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What the Boneco H680 Costs and What It Actually Does

Have an H680 at home, or just found one? Here’s what it needs from you, and what to make of the numbers Boneco prints for it.

By Franco N.·Updated October 14, 2026

The numbers

  • US stock: out at every seller I checked
  • Certified clean-air rate: none. Boneco is in neither AHAM directory
  • Claimed clean-air rate, printed by Boneco: 190 m³/h, or 112 CFM
  • Room: 100, 127 or 150 m², depending which of Boneco’s manuals you open
  • Tank: 10 liters, which at the advertised output empties in 10 hours
  • Noise: 27 to 51 dB(A)
  • Power: 30 W
  • Consumables: CHF 172 to 206 a year at Boneco’s Swiss-store prices, plus descaling every two to three weeks
  • Published safety mark: none found, in the manual or anywhere else

The short answer

The Boneco H680 is a humidifier and air purifier in one, and I couldn’t find an independent test of how well it does either job. Keeping one running costs 172 to 206 Swiss francs a year in parts and descaler, and the filter and mat are still made because the newer H700 takes the same ones.

It did not vanish

Boneco has dropped the H680 from its humidifier lineup, but its consumables are all in production. The H700 that replaced it takes the same filter, the same evaporator mat, the same fan blade and the same water base pivot. Boneco’s own parts page says the mat “Fits to BONECO HYBRIDS H700 and H680.”

The manual prints a CADR that no lab issued

Clean air delivery rate is AHAM’s measurement. AHAM runs a certification program, publishes a directory, and that directory is how you check whether a purifier’s number came from a lab or from a marketing department.

The H680’s technical data table reads “Air purification performance 190 m3/h (112 CFM) (CADR).” AHAM’s term, in AHAM’s units.

I read both editions of the directory, April 2020 and October 2023, looking for Boneco and for Plaston, the Swiss parent that owns the brand. Neither appears in either. Blueair is in there, so are Honeywell, Sharp, Winix, Samsung and Fellowes. Boneco has never been in the program.

So the number in the manual is a figure Boneco measured and Boneco published. It might well be accurate. Nobody outside the company has checked it.

Three manuals, three room sizes

The US manual says the machine covers rooms “up to 1370 sq ft (127 m2)”. One other revision says 100 square meters. A third says 150.

Boneco publishes three different room sizes for the H680 across three revisions of its own manual What the H680 covers, depending which manual you open All three figures are Boneco’s, from three revisions of the same document. 150 m² 1,600 sq ft 127 m² 1,370 sq ft 100 m² 1,080 sq ft 0 50 100 150 square meters The accented bar is the figure in the manual sold with the machine in the United States. The spread between the smallest and largest claim is 50 percent. Conversions at 10.7639 square feet per square meter, rounded to the nearest ten.

Throughput moves with it. Two of the revisions say 190 cubic meters an hour and the third says 205. A retailer adds a fourth version of the truth by advertising the noise floor as “Less than 25 dB” when Boneco’s own figure starts at 27.

The word HEPA does not appear anywhere in the H680’s manual. Boneco calls the part a HYBRID filter and never states a grade, an efficiency percentage or an EN 1822 class, while every retailer sells the machine as a HEPA air purifier.

Ten hours to the bottom of the tank

Boneco advertises 6.34 gallons of moisture a day out of a 2.64 gallon tank. That is 2.4 refills every twenty-four hours, or about ten hours from full to empty at the rate on the box.

The W200 manages nearly thirteen hours on a tank less than half the size, because it puts out far less.

What it costs to keep running

The filter is CHF 89.90 and lasts a year. The evaporator mat, CHF 34.90, goes two years. The Ionic Silver Stick is CHF 29.90 and Boneco says to change it every season. Then there is the descaler. Boneco’s instruction is to decalcify the water base and tank every two to three weeks, and that line is the one people miss.

Add it up and a heating season costs about CHF 172. Run it year round and it’s closer to CHF 206, plus electricity. The P500 below costs CHF 110 a year, and every franc of the difference is water hygiene.

Ordering parts in the US? Boneco’s filter is the A681 and its mat is the AH700, and either one sold for the H700 fits yours too.

The silver stick, and what testing says about it

Boneco sells the Ionic Silver Stick on the anti-microbial effect of silver. Consumer Reports tested humidifiers making that class of claim in 2016 and found most of them “harbor bacteria in the reservoir tank and many have the potential to emit that bacteria into the air”, and it named ionic silver technology specifically. No independent test of this particular part exists that I could find.

