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Research profile · last verified 2026-08-02SwitchBot Air Purifier
Exactly which product this is[2][4]
- Model number
- Not established
- Generation
- Not established
- Region this page covers
- US
- Also sold or listed as
- SwitchBot Air Purifier
“Not established” means we have not sourced that detail yet — not that the product has no model number, generation or regional variant. We publish the gap rather than filling it.
Compatibility
| Ecosystem | Support | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| Apple Home | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[2] | Unknown, and the reason is the most interesting thing about this record. This purifier holds Matter certification — which in principle is an Apple Home route, since Matter is exactly the mechanism by which a non-HomeKit device appears in the Home app. But SwitchBot's own product copy for this model names Apple nowhere. It names no platform at all: not Apple, not Alexa, not Google, not SmartThings, not Home Assistant, not Matter. The only place those words appear anywhere near this product is the storefront's site-wide navigation, which advertises 'Works with Matter, Home Assistant, Homey' across the whole shop — and this catalogue does not treat a shop-wide banner as a claim about a specific product, because a badge in a navigation menu is store furniture, not a specification. So the certification says a route should exist and the vendor has published nothing about it: no setup instructions, no supported-controller list, no statement of what a Matter controller can actually do with the machine. That is an unknown, not a yes. |
| Amazon Alexa | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[2] | Same situation as Apple, and it is unusual enough to state plainly rather than bury: SwitchBot's own product page for this purifier does not mention Alexa. Most SwitchBot products advertise voice control prominently, and the company operates a well-documented cloud API with an official Home Assistant integration, so an Alexa path very probably exists in practice — the SwitchBot app's own integrations are not product-specific. But 'the company generally supports Alexa' is not the same claim as 'this product works with Alexa, and here is what you can say to it', and only the second one is worth publishing. Recorded unknown until SwitchBot documents it against this model. |
| Google Home | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[2] | Unknown for the same reason as Alexa and Apple: SwitchBot's product copy for this model is silent on every ecosystem, and no Google-side documentation naming this purifier was located. The Matter certificate would in principle carry a Google Home route as well, since Google Home is a Matter controller — but the vendor has published nothing describing it. |
| SmartThings | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[2] | Unknown. SmartThings appears nowhere in SwitchBot's product copy for this model, and no Samsung-side documentation naming this purifier was found. As with the other platform cells, the Matter certificate implies a route that nobody has documented for this specific machine. |
| Home Assistant | WorksWorks with this ecosystem[5][6] | The one platform cell on this record that rests on documentation rather than inference — and it comes entirely from the other side, because SwitchBot's product page never mentions Home Assistant either. Home Assistant ships TWO official core integrations covering this purifier, and the difference between them is the whole point. The switchbot integration is Bluetooth, rated Gold quality, with an IoT class of Local Push — Home Assistant's own documentation states it 'connects locally to the devices without going via the SwitchBot Cloud', and lists the Air Purifier as a supported encrypted device with on/off and mode control. The switchbot_cloud integration is the alternative, Cloud Polling, requiring a token and secret key obtained from the SwitchBot phone app under Profiles > Preferences > About > Developer Options; it also lists the Air Purifier. So a Home Assistant user gets a genuine local path with no cloud account at all, which is rare in this category and is the strongest integration story this product has. Two documented limits on the cloud route, from Home Assistant: SwitchBot's cloud API is capped at '10,000 requests per day', and only one webhook URL is accepted by SwitchBot's cloud, which matters if you already point it somewhere else. |
? Inconclusive means we researched that ecosystem and the evidence doesn’t settle it — the catch says why, and the sources are listed below. It is a statement about the available evidence, never a verdict on the product. A Setup Check researches your exact setup where the official sources don’t answer.
Protocols: WIFI · BLUETOOTH · MATTER[1][4][11]
Needs before it works: No hub for the purifier itself. Its Matter certificates record the transport as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, which means the device joins your network directly and can be commissioned into a Matter platform without a SwitchBot bridge in between — the same native arrangement its sibling humidifier notably does NOT have. Two caveats worth knowing before you count on that. Matter always needs a controller already in your home (an Apple TV or HomePod, an Echo, a Google Nest speaker or display, or a Home Assistant setup), which is a requirement of the standard rather than of this product. And SwitchBot's own product page for this model does not describe the Matter route at all, so what you are relying on is the certification rather than the vendor's setup instructions.[4]
What it can do[4][5]
You can tell it to
- On/off
- Fan mode
It reports
None documented by the vendor
Listed capabilities are what we could establish from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished — not necessarily absent.
Subscription reality[3]
✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.
Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.
