Bosch AdvancedBrushCut 36V vs Einhell Agillo 36/255

Both machines run on 36V cordless platforms, but they’re aimed at different jobs and different shed inventories. The Bosch AdvancedBrushCut 36V is a light, quiet, all-in-one package built for maintained lawns and small plots. The Einhell Agillo 36/255 is a heavier, brushless, blade-ready machine pitched as a budget alternative to premium brush cutters. Line them up on paper and the choice looks close; look at what each one is actually built to cut, and it’s not.

At a glance

	Bosch AdvancedBrushCut 36V	Einhell Agillo 36/255
Power	36V (Power For All, 18V+18V)	36V (2× 18V Power X-Change), brushless
Weight	~4.7 kg	~6 kg (without battery)
Cutting	Line head + plastic blade	Line (300 mm) + 255 mm steel blade
Battery supplied	Yes — 2 Ah + charger included	No — sold bare (“Solo”), buy 2× 18V PXC separately
Battery ecosystem	Bosch Power For All	Einhell Power X-Change
Best suited to	Small-to-medium maintained plots	Tall grass, light scrub, brambles on a budget
Motor	Standard	Brushless (more efficient, less heat)

Battery-included price vs bare-tool value

This is the first fork. The Bosch AdvancedBrushCut arrives as a complete kit: tool, 2 Ah battery and charger all in one box, so the price on the label is close to what you’ll actually pay to get cutting. The Einhell Agillo 36/255 is sold as a “Solo” bare tool — no battery, no charger — which keeps its own price down but means two 18V Power X-Change batteries need adding on top if you’re starting from nothing. For someone with no cordless batteries at all, the gap between the two can shrink or even flip once you price in what the Einhell needs to actually run. For an existing Power X-Change owner, though, the Agillo is the far cheaper way to add serious cutting capability.

Weight: the Bosch is the easier machine to carry

At roughly 4.7 kg, the Bosch AdvancedBrushCut is a genuinely light cordless brush cutter, and it shows over a long session of edging or trimming — arms and shoulders tire less, and it’s easy to swing one-handed for short stretches. The Einhell Agillo, at around 6 kg without its batteries fitted, is noticeably heavier once you add the pack. That extra weight isn’t wasted, though: it comes with a brushless motor and the mechanical strength to swing a steel blade, which the lighter Bosch simply isn’t built to do. If low fatigue on maintained grass is the priority, the Bosch wins comfort. If you need the machine to actually clear something tougher, the Agillo’s weight is the cost of admission.

Cutting capability: plastic blade vs real steel blade

This is the comparison’s biggest practical difference. The Bosch AdvancedBrushCut’s plastic blade attachment gives it a little more bite than a pure string trimmer against light woody stems, but it’s still fundamentally a grass-and-light-growth tool. The Einhell Agillo 36/255 is a different class of machine here: its 255 mm steel blade, paired with a brushless 36V motor, is built to take on brambles, saplings and genuine scrub — the kind of growth that would strip a plastic blade in minutes. If your ground is a tidy lawn or verge, the Bosch’s line-and-plastic-blade setup is plenty. If you’re clearing rough patches, hedgerows or bramble-choked corners, only the Agillo among these two is actually equipped for it.

Ecosystem: Power For All vs Power X-Change

Both platforms are large, cross-tool cordless systems, and which one makes more sense often comes down to what’s already in the shed rather than either brush cutter on its own. Bosch’s Power For All 18V batteries span a wide range of home and DIY tools; Einhell’s Power X-Change is one of the biggest budget-to-mid cordless ecosystems around, covering everything from drills to lawnmowers. Neither is the “wrong” choice to start from scratch, but if you already own batteries on one platform, that alone can decide this comparison before weight or cutting capability even come into it.

Choose the Bosch AdvancedBrushCut 36V if…

• You want a battery and charger included, ready to run out of the box
• Your ground is a small-to-medium maintained lawn or verge, not scrub
• Low weight and quiet running near a house matter more than raw cutting power
• You’re building (or already own) a Bosch Power For All battery collection

Choose the Einhell Agillo 36/255 if…

• You need to clear brambles, saplings or light scrub, not just grass
• You already own Einhell Power X-Change batteries, or don’t mind buying into the system
• A steel blade and brushless power matter more to you than a lighter machine
• You’re comfortable handling the extra weight for the extra capability

Which should you buy?

If your patch is a maintained lawn or garden edge and you want the simplest, lightest, battery-included way into cordless, the Bosch AdvancedBrushCut 36V is the more comfortable and more complete out-of-the-box package. If you’re dealing with rougher ground — brambles, dense weeds, light scrub — or you already run Einhell’s Power X-Change platform, the Einhell Agillo 36/255 is the one built to actually cut that growth, and it does it as a brushless machine at a lower bare-tool price.

Don’t decide on weight or price alone: decide on what you’re actually cutting. A plastic blade and a steel blade are not interchangeable, and that’s the real difference underneath this comparison.