If the bags are negotiable and you've got the extra cash for one, buy a Miele.

It has incredible suction power and has the added bonus of having a very good filtration system that will also clean the air around it.

I have a Miele C3 and it is FANTASTIC.

It’s popular to hate on Dyson but cordless, bagless vacuum is very much a game dominated by them. Others - Samsung, Miele - have great products but I have yet to see a model from them that is truly superior to flagship Dysons. They dominate on suction and battery power.

Dyson is expensive (overpriced?). The owners is an oligarch brexiteer asshole. The brand is perpetually trending with annoying influencers and I find their vacuums ugly, but … they build very good vacuums.

Yes. I own a Dyson. A corded one. We’re on our third one and keep buying them because we have never had any issues with them.

My current one is 4 years old. The one before was 10 by the time we sold it due to international move. The one before we bought 10 years old used before deciding we wanted a new one.

Imo they all suck

A Henry. It uses dust bags but it's been months and I'm still on the same one. It's a canister vacuum, not an upright vacuum. Too many times someone sucks up a bunch of drywall dust or cat litter and then you turn on the upright vacuum and it spews dust in a massive cloud. Canister vacuums don't do that.

Maybe some kind of Miele? The Germans are good at this sort of thing.

If the criteria is pure suction power, my Shark literally sucked a strip of veneer off an antique rocking chair. And nearly pulled down a curtain it grabbed hold of. Which aren't good things, but I learned to turn it down when near loose stuff.

The bags are the primary filter. Every bag change is also a filter change. It is really ingenious.

Bagless vacs require cleaning as the primary filter is somewhere else.

We own a German made Miele. The bags are expensive. But we love it.

I can't tell you which is the best but I can give you my general impression of vacuum cleaners, I've used a few in a lot of different houses.

The most popular cord model here seems to be Dyson Ball, but imo it's overrated. Not bad, but not great, and very expensive.

Miele, I've used a couple but must admit, they were old. They seem better than the Dyson Ball though not by much. In terms of weight and manoeuvrability they were similar. I repeat, these were old models so maybe you find nicer ones brand new.

I've used one corded Shark, it was a "standing" type you could detach partially and carry around by hand (still keeping the cord). The whole vacuum was very heavy and bulky but detached was much more manageable, and the suction power was really decent. Cord was very long too.

Of the three I'd pick the Shark, with the caveat that I didn't get a fair comparison with Miele.

Try the Hoover MaxExtract PressurePro model 60. Be sure to ask for the dust filter.

Going cordless has made life much easier

Don't get a bagless. At least, as someone with allergies - I (my nose) can tell you that bagged vaccum cleaners are much better. The main HEPA filter lasts for ages (I've only changed my once in the last decade), thanks to the double filtering - the bag ls themselves are a filter, plus there's a second filter that sits in between the bags and the inside of the vaccum (which btw, you get free every time you purchase a ser of bags).

The main advantage of bagged is of course the maintenance/cleaning/disposal - when it's time to empty out your vacuum, just open the hatch and chuck out the bag and you're done - no risk of dust or tiny insects like dust mites etc spreading around. Especially in this era of microplastics - you don't want to inhale all the microplastics you've just vacuumed up now do you?

Not buying bags is nice, but they sure are cleaner than canisters.

You already got a lot of responses but I love https://www.rtings.com/ for vacuum reviews. They show all kinds of vacuums too.

There is a very good reason nearly every commercial cleaner uses either a Pulman or a pacvac.

20m extension cord, good power, cheap and just bang out the filters every few cleans.

I've had my Shark Navigator Pro for over a decade, the thing is a tank. If it died tomorrow I would instantly buy another one.

I hate changing bags, but bagged is best. I have a Riccar and really love it, it sucks a lot.

I'm very happy with my Wertheim stick vac, way more than I was with the Dyson I had before. It used to give me strong static electric shocks whenever I used it. The Wertheim actually has some metal studs on the handle supposedly to help with grounding. No idea if that is why, but it has never shocked me, not once. Plus you can actually remove the dust container if you want, you don't have to take the whole handheld unit to the bin. Oh and the trigger is a toggle, not hold to vacuum.

It is battery powered, but it came with two batteries and a free standing stand that charges the spare when the vacuum is undocked or fully charged, so if I ever ran out of battery (never happened), I could just swap the spare in. Plus I guess if the battery degrades, I can get a replacement probably.

It doesn't plug into the wall like you asked. But my favorite vacuum is the "shark ion p50" It is a standup cordless vacuum with changeable batteries, large canaster and good suction. The shark corded (no battery) dual brush(duo clean) models or other corded brands do have better suction though. The p50 is just the closest to a coarded but still battery one I could find, I hate tripping on cords.

oh heeeeell no

Aeg vx7, with bags, very good performance, reasonably loud, long cable. Bought in 2018 and still very good.