More published hardware per dollar than anything else at this price - and one absence that decides whether it suits your home.
By Scooter M., Enthusiast - published September 10, 2026
We have not tested these machines. Everything here comes from published specifications, manufacturer manuals and retailer listings, all cited below. Prices last verified September 21, 2026.
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The Tikom G8000 Max is the most hardware you can buy under $150 on this site: 5,000Pa published, a 450 ml bin alongside a 300 ml water tank used at the same time, up to 150 minutes in quiet mode, a 2.99-inch body and four ways to control it - app, remote, voice and buttons. It has no map, and that single absence is what decides whether it belongs in your home.
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Tikom G8000 MaxThe cheapest machine here that vacuums and mops in the same pass, with a published 5,000Pa behind it. Navigation is the compromise.
Scores come from the published rubric on How We Pick: suction 25%, navigation 25%, pet hair 20%, running cost 20%, setup 10%. Editorial judgments about published specifications, not test results.
What the specifications mean in a real home
5,000Pa published. More than several machines here costing twice as much, and Tikom states it handles short and medium-pile carpet as well as hard floors. Read it as a strong figure for the price rather than as a cross-brand ranking, because Pascal ratings have no shared test standard.
A 450 ml bin and a 300 ml tank, used simultaneously. This is unusual at the price. Most sub-$150 machines make you swap a dust module for a water module; this one carries both, and Tikom claims that doing both jobs in one pass reduces cleaning time by 50% - a manufacturer figure with no stated baseline, so treat it as a description of the design rather than a measurement.
Four control methods, including a physical remote. The remote is the interesting one. It means the machine is usable by somebody who will never install an app, which puts it on our no Wi-Fi ranking as the most capable machine you can drive without touching a phone.
Four cleaning modes: spot, edge, zigzag and manual. Without a map, mode selection is how you direct the machine - you point it at a job rather than drawing a zone. Edge mode along a skirting board and spot mode under a highchair are the two that get used.
2.99 inches tall, with large wheels. Slim enough for most sofa and bed frames, and Tikom states the wheels climb thresholds between floor types. On a small hard-floor home those two figures do more work than the suction number.
Up to 150 minutes in quiet mode, with automatic recharging. That is a long runtime for the price - but note that a machine with no map cannot resume where it stopped, so a run that ends early is coverage lost rather than deferred.
The missing map, and what it actually costs you
This is the whole review, so it is worth being specific rather than repeating the word mapping. Without a map you lose four things:
Keep-out zones. There is nothing to draw them on, so hazards are managed with physical barriers or closed doors. Our obstacle avoidance ranking explains why a drawn zone is the most reliable tool at this price - and this machine cannot use one.
No-mop zones. More pointed here, because this machine vacuums and mops simultaneously. You cannot tell it to keep the wet pad out of one room, which is a genuine problem in a home with rugs or a litter box.
Room selection. You clean the floor it is on, or you shut doors.
Resume after charging. Coverage is a function of battery life and persistence, not of plan.
In a one-bedroom flat with hard floors, none of that costs you much - the machine will cover the space several times over in 150 minutes. In a three-bedroom house with rugs, all four hurt, every run.
Who should buy it
A small-to-medium hard-floor home on a firm budget, especially one where somebody wants to run the machine from a remote rather than a phone. It is also a sensible first robot vacuum for a household that is not sure it wants one - it costs a fraction of the mapped machines and does the daily maintenance job honestly.
Who should not
Anyone with rugs they care about, because there is no way to keep the mop off them short of removing the mop module.
Anyone with a cat litter box. A damp pad dragged through tracked litter makes a paste, and with no map there is no zone to draw - see the cat litter ranking.
Anyone with more than about 900 square feet. Without a map, coverage stops being systematic and starts being statistical.
Anyone with long-haired pets. It uses a conventional roller brush and names no anti-tangle mechanism, so hair wraps and you cut it out. The Lefant M210 at a lower price has a brushless inlet with nothing to wrap around, which is the better answer for hair if you can live without the mop.
