Welcome to Vacuum Wars’ definitive guide to the best Bissell carpet cleaners of 2026! These selections are based on our own in-depth independent and non-sponsored evaluations, focusing on cleaning performance and essential features like water management, maneuverability, and versatility. We also consider customer satisfaction scores to ensure you choose a rug cleaner that offers high value for your investment.
Our recommendations are updated regularly to reflect the latest evaluation results and industry insights so you can easily find the ideal and best-rated carpet cleaner for your home.
Products that have been discontinued, or are frequently out of stock are removed from the rankings.
The Bissell ProHeat 2X Revolution Pet Pro+ 3588F is a powerhouse in the realm of home carpet cleaning, especially for those with pets. Its innovative CleanShot technology allows for precise targeting and treatment of stubborn stains, enhancing its effectiveness. The dual tank system maintains the separation of clean and dirty water, optimizing the cleaning process. With multiple cleaning modes, including a quick-drying Express Clean and a comprehensive Deep Clean, this machine is adept at handling a variety of cleaning tasks. Additionally, the inclusion of a hose and multiple attachments extends its utility to upholstery and stairs, making it a versatile tool for thorough home cleaning.
Price as of February 19, 2026
Water Management: 2 Tanks | Auto Dispenser | Keeps Water Heated | Clean shot
Cleaning Performance: Cleans in Both Directions | 2 Brush Rolls | EdgeSweep | Easy Access to Brush Rolls | Above-Floor Cleaning
Tools & User Convenience: Handheld Hose
Attachments: 2-in-1 Pet Upholstery Tool, 3” Tough Stain Tool, & 8FT Hose
| Scores | Bissell ProHeat 2X Revolution Pet Pro+ 3588F | Average Carpet Cleaner Tested |
|---|---|---|
| Vacuum Wars Overall | 72.58 | 52.51 |
| Stain Test Score | 89.5 | 83.50 |
| Specs | Bissell ProHeat 2X Revolution Pet Pro+ 3588F |
|---|---|
| Weight | 17.5 lbs |
| Tank Capacity | 1.0 gal |
| Cord Length | 35 ft |
| Hose Length | 8 ft |
| Cleaning Path Width | 11 in |
| In the Box*: Bissell ProHeat 2X Revolution Pet Pro+ Carpet Cleaner, 2-in-1 Pet Upholstery Tool, 3” Tough Stain Tool, 8ft Hose, 8oz Bissell Pro Max Clean + Protect Formula, 8oz Bissell Pet Pro Oxy Urine Eliminator, & Nozzle Clean Out Tool | |
The Bissell Revolution HydroSteam Pet Carpet Cleaner stands out with its innovative steam function, bringing professional-grade cleaning to consumer carpet cleaners. It combines steam and traditional cleaning to effectively tackle tough stains and offers a dual brush roller system for enhanced scrubbing. The device is user-friendly, featuring a straightforward steam pre-treatment mode and a quick dry option to expedite drying times. See additional info
Price as of February 19, 2026
Water Management: 2 Tanks | Heats Water | Keeps Water Heated
Cleaning Performance: 2 Brush Rolls | Easy Access to Brush Rolls | Steam
Tools & User Convenience: Handheld Hose | LED Display
Attachments: 2-in-1 Pet Upholstery Tool & 6″ Tough Stain Tool
| Scores | Bissell Revolution HydroSteam Pet | Average Carpet Cleaner Tested |
|---|---|---|
| Vacuum Wars Overall | 66.5 | 52.51 |
| Stain Test Score | 89.2 | 83.50 |
| Specs | Bissell Revolution HydroSteam Pet |
|---|---|
| Weight | 22.5 lbs |
| Tank Capacity | 1 Gallon |
| Cord Length | 24 ft |
| Hose Length | 8 ft |
| Cleaning Path Width | 11 in |
| In the Box*: 2-in-1 Pet Upholstery Tool & 6″ Tough Stain Tool | |
The Bissell Big Green PET PRO Carpet Cleaner 3288 is a heavy-duty upright carpet cleaning machine designed for deep extraction on pet-soiled and high-traffic carpets. It features dual clean and dirty water tanks, a long-reach 9 ft handheld hose with pet and tough-stain tools, and an 8-row brush system for aggressive agitation and improved soil removal. The unit’s robust construction and larger tank capacities support extended cleaning sessions without frequent refills, making it suitable for whole-home use. While it does not include steam or heated water features, its mechanical brush action and extraction capability deliver professional-style carpet cleaning performance.
