Leaf Blowers
Best leaf blowers under $100
The expensive part of a cordless blower is the battery. Give that up and a sixty-dollar machine gets within eight percent of the airflow we rank first overall.
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We have not tested these units. Every spec on this page comes from the manufacturer's own documentation and is linked to it. Every computed figure is arithmetic you can redo. Prices are checked daily — last verified November 13, 2026. Here is exactly how we pick.
Quick picks
Ranked on the published specs and the arithmetic below. Tap any row to jump to the full write-up. We have not tested these units -- here is exactly how we pick.
| # | Product | Best for | Score | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WORX TURBINE 600 Electric Leaf Blower (WG520) 600 CFM for about sixty dollars, at 6.4 lb and with a 3-year warranty -- the only sub-$100 blower here that matches the airflow of machines costing five times as much. | Best overall under $100 | 8.3 | |
| 2 |  Greenworks 24V 320 CFM Cordless Leaf Blower (BL24B212) A battery, a charger and a 320 CFM blower for under sixty dollars -- the only cordless tool in this registry that costs less than a tank of gas. | Best cordless under $100 | 7.9 | |
| 3 | No photo WORX TRIVAC Blower / Mulcher / Vac (WG505) A metal impeller and a published 16:1 mulch ratio, which is the one thing neither sub-$100 blower on this page can do at any price. | Best if you want to vacuum, not just blow | 7.8 |
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Buy the WORX WG520 TURBINE 600. WORX publishes 600 CFM and 110 MPH from a 12-amp corded motor weighing 6.4 lb, and 600 CFM is within eight percent of the 650 CFM EGO LB6504 we rank first overall across this entire site — at roughly a fifth of the price. That is not a bargain-bin compromise, it is the same airflow for a fifth of the money, and the reason is simple: in a cordless blower you are mostly paying for the battery. Give up the battery and the airflow gets cheap.
The short answer
What you are actually buying in a cordless blower
This page exists because of one ratio. Across our registry, a blower's airflow is cheap to build and its battery is not, so cost per CFM collapses the moment you accept a cord:
WORX WG520, corded: 600 CFM at $62.99 = 9.5 CFM per dollar
Greenworks 24V, cordless with battery: 320 CFM at $59.99 = 5.3 CFM per dollar
EGO LB6504, cordless flagship: 650 CFM at $309.00 = 2.1 CFM per dollar
EGO LB7650, cordless top of range: 765 CFM at $558.00 = 1.4 CFM per dollar
So the corded machine delivers 4.5 times the airflow per dollar of the blower we rank best overall, and 6.8 times that of the most powerful one we rank. Nothing about the air is different. What the extra money buys is the absence of a cord, a bigger battery platform and, on the EGOs, a published decibel figure — which nothing in this price band has.
What each maker publishes
| WORX WG520 | Greenworks 24V | WORX WG505 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air volume | 320 / 600 CFM | 320 CFM | 350 CFM |
| Air speed | 60 / 110 MPH | 90 MPH | 80-210 MPH |
| Power | 12 A corded, 120V | 24V, 2.0 Ah included | 12 A corded, 120V |
| Weight | 6.4 lb | 5.5 lb | 9.5 lb |
| Speed control | Variable | 2 speeds | Adjustable |
| Runtime | Unlimited (corded) | 20 min on high | Unlimited (corded) |
| Recharge | n/a | 60 min | n/a |
| Vacuum / mulch | No | No | Yes, 16:1, metal impeller |
| Bag | None | None | 1.2 bushels |
| Motor speed | 28,600 rpm | Not published | Not published |
| Noise | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Warranty | 3 years | 3-yr tool, 3-yr battery | 3 years |
| Buy link | Amazon | Amazon | Direct from WORX -- no Amazon listing |
Read the Noise row. Not one maker in this price band publishes a decibel figure, which is why none of these appears on our quiet blower page — that page exists because the cordless makers do publish dB, and none of them sells a blower under $100.
