A steam brand with one steamer in it. The SteamPulse is a good handheld with a run-time claim its own tank cannot support.
By Scooter M., enthusiast, crease control · Published
PurSteam sells one garment steamer on US Amazon: the SteamPulse PUR0027, at 1,700 W with a 210 ml tank, a 30-second heat-up and 2.16 pounds in the hand. On published figures it is a good conventional handheld and priced below most of the field. The one number not to trust is the run time: PurSteam states up to 15 minutes of continuous steam, and 210 ml at 1,700 W is closer to eight. Everything else PurSteam sells — irons, a steam station, steam mops — is a different machine for a different job.
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Why this page exists, and what took it so long
PurSteam spent this site's first month in the section of the compare hub headed "the brands we will not rank, and why": we could not confirm a live, currently-buyable US Amazon listing for a PurSteam garment steamer, and this site does not publish a specification it cannot cite. A re-check on September 26, 2026 turned one up. Steamery and Philips came off that list the same week for the same reason. PurSteam is the last of the three, and with this page the outstanding list is back down to brands with genuinely no US listing.
The published specifications
PurSteam SteamPulse PUR0027, read from the live listing, September 27, 2026
Specification
Published
Where it sits here
Power
1,700 W
Fourth-highest of any handheld on this site
Tank
210 ml (7.1 fl oz), removable
Mid-pack, and larger than every 1,875 W unit except the Conair
Heat-up
30 s
Ordinary. The Rowenta Pure Force publishes 10
Weight
2.16 lb
Heavy for the tank it carries
Stated run time
Up to 15 minutes
The arithmetic supports about eight. See below
Warranty
Not published
Common at this price, but it is still a gap
Dimensions
Not published
The listing files none
Steam levels are selected on an LED display; a brush frame attachment, auto shut-off and a standby mode are published in the listing's feature copy.
The run-time claim, checked
PurSteam states up to 15 minutes of continuous steam from a 7.1 fluid ounce tank. Seven point one fluid ounces is 210 ml. The arithmetic this site applies to every steamer it covers is that a 1,875 W element boils roughly 30 ml of water a minute at full output and the rate scales with power, so 1,700 W converts about 27 ml a minute. 210 divided by 27 is under eight minutes.
That is not an accusation of dishonesty, and it is worth being precise about why. Nobody steams with the trigger held down for fifteen minutes. Makers quote run time the way a car maker quotes range: under conditions favorable to the number. Conair states 20 minutes from 216 ml at 1,875 W, which by the same arithmetic is seven minutes flat out. The whole category does this. What is worth knowing is the ratio: if you steam in bursts with long pauses, fifteen minutes is plausible; if you work steadily down a rail, plan for a refill inside ten. The Steamfast Virtuoso is the instructive counter-example: it advertises the same fifteen minutes from a larger tank at 1,000 W, which is less than its own capacity supports.
Continuous steam per fill, by arithmetic rather than by claim
Tank capacity divided by the boil rate the published wattage implies. Lower power with a bigger tank wins on duration every time — which is the single most useful thing the arithmetic tells you.
What PurSteam actually sells
Searching the brand turns up far more irons than steamers, and the distinction matters because they are not substitutes. Alongside the SteamPulse, PurSteam lists steam irons, a steam station with a large separate tank, and a range of steam mops. A steam mop is a floor cleaner and has no business near a garment. A steam station is an iron fed by a separate boiler — a genuinely different machine that adds pressure and continuous steam but needs a board.
If you searched for PurSteam because you saw the brand on a steam mop and assumed the garment steamer would be similar, the honest answer is that they share a name and a boiler concept and nothing else useful. Judge the SteamPulse on the four figures above.
Where the SteamPulse sits against the field
1,700 W is the fourth-highest published wattage of any handheld here, behind the three units that sit on the 1,875 W ceiling — the Conair, the Rowenta XCEL and the Rowenta Pure Force. Against those three it carries more tank than the XCEL, slightly less than the Conair, and it costs less than any of them.
