Ryobi ONE+ vs Ozito PXC: Best Budget Cordless Drill Platform in Australia (2026)

Walk into any Bunnings on a Saturday morning and you'll see the two green-and-black battery walls staring each other down: Ryobi ONE+ on one side, Ozito Power X Change (PXC) on the other. For a first-time DIYer buying a cordless drill, this isn't really a choice between two drills. It's a choice between two ecosystems you'll be married to for the next decade, because once you own three or four skins on a platform, swapping brands means buying the batteries all over again. That's the real decision, and it's the one most buying guides skate over.

We've pulled together the specs, the real-world reviews on Amazon AU, and the long-running arguments on the Bunnings Workshop and Whirlpool forums to sort out which budget platform earns your first hundred bucks. If you want the wider field, our full cordless drills buying guide ranks the brushless flagships alongside these budget picks, and the current tool deals page is worth a look before you commit - Ryobi and Ozito both go on run-out at Bunnings and Amazon AU more often than you'd think.

Quick Picks - Ryobi ONE+ vs Ozito PXC

Ryobi ONE+ R18DD3-0 18V Cordless Compact Drill Driver (Skin)A$97.68Check Price →

Ryobi ONE+ vs Ozito PXC: the short answer

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If you reckon you'll end up with more than two or three tools, go Ryobi ONE+. The platform is simply bigger - well over 100 tools globally and 50-odd on the shelf at Bunnings, from drills and impact drivers right through to inflators, fans, glue guns and a whole garden range. That breadth matters more than any single spec, because the value of a battery platform is how many things one charged pack can run.

If you're a light-duty homeowner who wants a drill, maybe an impact driver, and not much else, Ozito PXC saves you real money up front and does the job. The Ozito PXC 18V Impact Driver Kit lands around A$149 with a 2.0Ah battery and charger in the box. That is no longer the bargain it was a year ago, when it sat near A$79, but it is still the cheapest way onto either platform with everything you need to start working: the comparable Ryobi skin is body-only, and a genuine ONE+ charger on its own is about A$80. For hanging pictures, flat-packing an IKEA wardrobe or driving the odd batch screw into pine, it's plenty.

Price on Amazon AU: where the dollars land

This is Ozito's home turf. The brand exists to undercut, and it does. Here's roughly where the two sit on Amazon AU right now (prices move, so treat these as a guide and check the live listing):

• Cheapest entry with a battery: The Ozito PXC Impact Driver Kit (PXIDK-200) at ~A$149 gets you a 150Nm impact driver, a 2.0Ah battery and a charger. Nothing from Ryobi puts a tool, a pack and a charger in one box for that. If you already run PXC batteries, the same driver as a skin-only listing is about A$110.
• Cheapest brushless: this one has flipped. Ozito's brushless PXC drill has dropped off Amazon AU and is now a Bunnings-shelf item, so the cheapest brushless PXC skin you can actually order online is the PXC 18V brushless multi-tool at about A$149. Ryobi's brushless combi drill body, the RPD18BL2-0, is about A$153 - line-ball money for a far more capable tool.
• The all-rounder: The brushed Ryobi ONE+ R18DD3 compact drill skin sits around A$120 body-only, up from about A$99 a year ago - and remember there is no battery or charger in that box.

The honest read: Ozito still wins on the sticker at Bunnings, but on Amazon AU that gap has narrowed to almost nothing and on some tools it has closed completely. Where Ryobi claws it back is resale, second-hand availability, and the sheer number of skins you can add later without buying more batteries.

Brushless power: has Ozito closed the gap?

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A couple of years ago this was no contest - Ryobi had brushless motors across the range and Ozito was still all brushed. That's changed. Ozito's PXC line now runs genuine brushless motors in tools like the PXC brushless multi-tool, and they hold speed under load far better than the old brushed units. The catch on Amazon AU is that Ozito's brushless drill is not listed there at all - if you want the brushless PXC drill you are going to Bunnings for it, which is exactly the trade-off you accept with a house brand.

