The one that buys back an hour a week · review
A camera-equipped automatic box that analyzes waste, recognizes up to ten cats and seals 11 L, with the analysis and recording behind a subscription.
What we take from it The only box in this survey with a camera, and the only one that puts part of what it does behind a subscription: AI waste analysis and video recording are paid, livestreaming is free, and SD cards are not supported. Everything else it publishes is strong — a third-party-verified 97% odor figure, ten cats recognized, an 11 L sealed bin, and three kinds of safety sensor.
A large open-top automatic box with a camera, an 11 L (2.9 gal) sealed waste bin, recognition for up to ten cats, and a fan-and-carbon deodoriser claiming 97% of odors removed, verified by third-party lab testing. $569.99.
“The AI camera monitors your cat’s waste for consistency, frequency, and habits. It knows #1 from #2, and solid from loose.”
Then, further down the same listing: “AI analysis and video recording require a subscription (SD cards are not supported); livestreaming is free.”
Read those two together. The feature the product is named for is rented, there is no local-storage fallback, and PETLIBRO does not publish the price on this page. A camera box without the subscription is a camera box that shows you a live picture and remembers nothing.
That is the same structure the cassettes shelf on this site calls out in mechanical form: the machine is cheap, the thing it needs forever is not.
“Our innovative built-in fan system actively circulates air through a carbon deodorizer to eliminate 97% of odors (verified by third-party lab testing).”
No other box on this page attaches a percentage to its odor control, and almost none in this survey name a third party at all. The lab is not named and the protocol is not given, so the figure is a claim with a provenance rather than a measurement you can check — which is still a step above the unqualified “superior odor control” on most of this shelf.
Whisker rates the LR4 for four and the EVO for two. The PETKIT already published here identifies cats by weight; this one identifies them “from any angle”, which is the camera doing work the scale cannot — two cats of the same weight are indistinguishable to a balance.
“Visual, weight, and infrared motion sensors monitor the box from top to bottom.”
The weight limit it publishes is a ceiling, 22 lb, and the floor arrives as an instruction rather than a specification: “For kittens, pregnant or nursing cats, or cats under 2.2 pounds, disable auto-clean and use Luma’s clean button instead.”
That is an honest answer to the question this shelf asks first, and a less reassuring one than Whisker’s 3 lb: below 2.2 lb, PETLIBRO is telling you to run the machine by hand.
592 × 572 × 714 mm, 15 kg — the heaviest machine on this page by four kilos. It takes all clumping litters, clay, tofu and mixed, and ships with a removable step and a waterproof mat under a side guard.
No subscription price, no cycle time, no noise level, no emptying interval for more than one cat (fourteen days is given for one), and no name for the testing lab.
Read on the day this page was built: $570 at the American Amazon shop.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-10-06. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Price | $569.99, plus a subscription for AI analysis and recording |
|---|---|
| Camera | Yes — waste analysis, livestream free, recording paid |
| Local storage | None — SD cards not supported |
| Cats recognized | Up to 10, from any angle |
| Waste bin | 11 L (2.9 gal), sealed — 14 days for one cat |
| Odor claim | 97%, verified by third-party lab testing |
| Safety sensors | Visual, weight and infrared |
| Cat weight | Up to 22 lb; disable auto-clean under 2.2 lb |
| Litter | All clumping — clay, tofu, mixed |
| Body | 592 × 572 × 714 mm (23.3 × 22.5 × 28.1 in), 15 kg |
| Warranty | 2 years, with a 30-day trial |
| Subscription price | Not published |
| Amazon reference | B0GTM9P94B |
| EAN | 6976166727188 |
Two things, by PETLIBRO’s own wording: AI waste analysis and video recording. Livestreaming stays free, and the box keeps cleaning. Since SD cards are not supported there is no local alternative, so the waste-consistency tracking the product is built around is a rental. The price of that rental is not on this listing — ask before buying if the analysis is the reason you are buying.
Partly. It names a mechanism — a fan pulling air through a carbon deodoriser — and it names a third-party lab as the source, which is more than any other box on this page does. What it does not give is the lab, the protocol, the duration or the baseline, so the figure cannot be reproduced or compared. Treat it as a sourced claim, not a measurement.
Not in automatic mode. PETLIBRO is explicit: for kittens, pregnant or nursing cats, or cats under 2.2 lb, disable auto-clean and use the manual clean button. That is a clear answer to the question this shelf asks first, and it is less permissive than Whisker’s published 3 lb minimum for the Litter-Robot 4 and EVO.
Details checked on October 6, 2026.
A multi-cat household that wants health data from the box and accepts a recurring fee
Amazon reports what buyers took in the month before this page was last checked: at least 600.
The figure is a floor, rounded by Amazon, and read through Keepa — it says what buyers picked, not what a maker claims.
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for pet devices and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
10 L waste · 41.5 × 39 cm (16.3 × 15.4 in) entry · 4 pairs IR + 3 hall sensors · 32 dB
A $99.97 open-top automatic box with a 10 L waste bin, a large top entry and seven safety sensors, that publishes no minimum cat weight.
Best for: A first automatic box for an adult cat, where $99 is the deciding figure
Open-top · infrared and hall sensors · 32 dB · same AS11 as the Mimfam
An open-top automatic box at $119.99 carrying the same manufacturer reference as the cheaper Mimfam machine, with fewer figures published.
Best for: Nobody, while the identically referenced Mimfam listing is in stock twenty dollars lower
Up to 2 cats · min 3 lb · works on carpet · 617 × 523 × 701 mm (24.3 × 20.6 × 27.6 in)
A compact Litter-Robot for one or two cats, with weight-based cat identification in the app and manufacturer clearance to stand on carpet.
Best for: One or two cats in a small bathroom, or any room with carpet
