REASONS TO BUY
Good carpet performance
Many attachments
Lightweight
REASONS TO AVOID
Subpar hardwood performance
Snow plows often
Mediocre with pet hair
Tineco Pure ONE S11 Review
If you only have carpet in your home, this vacuum can get the job done, but don't expect much on hard surfaces
The Tineco Pure ONE S11 delivered surprising suction power that helped it excel on carpet.
Credit: Natalie Kafader
By Rachael Lamore ⋅ Senior Review Analyst ⋅ July 18, 2025
Contributions From: Chris Maxcer
Our Verdict
The Tineco Pure ONE S11 stands out for its powerful suction, making it a strong performer on carpet, especially thicker rugs, where it lifts embedded debris with ease. It also comes with a useful set of attachments, making it handy for cleaning furniture, stairs, and car interiors. Thanks to its carpet-cleaning strength and overall versatility, it's a smart pick for homes with area rugs, wall-to-wall carpet, or anyone who wants a lightweight, cordless vacuum that still packs a punch. That said, it didn't do as well on hard floors. During testing, it often pushed debris forward or skimmed over larger material instead of picking them up on the first pass. That could be frustrating if your home is mostly hardwood or tile. Still, if you're after strong suction and excellent carpet performance without jumping to Dyson-level prices, the Tineco Pure ONE S11 hits a sweet spot, as long as hard floor cleaning isn't your main concern.
Our Analysis and Test Results
The Tineco Pure ONE S11 comes with four attachments, one of which is a pre-filter cleaning tool, which we found extremely useful. It's designed to clean the filter when it gets clogged. Over the years and with the hundreds of tests we have conducted, we've noticed filters can be sensitive after extended use. We appreciate that it comes with this useful attachment to help prevent filter clogs, providing a more sustainable outlook to this vacuum.
To mimic real-world mess types, our rigorous lab tests use sand, rice, and Cheerios as our primary debris. We then set a time limit on each test run, pushing these cordless vacs to their limits to tease out performance characteristics you can use to help you make buying decisions.
Credit: Natalie Kafader
Carpet Performance
This vacuum has very intense suction that latched onto the carpet and took some muscle to push. Its 92% collection average ranked near the top of our charts, bested only by vacuums that cost significantly more.
We think the Pure ONE would be particularly good for people with low pile carpet in their homes and a lot of traffic because it feels like you could get a deep, consistent clean.
The brush roll features stiff bristles that are very effective on carpet.
Credit: Jessica Riconscente
We were delighted by how well this reasonably-priced vacuum sucked up the heavier sand and rice, leading to a test-leading percentage of 57% pickup. Very impressive.
On high pile carpet, we noticed a tendency to push the lightweight Cheerios around, which is fairly common because the cereal sometimes floats on top of the shaggy carpet fibers, sticking up above the debris openings to the cleaner head.
Before Testing After Testing
We test vacuums side-by-side in the same test scenarios to create our accurate ranking metrics and scores. Here are the results from the Tineco (left) and Dyson V15 (right).
The main strength of this vacuum is its performance on carpet. It handled our tough multi-debris stress tests nearly as well as vacuums that cost twice as much. This machine is hard to beat for those who want outstanding carpet performance and aren't particularly concerned with hardwood or pet hair.
Hardwood Performance
In each hardwood test trial, this Pure ONE seemed to do better at the beginning than at the end of each time trial. “This little vacuum would do a pretty good job for the first two-thirds of our test area but then seem to get overwhelmed and slow down sucking up the heavier sand,” one tester noted.
To get good, consistent results on hardwood, users will likely need to work slowly. In addition, remember that brush roll photo above in the carpet section that shows stiff bristles with large gaps in between? In our experience in our lab, traditional carpet-focused stiff brushrolls tend to do poorly on hardwood, while very soft brushrolls do better on hardwood.
The S11's brush roll on the left compared to the Shark Stratos Cordless dual-brush roll design on the right.
Some, like Shark with its Stratos Cordless, include a cleaner head with two separate brushrolls or use a combo cleaner head that has fluffy material as well as stiffer fins, as it does in its Shark Detect Pro. Dyson takes a different approach by often including two separate cleaner heads with its more expensive vacuums, one with a fluffy brush roll for hard floors and another with an agitating brush roll for carpet. With so much suction power in the S11, we believe Tineco could become a serious contender in the cordless vacuum space if the company can produce a more hard-floor versatile cleaner head.
