Eufy Omni C28 vs X10 Pro Omni: The Successor That Dropped the Camera

Cleaning Performance

The headline gap is suction: 15,000Pa on the C28 against 8,000Pa on the X10 Pro Omni. Eufy’s numbers have earned some skepticism over the years, but this one is backed by independent testing — the C28 posted an 89% carpet deep-clean score at Vacuum Wars against a 78% category average, plus 100% pet-hair pickup. The X10’s 8,000Pa was always its soft spot; it sits at the bottom of the mid-range suction ladder, and owners with medium-pile carpet feel it.

The brush matters just as much for pet households. The C28’s DuoSpiral brush recorded 0% hair wrap in the 7-inch hair test, where the average robot wraps 26% of the hair fed to it. That’s the difference between a robot you scissor clean every week and one you don’t think about.

The X10 keeps one genuine cleaning edge: its D-shaped body hugs walls and corners tighter than any round robot, including the C28. If your floors collect debris along baseboards, the X10 still gets closer to it.

Winner: Eufy Omni C28 — nearly double the suction, verified by an 89% carpet deep-clean result, and a brush that simply doesn’t tangle.

Navigation & Obstacle Avoidance

This is where the “successor” story falls apart. The X10 Pro Omni carries Eufy’s AI.See camera with LED illumination — it recognizes over 100 obstacle types, works in the dark, and belongs to a feature class that normally costs $1,000 and up. The C28 has no camera at all. It maps quickly and accurately with iPath 2.0 spinning LiDAR, but anything lying on the floor is handled by bumping into it or missing it by luck.

The test numbers say it plainly: the C28 avoided 15 of 24 obstacles at Vacuum Wars, a below-average score, and Notebookcheck’s reviewer separately noted it bumps into objects when backing away. If your floors carry phone chargers, kids’ toys, socks, or a dog that occasionally has accidents, this single difference outweighs everything the C28 wins elsewhere — a robot that smears a pet accident across the room erases a year of convenience in one run.

Both map fast and handle multi-floor plans; on pure navigation efficiency the C28 actually tested slightly above average. The gap is entirely about what’s lying on the floor.

Winner: Eufy X10 Pro Omni — the AI.See camera avoids what the C28 hits. For cluttered homes this section decides the whole comparison.

Mopping

The X10 Pro Omni mops the way most mid-range robots do: two spinning pads pressing down about 1 kg, washed at the dock between runs. It’s fine — and it has the shared weakness of every pad system, which is that between dock visits the robot spreads increasingly dirty pads around your floor.

The C28’s HydroJet system is a different design. A roller spinning at 270 RPM with 9.8N of pressure gets sprayed with fresh water while a scraper pulls the dirty water off into a separate path — continuously, mid-run. It never mops with water it already used. The results are hard to argue with: a combined mopping score of 29 at Vacuum Wars against a category average of 20, one of the ten best they’ve ever recorded, with a dried-stain score well above average and almost no residual water left behind.

One small point to the X10: its pads lift 12 mm over carpet versus the C28’s 10.8 mm roller lift. On thick rugs, neither is truly safe with a wet mop, but the X10 has slightly more clearance.

Winner: Eufy Omni C28 — a top-10 all-time mopping result from a roller that cleans itself while it works. The X10’s pads aren’t in the same league.

Dock & Maintenance

On paper these docks are near-twins, and that’s to both robots’ credit — a full self-maintaining station is the reason either is worth buying over a $300 robot. Both auto-empty into a 3L bag, wash the mop, dry it with hot air, and refill the robot’s water tank. The C28’s station dries at 122°F and eufy quotes about 75 days between bag changes; the X10’s Omni station does the same jobs and regularly sold under $600 with the robot attached, which was the headline value story of 2024.

The practical differences are small. The C28’s roller does most of its self-cleaning on the robot, so the dock wash is a lighter job and the mop returns cleaner between runs. Notebookcheck did note the C28’s station leaves some dust behind on its platform — a minor annoyance, not a flaw. Both stations are large; neither tucks under a shelf, so measure the corner you’re giving up either way.

Winner: Tie — both are complete 5-in-1 stations that make the robot genuinely hands-off for weeks at a time. Nothing here should sway your decision.

Smart Features & App

Both robots live in the Eufy Clean app, and both inherit its problems: mapping edits that save slowly, occasional phantom rooms, and an automation layer that trails Roborock Home and Dreame’s app by a comfortable margin. If app polish is high on your list, neither robot — and honestly, neither brand — is the pick.

What separates them inside the same app is what the hardware feeds it. The X10’s camera enables obstacle recognition with named object types, which makes its cleaning reports more actionable — you can see what it dodged and where. The C28’s reports are LiDAR-only: accurate maps, less insight. The C28 counters with more granular mop-water control thanks to the HydroJet system, but that’s a smaller daily-use difference.

Winner: Eufy X10 Pro Omni — narrowly. The camera makes the same app smarter.

Value & Price

The X10 Pro Omni’s list range runs $529-799 with a typical price around $649. The C28 lists at $799.99 but has sold at $499.99 for long stretches since launch — eufy discounts it aggressively, and at $500 it’s roughly $150 under the X10 while outperforming it in most of the tests above. Per dollar, the C28 buys you more suction, a better mop, and the same dock.

Vacuum Wars called the C28 their favorite Eufy robot to date and noted it ranks in the top half of their Top 20 while being one of the least expensive robots performing at that level. That’s the value argument in one sentence.

The X10 justifies its premium only if the camera or corner reach solves a problem you actually have. That’s a real group of buyers — cluttered floors are common — but it’s a specific reason, not a default.

Winner: Eufy Omni C28 — more performance for less money, unless the X10’s camera is solving a problem you know you have.