15 Best Air Purifiers (2025): Coway, AirDoctor, IQAir

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Mila Air 3 Critter Cuddler for $297: Mila makes 7 bespoke filters that are designed specifically for moms-to-be, allergies, favored owners, etc. Add Mila’s built-in sensor and easy-to-use app dashboard, on with its wooden-legged modern container design, and the Mila is an contiguous favorite. The much I screen aerial purifiers, the much go large to spell quiet comes to mind. Smaller models thin to tally large connected their highest settings. The Mila was not arsenic quiescent arsenic I hoped. At afloat blast, the Mila deed 70 decibels connected my user decibel reader. And astatine 447 CADR m3/hr, the Mila would bash nicely successful the mean American 200-square-foot bedroom. You could tally the Mila astatine its highest setting for CDC’s recommended 5 aerial exchanges an hr successful a 400-square-foot room, but that is simply a acold noisier aerial purifier. I ran the Mila successful my sons’ 200-square-foot bedroom, and its car mounting adjusted correctly to the room’s aerial quality. And portion Mila gets its outdoor AQI (air prime index) from PurpleAir, it couldn’t look to find my PurpleAir outdoor monitor.

Briiv 2 Pro Air Filter for £399: There are large claims successful Briiv’s 2 Pro Air Filter’s tiny package. At 2.5 pounds, the Briiv 2 Pro Air Filter is the smallest aerial purifier I’ve tested, though it’s acold from the cheapest. The institution claims that 1 Briiv equals the oddly circumstantial 3,043 houseplants, and that it uses AI-powered aerial prime sensors. I don’t usually reappraisal aerial purifiers that are not CARB-certified (California Air Resources Board), but I was intrigued by the Briiv. That said, the existent abstraction the Briiv 2 Pro tin cleanable is highly small. I entered the dimensions of my eating country into the Briiv’s website country calculator, and astatine 20 feet agelong by 11 feet wide with 9-foot ceilings, the country calculator summed up that I would request 2 Briivs to efficaciously cleanable my eating room. The calculator seems to contradict Briiv’s assertion that the Briiv 2 volition efficaciously amended the aerial prime successful a 794-square-foot surviving abstraction successful conscionable 11 minutes. I presently person the Briiv 2 successful my kitchen, and the archetypal clip its indicator airy went reddish owed to my cooking, I couldn’t get the instrumentality to activate. I ended up turning it to afloat blast done Briiv’s somewhat clunky app. I played astir with the app, and since then, my Briiv’s instrumentality auto-adjusts to atrocious aerial without needing my help. It besides looks precise cool.

Puroair 240 HEPA Air Purifier for $159: At nether 9 inches tall, the Puroair 240 is simply a tiny aerial purifier. And similar truthful galore of the smaller tabletop models, it’s besides loud. It mightiness beryllium effectual successful a tiny space, accidental a country astir 100 to 150 quadrate feet. And similar astir of the aerial purifiers we reappraisal astatine WIRED, it’s California Air Resources Board Certified oregon CARB-certified. I recovered its filter size excessively tiny to efficaciously cleanable an average-sized room. And portion I inactive reappraisal smaller aerial purifiers, determination are larger and quieter models connected the marketplace for comparatively the aforesaid outgo that person greater aerial exchanges successful a larger-sized room. The Puroair’s indicator airy is adjusted by the 240’s interior sensor and is greenish for acceptable, yellowish for moderate, and reddish for mediocre aerial quality. At times I recovered the bladed sliver of the indicator’s airy hard to see. The 240 has car oregon manual mode, a timer, kid lock, and filter replacement light. It besides has a three-stage filter, including the tightly woven HEPA 14, activated carbon, and prefilter. Lastly, the 240’s achromatic integrative attracted a noticeable magnitude of fingerprints.

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Coway Airmega 250 for $313: The Airmega 250 has a decently ample footprint, but it’s rated to cleanable a 930-square-foot country doubly an hour. That’s wherefore I enactment it smack dab successful the mediate of the archetypal level of my location to cleanable the aerial successful my room and surviving room. Every clip we cook, the Smart mode automatically detects unhealthy particles successful the aerial and ratchets up the fan’s power. It besides precocious did this erstwhile I had idiosyncratic spot immoderate drywall successful my mudroom. (This mode works with the assistance of a PM10 and PM2.5 particle sensor.) The instrumentality astatine its highest mounting isn’t that loud—I measured it astatine 60 decibels lasting close successful beforehand of it. There’s a Sleep mode if you privation it silent. You get the accustomed controls, similar timer functionality and replacement indicators for the filter. Speaking of, the Airmega 250 uses a existent HEPA filter that needs to beryllium replaced erstwhile each six to 12 months. This, combined with the washable prefilter that you should beryllium keeping cleanable each 2 weeks and the activated c filter, allows the aerial purifier to region 99.999 percent of ultrafine particles down to 0.01 microns, oregon truthful Coway says. It’s ace casual to region these filters to cleanable and swap them out. The full strategy is astir 21 pounds, truthful you tin determination it astir reasonably easily. Coway offers a three-year warranty. The Coway AirMega 250S is the aforesaid exemplary but with Wi-Fi functionality, truthful you tin power it via an app and spot much details. The past happening I request is different app, but possibly you don’t mind. —Julian Chokkattu

Coway Airmega IconS for $469: Coway continues to marque immoderate of the prettier aerial purifiers, arsenic you mightiness person noticed successful this guide, and that continues with the Airmega IconS. It looks similar an extremity table, and truthful I support it close adjacent to my couch. The prima of the amusement is the Qi wireless charging pad, truthful erstwhile I beryllium down, I conscionable plop my telephone close connected the purifier to fto it recharge. Any telephone with wireless charging enactment should work, though you whitethorn request to instrumentality your telephone lawsuit off. Like each Coway purifiers, it’s powerful—it cleans the aerial successful spaces up to 649 quadrate feet—easy to control, and elemental to clean. This mentation is Wi-Fi enabled and voice-controlled. —Medea Giordano