Price as of February 19, 2026
Water Management: 2 Tanks
Cleaning Performance: Cleans in Both Directions | 2 Brush Rolls | Easy Access to Brush Rolls
Tools & User Convenience: Handheld Hose
Attachments: 2-in-1 Pet Upholstery Tool, 6″ Tough Stain Tool, 48 oz PET PRO OXY Formula
| Scores | Bissell Big Green PET PRO | Average Carpet Cleaner Tested |
|---|---|---|
| Vacuum Wars Overall | 55.8 | 52.51 |
| Stain Test Score | 85 | 83.50 |
| Specs | Bissell Big Green PET PRO |
|---|---|
| Weight | 42 lbs |
| Tank Capacity | 1.75 Gallon |
| Cord Length | 25 ft |
| Hose Length | 9 ft |
| Cleaning Path Width | 10.5 in |
| In the Box*: 2-in-1 Pet Upholstery Tool, 6″ Tough Stain Tool, 48 oz PET PRO OXY Formula | |
Bissell Carpet Cleaner Buyer’s Guide
We’ve bought nearly every Bissell carpet cleaner on the market and put them through a bunch of tests to compare their performance, as well as their specs and features.
In this buyer’s guide, we’ll go over all the similarities and differences and make our personal recommendations as to what we think the best Bissell carpet cleaner models are in three different categories.
The Bissell Carpet Cleaners We Tested
In total we’ll be comparing six Bissell carpet cleaners: the Bissell Big Green Professional, Proheat 2x Revolution Pet, Proheat 2x Revolution Pet Pro Plus, Revolution HydroSteam Pet, TurboClean DualPro Pet, and TurboClean PowerBrush Pet.
How they Work
All the carpet cleaners here are of the upright variety, and they operate in the same basic way: you fill their clean water tank with warm water and the included solution.
You hold down a trigger to dispense the water-solution mix, and you more or less vacuum back and forth. The brushes agitate the stained carpet, and the machine sucks up the dirty water into the dirty water tank.
Important Considerations
From most expensive to least expensive, the Big Green Professional and Revolution Hydrosteam are the most expensive, the Proheat 2x models are mid-range priced and the TurboClean models are the cheaper options with the TurboClean PowerBrush Pet being the most inexpensive.
| Price | Water Tank | Weight | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Green Professional | $$$$$$$$ | 1.75 gal | 42 lbs. |
| Revolution HydroSteam Pet | $$$$$$$$ | 1.0 gal | 22 lbs. |
| Proheat 2x Revolution Pet Pro Plus | $$$$$$ | 1.0 gal | 18 lbs. |
| Proheat 2x Revolution Pet | $$$$$ | 1.0 gal | 17.5 lbs. |
| TurboClean DualPro Pet | $$$ | 1.25 gal | 17 lbs. |
| TurboClean PowerBrush Pet | $$ | 0.62 gal | 12 lbs. |
One of the big differences is water tank capacity. You can see that the Bissell Big Green is the clear winner at 1.75 gallons. That’s almost triple the size of the TurboClean PowerBrush Pet model which has a 0.62 gallon tank.
The Revolution models all have a one gallon tank, and the TurboClean DualPro Pet has a slightly larger 1.25 gallon tank.
When to Buy the Bissell Big Green Professional
While we did not include build quality or parts availability in our spreadsheet scoring algorithm, if we did, the Bissell Big Green would be the winner. For pros, it is the best Bissell carpet cleaner.
Basically, if you’re planning on cleaning large areas all the time, you can stop reading right now and buy the Bissell Big Green.
All the others are great for a few rooms or individual stains, but if you need a workhorse for large areas, the Bissell Big Green is the only choice. We also think it’s better than its main competitors.
Also see our review of the Bissell Big Green Professional.
Weight is also important. Here, you can see the cheapest one, the Bissell TurboClean PowerBrush Pet, with the smallest water tank is unsurprisingly the lightest.
The big story from our stain clean-up tests was that there wasn’t much difference from the cheapest to the most expensive that we could see. We think we could say the Bissell Hydrosteam was better than the others, but other than that, it was pretty close.
One of the more important differences, in our opinion, is if they have the ability to be used with a hose and attachments, where you spray the solution on the stains and scrub manually with handheld attachments.
This is great for stairs, upholstery, or tough spots on carpets. All except the cheapest one have this ability, though there are differences in the length of their hoses as well as the number and types of attachments they come with.
| Hose Length | Attachments | Brushes | Brush Width | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Green Professional | 9 ft. | 1 | 1 | 10.5” |
| Revolution HydroSteam Pet | 8 ft. | 2 | 2 | 11” |
| Proheat 2x Revolution Pet Pro Plus | 8 ft. | 2 | 2 | 11” |
| Proheat 2x Revolution Pet | 8 ft. | 2 | 2 | 11” |
| TurboClean DualPro Pet | 7 ft. | 1 | 1 | 11” |
| TurboClean PowerBrush Pet | n/a | 0 | 1 | 7.5” |
Some have two brushes on the floorhead, like the HydroSteam and 2X Revolutions, while some have only one brush. However, the brush on the Big Green, for example, is much bigger and more powerful than the other single brush styles.
