Shark vs Dyson cordless: PowerDetect Speed Clean & Empty or V10 Konical with Auto-empty Dok?

Both are 2026 launches and both come with a dock that empties and charges the vacuum: Shark released the PowerDetect Speed in the UK in spring 2026, and Dyson put the V10 Konical on sale at the end of April, with its first self-emptying dock, the Auto-empty Dok, following in July.

Choose the Shark PowerDetect Speed Clean & Empty if your home is mostly carpet and rugs, you want the vacuum to raise and lower its own power, and you would rather tip out a dock bin than buy liners. Its five-year guarantee, once registered, is the longer of the two.

Choose the Dyson V10 Konical with Auto-empty Dok if you mainly have hard floors and long hair in the house, and you want the lightest machine with one-button control. It also suits owners of a Dyson V8 Cyclone: the Dok works with it and the tools swap between the two.

Skip the docks if space is tight. Both vacuums are sold on their own with a wall mount, and several testers liked the Dyson vacuum far more than its Dok.

• Who decides the power. The Shark’s PowerDetect sensors read the floor type, the dirt, the edges and the direction you push, and raise suction on their own; it also picks up on the backward stroke. On the Dyson you choose Eco, Medium or MAX yourself, and Trusted Reviews notes it has no dirt-sensing mode.
• Weight versus reach. The Dyson weighs 2.65 kg against 3.22 kg for the Shark, which you feel on the stairs and when hoovering cobwebs. The Shark’s Flexology wand bends, so the floor head slides under a bed or sofa without you kneeling.
• Knowing when you will run out. The Shark’s screen shows the mode, the battery left and how much dirt it is picking up. The Dyson has no battery gauge: as Trusted Reviews points out, a light only starts flashing shortly before it stops.

This is where the two bundles differ most. Shark’s Auto-Empty Charging Dock pulls the dust out after every clean into a bin that holds up to 45 days of debris, by Shark’s count; TechRadar puts that bin at 2 litres. When it is full you tip it out and put it back, so there are no bags to buy. TechRadar found it worked well and kept mess down; T3 found it fairly noisy and warns that the dust can come out in a cloud when you tip the bin.

Dyson’s Auto-empty Dok seals the dust in a 2.5 L liner said to hold up to 60 days. That means longer between emptyings, but liners to replace: Ideal Home found two in the box and, when it reviewed the Dok in August, could not find replacements on Dyson’s site. The Dok is also 1,206 mm tall and weighs 7.2 kg. In a home with a dog and long hair, Ideal Home found it failed to pull all the hair out of the vacuum’s bin on most occasions; TechRadar had two failures with carpet fibres and Labrador hair, and none on hard floors.

In short: with a moulting pet or long hair, the Shark’s dock is the safer bet. With mostly hard floors and a utility room to hide it in, the Dok’s 60 days between emptyings make more sense.

• Shark, TechRadar (23 May 2026): fine dust and large debris picked up well on carpet and hard floors once on high power, with edge cleaning among the best the reviewer had seen from a stick vacuum; on low power a single pass left debris behind. Long and pet hair caused no tangling.
• Dyson, Trusted Reviews (12 August 2026): all the rice collected on a hard floor, 94.9% of the dust along a skirting board (the V8 Cyclone managed 85.9%), but carpet dust pick-up below the reviewer’s expectations.
• Dyson, Good Housekeeping UK (list updated 26 August 2026): almost every speck of dust collected on hard floors, most pet hair removed in one sweep, around 75% of the dust lifted from carpet, and a score of 89/100 for the bundle with the Dok.
• Both, WIRED (US edition, 6 August 2026): tested side by side with Dyson’s current range, the Shark scored 15 out of 20 across the reviewer’s five tests and the V10 Konical 14 out of 20.

Neither tangled with hair in any of these reviews. The Shark’s advantage is carpet and automatic power; the Dyson’s is fine dust on hard floors.

