The Best Strollers of 2026

• Stroller weight: 26.5 pounds
• Max child weight: 50 pounds
• Max basket weight: 25 pounds
• Minimum age: Four months (From birth with sold-separately accessories)
• Seat style: Reversible, option for second seat
  
• Recline: Flat
• Bassinet: Sold separately
• Car seat compatibility: Graco, Chicco, Britax, Baby Jogger, Evenflo, Maxi-Cosi, Cybex, Nuna, Uppababy
• Handle: Pivot

The Mockingbird Single-to-Double Stroller is a stroller of the social media age, and I mean that in the best way possible. Their attention to customer experience is excellent. The packaging, manual, and welcome email sequence are sprinkled with easy-to-understand illustrations, spot-on pro tips, and animated gifs that communicate care for you and your little bean.

The Mockingbird is about the lowest price point at which you can access the features and functionality that are standard among luxury strollers. Its design is similar to the Uppababy Cruz V2, Bugaboo Fox 3, and Cybex Gazelle S. Like those strollers, it has lockable front swivel wheels, a bumper bar, adjustable handlebar, vented sun canopy, fun color options, and lots of accessories available for purchase. It even has a couple of features that those strollers don’t, like a cell phone pocket and a zipper on the footrest that helps with cleaning crumbs.

Some features were especially fantastic, like the enormous basket, which easily handled a long spring walk to our neighborhood bakery, bookstore, and falafel place with all the goodies and gear my family of five required.

Some features fell a bit short. The white call-out button for the recline was finicky. Likewise, they say this stroller is a one-hand fold, but I always needed two to manage it. When folded, the Mockingbird is bulky and awkward to carry, so it wasn’t ideal on transit or in my trunk. The seat is unusually high up, making it tricky for me as a five-foot-tall adult to see precisely where I was going. This was particularly problematic because the Mockingbird was wider than any other in the testing group. Given its girth, the front wheels are strangely small, and they tend to catch on sidewalks.

• Stroller weight: 27.7 pounds
• Max child weight: 50 pounds
• Max basket weight: 30 pounds
• Minimum age: Four months (From birth with sold-separately accessories)
• Seat style: Reversible, option for second seat
• Recline: Flat
• Bassinet: Sold separately
• Car seat compatibility: Cybex natively
• Handlebar: Telescoping

Indoors, the Cybex Gazelle S shines. During a grocery trip, the huge basket, which has high sides and easy front and back access, handled everything I needed (plus everything my 6-year-old thought we needed). Likewise, when I headed to the museum with my three kids, the Cybex Gazelle S had plenty of space for my baby bag and all the outerwear Minnesota’s wet, cold weather required.

On the streets, it was a different story. The Cybex Gazelle S is the heaviest stroller I tested, but not by much. However, the difference between it and the next-most-heavy felt like approximately 8 gazillion pounds rather than the .8 pounds it actually was. Something about the wheel suspension and the angles of the handle meant that each time I used it, an old overuse injury of mine flared. It was possible to manage the stroller one-handed while I drank my matcha latte, but it wasn’t as easy-breezy as the other strollers I tested.

The assembly was tricky, too. I could forgive the harrowing assembly and heft if it seemed like my baby’s experience was excellent, but it just wasn’t. He never zonked during any of our test rides, perhaps because the sidewalk bumps jostled him so hard that his toys flew more than once.

In all, the Cybex Gazelle S’s storage and high-quality construction are lovely inside, but outside I found myself wishing for a stroller that was easy to push, provided a smoother ride, and had a bigger canopy.

• Stroller weight: 16 pounds
• Max child weight: 50 pounds
• Max basket weight: 25 pounds
• Minimum age: 6 months
• Seat style: Reversible
• Recline: Flat
• Bassinet: Not compatible
  
• Car seat compatibility: Nuna Pipa RX, Nuna Pipa, Nuna Pipa Lite RX, Graco SnugRide 35 Lite LX, Chicco Keyfit 30, Uppababy Mesa
• Handlebar: Not adjustable

At just $200 and 16 pounds, the Bombi is a lightweight travel stroller akin to the Nuna Trvl. Like the Trvl it’s easy to fold and lift in and out of a car trunk, and comes with a small travel bag. It may fit in an overhead compartment (though you should always check with the airline first) and it would be very easy to check at the gate.

It’s also quite stylish and sustainable—made from up to 100% post consumer recycled plastic bottles in its fabric which our reviewer tested in a glacier blue color which received several compliments for its stylish design and color. Our child tester was fond of the faux leather bumper bar; the whole profile from the padded shoulder and crotch straps to the three point harness is streamlined and minimal.

While our reviewer found the Bebee easy to assemble and use, she struggled with the bug netting, eventually leaving it off entirely. Though her baby loved riding around in it, she didn’t feel that the seat material was very padded and found the stroller vibrated a lot on bumpy roads—enough that things fell out of the stroller pouch and storage pockets. The canopy also repeatedly popped up during walks. The snappy looking materials were hard, and the cup holder fell off on more than one occasion. Though this stroller was light enough to travel with, and offered an one handed fold, there were some doubts about long term durability.

• Stroller weight: 20 pounds
• Max child weight: 50 pounds
• Max basket weight: 10 pounds
• Minimum age: Birth
• Seat style: Reversible
• Recline: Limited
• Bassinet: Included
• Car seat compatibility: Graco natively
• Handle: Not adjustable

The Graco Modes Pramette appears to be a unicorn: It boasts a from-birth bassinet and toddler seat for under $300. Considering the price point is south of any other stroller I tested, I had my doubts. But honestly? The Graco Modes Pramette gets the job done. It’s lightweight, easy to fold (with one hand!), works from birth, and has a reversible seat and spacious basket.

There are compromises, of course. Starting with the installation, which was tricky and the manual was no help. Once I set it up, I found that the seat barely reclined. Once I started strolling, I found there isn’t really a suspension, and the front wheels got stuck on curbs, though it’s light enough to lift over obstacles.

The accessories are just so-so. The canopy is SPF 50, but not full coverage, so you won’t completely protect your little from sun or rain. The handle isn’t adjustable and is cushioned in foam, which both get old after a while. The cup holder has a warning not to use it with hot beverages, and it’s apt—both the cupholder and phone console rotate as you rumble, so both end up being completely useless.

The materials say the stroller can handle kids up to 50 pounds, but my much lighter, average height 4-year-old had to scrunch to fit. Still, for basic use for the younger set, the Graco Modes Pramette is perfectly adequate, which is perfectly awesome for the price.