Ecovacs Deebot X11 Omnicyclone review: strong performance but AI features struggle to deliver

Launched in 2025, the Ecovacs Deebot X11 OmniCyclone comes packed with AI powered features on top of some good old fashioned suction power. While it performs well as a robot vacuum (and especially as a bagless option), the advanced features do little to justify its high end price tag.

Lots of the more advanced features seem buried in the settings and the more of these I enabled the less impressed I was with its performance. Here's my full review of the Ecovacs Deebot X11 OmniCyclone.

Ecovacs Deebot X11 OmniCyclone review: price and availability

The Ecovacs Deebot X11 OmniCyclone is available to buy for £1,199 at ECOVACS and select retailers, like Amazon. As of writing, it's been discounted to £849.

Ecovacs Deebot X11 OmniCyclone review: Design and build quality

The Deebot X11 is a nice looking robot and unlike a lot of recent LiDAR-directed models, it doesn’t have a nub sticking out of the top, giving it a lower profile that is helpful for finding its way under furniture. It’s all dark grey and blacks but I’m all for low profile looks in vacuum cleaners, and even more so in docking stations.

The docking station is a little bit larger than some others, thanks mainly to the cyclone dust bin which pops out for emptying. The left side panel detaches to allow you to add cleaning detergent and the water tanks lift out of the back of the station for refilling and emptying.

Everything feels well built and sturdy, although personally I do feel nervous lifting the water tanks out by the lids that are only latched in place as this feels like a potential (very wet) failure point. A separate handle would very much put me at ease.

Ecovacs Deebot X11 OmniCyclone review: features and app

The app works well and after pairing with the robot you set it off to map your home. The map it returns is only 2D (although the 3D maps offered by some rivals are entirely pointless in my opinion) and it did need a bit of tweaking to add some room divisions and rename some rooms.

You then have the option to start a whole house clean or select 1 or more rooms on the map to start a limited clean. You also have the option to set scenarios where you can define specific spots within rooms for a quick post dinner vacuum or to clean a pet area. Cleanings can be scheduled or set for a delayed start.

The app also hides quite a few settings that you might expect to be enabled by default but you will need to activate in the Robot advanced settings section. This includes things like Intelligent Deep Mopping which instructs it to re-mop areas where it detects heavy dirt and AI Stain Detection. You can also tweak how it treats carpet including activating a suction boost to improve cleaning.

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It's Matter compatible and so works with smart home systems although, while I found voice control to be fine for starting a whole house clean, for specific room cleans it struggled. After specifying a room to clean the robot would often get ready to clean, leave the dock and then say that it couldn’t find the area and immediately return to its dock.

One of the major selling points of the X11 Agent Hosting mode that claims to ensure its tasks are approached efficiently and the right cleaning settings are delivered according to the floor type. While it did seem to do a reasonable job at battery management (more on that later) I didn’t notice it pull up any trees in terms of changing the settings for different floor types and I got better results tweaking the settings myself.

Ecovacs Deebot X11 OmniCyclone review: performance

Vacuum performance is generally good with it picking up all the fine particles in our test on both hard floors and carpet, although it did have a little bit more trouble with larger debris, with some grains of rice left in the carpet and the side brush scattering some across the hard floor - even when the specific feature to prevent this happening turned on.

Like a lot of robot vacuums edge cleaning isn’t great, it has a side brush for dragging material into its path but it definitely wasn’t enough to clear out even large bits of dirt.

Obstacle avoidance performance was mixed, with it managing to navigate around a charging cable and shoe but it missing a sock, instead getting it caught in the robot. It moved around a bit in a fruitless attempt to free itself which seemed to make it lose its place on the map, eventually abandoning the clean completely and attempting to return to the dock with the sock still stuck in the brush at which point I intervened.

Mopping worked well with fresh spills, but it struggled with a dried stain as, with AI stain detection turned on in the settings, it failed to identify a test ketchup stain and the cursory mopping it gave it failed to make much of a dent.

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Even adding a manual cleaning zone over the stain and selecting the highest cleaning settings didn’t help it make a lot more progress, or seem to identify the stain - although it did consider a loose piece of onion skin on the floor of the kitchen a stain.

While it wasn’t great at heavy stains, it did edge mopping pretty well thanks to its roller mop that extends out as it moves around objects like chair legs.

Emptying the docking station is fairly easy although messier (and a more regular task) than disposing of a sealed bag. The cylinder that empties the robot pops out of the dock and is emptied like the dust container of a bagless handheld vacuum, with a button opening the bottom to let out the collected dirt. Whether you’d rather pay for the tidier option of bags will be a personal choice.

The angled anti-tangle brush does well not to get clogged with hair even in a home with pets and people with long hair. Like some other hybrids that clean the mop inside the station, this will need periodic cleaning.

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Ecovacs Deebot X11 OmniCyclone review: Battery life and charging

One of the better parts of the Agent hosting mode is its ability to manage its battery when combined with its PowerBoost feature, with it periodically returning to the dock for quick bursts of power while it also washes the roller mop and empties itself.

This meant there wasn’t a lot of downtime and it managed to complete a clean of around 1,000 sq. ft of mixed floor types in 165 minutes on standard settings. This makes it a great option for larger homes as it can clean a lot longer uninterrupted than some rivals.

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Ecovacs Deebot X11 OmniCyclone review: verdict

While the Deebot X11 has some impressive features and performs some of its tasks well it doesn’t quite justify its place at the top end of the market when compared with rivals that produce better results, especially when it comes to mopping.

A lot of the higher end features like stain detection don’t come turned on by default and after seeing them fail to perform that starts to make sense. While it is a capable robot vacuum hybrid, there are better options at this end of the market.

Ecovacs Deebot X11 OmniCyclone review: alternatives to consider

For a similar price, look at the Eufy E25 Omni which improves on the Deebot’s mopping performance and has one of the best object avoidance systems I have seen. It is a taller robot so may struggle to get under some furniture and requires vacuum bags but it is a great hybrid.

For a bit more, you can upgrade to the Roborock Qrevo CurvX, which performs excellently as a vacuum and a mop although again you will need to buy dust bags.