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Midea Cube 20-Pint
The Midea Cube 20-Pint is a small smart dehumidifier built around one genuinely useful idea: an oversized 3.2-gallon tank that means fewer trips to empty it. It covers up to 1,500 sq ft and adds Wi-Fi, but its moisture removal, efficiency, and real-world noise are the weakest in our US lineup. It's a single-room unit, not a basement solution.
Midea
Cube 20-Pint
Smart, efficient small-room Cube with a big tank
Typical price
$190
Mid-range
3.3
/10 overall
Habilytics Score
Quiet score 4/10: Midea lists 45 dBA, but measured real-world output is around 58 dBA, making it noticeably louder in practice than its spec sheet suggests.
Moisture score 4/10: 20 pint/day over 1,500 sq ft is entry-level pull, fine for a single damp room but far short of the 50-pint units that clear a whole basement.
Efficiency score 1/10, the lowest in our lineup: 262 W to remove just 20 pint/day is a poor watts-per-pint ratio versus compact rivals like the 230 W Waykar 34-Pint.
Key specs
| Type | Compressor (refrigerant) |
| Moisture removal | 20 pints/day (DOE) |
| Coverage | up to 1,500 sq ft |
| Noise | 45 dBA (low fan) |
| Power draw | 262 W |
| Tank | 3.2 gal |
| Built-in pump | No |
| Wi-Fi / app | Yes |
| Weight | 33.3 lb |
| Efficiency | Energy Star |
| Amazon rating | 4.1★ (4,166 ratings) |
| Typical price | $190 |
Prices are typical US street prices (approximate) and move often — check Amazon for the live price. Capacity is the current DOE pint/day rating.
The big tank is the real selling point
Most 20-pint units ship with a 1.5-to-1.7-gallon reservoir; the Cube 20 carries 3.2 gallons, nearly double. In a space where you can't run a drain hose, that translates directly into fewer interruptions, useful in a spare bedroom, a small home office, or a damp closet you don't visit daily. The tradeoff is bulk and weight when full. If you can position it near a drain and run continuous gravity drainage, the tank advantage largely disappears and cheaper units catch up fast.
Where the numbers hold it back
This is the lowest-scoring unit in our US catalog, and the specs explain why. Efficiency scores 1/10: at 262 W for 20 pint/day, it works harder per pint than the compact competition. Noise is the bigger surprise, Midea's 45 dBA claim measures closer to 58 dBA in the real world, so treat it as a background-noise appliance, not a bedroom-quiet one. Moisture removal (4/10) is entry-level by design. None of this is a defect; it's simply a small unit priced around $190 doing small-unit work.
The one thing it has that the others don't
The Cube 20 is the only unit in our lineup with a confirmed Amazon customer rating: 4.1 stars across roughly 4,166 ratings. That's a meaningful signal in a catalog where most competitors have thin or unverified review histories, it tells you a large number of real owners have lived with this unit and landed at a solid-but-not-spectacular verdict, which matches its specs. Add Wi-Fi and app control on top, and you have a competent, well-liked small smart dehumidifier, provided you match it to a room-sized job.
Who it's for / who it's not
Who it's for
- You need to dehumidify a single room up to 1,500 sq ft, not a whole basement
- You can't run a drain hose and want the biggest possible tank to reduce emptying trips
- You want Wi-Fi and app control in an inexpensive (~$190) unit
- You value a large base of real owner reviews (4.1 stars, ~4,166 ratings) over spec-sheet perfection
Who it's not for
- You're treating a basement, crawl space, or whole-home humidity problem, this unit is undersized
- Quiet operation matters, real-world noise measures around 58 dBA despite the 45 dBA claim
- Energy efficiency is a priority, it's the least efficient unit per pint in our lineup
- You can run a continuous drain hose, which erases most of the big-tank advantage you're paying for
Alternatives in our catalog
Midea Cube 50-Pint (Pump + Wi-Fi) — $280
Step up to this if your space is a real basement or exceeds a single room. It removes 50 pint/day over 4,500 sq ft, adds a built-in self-draining pump, and is far more efficient per pint, our #1 overall pick.
Head-to-head comparisonFrigidaire FFAD2234W1 22-Pint — $220
A comparable single-room unit at a similar tier. It removes slightly more (22 pint/day) and scores better on quiet operation (43 dBA), but has a much smaller 1.7-gal tank and no Wi-Fi, choose it if noise matters more than tank size or app control.
See how it ranks against the rest
We score every dehumidifier in our catalog on moisture removal, noise and energy use.
Best dehumidifiers of 2026Scores are Habilytics' own 1-10 ratings on three axes (quiet operation, moisture removal, energy efficiency), derived from manufacturer specifications, pint/day and sq ft ratings, measured wattage, and dBA figures verified on amazon.com in July 2026. Where manufacturer and real-world noise figures diverge, we cite both and score against the measured value.
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