Australia’s best stick vacuum cleaners: tested and reviewed (2025)

Samsung took a bunch of vacuuming's pain points and made them less painful with the Bespoke Jet. Equipped with a free-standing docking and auto-empty station, you will rarely need to poke a chopstick in the chamber to empty it out properly. Smart clog detection gives on-device prompts as to where a clog is to stop you needing to search around in every nook and cranny of the stick vacuum to find the source of the problem. Plus, it mops!

Not only did the Samsung Jet score the highest in performance, but it has a huge amount of included attachments, a hefty dustbin, and a solid build to it. Nothing on this device feels flimsy, but it weighs in at just 2.7kg making it easy to use for extended periods of time.

While $1,299 is a high price to pay for a vacuum cleaner, it is cheaper than a lot of Dyson products, and in our testing the Samsung Bespoke Jet is the most thoughtful and practical stick vacuum available in Australia.

Dreame's Z10 stick vacuum takes a lot of what we love about the Samsung Bespoke Jet and makes it more affordable. Kitted out with a bunch of useful accessories and an auto-empty dock, even at its full price this is a bargain for what you get.

Across both hard floor and carpet this stick vac pulls up 95% of debris, although it isn't quite powerful enough to pull anything from deep within your carpets. For surface level cleaning, it will definitely do the trick, and it thrives on hard floors using the microfibre roller. There aren't as many attachments, but the ones it does come with are useful. Apart from a crevice tool, and heads for both carpet and hard floors, the Z10 has the best upholstery cleaner we have used. Rather than getting tangled up in the fabric, this mini motorised head was able to grip at spindly furs stuck in my mattress. 10/10 - no notes on that part.

Perhaps the best part of all is the auto-empty base station. Not only does this add renter-friendly storage for the stick vac, but it means you don't have to deal with the dustbin making it an excellent option for asthma and allergy sufferers.

Dyson's V12 Detect Slim is a lightweight stick vacuum which performs well but won't be the right call for everyone. This model comes with a green LED laser light that unearths more dust and dirt than you could imagine on your floors. It is a nifty feature but only available on the microfibre roller used for hard flooring. If you're rocking carpet then it will unfortunately go to waste.

It's lightweight form means the V12 Detect is easy to manouever but it also means a couple of trade-offs to keep it that way. The slim design results in the vacuum tube being easy to clog and difficult to clean, plus the dustbin is very small at just 0.35L. For pet owners in particular this Dyson vacuum probably won't cut it.

In saying that, if you've got a relatively small space, with predominantley hard flooring, and don't have excessive amounts of fur to deal with, the V12 Detect makes for a satisfying and sleek cleaning machine. Even better if you can get a good deal on it.