The picks, and who each one is for
1. WORX WG520 — best overall under $100
Who it is for: anyone whose whole working area is inside one extension cord of an outlet, and who wants flagship airflow for sixty dollars. Six hundred CFM moves a real leaf pile, the variable-speed low setting at a published 320 CFM and 60 MPH is the one you want on gravel and mulch beds, and 6.4 lb is lighter than every cordless blower in our registry. The 3-year warranty is longer than most cordless tools in this class carry.
Who should skip it: anyone with a yard bigger than a cord run, anyone who needs a published noise figure, and anyone expecting to vacuum — WORX points you at the TRIVAC for that itself. Note the published oddity: WORX gives the attached cord as 11-1/2 inches, so plan the extension cord into the purchase.
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2. Greenworks 24V 320 CFM — best cordless under $100
Who it is for: a patio, a deck, a garage floor, a car. It is the only cordless blower in our registry that arrives with a battery and charger for under sixty dollars, and at a published 5.5 lb it is the lightest blower we rank, full stop. Greenworks publishes what the cheap corded machines never have to — 20 minutes on high, a 60-minute recharge — and the 24V pack runs 200-plus other Greenworks tools, so it is a real platform entry rather than a dead end.
Who should skip it: anyone with leaves rather than dust. By our arithmetic the pack is 48Wh — 24V x 2.0Ah — the smallest battery in our whole registry, and 320 CFM at 90 MPH will not lift a wet, matted leaf. Also worth knowing: Greenworks lists it at $129.99 itself, so the sub-$100 price is the retailer's, not the maker's.
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3. WORX WG505 TRIVAC — best if you need to vacuum
Who it is for: a small walled yard, a patio, gravel beds — anywhere there is nowhere to blow leaves to. A metal impeller rather than plastic is the part that decides whether a published 16:1 mulch ratio survives a season of grit, and the 1.2 bushel bag plus that ratio makes the volume arithmetic checkable: sixteen bushels of loose leaves become about 1.2 bushels of shredded material.
Who should skip it: anyone who wants an Amazon link — there is no WG505 listing, so ours goes direct to WORX and earns us nothing. And anyone who mostly blows: 350 CFM is well under the WG520's 600, and 9.5 lb is nearly half again as heavy, which matters because you hold a vacuum for longer than a blower. The 600 CFM version of this idea is the WG512 on our leaf vacuum page, also direct-sale.
See the WORX TRIVAC Blower / Mulcher / Vac (WG505) on WORX's own site — no Amazon listing right now, so this link earns us nothing. How we're funded.
Which blower, by what you are clearing
| Your situation | Buy | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Leaves on a lawn, outlet within reach | WORX WG520 | 600 CFM for about $63 -- 9.5 CFM per dollar |
| Patio, deck, garage floor | Greenworks 24V | 5.5 lb cordless with battery and charger included |
| Nowhere to blow the leaves TO | WORX WG505 | 16:1 mulch ratio and a metal impeller |
| Gravel or mulch beds | WORX WG520 on low | Published low setting: 320 CFM / 60 MPH |
| Wet, matted leaves | None of these | Needs real MPH -- see our wet leaves page |
| Noise is the binding constraint | None of these | Nobody under $100 publishes a dB figure |
| Yard bigger than a cord run | Go cordless and spend more | See our cordless blower rankings |
Named, not ranked
Three real, cheap, in-stock blowers could not be ranked on this site's standard, which is that every specification must be citable to the manufacturer:
- Sun Joe SBJ597E and SBJ601E. Both listed and both well under fifty dollars. shopjoe.com publishes no product page for either — a search of its own product sitemap returns replacement blower tubes for the SBJ601E and a spares page for the SBJ597E, and nothing else. This is the same shape as the Snow Joe RJ204M case we recorded on our roof rake page: a maker selling spares for a product whose page no longer exists.
- Greenworks 24012 corded blower. Listed, and Greenworks publishes pages for its cordless line in detail — but there is no page for the 24012 in its own product sitemap.
- BLACK+DECKER corded handheld. Listed at under fifty dollars; blackanddecker.com returned HTTP 404 for the product page.
All three may well be fine tools. We simply cannot rank them on published specifications, which is the only basis this site ranks anything.