No subscription, and no paywall of any kind was found on any surface read for this record — no plan page, no premium tier, no feature gated behind an account upgrade. Recorded honestly as an absence rather than as a positive 'none', which is a real distinction this catalogue keeps: SwitchBot does not say anywhere in this product's copy that the app is free, the way some vendors in this category do in writing. Nothing was found that costs money after purchase except the consumable filter, which SwitchBot sells outright at $39.99.
Maintenance reality[2][3][5]
- Batteries: None — mains powered
- Works without the internet: Yes — the core function runs on the device or your home network. A vendor cloud may still be involved in remote access.[5]
- The consumable is the filter, and SwitchBot's answer here is half published. The replacement part is sold on SwitchBot's own store as 'SwitchBot Air Purifier Filter' at $39.99 (SKU 810150542714), so the price is a first-party fact. The replacement INTERVAL is not: that filter listing carries no description at all, and no interval, service life or 'replace every N months' figure appears on the product page either. It is recorded as unknown rather than filled from the category norm, because how long a filter lasts is exactly the number a buyer would use to work out running costs and exactly the kind of number this catalogue will not estimate. cloudDependent is false on the strength of Home Assistant's Bluetooth integration, which states it 'connects locally to the devices without going via the SwitchBot Cloud' and lists this purifier among the devices it controls — so a documented local control path exists independent of SwitchBot's servers. SwitchBot's published performance claims, recorded as the vendor's own figures rather than as verified results: removal of '93.45% of pet hair', neutralising '98.18% of pet odors within 30 minutes', a HEPA filter removing '99.97% of particles, 99.01% of cat allergens, and 99.99% of common bacteria', and 'ultra-quiet 20dB operation'.
- Security updates: SwitchBot declares a security-update period for this model as a length rather than a date: "2 years of software update support, counted from launch — SwitchBot states the period as a rule but publishes an end date for only one product, which is not this one" (the document this comes from names no country, so which markets it legally covers is not stated). That is a floor measured from a starting point the manufacturer sets — a launch or a purchase — rather than a fixed end date, so it cannot be placed on a calendar here. We record the manufacturer's words rather than converting them into a date it did not give. This is a published commitment, not a gap in our research.[10]
The catch
The headline is a gap between what this machine is certified to do and what its maker will tell you it does. SwitchBot holds Matter certification on this purifier — Matter 1.3, primary device type 0x002D (Air Purifier), with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth as the transports, meaning it can join a Matter platform directly without a SwitchBot bridge. And SwitchBot's own product page for it mentions Matter zero times. It also mentions Alexa zero times, Google zero times, Apple zero times, SmartThings zero times and Home Assistant zero times. The entire product description is about pet hair, odours and noise. The only smart-home words on that storefront sit in the navigation bar, advertising 'Works with Matter, Home Assistant, Homey' across the whole shop — which is a claim about SwitchBot's catalogue, not about this machine, and this record does not treat it as one. Second, identifying the certificate took real work and the result is worth stating: SwitchBot holds FOUR air-purifier certificates, all filed under Woan Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. with vendor ID 0x1397. Two of them carry descriptions matching this product word for word; the other two describe a 'coffee table' with a wireless charger — the separate Air Purifier Table model, which is a different product this record deliberately does not cover. Anyone matching a Matter certificate to this purifier by product title alone had a coin-flip chance of citing the furniture. Third, the good news, and it is genuinely good: Home Assistant's Bluetooth integration controls this purifier locally, without SwitchBot's cloud, at Gold quality — so the local-control crowd gets a real answer here, from Home Assistant's documentation rather than from SwitchBot's. Fourth, the running cost is half-published. The replacement filter is $39.99 on SwitchBot's own store, and nowhere does SwitchBot say how often you need one. Finally, a word on the performance numbers: '93.45% of pet hair', '98.18% of pet odors', '99.97% of particles'. Those are SwitchBot's own figures, quoted here as the vendor's claims. This purifier does not appear in AHAM's independently verified CADR directory, so there is no third-party performance number to set beside them.
Who it's for
A good fit for a Home Assistant household, and specifically for someone who wants local control rather than another cloud account — that is the one thing here documented properly, by Home Assistant rather than by SwitchBot, and the Bluetooth integration is rated Gold and runs without touching SwitchBot's servers. It also suits an existing SwitchBot household, where this slots into an app and an account you already run. It suits a pet owner on the vendor's own framing: the whole product description is about hair, dander and odour rather than about allergies or wildfire smoke. Think twice if you are buying it FOR a specific voice assistant. The Matter certificate suggests Apple Home, Alexa and Google Home should all work, and this record will not tell you they do, because SwitchBot has published nothing about any of them for this model — no setup guide, no supported-controller list, no statement of what a voice command can actually change. If your purchase depends on the machine appearing in the Apple Home app, buy something whose maker says so in writing. And if running costs matter, note that the filter is $39.99 and its replacement interval is not published anywhere.
