The Roomba Combo i5+ sees a new record-low price of $299.99, but only in the Best Buy app

Best Buy is beating iRobot.com's own sale price on the cheapest Roomba that mops.
By Leah Stodart  on 
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Roomba i5 cleaning hardwood floor with furniture and dock in peripherals
The Roomba Combo i5+ sheds the old, skinny i5+ self-empty dock for a compact, stylish one. Credit: iRobot

Save $250: As of Feb. 27, the Roomba Combo i5+ is on sale for $299.99 as Best Buy's Drop of the day. The limited-time record-low price is only available in the Best Buy app.


The Roomba Combo i5+ on sale for $349.99 at Amazon and iRobot's own website would be a noteworthy price drop... if the same Roomba wasn't also featured as a Best Buy Drop for $299.99 on the same day.

Before Feb. 27, the Combo i5+ had never dropped below $348.99 according to Amazon price tracker Camelcamelcamel, and a dip that low has only been seen sporadically since Black Friday. The Drop feature's whole thing is to beat those records, though — they're exclusive to Best Buy's mobile app, and will disappear sometime on Drop day depending on how fast other customers hit "add to cart."

If you've been meaning to find a budget-friendly 2-in-1 robot vacuum, $250 off this hybrid Roomba should make your choice easy.

If you've been meaning to find a budget-friendly 2-in-1 robot vacuum, $250 off this hybrid Roomba should make your choice easy.

The Roomba Combo i5+ is the most affordable Roomba that mops and self-empties. (Worth noting, the only mopping Roomba that is even more affordable is the version of the i5 that doesn't self-empty, the regular Combo i5). The older i5+ got this much-needed refresh in Sept. 2023, when iRobot released a handful of new vacs months before CES.

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While the gray woven design of the Combo i5 itself is nearly identical to that of the older i5, the important change lies subtly underneath in the detachable water tank. When you want to mop, the Combo i5 needs to have that tank and mopping pad clicked on, and to send the Combo i5 back out to vacuum the carpets it skipped while mopping, you can simply pop the tank off. The two-part cleaning runs are made easier by the fact that the Roomba i5 series has smart mapping and can clean certain rooms based on what you've queued up in the app.

The difference between the Combo i5 and the Combo j5 is that the j5 series Roombas have small obstacle avoidance technology, meaning they can sense and avoid pesky items on the floor like charging cords or pet waste. The Combo j5, which is on sale for $499.99, still requires the water tank to be manually swapped on and off between sessions.

Topics Robot Vacuums

Leah Stodart
Leah Stodart
Senior Shopping Reporter

Leah Stodart is a Philadelphia-based Senior Shopping Reporter at Mashable where she covers essential home tech like vacuums and TVs as well as sustainable swaps and travel. Her ever-growing experience in these categories comes in clutch when making recommendations on how to spend your money during shopping holidays like Black Friday, which Leah has been covering for Mashable since 2017.

Leah graduated from Penn State University in 2016 with dual degrees in Sociology and Media Studies. When she's not writing about shopping (or shopping online for herself), she's almost definitely watching a horror movie, "RuPaul's Drag Race," or "The Office." You can follow her on X at @notleah or email her at [email protected].


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