Smart Toilets UK 2026 — Prices Compared From £699 | Elani
What a smart toilet costs in the UK, from £699 to £5,500 — Aura, VitrA, Grohe, Geberit and Toto compared, plus what installation really adds.
June 11, 2026
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What a smart toilet costs in the UK, from £699 to £5,500 — Aura, VitrA, Grohe, Geberit and Toto compared, plus what installation really adds.
June 11, 2026
A full smart toilet in the UK costs between roughly £699 and £5,500, and installation adds another £300 to £800 on top of that. A retrofit bidet seat, which gives you most of the same functions on your existing pan, runs £400 to £500. Those three numbers decide most of this purchase.
Below: what each price band genuinely buys, how the main brands compare, and the point at which paying more stops changing your morning.
Last updated 6 October 2026 · Elani Journal. Prices are UK retail at the time of writing and move frequently — check before ordering.
| Model | UK price | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Elani Aura | £699 | Full smart toilet |
| VitrA V-Care Essential | from £1,200 | Full smart toilet |
| VitrA V-Care (range) | £1,200 – £2,200 | Full smart toilet |
| Kohler Numi 2.0 | £2,000 – £2,500 | Full smart toilet |
| Grohe Sensia Arena | £2,500 – £3,500 | Full smart toilet |
| Geberit AquaClean (range) | £3,500 – £5,500 | Full smart toilet |
| Toto Neorest NX2 | £4,000 – £5,000 | Full smart toilet |
| Bio Bidet BB-2000 | £400 – £500 | Bidet seat only |
The spread is wider than almost any other bathroom fitting — a factor of eight between the cheapest full unit and the dearest. What that money buys is worth being precise about, because it is not evenly distributed.
£400 – £500: a bidet seat. Not a toilet. It replaces the seat on the pan you already own and adds warm water washing, a heated seat and a dryer. It is the cheapest honest route to the core experience, and for an existing bathroom you are not otherwise touching, it is frequently the right answer. What you give up is the look — a bidet seat is visibly an add-on, usually bulkier at the back, and it does not hide the cistern.
£700 – £1,200: an entry full smart toilet. The complete fixture, designed as one object. At this level you should still expect the four things that define the category: heated seat, warm water wash with an adjustable nozzle, warm air dryer, and a self-cleaning nozzle. Anything missing one of those is not really a smart toilet.
£1,200 – £2,500: brand, service and refinement. The functions are broadly the same. What changes is build quality, the sophistication of the controls, quieter operation, and — significantly — an established UK service and spares network. On a fixture containing electronics, that is a real thing to pay for.
£2,500 and above: flagship engineering. Self-cleaning systems that treat the bowl as well as the nozzle, air purification, more precise temperature control, and the kind of industrial design that is the point of the purchase. Geberit's and Toto's reputations at this level are earned, not marketing.
The honest summary: the jump from a bidet seat to a full smart toilet changes how your bathroom looks. The jump from £700 to £3,500 changes how it is made, not what it does.
Everything else is a variation. These four are the floor:
Heated seat. Adjustable, warm from the moment you sit. The feature people are most sceptical about beforehand and least willing to give up afterwards.
Warm water wash. A retractable nozzle delivering an adjustable cleanse — temperature, pressure and position. More thorough than paper and considerably gentler, which matters for sensitive skin or anyone recovering from surgery.
Warm air drying. Completes the process without paper. Households report cutting paper use by the large majority once they stop reaching for it out of habit.
Self-cleaning nozzle. Rinses before and after every use. Non-negotiable — a nozzle that does not clean itself is a hygiene problem rather than a hygiene feature.
Beyond those, automatic lids, app control, night lights and deodorisers are genuine conveniences but none of them is the reason to buy.
A smart toilet needs a water supply and an electrical supply. Budget £300 to £800 for fitting, with the upper end applying where no electrical supply exists near the WC.
Under Building Regulations Part P, sockets are not permitted within 3 metres of a bath or shower edge, so the standard solution is an RCD-protected fused spur installed outside the splash zone by a qualified electrician. Any electrician who works on bathrooms will know exactly what is required.
The practical point: this is dramatically cheaper during a renovation than afterwards. Running a spur while the walls are open is a small job. Chasing one into finished tile is not. If a smart toilet is even a possibility in a bathroom you are building, run the spur now whether or not you buy the toilet this year.
