GoKawiilBeatbot Sora 70 The Beatbot Sora 70 delivers rare all-in-one pool cleaning at a far more accessible price, handling floors, walls, waterlines, and surface debris with impressive efficiency. Build quality isn’t quite flagship, but performance and value are hard to beat — especially if you want a single, hassle-free solution.
Most affordable robot pool cleaners don’t clean the water surface. This is why it’s so common for people to have two robots: a skimmer for the surface and another for the rest of the pool. If you wanted a single robot to do both, the most popular options used to come from Beatbot, but they were the top-tier models, which are mighty expensive. This is why I was especially interested in the Beatbot Sora 70 ($1499 at Beatbot) when I saw it at CES 2026.
This robot offers a full solution in a single unit, all while keeping the price at a more reasonable $1,499. This is a far cry from other full solutions like the Beatbot AquaSense 2 Pro and 2 Ultra models, which cost $2,299 and $3,150, respectively. Does it truly rise up to the occasion, or will it simply sink against its impressive big brothers?
After months of waiting, I finally got a Beatbot Sora 70 at my doorstep and had the chance to test it.
Design and first impressions
After testing the AquaSense 2 Ultra, I had high expectations of Beatbot’s latest, maybe unreasonably high. Of course, the AquaSense 2 Ultra is one of the company’s most expensive robot pool cleaners. It was solidly built, heavy, and extremely capable. I had to remind myself that the Beatbot Sora 70 is under half the price and not to get too carried away.
The Beatbot Sora 70 feels solid, and it is actually a very well-designed, colorful unit. It's more fun, so to speak.
With that in mind, there is definitely a difference in build quality and design. It’s also smaller and lighter: 17.1 x 16.9 x 11.2in and 22.9lbs. It’s not a badly built robot pool cleaner by any means. The robot feels solid, and it is actually a very well-designed, colorful unit. It’s more fun, so to speak. All I am saying is that there is definitely a difference in build quality between this and Beatbot’s high-end models. If slightly cheaper plastic helps the price drop by more than half, though, I am all for it.
Setting it up was just as simple, though. I got everything out of the box and plugged it in using a very convenient proprietary port. It kind of looks like a car socket plug, but wider. You just stick it in to plug in, and pull it out to unplug.
After this, I just followed the app’s instructions and was all set up in under five minutes. Now all I had to do was wait for it to charge. I left it plugged in overnight, but noticed the robot reached 100% in a little under three hours. That said, the robot came with a bit of charge out of the box. It should take about 4.5 hours to charge it from zero to 100%.
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