Dreame L10s Pro in the test: great vacuum robot with only one flaw

The Dreame L10s Pro offers the same features as the large L10s Ultra, but costs just half as much with a recommended retail price of 599 euros. What is missing is the suction station, which removes dust from the robot and also fills it with fresh water. You can read in the NextPit test whether the Dreame L10s Pro is impressive even without the practical station.

Dreame L10s Pro: Price and availability

The Dreame L10s Pro is one of the best cleaning robots in its class with its flawless suction and wiping performance. It offers the same performance as the NextPit test winner L10s Ultra (for the test), which costs more than 1,000 euros, and is in no way inferior to the top model in terms of functionality. Thanks to LiDAR sensors, mapping and navigation work perfectly even in the dark, and map management works largely smoothly.

So what's missing? Compared to the top model, the main thing is the convenience that the suction station with the tanks brings. Only the carpet edges, which were regularly slightly damp in the test, spoil the overall impression somewhat - but if you're worried about the expensive thread on the floor, there's an option in the app to avoid carpets. But it's also practical for owners of a Xiaomi smart home ecosystem: the Dreame L10s Pro can also be integrated into the Xiaomi app.

Unboxing and setup

The Dreame L10s Pro is ready to go in just five minutes - from unpacking and setting up the station to setting up the vacuum robot in the app. Mapping, setting up the maps and setting up the cleaning routines takes a little longer, but it also works perfectly.

Pleases:

• Setting up is quick and easy

• supports Dreame and Xiaomi app

• chic and well made

Dislike:

• no surveillance camera function

The Dreame L10s Pro is ready to go in just a few seconds straight out of the box: plug in the brush, plug in the station, place the vacuum robot in the station, and you're done. That's enough for the first mapping, and for the first complete cleaning process we then fill the tank with water and insert the two rotating mops.

Mapping is quick and easy. The robot drives along all the walls and creates a complete floor plan of the apartment in just a few minutes. There is no option for 3D scans like on the big brother L10s Ultra, but these have so far been of little use in practice.

You also have the option of setting individual intensities for each room. For example, the L10s Pro always cleans the kitchen with extra moisture and always with two cleaning passes. In the guest room with carpet, on the other hand, it only vacuums once and does not mop at all. Of course, the app also offers an option for setting up cleaning schedules. Then, for example, the robot vacuums whenever you are in the office - and leaves you in peace on home office days and at the weekend.

Another difference to the much more expensive L10s Ultra is the lack of a surveillance camera function. The L10s Pro does have a camera built in, but cannot transmit the live image to the app. You can control the robot vacuum using the arrow keys in the app, but that is enough to annoy the cats at best.

Speaking of control: You can also control the L10s Pro using Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri. In theory, this works with Alexa using the corresponding skill, but it didn't work properly in the test. If, for example, you left a lot of crumbs at breakfast, you can use spot cleaning to get the L10s Pro to vacuum around the dining table.

Suction and wiping performance tested

The Dreame L10s Pro cleans reliably – not least thanks to the numerous setting options in the app, with which you can set the cleaning intensity separately for each area in your home.

Pleases:

• wipes and vacuums really thoroughly

• great battery life

Dislike:

• Mop pads dry very slowly

• no extraction station included

The Dreame L10s Pro offers the same wiping and suction power as its big brother, the L10s Ultra, but costs about half as much without the station. While you sacrifice comfort, you get the full cleaning performance of Dreame's current top model. The cleaning robot thoroughly vacuums up crumbs, dust, lint and hair even in standard mode. The rubber slatted brush on the underside occasionally ate a charging cable during testing, but was otherwise relatively tangle-resistant.

The wiping function of the L10s Pro is also top-notch. The two rotating mop pads scrub away footprints, tomato sauce, etc. much better than the wiping cloths that other vacuum robots simply drag behind them. Another advantage: The L10s Pro can raise its two mops by seven millimeters when it drives over carpets, thus keeping them dry. This works very well, at least with short-pile carpets. If you have particularly expensive carpets, you can also activate a carpet avoidance mode in the app.

Unfortunately, the L10s Pro cannot be compared to the Ultra model in terms of comfort. Although the Pro model also cleans really well, you should remove the two mop pads after each cleaning and let them dry separately. If you leave them hanging under the robot, they will start to smell over time - a parking design that ensures air circulation under the mop pads would have helped here.

The two tanks for water and dust also need regular attention. The 190 milliliter water tank needs to be filled up regularly. At least: As soon as the tank is empty, the vacuum robot lets you know and reliably continues the cleaning process after it has been filled up. The dust container holds 450 milliliters - in the test, this was enough for two to five cleaning cycles, depending on the level of dirt and the amount of carpet/lint.

You don't have to worry about the battery life. In the test, the Dreame L10s Pro used about 40 percent of its battery capacity to vacuum and mop 51 square meters of space in 69 minutes. Roughly speaking, this means that you can clean 120 square meters of space with one battery charge.

Final verdict
The bottom line is that the Dreame L10s Pro is a really good vacuum and mop robot in the upper price range - if you consider cleaning robots without a station. And that's exactly where the crux of the matter lies: for a recommended retail price of 599 euros, the vacuum robot requires a relatively large amount of manual work. The dust tank needs to be emptied regularly, the water tank needs to be filled, and the mop pads need to be removed to dry.

Source: Dreame L10s Pro in the test: great vacuum robot with only one flaw | NextPit