Garden Last updated · owner ratings verified July 2026
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Side by side
| Our pick Greenworks Greenworks 60V Cordless Leaf Blower, 610 CFM Best overall $180–230 Check price | Greenworks Greenworks 40V Axial Cordless Leaf Blower, 450 CFM Best value $130–170 Check price | Greenworks Greenworks 80V Brushless Backpack Blower, 610 CFM Most capable $300–400 Check price | DEWALT DEWALT 20V MAX XR Leaf Blower, 450 CFM Best if you own DEWALT batteries $180–240 Check price | DEWALT DEWALT 20V MAX Cordless Wet/Dry Vac, 2 gal The rest of DEWALT cleanup $120–160 Check price | |
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| What owners rate it | |||||
| Owner rating | 4.4 / 5 (542) | 4.6 / 5 (483) | 4 / 5 (1,076) | 4.5 / 5 (8,209) | 4.5 / 5 (8,700) |
| Specifications | |||||
| Tool type | Handheld | Handheld | Backpack | Handheld | Cordless wet/dry vac |
| Airflow (CFM) | 610 CFM | 450 CFM | 610 CFM | 450 CFM | Not applicable |
| Air speed (MPH) | 130 MPH | 120 MPH | 180 MPH | 125 MPH | Not applicable |
| Battery platform | Greenworks 60V | Greenworks 40V | Greenworks 80V | DEWALT 20V MAX | DEWALT 20V MAX |
| Battery included | Battery and charger included | Battery and charger included | Battery and charger included | Kit with 5.0Ah battery and charger | Bare tool, battery sold separately |
| Runtime at high | Roughly 15–20 min at high with the included pack | Roughly 20 min at high with the included pack | Roughly 20 min at high, longer at part throttle | Roughly 12 min at full power with the 5.0Ah pack | Depends on the pack fitted |
| Wider tool range | Full outdoor range on one battery | Large 40V outdoor range | 80V range, separate from 40V and 60V | Huge power-tool range, thin outdoor range | Huge power-tool range, thin outdoor range |
| Who it suits | |||||
| Best for | A full yard of leaves without a cord or gas | A normal suburban lot and a normal budget | Large lots and heavy fall cleanup | Anyone already on the 20V MAX platform | Gutters, garages and wet cleanup on the same batteries |
Ratings are aggregated Amazon owner ratings, not our own testing. Figures verified July 2026.
Pros and cons
Greenworks 60V Cordless Leaf Blower, 610 CFM
- Publishes 610 CFM, the highest airflow of any handheld here, and airflow is what actually moves wet leaves
- Sold as a kit with battery and charger, so the sticker price is the real price
- The 60V platform covers mowers, trimmers, chainsaws and pole saws on the same battery
- Quiet enough for neighborhoods with noise ordinances that rule out gas
- Runtime at full throttle is short — expect to work in bursts or buy a second battery
- A modest owner-rating base compared with the long-established DEWALT blower
- Front-heavy with the larger 60V pack fitted
Greenworks 40V Axial Cordless Leaf Blower, 450 CFM
- Matches the DEWALT on airflow at a meaningfully lower price, battery included
- Axial fan design pushes a wide, steady column of air rather than a narrow jet, which suits driveways and lawns
- The best-rated Greenworks blower in this comparison
- The 40V platform is the largest and cheapest Greenworks battery range
- Not enough for wet, matted leaves on a large lot — that is backpack territory
- The included 4.0Ah pack is the runtime limit, and a spare is an extra outlay
- Plastic housing feels less rugged than the DEWALT jobsite build
Greenworks 80V Brushless Backpack Blower, 610 CFM
- The weight sits on your back rather than your forearm, which changes what an hour of work feels like
- Same 610 CFM airflow as the best handheld, sustained more comfortably
- Brushless motor on the 80V platform, which is the strongest Greenworks tier
- The most expensive option here and the least convenient to grab for a five-minute job
- Rated lowest of the Greenworks models by owners, with harness comfort a recurring complaint
- An 80V battery is a platform commitment separate from 40V and 60V tools
DEWALT 20V MAX XR Leaf Blower, 450 CFM
- Runs on the same 20V MAX packs as the drills and saws most homeowners already own
- Brushless motor with a variable-speed trigger and a speed lock for sustained work
- By far the largest owner-rating base of any blower here, and rated well
