The best Toro lawn mower for most lawns is the Toro 60V Max 21" Super Recycler with Personal Pace: Toro’s premium deck, battery power, and the self-propel system that simply matches your walking speed instead of asking you to hold a lever. If you would rather buy a complete kit at a sane price, the Toro Recycler 21" 60V push moweris the one Toro you can order today with a battery, a charger and a verified price — and on a flat lawn it cuts the same grass. For half an acre and up, the 30" eTimeMaster is nine inches wider than a normal mower, which is the single biggest time saving available short of buying a rider. And if what you actually want is the classic gas Toro, the 22" Recycler and the 30" TimeMasterare dealer-channel machines — we link you to check the price rather than publish one we cannot verify.
That last point is the thing that makes a Toro page worth writing honestly. Toro is a dealer brand first. We resolved the live Amazon catalog against the whole Toro mower line on 13 October 2026, and the result was three real machines and a very large number of carburetors, drive cables, blades and grass bags. A page that pretended otherwise would either be listing spare parts as mowers or quoting prices nobody can hold us to. So this ranking is explicit about which is which: the first three picks carry live prices from the price layer, and the last two carry a “check price” link because that is the truthful state of their availability.
The second thing worth knowing before you read the ranking is that Toro’s names actually mean something, which is unusual. Recycler is the standard deck and a good one. Super Recycler is the premium deck with better mulching geometry and a stronger frame. Personal Pace is the self-propel system that reads how hard you are pushing on the handle and matches the drive speed to it. TimeMaster means a 30-inch deck. Once you know those four words you can read any Toro model number and know what you are looking at.
We have not mown a lawn with any of these machines and will not imply that we have. The ranking reasons from what each listing and each manufacturer specification publishes — deck width, power source, drive system, which deck family it is — see how we pick. Live prices come from the price layer with an “as of” date beside every mower that has one.
Toro lawn mowers compared
| Mower | Deck | Power | Drive | Channel | Best for |
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| 60V Super Recycler | 21 in | Toro 60V (tool only) | Personal Pace | Amazon, live price | Best Toro cut, slopes |
| Recycler 60V Push | 21 in | Toro 60V kit | Push | Amazon, live price | The Toro to buy online |
| 60V eTimeMaster | 30 in | Toro 60V (tool only) | Personal Pace | Amazon, live price | Half to three-quarter acre |
| Recycler 22" Gas | 22 in | Gas | Personal Pace | Dealer — check price | The classic gas Toro |
| TimeMaster 30" Gas | 30 in | Gas | Personal Pace | Dealer — check price | 30 in, no charge limit |
Deck widths, power sources and drive systems above are the figures the listings and Toro’s own published specifications state. The two gas models carry no price here because they have no verified live listing — that is a statement about where Toro sells them, not about the mowers.
Toro self-propelled lawn mowers: what Personal Pace actually does
Most self-propelled mowers give you a bail, a lever or a trigger, and a speed dial you set once and then fight. Personal Pace puts a sprung linkage in the handle: lean into it and the mower speeds up, ease off and it slows. In practice you stop thinking about the drive at all, which is the whole point, and it is the single feature that makes a Toro feel different from a mower with a comparable deck.
It matters most on exactly the lawns where self-propelled drive matters at all — sloping ones. On flat ground a 21-inch push mower is genuinely fine and the Recycler push model will save you real money. On a gradient, a driven wheel is the difference between mowing the lawn and putting it off, which is the broader argument we make in the self-propelled roundup; if your lawn is flat, the push mower roundup covers the alternatives across brands.
Toro riding lawn mowers and zero-turns: the honest answer
Toro’s riding line is the TimeCutter zero-turn family and the Titan range above it, and they are dealer machines. Our resolution pass found TimeCutter starter solenoids, deck belts and bagger systems on Amazon, and no TimeCutter. We are not going to put a riding mower on this page with an invented price, and we are not going to pad the page with its parts.