Sources & method
Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →
- [1] Home Assistant's SwitchBot integration is a BLUETOOTH integration — it states in its own words that "A SwitchBot Hub is not required for this integration" — and it names this device with control features, which is a usable control path under the ruled definition. Air Purifier features: turn on, turn off, set mode (three speed levels, adjusted by setting the mode); the integration notes it is an encrypted device. · The same page's "Works with Home Assistant" section names both "SwitchBot Air Purifier" and "SwitchBot Air Purifier Table" among the devices SwitchBot has certified for Bluetooth. ⚠ SwitchBot's own product description (read 2026-08-09 via the .js structured endpoint) contains ZERO occurrences of "Bluetooth". — vendor-page research + third-party integration documentation, verified 2026-08-09Backs: Protocols
- [2] SwitchBot US store, SwitchBot Air Purifier product data — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Product identity, Price, Market availability, Maintenance, Power source, Installation, Amazon Alexa compatibility, Google Home compatibility, Apple Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility
- [3] SwitchBot US store, SwitchBot Air Purifier Filter listing — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Maintenance, Subscription
- [4] CSA-IoT certified products database, SwitchBot Air Purifier certificate pages — registry lookup, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Protocols, Product identity, Required hub or bridge, Capabilities
- [5] Home Assistant, SwitchBot Bluetooth integration documentation — counterparty documentation, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Home Assistant compatibility, Maintenance, Capabilities, Works without the internet
- [6] Home Assistant, SwitchBot Cloud integration documentation — counterparty documentation, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Home Assistant compatibility
- [7] SwitchBot US and global storefronts, site-wide navigation and hub cross-sell modules — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-02
- [8] Current and unremarkable. The product is on sale, the SwitchBot cloud API that Home Assistant's official integration depends on is documented and live, and no withdrawal, sunset or capability-removal notice was found on any surface read for this record. Nothing here matches the t — migrated hand stamp, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Service status
- [9] unrecorded — the migrated lifecycle.research stamp carried no source field — migrated hand stamp, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Research status
- [10] SwitchBot's own Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (www.switch-bot.com/pages/switchbot-vulnerability-disclosure-policy), read in full 2026-08-20. The commitment, verbatim: "We will deliver an updated experience for you on a regular basis including updated security patches. The period of software update support is 2 years, see the table below for details." The table it points to contains exactly ONE row — "SwitchBot Floor Cleaning Robot S10 | 2023/10/16 | 2025/12/31" — under the headings "Product Name", "Launch Date" and "End date of software update support". The same policy publishes remediation targets rather than a support horizon: "critical and high-risk vulnerabilities will be fixed within three working days, high-risk vulnerabilities within 0.5 months, medium-risk vulnerabilities within one month, and low-risk vulnerabilities within four months", with reports to security@switch-bot.com. Rungs walked per method note 69: (a) no SwitchBot regulatory-declaration library (UK PSTI / EU CRA) could be located — a first-party search surfaced only per-product FCC "Safety and Compliance Information" articles, which carry no support period; (b) answered by this policy page; (c) the product's own page sits on `us.switch-bot.com`, a registered refusing host, and was not reachable this pass. — vendor policy-page research (BQ-192 security-support sweep, method note 69 rungs a–c), verified 2026-08-20Backs: Security-update support period
- [11] This record's existing per-model Matter evidence, re-read 2026-08-20 against the ruled definition of `protocols`: certificate CSA25065MAT44983. No new external source was fetched — the evidence already on this record was re-examined and this entry states what it establishes. — protocols-definition sweep (BQ-222 batch 2; ruling §1 of docs/decisions/2026-08-20-RULINGS-SITTING.md), verified 2026-08-20Backs: Protocols
- [12] SwitchBot global store, Air Purifier specification table, 'Others' section — "Connectivity Mode | 2.4GHz Wi-Fi+Bluetooth 4.2", listed beside "Operating Environment Indoor, 0°C to 40°C", "Service Life 5 years" and "Matter Supported". — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-21Backs: Wi-Fi bands it can use
- [13] SmartHomeWorkflow record maintenance (BQ-244 absence-marker blast-radius repair) — internal-review, verified 2026-08-27
- [14] SmartHomeWorkflow record maintenance (BQ-250 securitySupport.region backfill) — internal-review of the document this record already cites, verified 2026-08-27
Compatibility and lifecycle information reflects the last-verified date above and can change without notice (firmware updates, cloud-service changes, discontinuations). It is provided as-is, for information — verify with the manufacturer before purchasing. Spot an error? Tell us and we'll fix it. Full terms: Terms of Service.