Where Ryobi pulls ahead is that you can actually order its brushless drill online. The RPD18BL2-0 brushless combi drill is rated to 95Nm through a 13mm metal ratcheting chuck, runs a two-speed gearbox with 24 clutch settings, and carries a proper percussion mode. That percussion mode is the difference between drilling a plug into a double-brick wall and standing there smelling a burnt motor. If your projects ever touch masonry - mounting a TV bracket, a handrail, a hose reel on a brick wall - the brushless Ryobi is the safer buy.

For pure driving grunt on either platform, an impact driver beats a drill every time. If that's mostly what you're after, it's worth reading our separate rundown of the best cordless impact drivers before you settle on a drill.

Batteries and runtime: the part that actually matters

Both run 18V lithium packs, and both are cross-compatible within their own family - a battery off your drill runs your blower, your light, your inflator. The gap shows up in longevity. Ryobi's higher-capacity packs, like the RB18L50 ONE+ Lithium+ 5.0Ah, use cells with better thermal management and reported runtime is more consistent as the charge drops and on hot days - which, in an Australian summer shed, is most of them.

Ozito's answer is value: a PXC 2.5Ah battery and fast charger kit is cheap enough that keeping a spare charged is a no-brainer. Community testing floating around the forums suggests Ozito packs sit around 80-90% capacity after a couple of hundred charge cycles while Ryobi holds similar numbers past 300 - so if you're charging a pack several times a week, the Ozito will start feeling tired sooner. For a homeowner charging up a handful of times a month, you'll likely not notice inside the warranty window.

Warranty and a parallel-import trap to watch

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Both brands lean hard on warranty as a selling point through Bunnings - Ozito's PXC tools carry long replacement warranties when you register, and Ryobi's local warranty on ONE+ is strong too. Here's the catch on Amazon AU: some Ryobi ONE+ HP listings are US-spec parallel imports. You'll spot them by the American model codes - things like the PBLHM101B brushless hammer drill - rather than the R18 and RPD18 prefix codes Ryobi uses locally. The batteries and tools work fine on the same ONE+ platform, but a grey-import tool may not be covered by Ryobi Australia's warranty, so you'd be relying on the Amazon seller for any comeback. If warranty peace of mind matters, stick to the R18 and RPD18-coded AU-spec listings or buy that particular tool in-store. It's exactly the kind of thing that catches people out, so it's worth a thirty-second check on the model number before you hit buy.

So which budget platform should you buy?

Buy Ozito PXC if you're a light-duty homeowner, price is the deciding factor, and you can't see yourself owning more than a few tools. The Impact Driver Kit at around A$149 still puts a tool, a pack and a charger in one box, and the brushless multi-tool skin is a lot of tool for A$149. There's no shame in gear that does exactly what a home shed needs.

Buy Ryobi ONE+ if you're building a kit over time, you want the widest range of tools on one battery, or you'll ever touch masonry - in which case the RPD18BL2-0 brushless combi drill at about A$153 is the one to grab, paired with a spare RB18L50 5.0Ah pack so you're never waiting on a charger - and buy that pack in store, because the Amazon AU listing runs about A$256, which is nothing like what Ryobi packs cost on a Bunnings shelf. For most DIYers stepping up from a hand screwdriver, the brushed R18DD3 drill at about A$120 is the sweet spot: affordable, and the doorway into a platform you'll actually keep adding to.

One last thing worth saying plainly: neither of these is a trade tool. If you're a chippy or a sparky driving screws all day, you want a brushless drill on M18, XR, LXT or PXC-pro glass - the kind we cover in the cordless drills guide. But for weekend jobs, both green platforms punch well above their price.

Keep reading

Sorting your first cordless kit? Have a read of our guide to the best cordless drills under $200 in Australia and our pick of the cheapest brushless impact drivers to round out the platform. When you're ready to compare the whole field, the top 7 cordless drill picks and the impact drivers buying guide line up the budget green stuff against the trade flagships, and the tool deals page flags any of them currently marked down on Amazon AU.

Prices and availability are indicative and were checked on Amazon AU at the time of writing. Always confirm the current price, kit configuration and warranty channel on the live product listing before buying.