The weakness is weight. 2.16 pounds is heavier than the XCEL by three quarters of a pound for twenty extra milliliters of water, and weight is the specification people underestimate hardest — it is fine for the first shirt and tiring by the fourth. There is also no published warranty, which is normal at this end of the market and still worth knowing before you spend.
Buy it, or buy something else
Buy the SteamPulse if you want near-top-end power and a usable tank at a below-average price, and you steam a few garments at a time rather than a wardrobe. Buy the Rowenta XCEL instead if weight matters: it publishes more power in a body three quarters of a pound lighter, it publishes a warranty, and its price sits close. Buy the HiLIFE HL9 instead if run time is what you actually want — 300 ml at 1,100 W is more than double the SteamPulse's minutes per fill for less money. Buy a standing steamer instead if you are working a rail; 1.8 liters is about an hour of steam.
The unit reviewed
Ranked on published specifications. Tap a row for the full write-up; the price button goes to Amazon.
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PurSteam SteamPulse PUR00271,700 W and 210 ml for less than most of the field, with a run-time claim its own tank cannot support.
1,700 watts is the fourth-highest figure any handheld on this site publishes, behind only the three units that sit on the 1,875 W ceiling. Paired with 210 ml it is a genuinely conventional, sensible handheld — more power than the Beautural, more tank than the Rowenta XCEL, and cheaper than the Conair Turbo ExtremeSteam.
The run-time claim is where it overreaches. PurSteam states up to 15 minutes of continuous steam from 7.1 fluid ounces. Run the arithmetic this site uses everywhere — a 1,875 W element boils roughly 30 ml of water a minute, scaling with power — and 1,700 W converts about 27 ml a minute, so 210 ml is closer to eight minutes flat out. Fifteen is a stop-start figure, not a continuous one. Every maker in the category quotes run time the same optimistic way; PurSteam is not unusual, it is just checkable.
2.16 pounds is the weight to think about. That is heavier than the Rowenta XCEL by three quarters of a pound, with twenty more milliliters of tank to show for it, and on a rail of shirts three quarters of a pound is the difference you notice. The LED display and two steam levels are real conveniences; the brush frame is the usual included attachment.
Good
1,700 W — fourth-highest published wattage of any handheld here, at a below-average price
210 ml tank, removable, with two steam levels on an LED display
Auto shut-off and a standby mode, which several cheaper units do not publish
Not good
The stated 15 minutes of continuous steam is about double what 210 ml at 1,700 W supports
2.16 lb is heavy for the tank it carries
No published warranty term and no published dimensions
Who should not buy it. Skip this if you can get the Rowenta XCEL instead. It publishes more power in a body three quarters of a pound lighter, and it publishes a warranty, which this listing does not.
Questions people actually ask
+Is PurSteam a good steamer brand?
On its one garment steamer, yes with a caveat. The SteamPulse publishes 1,700 W and a 210 ml tank at a below-average price, which is a good combination. It publishes no warranty term, and its stated 15 minutes of continuous steam is about double what the tank arithmetic supports.
+How many garment steamers does PurSteam make?
One on US Amazon at the time of this check: the SteamPulse PUR0027. The rest of the brand's range on that marketplace is steam irons, a steam station and steam mops, none of which is a garment steamer.
+Does the PurSteam SteamPulse really run for 15 minutes?
Not continuously. Its 210 ml tank at 1,700 W converts to about eight minutes of steam with the trigger held down. Fifteen minutes is a stop-start figure, and every maker in this category quotes run time the same way.
+PurSteam SteamPulse or Conair Turbo ExtremeSteam?
The Conair if you want the absolute ceiling on power and a published two-year warranty; the PurSteam if you want nearly as much power for meaningfully less money. Their tanks are within six milliliters of each other, so run time is not the deciding factor.