The question that saves the most money.
A bidet seat retrofits to your existing pan for £400–£500, installs in an afternoon, and delivers the washing, heating and drying. Choose it if the bathroom is otherwise staying as it is.
A full smart toilet replaces the fixture entirely. Choose it if you are renovating, if the existing pan is tired anyway, or if how the thing looks matters to you — which, in a room you are specifying deliberately, it usually does.
If you are not replacing the toilet for any other reason, a bidet seat is the better-value purchase and we would say so.
The Elani Aura is £699. That is £500 below the cheapest full smart toilet named in the table above, and roughly £200 above a retrofit bidet seat — which is an unusual place to sit.
It carries all four defining features plus a UV-sterilised spray rod that cleans itself before and after each use using ultraviolet photolysis and ozone, an LED display, control by app, remote or a single side button, ambient temperature sensing that warms the seat to your setting, a moving nozzle that extends the washing range, and water heated to 40°C. It measures 445mm high, 580mm deep and 380mm wide, and weighs 43kg.
What you should weigh against that:
It is made to order, with a 4–8 week lead time. If you need a toilet next week, this is the wrong product. Because it is made to order it also falls outside our standard returns window — that is set out in full on our policies page and is worth reading before you commit.
Elani is a younger brand than Geberit or Toto. Those companies have decades of UK service networks behind them. If a long-established spares and servicing operation is the thing you are buying, that is a legitimate reason to spend £3,000 instead of £699, and we would not argue with it.
What we would say is that the gap between £699 and £3,500 is not a gap in what the toilet does each morning.
Three groups find the value immediately.
Anyone with limited mobility or dexterity — touchless lids and hands-free washing make daily hygiene more independent, and this is the group for whom the purchase is least about luxury.
Anyone renovating from scratch, because the electrical work is nearly free at that moment and expensive at every other.
Anyone who has used one in a hotel and come home disappointed. That is, anecdotally, the single most common route into this category.
If none of those is you, a bidet seat will tell you within a month whether the category is for you, for a fifth of the money.
Between roughly £699 and £5,500 for a full unit, plus £300 to £800 for installation. The Elani Aura is £699, VitrA's V-Care starts around £1,200, Grohe's Sensia Arena runs £2,500–£3,500 and Geberit's AquaClean range reaches £5,500. A retrofit bidet seat that fits your existing pan is £400–£500.
It depends entirely on budget and on whether an established service network matters to you. Geberit and Toto are the flagship engineering choices at £3,500 and up. VitrA sits in the middle. The Elani Aura is the least expensive full smart toilet in this comparison at £699. If you are not replacing the toilet anyway, a bidet seat beats all of them on value.
Yes. The heated seat, warm water wash and dryer all need power, which means a fused spur fitted outside the bathroom's splash zones by a qualified electrician under Building Regulations Part P. Sockets are not permitted within 3 metres of a bath or shower edge. It is a contained job during a renovation and a disruptive one afterwards.
It still flushes. Almost every model retains standard toilet function without power — you lose the heated seat, the wash and the automatic lid until it returns. Worth confirming on the specific model, but it is the standard design across the category.
Yes — electric toilet, intelligent toilet, automatic toilet, smart WC and shower toilet all describe the same thing: a WC with an integrated bidet wash, heated seat and dryer, requiring a mains connection. The terms are used interchangeably by retailers.
Water-based cleansing removes more than paper alone and is gentler, which is why it is widely recommended after surgery or for sensitive skin. The feature that matters most for hygiene is a self-cleaning nozzle that rinses before and after each use — the Aura adds UV sterilisation of the spray rod on top of that.
Often not. The electrical spur is the awkward and expensive part, and it is far easier to add while walls are open. Without a renovation, a bidet seat retrofits onto your existing pan and delivers most of the benefit for £400–£500.
It varies widely. Stocked models from the larger brands can be days. The Elani Aura is made to order with a 4–8 week lead time, so it suits a planned renovation rather than an urgent replacement.
Still deciding whether the category is for you at all? Do You Need A Smart Toilet? takes the hesitations in turn. Planning the room around it? How To Plan A Bathroom Renovation covers where the electrical spur needs to appear in the schedule.
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