The Dreame Z30 is a mid-range cordless stick vacuum with a comprehensive set of attachments. It comes with two floor heads, a flexible adapter that lets you bend the wand to reach under furniture, and several tools for upholstery, crevices, and pet fur, including a pet deshedding tool. Both floor heads have lights to help you spot dirt, and an LCD screen shows your battery level and the size of the particles the vacuum is picking up. It stands on a dock for storage, though the dock doesn't charge the vacuum.
Our Verdict
The Dreame Z30 is a decent option for cleaning a whole house. Its battery lasts long enough to cover a large home in one session, and it picks up most everyday debris on hard floors and carpet. It's an especially good pick if you have shedding pets because it also effectively lifts stubborn pet hair. Its biggest weakness is that, despite having a HEPA filter, it doesn't filter fine particles as it cleans, so it's not the best choice if anyone in your home has allergies or asthma.
Cleans most debris from hard floors in a single pass.
Decent runtime allows you to clean a larger home on a single charge.
Effectively lifts pet hair from carpets.
Cordless design lets you move freely without needing an outlet.
Lets fine particles escape while you vacuum.
Releases dust into the air when you empty the dustbin.
The Dreame Z30 is a decent choice for cleaning a small apartment. It stores easily and stands on its own dock in a corner or closet, so you don't need to drill into a wall. Because it's cordless, you can clean a whole apartment without needing access to an outlet. It handles hard floors well, does a decent job on carpets, and lifts pet hair effectively. The major downside is that it lets fine particles escape while you vacuum and creates a cloud of dust when you empty it, which matters most if anyone in your home has allergies or asthma.
Cleans most debris from hard floors in a single pass.
Effectively lifts pet hair from carpets.
Cordless design lets you move freely without needing an outlet.
Stores compactly in a freestanding dock.
Lets fine particles escape while you vacuum.
Releases dust into the air when you empty the dustbin.
The Dreame Z30 is a very good vacuum for cleaning stairs. It's light enough that you can carry it up and down a flight without tiring, and it's cordless, so you don't need an outlet nearby. It cleans hard-floor stairs well and can tackle pet hair on carpets, which often collects on steps. Its biggest weakness is its filtration performance, since it lets fine dust escape while you vacuum. If you're sensitive to dust, that matters more in the tight space of a stairwell.
Cleans most debris from hard floors in a single pass.
Effectively lifts pet hair from carpets.
Cordless design lets you move freely without needing an outlet.
Light enough to carry up and down stairs.
Lets fine particles escape while you vacuum.
The Dreame Z30 is a great choice for cleaning a car. It's light and cordless, so you can carry it to the driveway and clean the whole interior without requiring an outlet. It has outstanding suction through the hose and comes with a motorized brush for seats, a combination tool for tight gaps and crevices, and a wand and flexible adapter for reaching under seats and into awkward corners. It does a decent job on car carpet and floor mats, though you may need a second pass on embedded dirt.
Outstanding suction when using accessories.
Comes with attachments for reaching tight spots.
Clears pet hair from seats and upholstery.
Doesn't require an outlet.
The Dreame Z30 is a good vacuum for cleaning bare floors. With the soft roller head, it clears most everyday debris in a single pass, from crumbs to tracked-in dirt, and it doesn't scatter messes as you clean. Some dirt can stay behind, especially along baseboards and walls, so plan on a quick check along the edges. It also handles long cracks between floorboards or tiles well. Narrow cracks are trickier because it doesn't boost suction for them in its automatic mode, so it's best to switch to the highest setting and go over them a second time.
Cleans most debris from hard floors in a single pass.
The Dreame Z30 is a decent vacuum for cleaning carpets. On both low-pile and high-pile carpet, it picks up large debris completely in a single pass and doesn't scatter dirt around. It struggles more with fine debris, with some staying behind in the carpet fibers, so you may need a second pass over heavily soiled spots. It also leaves some debris along walls and in corners, so you be need to go over those areas more than once.
Picks up large debris from low-pile and high-pile carpet in a single pass.