Boneco’s own troubleshooting table takes the same problem seriously. Unpleasant odor from the air is listed with the cause “Stagnant water in the tank and water tray” and the instruction to empty and thoroughly clean the appliance. Clean it on schedule whatever the stick is doing.

What about the Boneco P500?

The P500 is a straight air purifier with no water in it, and unlike the H680 it’s still in Boneco’s lineup, at CHF 339.90. It’s sold out at Vacuum Cleaner Market in the US, though.

Boneco rates it for 30 square meters, about 320 square feet, and publishes a particle clean air delivery rate of 285 cubic meters an hour. The US 120 volt version draws 34 watts and is rated at 177 CFM. Running cost is one filter a year at CHF 109.90, with no descaler, no silver stick and no mat.

It carries the same problem as its stablemate. Dealers circulate its clean air figures as “Smoke 144 CFM, Dust 162 CFM, Pollen 202 CFM”, which is AHAM’s exact three-column house format for a brand that is not in AHAM’s directory. One independent reviewer says so plainly: the P500’s rating is not verified by AHAM.

And one retailer describes its filter as a “true HEPA filter (E11)” with “an efficiency rating of 99.97% for particles as tiny as 0.3 microns”. Under EN 1822, E11 is an EPA class rather than a HEPA one. HEPA starts at H13, and E11 is roughly 95 percent efficient. The 99.97 figure belongs to H13 and has been attached to a filter that is not one.

What is wrong with it

What holds up

  • If yours was bought new at Vacuum Cleaner Market, it came with a five-year warranty
  • Every consumable is in production, kept alive by the H700 that shares them
  • A clean CPSC record. Both queries returned nothing
  • The manual is honest about the hygiene risk, listing stagnant water as the cause of odor rather than pretending the silver stick handles it
  • The P500 alongside it is current and costs little to run

Drawbacks

  • I couldn’t find a third-party number for either half of the product. Source: absence of Boneco and Plaston from both editions of the AHAM directory, searched directly, and no independent test of the machine turned up
  • The manual prints “CADR” for a figure no certification body issued. Source: the technical data table against the AHAM directory
  • Boneco publishes three different room sizes. Source: 127, 100 and 150 square meters across three revisions of its own manual
  • The manual never says HEPA. Source: what the manufacturer declines to state. It says HYBRID filter, with no grade, no efficiency figure and no EN 1822 class, while retailers sell it as a HEPA machine
  • No safety mark anywhere. Source: no UL, ETL, CSA or CE mark and no file number in the manual, and no dealer publishing a certifications attribute for it
  • I couldn’t find it on California’s register of certified air cleaning devices. Source: a search of the CARB list. CARB requires certification for portable air cleaners sold in the state.
  • The tank runs ten hours at the advertised output. Source: Boneco’s own capacity and output figures, divided
  • Descaling every two to three weeks. Source: Boneco’s instruction on the CalcOff page
  • The antimicrobial claim is the one testing has questioned. Source: Consumer Reports on humidifiers making antimicrobial claims, naming ionic silver specifically
  • Where it is built is not published. Source: the manual gives only a US distributor address in Encino, California. Plaston runs plants in Switzerland, the Czech Republic and China and names none of them for this model
  • The review base is too thin to lean on. Source: sixteen Trustpilot reviews for the whole brand, and nothing model-specific on the forums

Questions people ask

Is the Boneco H680 discontinued?
It’s no longer in Boneco’s humidifier lineup, and no US seller I checked had it in stock. Every consumable is still made, though.

Does the H680 have a HEPA filter?
Retailers say so. Boneco’s manual calls it a HYBRID filter and never states a grade or an efficiency figure.

What is its CADR?
Boneco prints 190 cubic meters an hour, or 112 CFM. That figure is not certified by AHAM, because Boneco is not in the AHAM program.

How often does it need filling?
About every ten hours at the advertised output, which is 2.4 refills a day.

What does it cost to run?
Roughly CHF 172 a year for a heating season and CHF 206 year round, plus electricity. It also needs descaling every two to three weeks.

Should I buy the P500 instead?
It has no water to keep clean and costs CHF 110 a year to run, but it won’t add any moisture.

Both Boneco machines and all three AeraMax units are compared on the air purifier comparison page.

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