Verdict
The WG520 wins because the thing that makes a blower expensive is the battery, not the air, and WORX will sell you 600 CFM and 110 MPH for sixty dollars if you accept a cord. By our arithmetic that is 4.5 times the airflow per dollar of the blower we rank best overall on this site. The Greenworks 24V is the pick when the cord is impossible, and it is the lightest blower we rank at 5.5 lb. The WG505 is the pick when there is nowhere to blow leaves to, and it asks you to accept a direct link that pays us nothing. The finding to carry away is the blank row in the table: at this price not one maker publishes a decibel figure, so if quiet matters you are shopping in the wrong band.
The picks in full
Specs are the manufacturer's own and linked to the page they came from. Prices come from a live daily check; where we have no verified price we say so rather than print a stale one.
WORX TURBINE 600 Electric Leaf Blower (WG520)
WORX · Corded 120V · Our score 8.3/10
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600 CFM for about sixty dollars, at 6.4 lb and with a 3-year warranty -- the only sub-$100 blower here that matches the airflow of machines costing five times as much.
Published specs
| Air volume | 320 / 600 CFM (two speeds) |
|---|---|
| Air speed | 60 / 110 MPH |
| Rated power | 12 A, 120V ~ 60 Hz |
| Speed control | Variable |
| Motor speed | 28,600 rpm |
| Weight | 6.4 lb |
| Nozzle | Hyper-Stream air nozzle |
| Cord | Attached pigtail with cord retainer |
| Assembly | Tool-free, under 3 minutes per WORX |
| Warranty | 3 years |
Source: TURBINE 600 Electric Leaf Blower (WG520), worx.com
600 CFM at the $62.99 live price = 9.5 CFM per dollar. The EGO LB6504 we rank first overall publishes 650 CFM at $309.00 = 2.1 CFM per dollar. The corded machine buys 4.5 times the airflow per dollar -- and the thing you are actually paying EGO for is the battery, which is exactly the point of this page.
What the numbers favor
- 600 CFM published, within 8 percent of the 650 CFM flagship cordless blower on this site at a fifth of the price
- 6.4 lb, lighter than every cordless blower in this registry
- Variable speed with a published LOW figure (320 CFM / 60 MPH), which is the setting that matters on gravel and mulch beds
- 3-year warranty, matching Greenworks and beating most cordless tools in this class
- Published 28,600 rpm motor speed -- nobody else in the category prints one
- No battery to degrade, so the airflow in year six is the airflow in year one
What they don't
- Corded: you are tethered, and on anything past one cord length this is the wrong tool
- WORX publishes the attached cord as "11-1/2"" -- an eleven-and-a-half INCH pigtail, so an outdoor-rated extension cord is mandatory, not optional
- No vacuum or mulching function at all; WORX points you at the TRIVAC for that
- WORX publishes no decibel figure, so it cannot be ranked against our quiet-blower page
- A 12 A draw plus a long cord is exactly the case where undersized extension cord gauge costs you airflow
Skip it if your yard is bigger than a cord run from the house. The airflow is genuinely flagship-class; the 11.5 inch pigtail is not, and dragging 100 ft of cord round a half acre is worse than a battery you have to swap.
How it scores
Scores are our editorial weighting of the published specs above, not a test result. They are deliberately kept out of this page's structured data.
Greenworks 24V 320 CFM Cordless Leaf Blower (BL24B212)
Greenworks · Greenworks 24V · Our score 7.9/10
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A battery, a charger and a 320 CFM blower for under sixty dollars -- the only cordless tool in this registry that costs less than a tank of gas.
Published specs
| Air volume | 320 CFM |
|---|---|
| Air speed | 90 MPH |
| Speeds | 2 |
| Max runtime on high | 20 min |
| Battery recharge | 60 min |
| Weight | 5.5 lb |
| Voltage | 24V |
| In the box | One 2.0 Ah battery and charger |
| Platform | Powers 200+ Greenworks 24V tools |
| Model / SKU | BL24B212 / 2415702 |
| Warranty | 3-year tool, 3-year battery |
24V advertised x 2.0Ah = 48Wh. That is the smallest pack in this registry by a wide margin -- the EGO LB6504 ships 56V x 5.0Ah = 280Wh. Greenworks' own published 20 minutes on high against 48Wh works out at 144W average draw, which is a credible figure for a 320 CFM fan and tells you this is a patio tool, not a yard tool.
