but banal fluctuates depending connected the circumstantial portion you're looking for. You tin besides acquisition them done authorized sellers similar Amazon and Walmart. If you're looking elsewhere, it's important to marque definite these parts are genuine Dyson parts (you tin bash this by checking that Dyson is the retailer done the third-party seller you're purchasing from). Dyson offers a 12-month warranty connected its genuine parts, and those sold by different brands whitethorn not beryllium covered. Inauthentic parts whitethorn not acceptable oregon enactment decently either—regardless of whether the seller claims they're compatible—and could harm the vacuum entirely. I made the mistake of ordering caller filters done a third-party seller for the Dyson V15 I was investigating astatine the time, lone to find they were excessively small.

Dyson vacuums are expensive, truthful it's important to support yours—this helps to summation its longevity and support its almighty suction. If you person a cordless vacuum, the institution suggests cleaning the filter erstwhile a period (at least).

You tin clean the filter (on some cordless and upright vacuums) by removing it, tapping lightly connected the broadside of your garbage bin oregon sink, and rinsing it with acold pat h2o (Dyson says not to usage immoderate detergents). Then, capable the filter with lukewarm pat water, screen the unfastened sides with your hands, and shingle it firmly to region dirt. You should repetition these steps until the h2o runs clear, astatine which constituent you tin past shingle the filter to get escaped of immoderate excess water. You should past fto the filter adust for astatine slightest 24 hours successful an country that has airflow (like adjacent a instrumentality oregon unfastened window). Once it's afloat dry, you tin spot it backmost into the vacuum. To cleanable the canister, usage a damp microfiber cloth.

You tin besides cleanable the roller cleaner caput by cutting distant immoderate hairsbreadth utilizing scissors (depending connected the Dyson you have, you mightiness request to usage a screwdriver to region the sheet connected the cleaner head). If your vacuum comes with a soft brushwood bar, you tin cleanable that too. Remove it from the cleaner caput (take the extremity headdress disconnected too), clasp it nether moving h2o portion mildly rubbing it to region ungraded and lint, and fto it adust for 24 hours. If you're utilizing an upright vacuum, you tin besides clean the hose by moving it nether lukewarm water. As with the remainder of the parts, you should fto it adust for 24 hours earlier reattaching it.

Dyson's cordless vacuums don't basal upright, but the artillery has a level backmost truthful that you tin remainder it against a wall. However, it's not the astir stable. If you don't thin it conscionable right, it'll descent disconnected the partition and deed the ground. The institution includes a partition dock with each model. There's besides a spot to spot the charging cablegram truthful that the vacuum is ever charging portion placed connected the dock. It's elemental to instal (you whitethorn request a drill), but it's the astir perfect retention solution.

Here are the steps connected however to instal it:

1. Make definite you person each the due accessories: the beforehand casing, backmost plate, screws, charger, and partition plug.
2. Drill 2 holes successful the partition based connected the recommended measurements successful the manual.
3. Grab the backplate and unafraid it with the screws.
4. Place the jack plug connected the beforehand casing and marque definite the charging cablegram is secured down the beforehand casing.
5. Push the jack screen down to marque definite the jack plug is secure.
6. Clip the beforehand casing onto the backplate and propulsion it successful to unafraid it.
7. Plug the partition plug into an outlet and you're each set.

From there, you tin connect the vacuum to the partition dock. For visuals connected however to instal it, you tin besides ticker Dyson's step-by-step video.