JiatuA vs Storex Cleaning Caddy: A Side-by-Side Comparison

If you've ever hauled a bucket of cleaning supplies from the kitchen to a bathroom, only to have the glass cleaner tip over and the sponge roll under the tub, you already know why the right caddy matters more than people think. I put two of the most common options readers ask me about side by side: the JiatuA large plastic cleaning caddy and the Storex cleaning caddy, the two-compartment tote a lot of you have seen at Target or in the school-supply aisle. Short answer up front, if you're cleaning a full house room by room and not just tidying one cabinet under a sink, the JiatuA caddy is the one that survives the trip from the laundry room to three bathrooms and back without something sliding out onto your hallway floor. The Storex caddy is a perfectly fine, smaller option if you mostly store supplies under one sink and only need to carry them a few feet. Here's what I found after four months of actually using both in my own house outside Waco.

My cleaning routine covers three bathrooms, a kitchen, and a laundry room at the back of the house, and I do a rotating deep clean on Saturday mornings before my son Cole's baseball games start at ten. That means I'm not cleaning one room and setting the caddy back on a shelf. I'm carrying it, setting it down, refilling it, and picking it back up four or five times before ten a.m. I loaded both caddies with the same test kit, a 32-ounce spray bottle, a smaller glass cleaner bottle, a bundle of microfiber cloths, a scrub brush, and a bottle of toilet bowl cleaner, then used each one for two full cleaning Saturdays before switching to the other.

The week I switched to the Storex caddy was the same week my daughter Ruthie was recovering from a stomach bug, so I was carrying supplies in and out of her bathroom more often than usual, disinfecting the same surfaces two or three times a day. That's about the worst-case stress test you can put a caddy through, frequent short trips, one hand often busy with a laundry basket or a glass of ginger ale, and no patience left for gear that fights you. It's a small, specific week, but it's exactly the kind of week a caddy either earns its spot on the shelf or gets replaced.

Spec	JiatuA Cleaning Caddy	Storex Cleaning Caddy
Price	~$15.99 for the large caddy	~$12-14, widely sold in stores
Capacity	Single deep tub, fits a full room's worth of supplies plus a scrub brush upright	Two shallow divided compartments, fits smaller bottles but not a tall 32 oz sprayer standing up
Handle balance	Molded center handle directly over the load, stays level fully loaded	Offset side handle, tips when weight sits unevenly on one side
Material thickness	Rigid, thicker-walled plastic that holds its shape empty or full	Lighter, thinner plastic that flexes when carrying heavier bottles
Best use case	Whole-house rotation, multiple rooms, longer carries	Single-cabinet storage, short carries, small item sorting
Footprint	Larger base, needs a dedicated laundry room or pantry shelf	Compact, fits a narrow under-sink cabinet
Rating	4.6 stars, 2,188 ratings	Around 4.5 stars, sold mostly in-store and on Amazon

Where JiatuA Wins

The handle balance is the difference I noticed within the first trip down the hallway. The JiatuA caddy's handle is molded straight up the center of the tub, directly over the load, so weight distributes evenly no matter how I've packed it. I can load the heavy spray bottle on the left side and the lighter glass cleaner on the right and the caddy still hangs level in my hand. That matters more than it sounds like it should when you're carrying a full load past a kid's backpack on the floor and a dog underfoot, which is basically every Saturday morning at my house.

Capacity is the second place it pulled ahead. My test kit includes a 32-ounce spray bottle that needs to stand upright, and the JiatuA tub is deep enough that it fits without leaning against the side wall. The Storex caddy's compartments are shallower, built more for spacing out smaller items than stacking one tall bottle. When I tried to fit the same 32-ounce bottle in the Storex, it leaned at an angle and knocked into the scrub brush every time I picked the caddy up, which is exactly the kind of thing that makes you stop trusting a caddy to carry anything breakable.

Durability held up the way I'd want it to after four months of real use, including two stints stored in our garage over a Texas summer where temperatures inside easily hit 100 degrees some afternoons. The plastic on the JiatuA caddy hasn't gone brittle or warped, and the handle still feels as solid as the day it arrived. I've dropped it once, fully loaded, onto the tile in the hallway outside the kids' bathroom. Nothing cracked, and the bottles inside stayed upright because the tub is deep enough to contain a tip without spilling out the top.

