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SwitchBot K11+

Compiled by SmartHomeWorkflow Research · SwitchBot · Robot Vacuums & Mops · ~$399.99 (price at time of research (2026-08-09) on SwitchBot's own US store, both colours. A promotional code showing $229.99 was live on the page and is deliberately not recorded as the price.)

Compatibility

? 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 · MATTER^[2][6]

Needs before it works: No hub, and unusually for this category that is the vendor's own explicit claim rather than our inference: SwitchBot says this robot supports Matter 'allowing seamless native control via Apple Home, Alexa, or Google Home with no extra hubs needed'. That is a real difference from its own siblings — the K10+ Pro Combo's page tells you to buy a Hub 2 to reach Apple Home. Mapping, no-go zones and scheduling still live in the SwitchBot app.^[2]

What it can do^[7]

Listed capabilities are what we could establish from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished — not necessarily absent.

Subscription reality^[1]

✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.

Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.

No plan, membership or recurring fee appears on the product page, and no advertised feature is gated behind one. The running cost is consumables rather than software: SwitchBot sells a K11+ replacement kit at $59.99 for a year's use.

Maintenance reality^[1]

• Works without the internet: Not established — we have not sourced this yet. It does not mean the product fails without the internet.
• The self-emptying station is the selling point and the maintenance story at once: a 4L antibacterial dust bag SwitchBot rates at 'up to 90 days of cleaning', in a station it says is 'smaller than an A4 sheet'. 6,000Pa suction with a tangle-resistant roller and an Anti-Tangle Twin Side Brush. Navigation is LDS LiDAR with PSD side sensors, drop sensors SwitchBot says detect drops of 8cm or more, and app-set no-go zones; it climbs a 1.7cm threshold. A vacuum, not a vac-mop — there is no mop system and no dock washing. Consumables run about $59.99 a year for the official replacement kit. 1-year warranty.
• 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.^[5]

The catch

It is a vacuum only — no mopping, and the dock empties but washes nothing, which is what separates it from robots costing twice as much. The 90-day dust bag and 6,000Pa suction are real, but so is the ceiling: this is a small robot for small spaces, climbing a 1.7cm threshold and nothing taller.

Who it's for

🔴 The pick in this set for an Apple household, and by a distance — it is the only robot of the six built under this spec where Matter is both certified AND actually shipped, so it appears in the Home app with no hub to buy. Add a small footprint, a station that hides under furniture and a 90-day bag, and it suits apartments and multi-storey homes where a big dock has nowhere to live. Skip it if you want mopping, if your thresholds are taller than 1.7cm, or if you need room-by-room voice targeting rather than start and stop.

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. [1] us.switch-bot.com/collections/household-robot/products.json (fetched 2026-08-09): 'SwitchBot K11+', handle switchbot-robot-vacuum-k11, SKUs 810150544862 and 810150545623 both at 399.99, both available true. Browser-rendered us.switch-bot.com/products/switchbot-robot-vacuum-k11 same day: '$399.99' · 'BEST SELLER' · '4.53 out of 5 Based on 30 reviews' · '90-Day Dust Storage … 4L antibacterial dust bag' · '6000Pa Powerful Suction' · 'Anti-Tangle Twin Side Brush' · 'advanced LDS LiDAR … PSD side sensors … drop sensors, 1.7 cm threshold climbing, and no-go zones' · '*The K11+ anti-drop sensor detects and avoids drops of 8cm or more.' · '1-Year Warranty' · '30-Day Money-Back Guarantee' · 'K Series Replacement Kit for 1 year use … K11+ $59.99'. No subscription, plan or fee appears anywhere on the page. — structured-page-data-and-browser-rendered-vendor-page, verified 2026-08-09
   Backs: Product identity, Price, Market availability, Service status, Power source, Installation, Maintenance, Subscription
2. [2] CSA Distributed Compliance Ledger, read 2026-08-09 via tools/dcl-lookup.mjs: on.dcl.csa-iot.org/dcl/model/models/5015 resolves SwitchBot (VID 5015, Woan Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.) to 25 registered models including PID 2043 'SwitchBot Robot Vacuum K11+' and, separately, PID 2052 'SwitchBot Robot Vacuum K11+ Pro'; on.dcl.csa-iot.org/dcl/compliance/compliance-info/5015/2043/1/matter returns cDCertificateId 'CSA2543AMAT45964-24', softwareVersionString '1.1.088', date 2025-06-30, while PID 2052 returns 'CSA263DQMAT53790-24' dated 2026-06-01. Vendor statement: us.switch-bot.com/products/switchbot-robot-vacuum-k11 browser-rendered 2026-08-09 — 'Full Smart Home Compatibility: One of the few robot vacuums that support Matter, allowing seamless native control via Apple Home, Alexa, or Google Home with no extra hubs needed.' Also 'Works with Alexa, Google Assistant, and more. Control it right from your Apple Watch or Android Watch, or pair it with the Universal Remote.' — registry-lookup-and-vendor-research, verified 2026-08-09
   Backs: Protocols, Required hub or bridge, Apple Home compatibility, Amazon Alexa compatibility, Google Home compatibility
3. [3] us.switch-bot.com/products/switchbot-robot-vacuum-k11 (2026-08-09) names Apple Home, Alexa and Google Home and contains no SmartThings, Home Assistant or Matter-controller list beyond those three. Counterparty: www.home-assistant.io/integrations/switchbot (read 2026-08-09) lists SwitchBot vacuums under a Bluetooth integration that 'connects locally to the devices without going via the SwitchBot Cloud'; no Samsung or SmartThings documentation names this model. — vendor-and-counterparty research, verified 2026-08-09
   Backs: SmartThings compatibility, Home Assistant compatibility, Research status
4. [4] This record's own `hubRequired` field and the entry already claiming it (unnamed entry), re-read 2026-08-19. — structuring pass over an established fact (BQ-191 provider backfill, population (b)), verified 2026-08-19
5. [5] 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 2026-08-20
   Backs: Security-update support period
6. [6] This record's existing per-model Matter evidence, re-read 2026-08-20 against the ruled definition of `protocols`: certificate CSA2543AMAT45964. 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 2026-08-20
   Backs: Protocols
7. [7] CSA Distributed Compliance Ledger, this model's own Matter certificate (PID 2043 'SwitchBot Robot Vacuum K11+', CSA2543AMAT45964-24, 2025-06-30), previously read for this record — counterparty-source check, verified 2026-08-21
   Backs: Capabilities
8. [8] SmartHomeWorkflow record maintenance (BQ-250 securitySupport.region backfill) — internal-review of the document this record already cites, verified 2026-08-27

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