They also have different brush widths, or cleaning path widths. In this case every carpet cleaner had a 10.5 or 11 inch brush width with the exception of the TurboClean Powerbrush Pet which had a much smaller 7.5 inch brush.
The benefit? You can cover more area per pass with the wider ones, which really helps with overall efficiency.
Features
Steam
Probably the biggest feature difference is with the Bissell HydroSteam, which is the first and only Bissell carpet cleaner to use steam. When it’s in steam mode and you hold down the trigger, it will produce steam at the floorhead, which theoretically makes it better at stain removal and sanitizing.
CleanShot
Another unique feature is the so-called “CleanShot,” which is only available on the Bissell 2X Revolution Pet Pro Plus. It has a sprayer on the side of the head, which can be activated by a foot pedal.
CleanShot applies the water-solution mix directly to the stain, kind of like a pretreatment. This feature is only available on that version of the 2X Revolution (the purple one) and not on the others, which look very similar other than the color.
Heater
Some of these carpet cleaners have an internal heater, but this doesn’t mean they make cold water hot. It really just means they keep warm water warm. We think this feature is more of a marketing strategy than actually useful, but maybe we’re wrong.
The models with the internal heater are the Revolution Hydrosteam Pet, Proheat 2x Revolution Pet Pro Plus and Proheat 2x Revolution Pet.
Cleaning Modes
Some of them have different cleaning modes, usually accessed by flipping a switch or pushing a button. They have different names like Max, Deep Clean and Express Clean.
But, what the different modes really boil down to is that you have the option of having less water dispensed when you hold the trigger down, meaning it will take less time to dry.
One feature we liked when comparing and reviewing Tineco Carpet Cleaners was heated drying. None of these Bissell models have it, but we expect we might see it in a future model.
The Revolution models have three modes, the TurboClean DualPro Pet has two and the Big Green Professional and TurboClean PowerBrush Pet just have a single mode.
Performance
The first thing we did is measure each carpet cleaner’s suction, both at the base and at the head, in what we call the usable suction test.
We mostly found that they had similar sealed suction numbers, though the cheaper ones did have less than the more expensive ones.
But in the usable suction test, there was something interesting: namely, the cheaper ones really punched above their weight. In fact, the TurboClean PowerBrush Pet had the second-highest suction in this particular test.
| Bissell Carpet Cleaner | Sealed Suction | Usable Suction |
|---|---|---|
| Big Green Professional | 67” | 12.09 kpa |
| Revolution Hydrosteam Pet | 67” | 4.24 kpa |
| Proheat 2x Revolution Pet Pro Plus | 67” | 5.2 kpa |
| Proheat 2x Revolution Pet | 67” | 4.5 kpa |
| TurboClean DualPro Pet | 57” | 8.4 kpa |
| TurboClean PowerBrush Pet | 46” | 11.04 kpa |
Stain Tests
We did some initial tests with dried-on dirt stains and found that with light stains like these, they all nearly perfectly cleaned the carpet in two passes or less.
However, we feel the more expensive Bissell carpet cleaners did this more efficiently than the cheaper ones, but we didn’t score this test. It was mostly for show.
For the stain torture tests, we wanted to develop a new system that we could use in the future. So, we prepared the dried-on stains, where we used 5 oz of a dirt and water mixture, as well as 1.5 oz of coyote urine, which we allowed to dry for 24 hours.
Tip: Pre-Treat Tough Stains
We would highly recommend buying a good stain pretreatment from Bissell if you’re planning to use any of these carpet cleaner models for individual stains. It really is a night-and-day difference.
Professional carpet cleaners always use pretreatment on tough stains like the ones in our torture tests.
For the wet stains, we used 1.5 oz of red wine and 1.5 oz of a glow-in-the-dark material, which is virtually impossible to remove from carpet but looks cool.
We used the same solution mixture for each product and did 4 back-and-forth passes for each stain. We did not pretreat the stains, and we only used room temperature water, not heated water.
As a result, the remaining stains were more significant than if we had used pretreatment or warm water, but this made it easier for us to observe relative differences.
Results
After drying, we took pictures with the same camera and lighting settings for each stain and visually compared them with one another.
However, we’d like to have an AI imaging program or something similar compare these images and provide accurate grades. If anyone knows of a service or program we can use for that, please let us know.
The big story from our stain clean-up tests was that there wasn’t much difference from the cheapest to the most expensive that we could see. We think we could say the Bissell HydroSteam was better than the others, but other than that, it was pretty close.