Leaves some fine debris in the carpet fibers after a pass.
The Dreame Z30 is a great vacuum for cleaning up pet hair. On carpet, it picks up most hair in a single pass and drags very little of it around, so you don't have to chase loose hair across the room. The floorhead is a bit harder to push when it seals tightly against the carpet, so expect a bit more effort on thicker rugs. On furniture, the motorized mini-brush clears hair well. Its opening is small, so you'll need to slow down and work in smaller sections, and you may want to switch to the highest suction setting for embedded fur.
Effectively lifts pet hair from carpets.
Clears pet hair from upholstery well with the motorized mini-brush.
The Dreame Z30 isn't a good vacuum for keeping your home's air clean. It has a HEPA filter, but the vacuum doesn't seal well, so fine dust escapes while you clean. Emptying is also messy. The vacuum is bagless, so dumping the dustbin directly into the trash releases a cloud of dust into the air. If anyone in your home has allergies or asthma, or you're sensitive to dust, look for a bagged vacuum with better sealing.
Lets fine particles escape while you vacuum.
Releases dust into the air when you empty the dustbin.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The Dreame Z30 comes in a single color (black), which we bought and tested. Here's a photo of our label.
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Popular Vacuum Comparisons
The Dreame Z30 is a mid-range cordless stick vacuum that's best suited to homes with mostly hard floors and is a great pick if you have shedding pets. It's also a good fit if you want a long runtime, plenty of attachments, and a bendable wand that lets you clean under couches and low tables without crouching. Other mid-range sticks like the Shark Stratos Cordless are sturdier, but they don't match the Z30's runtime or attachment list.
That said, it lets fine dust escape while you vacuum, so if anyone in your home has allergies or asthma, you're better off with an option with a more tightly sealed filtration system like the Wyze Cordless Vacuum S. Check out our list of the best vacuums for allergies for more options. Its carpet cleaning is only decent, so if your home is largely carpeted, the Dyson V15 Detect will clean more thoroughly. You can see more picks in our roundup of the best vacuums for carpet.
The Dyson V15 Detect and Dreame Z30 are both cordless stick vacuums with different strengths. The V15 picks up much more pet hair from carpet, and it handles high-pile carpet and floor cracks much better. It's also more tightly sealed, so it doesn't release fine particles as you clean, unlike the Z30, which makes it the safer pick if anyone in your home has allergies. The V15 also stores more easily, with a wand clip and a dock that charges it, and you'll rarely need to buy replacement parts. The Z30 does have some advantages in everyday use. Its battery lasts significantly longer, so you can clean a larger home on one charge. Its flexible adapter bends the wand so you can reach under couches and low tables without crouching.
The Shark Stratos Cordless and Dreame Z30 both have a bendable wand that lets you clean under furniture without crouching, and they offer similar performance on both hard floors and carpets. The Z30 does much better with pet hair, both on carpet and furniture. It comes with more attachments suited to upholstery, while the Stratos only has a couple of small tools that aren't suited to cleaning furniture. The Z30 also lasts longer on a charge and is much easier to maneuver. The Stratos, on the other hand, is much sturdier and has a larger dirt compartment, so you'll empty it less often. If anyone in your home has allergies, the Stratos is the better choice because its filtration system is more tightly sealed, so fine particles don't escape into the air as you clean.
The Dreame Z30 is a much better vacuum than the Wyze Cordless Vacuum S when it comes to cleaning performance. It handles hard floors, high-pile carpet, floor cracks, and pet hair on carpet and furniture much better, so you'll make fewer passes and see less dirt left behind. It also comes with many more attachments, a bendable wand for reaching under couches without crouching, and a battery that lasts much longer, whereas the Wyze only comes with a crevice tool, which makes cleaning furniture a laborious task. The Wyze does have its own strengths. It's much lighter, so it suits you if you want something easy to carry up stairs. Its sealed filtration system keeps much more fine dust inside, which makes it the better pick if anyone in your home has allergies. It also costs less to run, since you only replace one filter.
