Like its predecessor, the Bissell Little Green Mini Portable Carpet Cleaner is made for cleaning soft surfaces, including ...

The best portable carpet cleaners are capable of lifting stubborn stains and embedded debris from carpets and upholstered furniture. Here are our favorite models.

The good news: Our picks—the Tineco Carpet One Smart Carpet Cleaner and the Bissell ProHeat 2X Revolution Pet Carpet Cleaner—cleaned up most of the stains they were confronted with in our testing.