- Jobsite build quality — this is a tool designed to be thrown in a truck
- Airflow matches the cheaper 40V Greenworks rather than beating it
- A 20V pack is small for a high-draw tool, so full-power runtime is short
- DEWALT has no wider outdoor range to grow into — this is a blower on a drill platform
DEWALT 20V MAX Cordless Wet/Dry Vac, 2 gal
- Runs on the same 20V MAX packs as the blower, which is the whole argument for staying on one platform
- Handles wet debris a blower cannot touch — clogged gutters, garage spills, car interiors
- Very well rated across a large owner base and built to jobsite standards
- Not a yard tool — this covers the cleanup jobs around the yard, not the leaves in it
- Two gallons fills fast on a real cleanup
- Runtime on a high-draw vac is short on anything under a 5.0Ah pack
Decision factors
What you actually pay
Sticker prices look close and total costs are not. The Greenworks 40V axial blower is $130 to $170 with a battery and charger in the box. The Greenworks 60V is $180 to $230, again as a complete kit. The DEWALT XR blower is $180 to $240 as a kit with a 5.0Ah pack — but the reason people buy it is that they already own packs and can buy the bare tool for considerably less.
That is the honest way to read this comparison. If you own DEWALT 20V MAX batteries, the DEWALT blower is the cheapest capable blower available to you, and no Greenworks kit competes with a bare tool price. If you do not, you are buying into a platform either way, and Greenworks gives you more airflow per dollar plus a range that includes mowers, string trimmers, chainsaws and pole saws.
Batteries are the real running cost in cordless yard work. A high-draw tool like a blower empties a pack quickly, so most owners end up buying a second battery — budget $80 to $150 depending on platform and capacity. Packs also age: expect meaningful capacity loss after several years of seasonal use, and expect to replace one eventually. This is exactly why platform choice matters more than tool choice.
Beyond batteries, cordless blowers cost almost nothing to run. There is no fuel, no oil mixing, no spark plug and no carburetor to gum up over winter — the maintenance items that make gas blowers cheap to buy and expensive to keep. Our gas versus battery comparison puts real numbers on that trade-off.
Which one fits you
- A quarter-acre lot with real fall leaf drop Greenworks 60V 610 CFM The highest airflow of any handheld here, battery included, on a platform that also covers the mower and trimmer.
- Someone with a garage of DEWALT 20V MAX batteries DEWALT 20V MAX XR Blower Buying the bare tool and using packs you already own is the cheapest good blower you can put in your hand today.
- Driveways, patios and light seasonal leaves Greenworks 40V Axial 450 CFM Matches the DEWALT on airflow for less money with the battery in the box. Nothing about a normal suburban lot needs more.
- Half an acre or more, wet leaves, long sessions Greenworks 80V Backpack Handheld blowers are limited by your forearm, not their motor. A backpack moves the weight and lets you finish the job.
If neither is right
- EGO POWER+ 650 CFM Cordless Blower The strongest handheld in the battery category on published airflow, on a 56V platform with an excellent outdoor range and a very large, very positive owner-rating base.
- Makita XBU02PT 18V X2 LXT Brushless Blower Kit Runs two 18V packs, so it works for anyone already on Makita LXT. The best-rated blower in this whole comparison set, though the airflow is lower than the Greenworks 60V.
- WORX Cordless Leaf Blower, 40V Power Share A cheaper entry point with a turbine design and a battery platform that spans WORX yard tools, for smaller lots where 450 CFM is more than enough.
Which one should you buy?
If you already own DEWALT 20V MAX batteries, buy the DEWALT blower as a bare tool. It is well built, well rated, and the cheapest good blower available to someone in that position. If you do not own DEWALT packs, buy Greenworks — the 60V model publishes 610 CFM against DEWALT's 450 CFM, arrives with a battery and charger, and sits on a platform that also covers the mower, the trimmer and the chainsaw.
