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There was a time when uttering the words smart home conjured images of a hapless single dad and his family being held hostage by a sentient home in the suburbs (or something like that). Instead, we have smart toilets with heated seats, built-in bidets, auto-flush, self-cleaning systems, and more. Close enough?
Here’s everything you should know about smart toilets before considering one, including: what they can do, how much they cost, what installation is like, and more.
Smart Toilets 101
How much does a smart toilet cost?
Smart toilets range from about $1,000 up to well over $10,000 depending on brand, materials, size, and features. If you’re looking for a happy medium price—where you get the most features without spending away your savings, but you also avoid buying something you’ll regret—you’ll be in the $2,500 to $3,500 range. You’ll find the most options in this range.
How much does it cost to install a smart toilet?
It’s difficult to estimate how much a smart toilet installation will cost. The price can vary rather dramatically based on the model you choose, your home, the need for specialized plumbing, and so on. Generally, mark a couple thousand dollars for installation, at least, with larger projects edging over $5,000.
What does a smart toilet do?
There are four core features a smart toilet worth its salt will have:
- Self-cleaning – Most smart toilets will come with the tools and know-how to take “clean the toilet” off your list of chores. This is a huge boost to restroom hygiene.
- Heated seat – fairly self-explanatory; comfortable in the colder months or the wee hours of the morning.
- No-touch flush – Touchless toilets have become common in public spaces for a reason—they’re significantly more sanitary than their handle-flush elders.
- Built-in bidet – Americans are finally coming around to bidets, which have been popular in other parts of the world for ages. To put it bluntly, toilet paper doesn’t do a great job of cleaning your ass. Bidets do.
IT’S TIME TO CLEAN UP
The Best Smart Toilets on the Market
American Standard 100 SpaLet Smart Toilet
Best overall
American Standard is known in the high-tech bathroom game for providing good value for the money. And while about $3,000 ain’t cheap, the SpaLet 100 offers more for that money than you’re likely to get from other brands.
For starters, it’s got the features you expect (and really shouldn’t miss out on) if you see a smart toilet in your future: heated seat, self-clean function, bidet, and auto open and close. Its biggest value add is a more feature-heavy bidet than its competition. You can adjust the water temperature and water pressure to your preference and there’s a heated dryer function built-in so you don’t have to dry off yourself. The American Standard smart toilet is controlled by a small, flat panel that’s cut into the wall next to the toilet.
- Whole bowl self-cleaning
- Heated seat (adjustable temperature)
- Auto open and close
- Bidet with multiple comfort settings
- Built-in heated dryer
Karing 1-piece Elongated Toilet
Best for small spaces
Kohler’s compact smart toilet has a small physical footprint, but more importantly its environmental footprint is shrunk as well. Its gallons per flush (GPF) sits just above 1, which is significantly better than most standard toilets and a solid improvement on the roughly 1.5 GPFs you’ll find on many smart toilets.
Plus, it still has all the goodies you want with a smart toilet. It’s motion-activated—the lid and flush—and you are in control of the heated seat, air dry system, self-clean mode, and more. The look is also very future-forward, if that kind of thing is important to you.
- Compact design
- Water efficient
- Self-cleaning
- Air dry system
- Touchless
- Heated seat (adjustable temperature)
TOTO Neorest 700H
Best high-end option
While extraordinarily expensive can often mean needless luxury, in the case of TOTO’s Neorest smart toilet, the cost is justified by one thing that sets it above the field: water efficiency. Depending on which flush you choose, you’re looking at a .8 to 1 GPF toilet. That is anywhere between 25 and 100 percent more efficient than the majority of other smart or standard toilets.
And yes, you get all the other butt-friendly stuff as well. A multi-cycle bidet you can program modes for two people, fully automatic systems, and of course a heated seat. If there was ever a bathroom flex, this is it.
- Top-of-the-line water efficiency
- Heated seat (adjustable temperature)
- Programmable for two user profiles
- Fully automatic
