The best Metabo cordless angle grinders, compared.
Top pick: W 18 L BL 9-125 Best value: CC 18 LTX BL MetaLoc – About £42.97, the lowest shelf price with a star line, for a 76 mm gap: brushless, 4.9 from 27 reviews, case included, no pack. Updated October 2026.
A cordless angle grinder is a handheld abrasive tool that runs from a rechargeable pack rather than a mains lead. In the UK you buy one to cut and grind metal, clean welds, and work where a cable gets in the way. The checks that stay useful are the disc diameter, the spindle thread that matches that disc, whether a battery and charger are in the box, and whether the listing says brushless. A case holds the tool, and the pack is a separate purchase. A compact head fits a narrow gap. Open bar needs a full-size disc. A flat head reaches acute angles. Match the disc speed to the tool, keep the guard on, and do not grind with a cutting disc. Employers train abrasive-wheel users under PUWER 1998 regulation 9. Householders sit outside that duty. The guard and the disc rules still apply. Hand-held grinders are capped at 230 mm and 80 m/s. Typical grinder noise is about 90–95 dB(A), so hearing protection is the sensible default at home.
A cordless angle grinder is a handheld abrasive tool that runs from a rechargeable pack rather than a mains lead. In the UK you buy one to cut and grind metal, clean welds, and work where a cable gets in the way.
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The W 18 L BL 9-125, order 602374850, is the cardboard brushless 125 mm body at about £74.95, listed at 10,000 rpm, 900 W and 1.5 kg, still without a pack or a charger. The bullets do say brushless, and they add a tool-free twist-proof guard, electronic soft start, and an electronic safety shutdown if the disc stops unexpectedly. The box list is pin spanners, a guard, an inner flange, a two-hole nut and a side handle, with no metaBOX. The amazon line is 5.0 from one review, and there is no review text stored, so that star is a count of one rather than a record of a cut. The score is 53 because a single review is halved in the formula, which is a sample rule and not a timed test. At £5.96 more than the W 18 7-125 you are paying for the word brushless and the safety-shutdown sentence, with almost no written feedback. It suits you if you want brushless printed on the listing and you can accept a one-review sample.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You want a brushless 125 mm body without paying for a metaBOX, and you will not treat one 5.0 star as proof of a cut.
Less suitable: You want a written review sample, a case, or a Quick nut.
Specifications
Common questions
Does the W 18 L BL 9-125 listing include a battery?
No. The title or the components line says the pack and charger are not included.
What disc and speed does the listing give?
Disc: 125 mm. No-load speed: 10,000 rpm. Listed wattage: 900 W.
Does the listing call the motor brushless?
Yes. Brushless or BL appears in the title or the bullets.
The CC 18 LTX BL in a MetaLoc, order 600349840, is about £42.97 with no pack and no charger, listed at 20,000 rpm and 640 g. Review text puts the disc at 76 mm, so this is the compact tool rather than a 125 mm grinder. It is 4.9 from 27 reviews. Reviewers call it strong for its size and say it reaches gaps a full-size head cannot, and one reviewer is explicit that it is not a full-size angle grinder. The bullets name a brushless motor, overload protection and restart protection, and the MetaLoc is a case rather than a battery. Complaints in the stored reviews are a missing Allen key on one order, which the seller then sent, a made-in-China note against an expected German origin, and the battery end pressing on the forearm. The score is 90, the highest number in this set, and that sum is the scoring formula rather than a verdict that a 76 mm tool should replace a 125 mm one. It is the best value when the gap is narrow and you already have a CAS pack.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You need a light brushless head for a gap a 125 mm tool will not enter, and you already own a CAS pack.
Less suitable: You are cutting with a 125 mm disc, or you expected a full-size grinder made in Germany.
Specifications
Common questions
Does the CC 18 LTX BL MetaLoc listing include a battery?
No. The title or the components line says the pack and charger are not included.
What disc and speed does the listing give?
Review text puts the disc at 76 mm. No-load speed is 20,000 rpm. Listed wattage is not stated.
Does the listing call the motor brushless?
Yes. Brushless or BL appears in the title or the bullets.
The W 18 7-125, order 602371850, is a 125 mm 18 V body at about £68.99, listed at 8,500 rpm, 700 W and 1.6 kg, with the pack and charger left out of the box. Across 158 amazon.co.uk reviews it sits at 4.6, and UK texts in the stored reviews call it good value when you already own the packs, mainly because there is no lead to manage. Reviewers describe enough power for light cutting and grinding, and they mention the soft start and the overload protection on a tool that also lists restart protection. Several reviewers say the motor has brushes after they expected a brushless tool, and these bullets do not say brushless. Small packs, including about 2 Ah, are said to run out very quickly, one reviewer wanted a quick nut and received the two-hole nut in the box, and one says it lacks power for grinding concrete roof tiles. A few single reports describe a tool stopping or burning out, which is an anecdote rather than a failure rate. It is the top pick here when you already have CAS 18 V packs and you are cutting or grinding light metal with a 125 mm disc.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You already own CAS 18 V packs and you want a 125 mm body for light cutting and grinding.