That is the entire decision, and it has almost nothing to do with which blower is better engineered. Both are competent brushless tools. The difference is that DEWALT is a power-tool company that also makes a blower, and Greenworks is an outdoor-equipment company. Which of those describes your garage is what settles it.
How do the two brands genuinely differ?
DEWALT's strength is platform depth and build. The 20V MAX line is the most complete cordless tool system available to a homeowner, and the blower is designed to jobsite standards — the housing, the trigger and the speed lock are all built to be dropped in a truck bed. What DEWALT does not offer is a route upward in yard equipment. Its blower runs on the same voltage as a drill, and a 20V pack is a small energy store for a tool that draws hard.
Greenworks builds outdoor equipment first, at three voltages. The 40V range is the broad, affordable middle. The 60V range is the modern flagship with the strongest handheld blower here. The 80V range is the high-output tier with backpack blowers and larger mowers. That structure means Greenworks can put a much bigger battery behind a blower, which is why it reaches 610 CFM where DEWALT's homeowner blower reaches 450.
The trade-off is build feel and support. DEWALT's service network and jobsite reputation are stronger, and its blower has an owner-rating base an order of magnitude larger than the Greenworks models. Greenworks tools are lighter-feeling, cheaper, and the ratings behind them are thinner simply because the models are newer.
Does the extra airflow actually matter?
Yes, on leaves, and it is the one spec worth arguing about. CFM measures the volume of air the machine moves; MPH measures how fast it comes out. Moving a lawn's worth of dry leaves into a pile is a volume job — you want a wide, steady column pushing a mass forward. Dislodging a single wet leaf glued to a paver is a speed job.
Most fall cleanup is the first kind. That is why the 610 CFM Greenworks machines finish a yard faster than the 450 CFM machines, and why a high-MPH blower with modest airflow feels powerful and works slowly. It is also why the specification a manufacturer chooses to shout about tells you what the tool is good at. Our explainer on CFM versus MPH covers the physics without the marketing.
How long do these actually run?
Less time than anyone expects. At full throttle, plan on roughly 12 minutes from the DEWALT's 5.0Ah pack and 15 to 20 minutes from the Greenworks kits. Those numbers sound alarming and are less of a problem in practice, because nobody blows a yard at full throttle continuously — you work in bursts, feather the trigger on open lawn, and lean on it only for corners and matted patches.
Still, a second battery is close to mandatory on anything larger than a small lot, and it is the biggest hidden cost in cordless yard work. This is another argument for choosing the platform you will use most: a spare Greenworks 60V pack also powers the mower, while a spare DEWALT 20V pack also powers the drill.
What about the rest of the cleanup?
A blower is one tool in a fall cleanup, and the two brands answer the rest of it differently. Greenworks sells leaf vacuums, mulchers, pole saws and chainsaws on the same batteries. DEWALT's contribution around the yard is its cordless wet/dry vac — genuinely useful for gutters, garage spills and car interiors, and running on the same 20V packs, but not a leaf tool.
That is the practical shape of the two ecosystems. If your yard work extends past leaves into hedges, branches and grass, Greenworks has a tool for each on a battery you already own. If your work extends into the garage and the workshop, DEWALT does.
Where does each brand fall short?
Greenworks' weakness is fragmentation and finish. Three voltages that do not share batteries is a genuine trap — an 80V backpack does not help you run a 40V trimmer — and the housings feel less rugged than DEWALT's. Owner-rating bases on the newer models are thin, so the long-term record is less established.
DEWALT's weakness is that it is not really an outdoor brand. One handheld blower at 450 CFM, on a battery voltage built for drills, with no backpack option and no mower to grow into. It is a very good tool for a specific buyer and an incomplete answer for anyone with a real yard.
For the ranked field, see our best cordless leaf blower roundup, plus handheld versus backpack and leaf blower maintenance. Every ranking here comes from aggregated owner ratings, published specifications and expert consensus rather than first-hand trials — the method is at how we rank.