Hoover vs Shark Australia

Hoover's vacuum entry price is £64.99, which is well under the site's typical mid-range price of €61.38. At that level the models are compact machines rather than full self-emptying robots. A phone-based tidy-up on hard floors is the realistic target here.

The flagship is listed at £319.99 and it is the model that adds a self-empty dock and lidar. Hoover's flagship rank is 29 of 66 brands, so the top of the range is mid-table. Buyers on a tight budget can start much lower with £64.99.

The vacuum range opens at AUD 79.99 for the cheaper stick and handheld machines, and the cordless range reaches AUD 1,199.99 with the auto-empty flagship. Both are purchase prices rather than a recurring plan fee, so the figure at the start is the figure you pay. That spread lets you start small or fill a whole floor-care set at once.

The catalogue runs to robot vacuum, stick and upright, so the same maker covers robot cleaning, stick floors, uprights, wet and dry pickup and handheld jobs. Air purifiers sit alongside the floor care rather than in place of it. Named models include the Shark Navigator robot vacuum, the Shark PowerDetect cordless stick vacuum and the Shark EveryMess wet vac.