The Shark PowerPro Flex Reveal Plus and Dreame Z30 are both cordless sticks that let you clean under furniture without kneeling, but the Z30 does better for most everyday cleaning. It handles hard floors, floor cracks, and high-pile carpet much more effectively, and it removes pet hair from furniture much better. It also comes with more attachments, and it's much easier to maneuver and maintain. That said, the Shark is the better choice if you have shedding pets and mostly carpeted floors. Its filter also keeps much more fine dust inside, which makes it the safer pick if anyone in your home has allergies. Its larger dirt compartment also means you'll empty it less often.
Test Results
This vacuum does a great job of picking up debris on hard floors with the soft roller in Auto mode, which adjusts suction based on how much dirt its sensors detect. It clears most dirt in a single pass, leaving only a small amount behind in open areas as well as along baseboards and in corners.
The Dreame Z30 does a decent job on high-pile carpet when using the multi-surface head in Auto mode. That head has adjustable flaps or "gates" on its underside. With the gates open, the head seals less tightly against the carpet, so larger debris passes through instead of getting pushed ahead of you. It picks up large debris completely in a single pass, but it struggles with finer debris, leaving some behind in the carpet fibers. It has more trouble with edges and corners, so if your carpet runs up against baseboards or furniture, you might need a few extra passes along those spots.
The Dreame Z30 does a decent job on low-pile carpet in Auto mode with the multi-surface head and the gates open. It picks up large debris in a single pass and leaves only a small amount of fine and medium debris behind. It's weaker along baseboards, so plan for an extra pass in those areas.
This vacuum does a great job of lifting pet hair from carpets when using the multi-surface head in Auto mode. With the gates closed, the head seals tightly against the carpet to pull out embedded hair, but it can be much harder to push, depending on your carpet and suction level. It picks up most of the hair in a single pass and leaves only a small amount behind. If you have a shedding dog or cat, you'll get a visibly cleaner floor after one pass, though you may spot a few stray hairs and want a second pass in the areas where your pet sheds most.
This vacuum does a great job removing pet hair from furniture with the motorized mini-brush attachment. In Auto mode, it does quite a good job on its own, so you can clear a typical couch or chair without changing any settings. One downside is that the attachment's opening is a bit small, so you'll need to work slowly. You can also use Turbo mode for any stubbornly embedded hair.
This vacuum does a good job cleaning floor cracks with the soft roller in Auto mode. It does really well on long, continuous cracks, like the gap between floorboards or tiles, and pulls out most debris.
It struggles more with small, narrow cracks. Auto mode didn't increase suction for them, so it left more debris behind than it should have. A second pass in Turbo mode did significantly better on the smaller cracks.
This vacuum is fairly well-built. It looks sleek and features a mix of premium and cheaper-feeling plastic. The weight feels balanced and solid, and the buttons and wand feel quite sturdy. The dustbin and wheels feel a bit less robust, and the body creaks slightly when you flex it. Assembly is easy because every accessory clips on without trouble, though the number of accessories can feel cumbersome to manage.
The weighted standing base keeps the vacuum stable in storage, but it doesn't actually charge it.
- Vacuum body
- Battery
- Dust cup
- Pre-filter
- Extension wand
- Extension hose
- Charging cable
- Accessory Storage Mount (dock)
- User documentation
- Various Tools and Brushes
- Multi-surface tool body
- Multi-surface brush roller
- Soft roller body (with light)
- Motorized mini-brush body
- Motorized mini-brush brush roller
- Pet deshedding tool
- Combination tool
- Soft dusting brush
- Rotating soft dusting brush
- Flexible adapter
The Dreame Z30 is easy to store. It rests on its own dock, so you don't need to drill into a wall. The dock holds the vacuum with its wand, one floorhead, and three small accessories, which keeps your most-used tools within reach.
Some accessories don't fit on the dock, so you'll have to store them separately. The vacuum also doesn't have any on-board tool storage, so you can't carry them with you as you clean.