Less suitable: You need the listing to say brushless, a Quick nut, a brake, or enough power for concrete roof tiles.
Specifications
Common questions
Does the W 18 7-125 listing include a battery?
No. The title or the components line says the pack and charger are not included.
What disc and speed does the listing give?
Disc: 125 mm. No-load speed: 8,500 rpm. Listed wattage: 700 W.
Does the listing call the motor brushless?
No. The title and bullets do not say brushless.
The CC 18 LTX BL box, order 600349850, is about £142.27, listed at 640 g and 850 W, with brushless in the name and a case in the title. Disc size and no-load speed are absent from this listing, so the 76 mm and 20,000 rpm on the about £42.97 MetaLoc order 600349840 stay on that other row. The battery line is not stated: the title does not say a pack is included, and it does not clearly say body only either. Across 24 reviews it is 4.4. Reviewers call it small, light and effective on bars and sheet, and solid enough for small jobs. The repeated complaint is one speed only, which reviewers say they would rather have been able to change. The written set has no UK-dated review text stored. Treat it as its own order number, and read the live listing on the day if you need to know whether a pack is in the box.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You have confirmed order 600349850, you want that boxed compact, and you have checked the day's listing for a pack.
Less suitable: The about £42.97 MetaLoc order already covers the gap, or you need a stated 125 mm disc and a variable speed.
Specifications
Common questions
Does the CC 18 LTX BL box listing include a battery?
The title does not say a battery is included, and the components line does not name one. Treat it as not stated rather than as a kit.
What disc and speed does the listing give?
Disc size and no-load speed are not stated. Listed wattage is 850 W.
Does the listing call the motor brushless?
Yes. Brushless or BL appears in the title or the bullets.
The W 18 L BL 9-125 in a metaBOX, order 602374840, is the cased brushless 125 mm listing at about £125.45, with 10,000 rpm, 900 W and 1.5 kg on the page. The components line, read from the Spanish text on the row, names a guard, support flange, two-hole nut, side handle, pin spanner and metaBOX 165 L, and it says without battery and without charger. You are paying £50.50 more than the about £74.95 cardboard order 602374850 for that case and the same series name. The bullets name a brushless motor, a slim body and overload protection, and they do not repeat the electronic safety shutdown printed on the cardboard listing. The stored listing has no Customer Reviews line, so the score is 0 and both star fields stay at 0. That 0 means the stars are missing from the stored listing. It fits if you want this brushless body in a metaBOX and you can buy with no star line to read.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You want the brushless 9-125 in a metaBOX and you accept a missing star line.
Less suitable: You are choosing from written reviews, or the cardboard body at about £74.95 already has the features you need.
Specifications
Common questions
Does the W 18 L BL 9-125 metaBOX listing include a battery?
No. The title or the components line says the pack and charger are not included.
What disc and speed does the listing give?
Disc: 125 mm. No-load speed: 10,000 rpm. Listed wattage: 900 W.
Does the listing call the motor brushless?
Yes. Brushless or BL appears in the title or the bullets.
The W 18 L 9-125, order 602247850, is an 18 V 125 mm body-only listing at about £83.95, with 8,500 rpm and 1.6 kg on the page and no wattage figure stored. The bullets describe an electronic safety shutdown if the disc stops unexpectedly, plus overload protection, electronic soft start and restart protection. They do not say brushless. The box is flat-pin spanners, a guard, an inner flange, a two-hole nut and a side handle, with no case and no pack. The stored listing has no Customer Reviews line, so the score is 0, and there is no review text to borrow from the W 18 7-125. The warranty line says Manufacturer with no term, while some other rows print 3 year manufacturer. The listing's country of origin is Germany. It is the row to open if you want that safety-shutdown sentence on a non-brushless 9-series body and you can live without stars.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You want the 9-series safety-shutdown wording on a non-brushless body, and you will not use another model's reviews as a substitute.
Less suitable: You want brushless, a case, or a star line you can read before you pay about £83.95.
Specifications
Common questions
Does the W 18 L 9-125 listing include a battery?
No. The title or the components line says the pack and charger are not included.
What disc and speed does the listing give?
Disc: 125 mm. No-load speed: 8,500 rpm. Listed wattage is not stated.
Does the listing call the motor brushless?
No. The title and bullets do not say brushless.