Alternatives at this price
The iRobot Roomba 105 Vac is the cheapest machine on this site with a real map and keep-out zones, for meaningfully more money and with no mop at all. The Lefant M210 is cheaper again and better on hair. And the under $150 band page ranks the whole shortlist against live prices.
What we did not verify
We have not handled this machine. Everything above is read from published specifications and the manufacturer's own documentation, cited below. These are the specific claims we could not check:
The claim that doing both jobs in one pass halves cleaning time. Tikom publishes no baseline for that comparison and we ran no timing test.
Carpet performance. Tikom states short and medium pile; no pickup figure is published for either, and we measured nothing.
How much of the 450 ml bin is usable with the water tank fitted, which the listing does not break out.
Noise. Quiet mode is named but no decibel figure is published.
Battery longevity. No cycle count is published, so we cannot tell you how the 150 minutes looks in year three.
Spare part availability. Tikom is a small brand and publishes no parts commitment.
Whether the zigzag pattern covers a room reliably - with no map there is no coverage report to check it against.
That list is not a disclaimer bolted on at the end. It is the actual scope of this review, and anywhere a competitor's confident phrasing implies they checked these things without saying how, it is worth asking the same question of them.
5,000Pa published, which is more than several machines here costing twice as much
A 450 ml bin is large for this price - most sub-$150 machines fill up mid-run
Vacuums and mops in one pass rather than making you swap modules between runs
Four ways to control it, including a physical remote, which matters if the app is a fight
What it gives up
No mapping, so no no-go zones, no room selection and no resume-where-it-left-off
A conventional roller brush, so long hair does wrap and does need cutting out
The mop is a damp cloth dragged behind the machine, not a scrubbing head
No self-emptying, so the 450 ml bin is a job you do by hand
Our scoring
Suction7.0
Navigation3.5
Pet hair5.5
Running cost7.5
Setup8.0
Weights and the arithmetic behind the total are published on How we pick so you can recompute this yourself.
Who it is for: Hard floors, a tight budget, and someone who genuinely wants mopping rather than treating it as a bullet point.
Skip it if: you were hoping to draw no-go zones around a pet bowl or a cable nest. Without a map there is nothing to draw them on, and you will be putting up physical barriers instead.
Questions people actually ask
+−Is the Tikom G8000 Max worth it?
For a small hard-floor home on a tight budget, yes - it publishes 5,000Pa, a 450 ml bin, a 300 ml tank used at the same time and up to 150 minutes, which is more hardware than anything else at this price. It has no map, so it is the wrong machine for a larger home or one with rugs you care about.
+−Does the Tikom G8000 Max have mapping?
No. It navigates with anti-collision and anti-fall sensors and four cleaning patterns, which means no keep-out zones, no room selection and no resuming after a recharge.
+−Can the Tikom G8000 Max vacuum and mop at the same time?
Yes - it carries a 450 ml dustbin and a 300 ml water tank together and does both in one pass. Without a map you cannot exclude a room from mopping, so rugs need the mop module removed or a physical barrier.
+−Can you use the Tikom G8000 Max without the app?
Yes. Tikom states four control methods - app, remote, voice and buttons - so it can be run entirely from the remote by somebody who never installs anything.
+−Is the Tikom G8000 Max good for pet hair?
It is adequate for daily maintenance but it uses a conventional roller and names no anti-tangle mechanism, so long hair wraps and has to be cut out. For hair specifically, a brushless machine or an anti-tangle brush is the better answer.
+−Have you tested the Tikom G8000 Max?
No. Everything here is read from Tikom's published specifications and its own listing, cited below, and the page carries an explicit list of the claims we could not verify.
Sources
Every specification quoted above was read off one of these documents on the date shown. Where a manufacturer does not publish a figure, this site says "Not published" rather than estimating it.
