What the maker puts in writing
- “All-in-One Pick-Up & Mopping with 16KPa Suction”
- “Powerful 35-Minute Runtime & Large 900ml Tank”
- “Simply place the Dreame H12 Pro on its dock to activate a thorough self-cleaning cycle; the roller brush is automatically cleaned and dried in hot air, preventing odors and mildew for a hygienic home”
- “Achieve gap-free cleaning along walls and corners with the full-length roller brush design”
- “after use, return the H12 Pro to its dock for automatic recharging, reaching a full charge from zero in approximately 3 to 4 hours”
- “tough dry and wet messes like spills, crumbs, pet food, hair, and muddy paw prints in one pass”
- Catalog: 4808 g (169.6 oz) · 274 × 239 × 1100 mm (10.8 × 9.41 × 43.3 in)
Sixteen kilopascals, written to look different from twenty thousand pascals
16 kPa is 16,000 Pa. Same unit, different prefix.
The three roborock listings on this shelf all publish 20,000 Pa — the F25 GT at $169.99, the F25 LT at $199.99 and the F25 XT at $249.99.
So the F25 LT, at exactly the same price as this, publishes 25 per cent more suction. And the F25 GT, thirty dollars cheaper, publishes the same 20,000.
Whether that decides anything depends on the job. Suction lifts water, hair and loose debris back off the floor, which is precisely what this listing’s bullet describes: “spills, crumbs, pet food, hair, and muddy paw prints”.
What suction does not do is remove anything dried on. That is roller speed — and the corded Bissell CrossWave Turbo publishes 3000 rpm against 600 on the sibling dreame FloorX and 450 on the roborock F25 GT. This listing publishes no roller speed at all.
Worth knowing that nine of thirteen listings here publish no suction figure either, so the comparison exists between four machines and this is one of them.
Hot air against mildew, named properly
“the roller brush is automatically cleaned and dried in hot air, preventing odors and mildew for a hygienic home.”
Naming mildew is what makes this sentence useful. Every listing on this shelf promises a clean roller; this one says what goes wrong if it is not dried.
And it is the real failure of the category. The roller is a damp fabric sleeve holding grease and hair. Left wet, it grows mold within days, and after that every clean smells of it.
What is missing is the temperature, and that is where the shelf actually separates:
roborock F25 GT, XT, LT — 194 °F, which the LT converts as (90 °C): above what most household bacteria survive
dreame FloorX 110 Plus — 149 °F, which is 65 °C: warm, effective against water rather than biology
DREAME H12 PRO — “hot air”, no figure
Tineco S5 — centrifugal, spinning the water out mechanically: fast, sanitizes nothing
Bissell ×2, OLIXIS, Ultenic, dreame G10 Pro, Tineco iFLOOR 2 — no drying step at all
So this sits in the upper half by having a heated cycle, and cannot be placed within it. Twenty-five degrees is the difference between drying and disinfecting, and this listing does not say which it does.
Nine hundred milliliters, of something
“Large 900ml Tank.”
The largest capacity figure stated anywhere on this shelf — and the listing does not say which tank.
These machines have two, and the sizes are deliberately different. The OLIXIS is the only listing here publishing both: “the separate 0.35L clean and 0.5L dirty water tanks”. The dirty one has to be larger, because it receives the water plus everything the water lifted, plus the margin that stops it overflowing into the motor.
So: if 900 ml is the clean tank, this refills roughly a third as often as the OLIXIS. If it is the dirty tank, the advantage is closer to double. Both are good; they are different products.
The rest of the shelf is worse on this. The Tineco S5 publishes only a relative figure — “the clean water tank is 30% larger than the last gen” — which is meaningless unless you owned the last one. The other ten listings publish nothing.
A full-length roller, which is what “dual-sided” requires
“Achieve gap-free cleaning along walls and corners with the full-length roller brush design.”
That is the honest mechanism behind an edge-cleaning claim, and it is worth separating from the numbers the rivals quote.
A roller shorter than its housing leaves a dead strip at each end. A full-length roller runs to the edge of the head on both sides, which is why this can claim dual-sided where others cannot.
Compare. The Bissell CrossWave Edge publishes “ZeroGap Technology on the right side of the brush roll” — one side only, stated plainly, which means working in one direction along a wall. The roborock F25 XT publishes “less than 0.03 inches” and the F25 LT “1 mm (0.04 in) (<0.03 inches)”, though 1 mm (0.04 in) is really 0.039 inches. The Ultenic claims “0-inch edge cleaning”, which cannot be literal for a roller turning inside a housing.
Describing the construction rather than quoting a clearance is the more checkable claim.
Three to four hours to recharge, which no one else states
“reaching a full charge from zero in approximately 3 to 4 hours.”
The only recharge time on this shelf, and it completes the arithmetic that a runtime figure leaves half-done.
35 minutes of cleaning, 3 to 4 hours to replace it. So this is a once-a-day machine, not a twice-in-an-afternoon one — and if 35 minutes does not cover your floors, a second pass means waiting until tomorrow.
For comparison the dreame FloorX 110 Plus and the Ultenic publish 60 minutes of runtime and no recharge time, so the same question is open on both.
And the Bissell CrossWave Turbo has neither figure because it is corded: unlimited runtime, no recharge, no battery to degrade — and a roller at 3000 rpm.
What is not published
No drying temperature, as above — the single figure that would place this against the roborocks and its own sibling.
No roller speed, where three rivals publish one and the figure governs anything dried on.
No tank split, as above.
No coverage figure — and no loss. The three on this shelf do not survive division: dreame FloorX 3600 sq ft in 60 min = 60 a minute, Ultenic 2700 in 60 = 45, OLIXIS 560 in 35 = 16. Sixty square feet a minute is one square foot per second for an hour, which is head width times walking speed, not cleaning.
No water recovery rate, which only the Tineco iFLOOR 2 publishes, at “up to 90%”.
No self-propulsion, on a 4808 g machine. The Tineco iFLOOR 2 has it at 3801 g, the Ultenic claims it at 3.65 kg, and both the roborock F25 GT and F25 XT have assisted wheels.
No warranty term, which only the Ultenic publishes, at 24 months.
No area rugs. Only the two Bissells here claim them.
Availability
Read on the day this page was built: $200 at the American Amazon shop.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-10-04. The live price is at the top of the page.