This vacuum has an adequately sized dirt compartment, though it can't hold as much as the advertised capacity suggests. Dreame lists it at 0.16 gal (0.6 L), but the max fill line sits at only about 0.09 gal (0.35 L). That's enough for a few typical cleanings, but if you vacuum a large home or a shedding pet's hair, expect to empty it often.
The Dreame Z30 has a decent runtime. On its lowest power setting, it lasts for almost two hours. On its highest setting with the multi-surface head, the battery drains much faster. When using Auto mode, the runtime will fall somewhere between those two extremes and will vary a lot depending on the surface you're cleaning.
The Dreame Z30 has a good battery system. The battery life indicator shows how much charge you have left, so you won't get caught off guard mid-clean. You can also swap the battery yourself, so you can replace it when it wears out instead of replacing the whole vacuum. On the downside, it takes almost four hours to recharge.
This vacuum is easy to maintain. Seven parts need regular attention, including the dust cup, filters, cyclone, and brushes, but none of it is hard. You can remove all the parts by hand, rinse the filters easily, and the LCD display tells you when a filter needs replacing or when a brush or hose is blocked. Since the vacuum is bagless, you'll empty the bin yourself and clean the filters fairly often.
You can find step-by-step instructions and recommended maintenance schedules starting in the user manual.
This vacuum has some recurring costs because you'll need to periodically replace the filter. Dreame doesn't give an exact replacement schedule, and its guidance on how often to replace the filter varies between its filter replacement guide and its filter cleaning article, so plan on replacing it more often to be safe. Their filter kit bundles together one HEPA filter and two pre-filters.
This vacuum has a few features that make everyday cleaning easier. It only has two buttons: a power button and a switch to change suction level, so it's simple to use. The LCD screen shows your remaining battery life as a percentage, so you know how soon you need to recharge. It also shows the size of the particles the vacuum picks up, so you can see whether you're getting fine dust or larger debris. A light on the vacuum changes color based on how much dust it's picking up, so you can tell when an area needs another pass.
This vacuum is quite portable. It's light enough to carry up a flight of stairs or vacuum above-floor areas, like curtains or shelves, without it feeling like a workout. It also has a carrying handle, which makes it easier to move between rooms or up and down stairs.
The Dreame Z30 is very easy to maneuver. It has three configurations, making it more versatile. You can use the body with the extension hose and rotating soft dusting brush, the body with a single tool and a floor head, or the body with the flexible adapter, extension wand, and a floor head. The manual shows each setup.
The flexible adapter lets you bend the wand, so you can reach under couches and low tables without crouching deeply. It makes the head slightly wobbly, but you get used to it quickly.
One downside is that the Z30 doesn't handle rugs with tassels well. It gets stuck almost immediately, so you'll want to avoid fringed rugs or lift the tassels out of the way. Electrical cords aren't a problem, though. The vacuum rolls over them or pushes them aside without getting stuck, and it's easy to lift the floorhead over them.
Since this is a cordless vacuum, its range is limited only by its remaining battery life and the space left in its dirt compartment.
The Dreame Z30 has disappointing particle filtration. It has a HEPA filter, so you'd expect it to trap nearly all fine dust, but it doesn't. Fine particles leak out of the vacuum, which means the body doesn't seal well enough for the filter to do its job. If you have allergies or asthma, or you're sensitive to dust, this isn't the best choice.
Like all bagless vacuums, the Dreame Z30 negatively impacts your home's air quality when you empty it because it releases a cloud of dust. If anyone in your home has allergies, it's best to empty it outdoors if possible.
The Dreame Z30 has decent suction. It's very strong when using the hose, so the crevice, upholstery, and other handheld tools are able to lift larger debris. It was actually too strong for our measuring equipment to read, so the real figure may be higher than what we recorded. Suction at the floor head, however, is much weaker. That said, suction alone isn't necessarily a reliable indicator of cleaning performance.
This vacuum delivers strong airflow, so it can lift larger debris.
This vacuum is relatively quiet. It's a bit louder on hard floors than on carpet, and Turbo mode is noticeably louder in every setup.
