#1 Best pick for your answers · auto-empty station Roborock Q10 S5+
Score 5.7★ 4.0 (1,553) 359 € white · incl. delivery · checked today
The best robot vacuum with an auto-empty station in 2026 in Germany
27 models with an auto-empty station: the station empties the bin, you look after the mop. Ranked by our score from lab tests and owners’ ratings, with today’s lowest price.
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Not sure what you need? Find out in 7 questions →#1An auto-empty station does one thing: after every run it sucks the robot's bin into a bag that lasts for weeks. That removes the daily chore that makes many people tire of a simple robot after a few weeks. Mopping stays manual: you remove, rinse and dry the pad yourself, or leave mopping out altogether.
This class makes most sense when vacuuming is what you want, for example in a house with a lot of carpet or with pets, and you do not want or cannot place a large all-in-one station. The stations are smaller and the robots cheaper. The order below is our score: lab tests first, then owners’ ratings and the maker’s facts. The price is today's lowest including delivery.
The three station types compared
With auto-empty station this page
- The station
- Charges the robot and after every run sucks its bin empty into a bag that lasts for weeks.
- Left to you
- Replacing the dust bag when it is full, and rinsing and drying the mop if the robot mops.
- Median price today
- 232 € · 27 models on sale
- Dust bag
- lasts 75 days by the makers' own figures (median of 23 models)
With all-in-one station
- The station
- Empties the bin, washes the mops with water, often hot, and dries them with warm air. Most also refill the robot's water tank.
- Left to you
- Filling the clean-water tank and emptying the dirty one every few weeks, and replacing the dust bag now and then.
- Median price today
- 596 € · 110 models on sale
- Dust bag
- lasts 90 days by the makers' own figures (median of 89 models)
Without station
- The station
- Charges the robot. It is no bigger than a book and fits anywhere.
- Left to you
- Emptying the bin, every few days in an average home, and rinsing the mop if the robot mops.
- Median price today
- 159 € · 34 models on sale
- Dust bag
- none: you empty the robot's bin yourself
The price is the median of today's lowest price per model, delivery included. How long a dust bag lasts is what the makers state themselves: new bags are the running cost of a station.
Score out of 10: 60% lab tests, 25% owners’ ratings at the shops that deliver to Germany, 15% the maker’s facts. Price does not count. Only models a lab has tested are ranked, and only models sold in Germany count. Method.
In our ranking
These models are in our ranking, but their station type has too few ranked models here for a table of its own. The number is their place within their own station type.
Roborock Q10 S5+ Position 47 of 151 · Vacuum Wars
359 € free delivery · 1–2 days checked today
Shark PowerDetect Self-Empty Position 98 of 151 · Vacuum Wars
170 € free delivery · 1–2 days checked today
Lowest price at every shop that delivers to Germany, VAT and delivery included. * = delivery cost and VAT estimated for a foreign shop.
Other models we track
Models no lab has tested yet, so they are not in our ranking. We do track their prices.
199 € free delivery · 1–2 days · checked today
499 € free delivery · 1–2 days · checked today
Best at every budget
Under 300 € Shark PowerDetect Self-Empty score 4.7 · auto-empty station Everything under 300 € → 170 €