This view of the Tineco Pure ONE S11 in action on a clear hard section of plexiglass illustrates how it snowplows larger debris.
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Additionally, we tested how well this vacuum performs when cleaning close to walls. It did well when pushing the device head-on to the wall, nearly gathering all the coffee, which is great for stair or sucking up uner counters.
Before Testing After Testing
For those who have long hallways, the poor parallel edge performance might be a dealbreaker.
However, vacuuming parallel was much less effective, leaving plenty of grounds behind. This means the long stretch of baseboards in your hallways may not always be completely clean.
Pet Hair
Based on the strong performance on carpet, we were expecting higher effectiveness in our pet hair test.
This vacuum left a thin layer of hair across the carpet area on low pile carpet and struggled to pick up the deeply embedded hair. On high pile, the pet hair tended to clump and got stuck in the tines on the brush roll.
Still, to put this in perspective, this vacuum performed slightly above average with pet hair compared to all the vacuums we tested. In fact, every other vacuum that scored better in test hair performance than the Pure ONE also cost at least $100 more.
The brush roll tangled much of the longer hair extensions — which is a common problem for cordless vacuums at all price ranges.
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Filtration
Tineco says its iLoop Dust Sensor detects hidden dust, pollen, and dander and automatically adjusts suction power in real-time to ensure it flows to its 4-stage HEPA filtration system.
Filtration Particle Count
| Tineco Pure ONE S11 | |
|---|---|
| Small Particle Count | 58 |
| HEPA Filter | |
| Dylos Air Quality Designation | Excellent |
In our test, this model did its job, only allowing a very small spike in particulates to enter the air, earning it an excellent filtration rating. For those who have people in their homes who are sensitive to allergens or pet dander, this vacuum's filtration capabilities are unlikely to make allergies worse.
Ease of Use
This model sometimes struggled when transitioning from smooth floors to taller mats or thick rugs, and the vacuum head felt somewhat rigid. It tended to tilt instead of turning, which made maneuvering around obstacles a bit tricky. However, with the handheld portion weighing just 3.7 pounds, it's easy to hold upright and use with attachments in handheld mode.
In terms of storage, it includes a wall mount that you'll need to install, but it also stands on its own when leaned against a wall. This is different from the Tineco Pure ONE S15 Pet cordless we tested before, which had a charging base for its storage system that didn't require us to install a wall mount.
In addition to timed debris pickup tests in our lab, we run each cordless vac, inlacing this Tineco Pure ONE S11, through a series of household use cases to get a feel for how they maneuver and can work in your own home before you buy one yourself.
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We also tested the mini power brush attachment on upholstery to thoroughly assess this model's capabilities. We spread some coffee grounds on a pillow and an ironing board and attempted to remove them with the attachment mentioned above. It performed pretty well here, removing most coffee grounds from both surfaces. However, it left behind a few grounds, and the attachment brushed some coffee off the ironing board, which wasn't ideal. Nevertheless, it remains a fairly effective cleaner on these types of surfaces.
It comes with plenty of attachments.
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Battery
Those needing to clean a multi-level home at once will likely need to recharge somewhere along the way with a relatively short battery life of 28.5 minutes on low and 10.8 minutes on high. That will require an additional 3.5 hours to juice back up.
We weighed the handheld at 3.5 lbs, which is relatively lightweight given its strong suction power.
Credit: Natalie Kafader
Should You Buy the Tineco Pure ONE S11?
Given that most modern homes have at least a little hardwood flooring, we can't fully recommend this model. If you primarily have carpeted flooring, you'll likely appreciate its power, but its overall performance at its MSRP price range is slightly lower than we expect.
What Other Stick Vacuum Should You Consider?
For a few bucks less, you can get the Shark Pet Plus, an excellent, high-performing stick vacuum, especially for hardwood surfaces. For a bit more, the Shark Vertex Pro Lightweight is one of the best stick vacuums you can buy, but it might be worth it if you have a larger, active household that also wants to use its cordless vacuum on hard floors.
Side-by-Side Comparison
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—Rachael Lamore, Chris Maxcer
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