HODEKT air purifier review: cheap, but it tells you nothing

The HODEKT air purifier is the cheapest unit we rank, at around ₱1,300 as of August 12, 2026, and it arrives with a remote control, a spare filter, a 12-hour preset timer and an LED display. What it does not arrive with is any way to judge how well it works.

What is genuinely good about it?

The package, and the price.

At this money, getting a remote control and a spare filter in the box is unusual, and both are practical rather than decorative. Filters are the real ongoing cost of owning a purifier, so a spare buys you a second service interval for free.

The 12-hour preset timer, LED display and sleep mode are a more complete control set than the price suggests. There is also activated carbon alongside the HEPA layer, which is the part that handles cooking smells and pet odor, and many cheap units skip it.

The listing carries reasonable feedback at 4.8 from more than 750 raters with 2K+ sold.

What is the problem?

You cannot size it, because HODEKT publishes almost nothing you could size it with.

No CADR. No coverage area. No stated HEPA grade.

That last one matters most. “HEPA” on its own is close to meaningless: an H11 filter catches around 95% of particles at the hardest size, an H13 catches 99.95%, and both get called HEPA on a listing. Without the grade you do not know which you are buying.

And without a CADR you cannot apply the sizing rule (CADR of at least five times your room area) at all, so there is no way to answer the basic question of whether this suits your bedroom. Our air purifier buying guide explains why that single number governs everything else.

The UV-C stage is an active negative rather than a neutral one. Air passes the lamp far too quickly for a meaningful germicidal effect, and UV-C stages can produce small amounts of ozone, a lung irritant. If the unit lets you switch it off, do that.

Is it sulit?

Around ₱1,300 as of August 12, 2026. Check the latest price on Shopee.

It is genuinely cheap, and cheap enough that the usual cost-per-use framing adds little. The honest test is what a little more money buys.

Around ₱500 extra gets you the Gaabor H13, which publishes a 120 m³/h CADR, a 20 to 25 sqm coverage figure whose math actually checks out, and a stated H13 filter grade. That is the difference between a purifier you can size to your room and one you buy on faith.

For ₱800 more, the Simplus AirCare 2 Lite adds a published 25 dB and a 2-year warranty.

At this end of the market, the extra few hundred pesos buys information, and information is what makes the purchase sensible.

Who should buy it

Buy this if the budget is genuinely fixed at around ₱1,300, you want a remote and a spare filter specifically, and you accept you are buying on trust rather than on specification. It will move air through a filter in a small room, and for some households that is enough.

For most buyers we would point you a little higher. The gap to a purifier that publishes its numbers is small in pesos and large in what you actually know about what you own.

See how it ranks against the rest in our best air purifiers in the Philippines roundup.

Alternatives to consider

Want published numbers and a stated H13 filter for a little more? The Gaabor H13 states 120 m³/h over 20 to 25 sqm, and its claims survive a cross-check. Want the quietest small unit with a 2-year warranty? The Simplus AirCare 2 Lite publishes 80 m³/h and 25 dB, and is our Best Budget pick.