Both makers claim up to 60 minutes, measured in Eco mode with a non-motorised tool or as a handheld, not with the floor head on carpet. Testers found:

• Shark: 53 minutes on minimum power and 14 minutes on maximum, with 4 h 6 min to recharge (Which?); 54 min 5 s and 10 min 38 s, with 5 h 19 min to recharge (TechRadar, which called the battery its weak point).
• Dyson: 21 min 28 s on standard power and 6 min 25 s on Boost (Trusted Reviews); 21 min 30 s in Medium on carpet with the floor head (TechRadar); up to 7 minutes in MAX on carpet (Good Housekeeping UK).

Both batteries click out. Shark lists a handheld battery pack (XIABTR540EU) among this model’s add-ons, but TechRadar, reviewing in May, could not find a spare that fitted, so check compatibility before buying one. Dyson says a second swappable battery doubles the run time. With either dock, the vacuum is recharged every time you put it back.

• Shark: five years once you register the vacuum with Shark, two years for the battery.
• Dyson: two years on cordless vacuums, battery included; under guarantee Dyson collects the machine free of charge for repair, according to its guarantee page.
• Consumables: the Shark’s dock bin is emptied and reused; the Dyson Dok needs new 2.5 L liners.

Either way, the guarantee comes on top of your statutory rights against the retailer.

Both vacuums are sold on their own. The Shark PowerDetect Speed IA1241UK comes with a charging base and a wall mount; the Dyson V10 Konical comes with a Wall Dok, and TechRadar notes the Auto-empty Dok is sold separately too, so you can add it later. Ideal Home and Woman & Home both recommend the Dyson vacuum even without the Dok.

One catch on the Shark: Shark’s own listing for the Royal Grey version, IA1241UKPU, lists three PowerDetect technologies in its product details (dirt, floor type and direction, with no Edge Detect), although the same page later describes four; the Ultramarine IA1241UK and the Clean & Empty IA3241UKT list all four. Check the model number before you buy.

• Shark PowerDetect Clean & Empty IP3251UKT: Shark’s heavier flagship (3.71 kg) with two brush-rolls (DuoClean Detect), up to 70 minutes measured at the handheld in Eco mode, and a dock holding up to 45 days.
• Dyson V15 Detect Absolute: no dock, but a dust sensor that counts particles on an LCD screen, a 0.77 L bin, 240 AW and a separate Fluffy Optic head for hard floors, at 3.1 kg.
• Dyson V8 Cyclone: the simpler Dyson that shares the V10 Konical’s tools and also works with the Auto-empty Dok.

Which? first reviewed the dock-free Shark PowerDetect Speed IA1241UK, the same vacuum as in the Clean & Empty bundle, in August 2026. Its scores are for members, but its specification table is public: 3.3 kg, 0.7 litres of dust capacity (Shark states 0.47 L), 53 minutes on minimum power, 14 minutes on maximum and 4 h 6 min to recharge. We could not find a Which? review of the V10 Konical when we checked on 1 November 2026.

On 1 November 2026 both bundles were listed on Amazon’s UK store as sold and dispatched by Amazon, and both makers also sell direct. TechRadar lists Argos, John Lewis and AO for the Dyson bundle; Which? lists B&Q and Currys among the retailers for the dock-free Shark.

Prices on both brands move a lot in the run-up to Black Friday (27 November 2026). Which? judges a deal against six months of prices and suggests checking PriceSpy or PriceRunner for the same history.

Homenura does not test products itself. We compared the specifications Shark and Dyson publish on their UK sites (sharkninja.co.uk and dyson.co.uk, read on 1 November 2026) with the results UK testers published between May and August 2026: Which?, TechRadar, T3, Trusted Reviews, Ideal Home, Good Housekeeping UK and Woman & Home, plus WIRED’s side-by-side test. Run times and pick-up figures are theirs, quoted with their dates, and their methods differ, so compare figures from the same tester where you can.