What the numbers favor
- 5.5 lb, the lightest blower in this registry
- Battery AND charger included for under sixty dollars, so there is no platform entry cost
- Greenworks publishes runtime (20 min on high) and recharge (60 min), which the sub-$100 corded competition does not have to and does not
- 3-year warranty on BOTH tool and battery
- The 24V pack runs 200+ other Greenworks tools, so it is a real platform entry rather than a dead end
- Two speeds, and the low one is the useful one on a planted bed
What they don't
- 320 CFM is half the WORX corded machine's 600 CFM at a similar price
- 48Wh in the box is the smallest battery in this registry -- 20 minutes on high, then an hour of waiting
- 90 MPH will not lift a wet, matted leaf; this is a dry-debris tool
- Greenworks publishes no decibel figure
- The maker's own list price is $129.99, so the sub-$100 position depends entirely on the live Amazon price
Skip it if you have leaves rather than dust. 320 CFM and 90 MPH clears a patio, a garage floor and a deck; a lawn under a maple in November needs the corded 600 CFM machine or a real cordless one.
How it scores
Scores are our editorial weighting of the published specs above, not a test result. They are deliberately kept out of this page's structured data.
WORX TRIVAC Blower / Mulcher / Vac (WG505)
WORX · Corded 120V · Our score 7.8/10
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A metal impeller and a published 16:1 mulch ratio, which is the one thing neither sub-$100 blower on this page can do at any price.
Published specs
| Air volume | 350 CFM |
|---|---|
| Air speed | 80-210 MPH |
| Mulch ratio | 16:1 |
| Impeller | Metal |
| Bag capacity | 1.2 bushels |
| Rated power | 12 A, 120V ~ 60 Hz |
| Weight | 9.5 lb |
| Modes | Blower / vacuum / mulcher, one-handed in both |
| Warranty | 3 years |
| Availability | Sold direct by WORX; no Amazon listing as of 2026-11-07 |
Source: TRIVAC Blower / Mulcher / Vac (WG505), worx.com
WORX publishes a 16:1 mulch ratio and a 1.2 bushel collection bag. Sixteen bushels of loose leaves therefore arrive as 1.2 bushels of shredded material -- so one bagful of this tool's output is roughly 19 bushels of raked leaves. That ratio, not the airflow, is the reason to own a vac rather than a blower.
What the numbers favor
- Metal impeller, not plastic -- the part that decides whether a mulch ratio survives a season of grit
- Published 16:1 mulch ratio and 1.2 bushel bag, so the volume arithmetic is checkable
- 210 MPH top air speed, the highest on this page, which is what lifts a stuck wet leaf
- One-handed operation in BOTH blower and vacuum modes, per WORX
- Vac tube WORX says reaches under decks and patio furniture
- 3-year warranty
What they don't
- No Amazon listing right now, so the link goes direct to WORX and we earn nothing on it
- 9.5 lb -- nearly 50 percent heavier than the WG520, and you hold a vac for longer than you hold a blower
- 350 CFM is well under the WG520's 600 CFM, so as a pure blower it is the weaker tool
- Corded, with the same tether problem
- WORX publishes no decibel figure for it either
Skip it if you have somewhere to blow leaves TO. A vacuum earns its weight when there is nowhere to pile them -- a small walled yard, a patio, gravel beds. On an open lawn with a wood line, the blower is faster and lighter.
How it scores
Scores are our editorial weighting of the published specs above, not a test result. They are deliberately kept out of this page's structured data.
Where to buy the tools on this page
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Best overall under $100
WORX TURBINE 600 Electric Leaf Blower (WG520)
WORX · Corded 120V
Best cordless under $100
Greenworks 24V 320 CFM Cordless Leaf Blower (BL24B212)
Greenworks · Greenworks 24V
Best if you want to vacuum, not just blow
WORX TRIVAC Blower / Mulcher / Vac (WG505)
WORX · Corded 120V
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Common questions
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