The JiatuA caddy also earns its keep outside the cleaning closet, which the listing gets right when it markets it for bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, dorm, and garden use. I've sent it with my husband to hose down the porch furniture with a bucket of soapy water and a stiff brush, and I've loaned it to my sister-in-law for a dorm move-in where it doubled as a shower caddy for the first two weeks before her real bins arrived. The Storex caddy's smaller compartments aren't built for that kind of cross-purpose duty, they're built for one job, staying under one sink.

The Storex caddy tipped over twice on the same hallway rug carrying the exact same bottles. The JiatuA caddy never did.

Where Storex Wins

Footprint is Storex's real advantage. If your cleaning supplies live permanently under one bathroom sink and you're not hauling them room to room, the Storex caddy's compact shape tucks into a narrow cabinet in a way the larger JiatuA tub simply can't. I keep a smaller Storex-style caddy under my kids' bathroom sink specifically because it fits beside the plumbing without blocking the cabinet door, something I never managed to pull off with the bigger JiatuA caddy in that same spot.

Price and availability lean Storex's way too, especially if you want to grab one today without waiting on shipping. It shows up in the school supply aisle at most big box stores every August, priced a few dollars under the JiatuA, and plenty of people already own one from a classroom supply list years ago and are just repurposing it. If you already have one sitting in a closet, there's no reason to buy a second caddy just because a comparison article told you to.

The divided compartments are also genuinely useful for sorting small items rather than stacking bulk supplies. Cotton balls, a small nail brush, hair ties, and a travel-size hand sanitizer stay separated instead of rolling around loose the way they would in the JiatuA's single open tub. For a caddy that mostly stays put and gets opened rather than carried across the house, that separation is a real, practical upside, not a minor one.

If your household is one person, or you're outfitting a single studio apartment bathroom, the smaller footprint and lower price point of the Storex caddy might genuinely be the better value. You're not paying for capacity you'll never use, and you're not giving up cabinet space you need for towels and toilet paper. It's a case where bigger and sturdier isn't automatically better, it depends entirely on how far you're actually walking with the thing in your hand.

The Tipping Problem in Detail

This is the part worth being specific about, because it's the reason I stopped grabbing the Storex caddy for anything beyond under-sink storage. The offset side handle sits to one edge of the tote rather than centered over the load. When both compartments are evenly loaded that's a non-issue, but the second you pack more into one side, which happens constantly when you're grabbing whatever's within reach, the whole caddy leans toward the heavier side. On our hallway rug, which has just enough give to catch a corner, that lean turned into a full tip twice in the same week, once spilling a half-open bottle of toilet bowl cleaner onto the rug.

The JiatuA's center handle sits directly above the middle of the tub, so the load hangs balanced no matter how unevenly it's packed. I've carried it with a full spray bottle jammed into one corner and a light bundle of rags in the other and it still hangs straight. There's no lean to correct for, no need to slow down or watch your step differently than you normally would. For a caddy that's getting picked up and set down five or six times in one cleaning session, that's the detail that actually changes whether you dread using it or just grab it without thinking.

Real Use Scenarios Where Each Wins

The JiatuA caddy is the right call for a full-house cleaning rotation, any household with kids or pets creating obstacles in hallways, garden or garage use where you need one tub that handles wet supplies without warping, and college dorm setups where one container needs to double as a shower caddy and a general supply tote. It's also the better pick if you're buying one caddy to cover the whole house rather than stocking a separate one for every bathroom.

The Storex caddy makes more sense for a single fixed storage spot under one sink, a smaller apartment where cabinet space is tight, sorting small loose items like cotton balls and hair ties, and households that only need to carry supplies a few feet at a time rather than across the house. If you already own one from a school supply list, there's no reason to replace it just for a single bathroom.

Who Should Buy Which

Buy the JiatuA caddy if you clean more than one room per session, carry supplies any real distance through the house, or have kids and pets underfoot who make a stable, balanced load actually matter. It's also the better pick if you want one caddy that handles bathroom, kitchen, and garden supplies without needing a second, smaller container for the odd tall bottle. If you want the specifics on which exact supplies I keep loaded in mine after four months of daily use, I've got the full breakdown in my long-term review.

Consider the Storex caddy if your supplies stay in one cabinet, you're mostly sorting small items rather than carrying bottles room to room, or you already own one and don't need a second purchase. It's a genuinely fine caddy for that narrower job, it's just not the one I reach for on a full-house Saturday. If you're setting up a cleaning system from scratch and want to know exactly what to load where, I also wrote up an honest review covering what I'd tell a friend before she buys either one.