About The Author: Travis Baugh is a Digital Brand Marketing Manager for Bryant, where he creates clear, helpful content to guide homeowners through heating, cooling, and indoor air quality decisions. His goal is to empower readers with the knowledge they need to choose the right comfort solutions for their home—confidently and comfortably.
What is the Best Air Purifier for Your Home?
The best air purifier for your home is a whole-home system that integrates directly with your existing HVAC unit. Unlike portable units that only treat single rooms, a whole-home air purifier efficiently and quietly removes pollutants—including dust, allergens, viruses, and odors—from every room in your house simultaneously.
Are you searching for a solution to transform your indoor air quality? A whole-home system delivers superior performance and value compared to standalone units. This guide explores how to select the right system based on your home's size, filtration needs, and existing equipment.
How Do I Choose the Best Air Purifier?
Selecting the ideal air purification system requires assessing your specific environment. You must balance the size of your home with your specific air quality goals—whether that is eliminating pet dander, neutralizing cooking odors, or reducing viral transmission.
Here are eight key things to look for when making your decision.
1. What Size Air Purifier Do I Need?
The size of your home, measured in square footage, is the first factor to consider. Whole-home air purifiers are designed to work with your HVAC system to clean the air throughout your entire home. Ensure the unit you choose is rated for your home’s square footage for optimal, efficient performance.
2. What are Your Air Quality Needs?
Consider your specific air quality concerns.
- For Dust, Dander, & Pollen: Look for a system with a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) or high-MERV rated filter, which can trap tiny particles.
- For Allergies & Viruses: You may want an advanced system with technologies like UV light or special filters that capture and kill airborne bacteria, viruses, and other germs. Learn more about the best air purifier for allergies.
- For Odors & VOCs: If you're concerned about cooking smoke, pet odors, or volatile organic compounds (VOCs), a purifier with an activated carbon filter is ideal for absorbing these gases.
3. What is the Best Filter Type for an Air Purifier?
The filters are crucial to an air purifier's effectiveness.
- MERV/HEPA Filters: Mechanical filters that trap airborne particles. A higher MERV rating means finer filtration.
- Activated Carbon Filters: Absorb odors, gases, and chemicals.
- Electrostatic Filters: Use an electrical charge to trap particles, adding another layer of filtration.
- UV Lights: Help kill or inactivate bacteria, mold, and viruses that are captured by the filter or growing on the system's indoor coil.
4. What is a Good CFM Rating for an Air Purifier?
CFM (cubic feet per minute) measures the system's airflow capacity. A higher CFM rating indicates the purifier can clean the air more quickly and effectively across larger spaces. It is essential to match the CFM to your home's size and your HVAC system's capabilities for thorough air cleaning.
5. Are Whole-Home Air Purifiers Noisy?
Noise level is an important consideration. Because whole-home purifiers are installed within your HVAC system, usually in a basement, attic, or closet, they operate quietly in the background. Their noise is contained within the system, unlike portable units that run in your living spaces.
6. What is the Maintenance and Cost?
All air purifiers require regular filter changes to remain effective. Consider the cost and availability of replacement filters. Some filters need to be replaced every few months, while others can last up to a year, which affects the total cost of ownership.
7. How are Whole-Home Air Purifiers Installed?
Whole-home purifiers must be compatible with your existing HVAC system, such as a furnace or an air handler. A professional Bryant dealer can ensure the purifier integrates seamlessly with your system for efficient filtration without needing extra, standalone equipment.
8. What Kind of Warranty is Available?
A strong warranty offers peace of mind. Bryant air purifiers come with a 10-year parts limited upon timely registration (excludes filter replacements)1.
Bryant’s Best Air Purifier Options For You
Bryant offers a range of innovative air purifier options to help create a healthier home environment. From high-efficiency filters to advanced UV light systems, our purifiers are designed to meet your home's unique needs and budget.
