Read my full review of the Eufy C28.
The Eufy C28 offers phenomenal value for shoppers who don’t want to settle for the most basic robot vacuum or pay for the absolute strongest robot vacuum. Its 15,000 Pa of suction power delivers strong pickup on various carpet and rug piles, especially for the price. For homes that need a good vacuum for carpet due to pets, the Eufy C28’s roller mop will also come in handy for the pet hair and dander that drifts onto your hard floors.
Compared to other cheap robot vacuums near the $500 mark, this Eufy’s small obstacle avoidance is surprisingly reliable. Busy folks who don’t always have time to tidy up can be confident that toys, cords, and laundry won’t be run over.
The C28 has amazing battery life even when using its highest suction mode, making it ideal for tackling lots of square footage without needing to charge.
The Eufy C28 is the most heavy-duty robot mop you’ll find between $500 and $600 (as long as it’s on sale, which it almost always is). Its self-rinsing HydroJet roller mop is more absorbent and less messy than the thin spinning mops typically seen in this price range. The damp roller makes sturdy contact with the ground to wipe up ultra-fine dust and fur that stick to hard floors. However, I’m here to give the C28 its flowers for its ability to grab debris and fur off of rugs.
15,000 Pa of suction power is pretty beastly for a mid-range robot vacuum. That nearly doubles the 8,000 Pa suction power of the Eufy X10 Pro Omni (one of my favorite budget robot vacuums for the past two years). With the Eufy C28 often dropping to $499.99 — just $20 more than the X10 Pro Omni’s frequent $479.99 sale price — there’s absolutely no reason to not pick the C28.
The Eufy C28 was impressively thorough on multiple combinations of dry debris and rug heights in my apartment, though most of these successful runs did require me to toggle two cleaning passes instead of one. It barely left behind any catnip flakes, dry lint, and crushed chips on my medium pile tufted living room rug, and sucked up around 97 percent of dry rice that I purposefully sprinkled on a fluffier rug. The C28 even tackled most of the visible white protein powder spilled on my printed kitchen Ruggable.
After cleaning, lint roller tests on both rugs only revealed a little bit of missed fur. I’m not saying that the Eufy C28 is one of the absolute best robot vacuums for pet hair, but it’s certainly strong enough to keep up with surface-level shedding on a daily basis. I also appreciate the Eufy C28’s slow, deliberate vacuuming across the floor change from rug edge to hardwood. In more cases than one, the C28 actually picked up more debris scattered near the edge flaps of a rug than robot vacuums with double its suction power.