So if your lawn has outgrown a walk-behind, there are two sensible routes. One is to visit a Toro dealer and price a TimeCutter against what else is on their floor. The other is to read the best zero-turn mower and the best riding lawn mower, where we rank the riders and zero-turns that dohave live listings and verified prices — including Husqvarna’s Kawasaki-engined zero-turns and EGO’s electric ones. That is a less brand-loyal answer than this page’s title promises, and it is the useful one.
There is one genuine middle path worth knowing about, and it is the eTimeMaster above. A 30-inch walk-behind deck covers a three-quarter-acre lawn in a time that used to require a seat, costs a fraction of a zero-turn, and stores against a garage wall instead of taking a bay. If the reason you were looking at Toro riding mowers is lawn size rather than a desire to sit down, start there.
How to choose between these Toro mowers
Size the deck to the lawn before anything else. Under about 4,000 square feet, 21 inches is plenty and a narrower mower is more pleasant. From 4,000 square feet to a quarter acre, 21 or 22 inches is the right answer. Past half an acre, the 30-inch decks stop being a luxury: nine extra inches removes roughly a third of the lengths you walk, on every cut, forever. The arithmetic by lawn size is in the best mower for a large yard.
Then decide battery or gas, and be honest about the lawn. Up to about half an acre the battery argument is over: the 60V Recycler starts on a trigger, needs no oil, no filter, no fuel stabilizer and no winterizing, and cuts as well as the gas equivalent. Past half an acre a flat battery costs you an hour and a dry tank costs you two minutes, which is why the gas TimeMaster still exists. The full cost comparison is in electric vs gas lawn mower, and if you have settled on battery, the cross-brand ranking is best electric lawn mower.
Watch the words “battery and charger not included.”Both the Super Recycler and the eTimeMaster are listed as bare tools. That makes their listed price look competitive against complete kits from Greenworks and EGO, and it is not a fair comparison until you have added a 60V pack and a charger — and the 30-inch deck wants two packs. The Recycler push model is the Toro that arrives ready to mow.
Add Personal Pace only if the lawn slopes. It is a genuinely good drive system and it is also most of the price gap between the Recycler push and the Super Recycler. On flat ground, take the push mower and keep the difference.
Measure the gate. A 30-inch deck will not pass a 30-inch gate, and no amount of deck width helps a mower that cannot reach the back lawn. This defeats more wide-deck purchases than any other single thing.
What Toro is good at, and what it is not
The case for Toro is the deck and the drive. The Recycler and Super Recycler decks cut and mulch at the top of the walk-behind field, Personal Pace is the best self-propel system anybody sells to homeowners, and the dealer network means a Toro bought today still has blades, cables and a service option in a decade. That combination is why the brand draws more searches than any other mower name in the United States.
The case against is availability and price-per-spec in this channel. Two of the three Toro machines you can buy online are bare tools, and once you have added batteries they cost substantially more than a Greenworks or EGO kit with comparable deck width — which is why neither tops our cross-brand electric ranking. If you are choosing a brand rather than choosing within one, read that page too. If you have already decided on Toro, this page is the one that answers which.
And one thing Toro does not do at all in this channel: a riding mower we can price. See the riding mower roundup for what to buy at that size.
Who should skip these
Skip the bare-tool models if you own no Toro batteries. The Super Recycler and the eTimeMaster are superb machines and a bad first purchase, because the pack and charger land on top of an already high price. Start with the Recycler kit, or start with a brand whose kits include packs.
Skip Toro entirely if you already own batteries on another platform. Reusing packs you have saves more than any difference between brands, and starting a second cordless ecosystem is the most expensive thing you can do in outdoor power equipment.
And skip the walk-behinds altogether past about three-quarters of an acre. That is not a Toro problem — no walk-behind is the right tool at that size, and an hour and a half of walking every week is not something a wider deck fixes.