EVOLUTION AIR PURIFIER
Our highest performing solution for cleaning the air in your home, the Evolution™ Air Purifier is designed to reduce select airborne bacteria, viruses, pollen and more. These airborne particulates can aggravate allergy and asthma symptoms and could be carrying cold and flu viruses. The Evolution™ Air Purifier helps improve the air quality of your entire home by inactivating 99% of germs captured by the MERV 15 filter.1
Legacy™ Line EZ Flex Cabinet Air Filter
The Legacy™ Line EZ Flex Cabinet Air Filter efficiently traps unwanted airborne particles while allowing clean air to flow freely, maintaining your HVAC system’s efficiency. Its MERV 10 efficiency captures 63% of particles from 1.0 to 3.0 microns. The deep-pleated filter holds more dust, meaning fewer filter changes.
Carbon Air Purifier With UV
Our Carbon Air Purifier with UV provides dual treatment technology through a carbon core and UV light to improve indoor air quality. It helps maintain a healthier home through air purification targeting the reduction of unwanted odors, volatile organic compounds, and common household gases from indoor air, while aiding in the reduction of microorganism, e.g., mold, fungi, bacteria and viruses, growth on the evaporative coil4, and release into recirculated indoor air.5 Learn more about do air purifiers help with smell and air purifier for mold options.
How to Get the Best Air Purifier for Your Home
Your local Bryant dealer will guide you through selecting the perfect air purifier for your home. Because indoor air is under constant attack from airborne pollutants, you need an effective defense.
Schedule an appointment with your local Bryant dealer today to get the process started.
Explore Bryant Air Purifiers
Choose a Bryant air purifier for superior indoor air quality and a healthier home environment. With advanced filtration technology, Bryant air purifiers effectively capture dust, allergens, pet dander, and airborne particles, helping to reduce asthma and allergy symptoms. Their quiet operation and energy-efficient design make them an excellent choice for maintaining clean, fresh air year-round. Easy to integrate with Bryant heating and cooling systems, these air purifiers ensure optimal comfort and cleaner air for your family.
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1To the original owner, when product is used in an owner-occupied residence, a 10-year parts limited warranty upon timely registration of your new equipment. Warranty period is 5 years if not registered within 90 days. Jurisdictions where warranty benefits cannot be conditioned on registration will automatically receive a 10-year parts limited warranty. See warranty certificate for complete details.
2The Evolution air purifier and return air purifier have demonstrated effectiveness against the murine coronavirus, based on third-party testing (2020) showing a >99% inactivation, which is a virus similar to the human novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes COVID-19. Therefore, both air purifiers can be expected to be effective against SARS-CoV-2 when used in accordance with its directions for use. Third-party testing (2012, 2007) also shows ≥99% inactivation for the type of virus that causes common colds, Streptococcus pyogenes and human influenza. Airborne particles must flow through your HVAC system and be trapped by the MERV 15 Evolution filter to be inactivated at 99%.
3 MERV is a filter efficiency standard ranging from 1 to 16 (higher MERV = higher efficiency). The Evolution air purifier achieves a MERV 15 rating based on third-party testing (2012) showing 95% of particles size 1.0 to 3.0 microns captured and 85% of particles size 0.3 to 1.0 microns captured.
4 The efficacy of the Carbon Air Purifier with UV (UVCAPXXC2015) to remove Aspergillus niger (97%), Penicillium citrinum (>99.99%), Escherichia coli (>99%), Staphylococcus epidermidis (>99.9999%), Coronavirus 229E (95%) and MS-2 bacteriophage (>99.99%) from treated surfaces after 24 hours was demonstrated in an ASTM E3135-18 test conducted by a third-party laboratory under ambient temperature and humidity conditions.
5The efficacy of the Carbon Air Purifier with UV (UVCAPXXC2015) to remove a surrogate airborne pathogen, MS-2 bacteriophage, was demonstrated with a decay rate (k) of 0.162860 and Clean Air Deliver Rate (CADR) of 130.6 cfm in 60 minutes in a chamber test conducted by a third-party laboratory using a 1007 ft3 chamber with an airflow of 1,220 cfm, test temperature of 74-77°F and relative humidity of 45.1-46.6%.
