What testers say about the Dreame X30 Ultra
The Dreame X30 Ultra was Dreame's flagship of 2024: 8,300 Pa of suction, two spinning mop pads of which one swings out towards walls and into corners, pads that lift 10.5 millimetres on carpet or stay behind in the station for a vacuum-only run, and obstacle recognition with a front camera, 3D structured light and a light for dark rooms. The station empties the bin into a 3.2-litre bag, washes the pads in 60-degree water, dries them with heated air, refills the robot and scrubs its own drip tray with a motor-driven squeegee.
Vacuum Wars tested it side by side with the older L20 Ultra. The mopping impressed: dried coffee and grape juice came off without effort. Obstacle avoidance scored above average, with the X30 ahead of the other Dreame models in the test, and on a fixed floor plan it finished 10 to 15 minutes sooner than the L20. The testers also liked that the station takes any brand of detergent rather than only Dreame's own, and they measured slightly more suction than on the L20, in line with Dreame's figures.
The criticism: despite that higher suction figure, the X30 trailed the L20 in Vacuum Wars' airflow and carpet deep-clean tests, and its bigger battery made no measurable difference to run time, where the L20 even scored better. The hot water only washes the pads in the station and never reaches the floor. Vacuum Wars concluded that the L20 Ultra matches or beats it on the essentials for less money. Anyone who finds the X30 discounted gets a strong mopping robot with a self-cleaning station, and the L20 Ultra remains the value choice.