The WVBF 18 LTX BL 15-125 Quick, order 601308840, is the flat-head listing at about £245.77, and the bullets describe an extremely low gear head for acute angles down to 43°. It is a 125 mm brushless body at a listed 8,000 rpm and 2.15 kg, with a variable thumbwheel, a Metabo Quick nut, and a brake sentence that the disc stops within 1.5 seconds of switching off. The 1,500 W line is the listing's comparison with a 1,500 watt mains-powered tool, which is a class description rather than a measured battery input. In the box are five 125 mm P60 convex flap discs, a dust-protection filter, a guard, a side handle, a flange, the Quick nut and a metaBOX 165 L, and still no battery or charger. The stored listing has no Customer Reviews line, so the score is 0 and there is no review praise to quote. It is the listing when a standard head cannot reach a fillet weld, and a costly way to cut open bar that a standard 125 mm body already reaches.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You grind fillet welds or work inside frames a standard head will not enter, and you already have a CAS pack.
Less suitable: You are cutting open bar, or you need a star line before you spend about £245.77.
Specifications
Common questions
Does the WVBF 18 LTX BL 15-125 Quick listing include a battery?
No. The title or the components line says the pack and charger are not included.
What disc and speed does the listing give?
Disc: 125 mm. No-load speed: 8,000 rpm. The 1,500 W line is a mains-equivalence class, not a measured draw.
Does the listing call the motor brushless?
Yes. Brushless or BL appears in the title or the bullets.
Seven amazon.co.uk listings were scored from the stored pages and the review lines already on file. Shelf date 19 October 2026. There is no laboratory test. A missing Customer Reviews line scores 0, which means the stars are absent. Star points are halved when the count is under five. The top pick is the 125 mm body with 4.6 from 158 reviews. The best value is the lowest shelf price with a star line, for a narrow gap. One of each. The weights below sum to 100 and follow that formula.
Stars and review sample
75%Star points are the amazon.co.uk rating times 12, to a maximum of 60. Those points are halved when the count is under five. Sample points add 3, 8, 12 or 15 by review-count band, up to 150 reviews or more.
Category fit
10%Each kept row is a Metabo cordless angle grinder, so fit adds 10. Other brands were not in this set.
Brushless motor
5%Brushless, or BL in the title or the bullets, adds 5. A listing that does not say brushless does not receive those points.
Restart, shutdown or brake
5%Restart protection, an electronic safety shutdown, or a brake sentence in the bullets adds 5, once. The points are not added twice.
Case
3%A case, metaBOX, MetaLoc or box named on the listing adds 3. A case is not a battery.
Quick nut or variable speed
2%A Metabo Quick claim or a variable-speed bullet adds 2. A two-hole nut does not.
Split these 18 V bodies by disc size, the word brushless, a named case, and whether a Quick nut, a brake or variable speed is in the bullets. The shelf price on these rows is the bare tool. Add a pack and a UK charger before you compare headline prices if you do not already own compatible packs.
A Metabo cordless angle grinder in this set is an 18 V CAS tool. On the amazon.co.uk rows kept here, the price is almost always the bare tool. The kept listings are a 125 mm 7-series at 8,500 rpm, a 125 mm 9-series that is either not stated as brushless or marked brushless, a 76 mm compact at about 20,000 rpm, and a flat-head model rated to 43°. If you already own CAS packs, the decision is the feature list and a disc that matches the spindle.
These 125 mm titles leave out the pack and the charger. A metaBOX or MetaLoc is a case. A 2 Ah pack is reported to run out very quickly on the W 18 7-125.
The W 18 7-125 title and bullets do not say brushless, and reviewers report brushes. Brushless is printed on the BL 9-125 rows, the CC rows and the flat-head.
Maker sheets give M14 on these 125 mm tools and M5 on the 76 mm CC. Do not put a 125 mm disc on the compact, and do not grind with a cutting disc. Do not remove the guard.
Disc diameter and the spindle have to match. Maker sheets give M14 on these 125 mm tools and M5 on the 76 mm CC. A 125 mm disc does not belong on the compact, and the compact does not replace a 125 mm body on open bar. The flat-head is for acute angles down to 43°. It is a costly way to cut bar that a standard 125 mm head already reaches. Battery in the box is the next check. The 125 mm titles are body only. The MetaLoc compact also leaves the pack and charger out. A metaBOX is a case.
Brushless has to be in the title or the bullets. The W 18 7-125 does not say it, and reviewers report brushes. The cardboard W 18 L BL 9-125 and the metaBOX order share the brushless 9-125 name at different prices. The case is the difference you can see on the page. The safety-shutdown sentence is printed on the cardboard listing and is absent from the metaBOX bullets. Use the feature you will actually switch on.
Three typical situations, each with a recommendation from this comparison.
You already own CAS 18 V packs and you want a 125 mm body for light cutting and grinding. The W 18 7-125 is the top pick at about £68.99, listed at 8,500 rpm and 1.6 kg, with 4.6 from 158 reviews. The bullets do not say brushless, and the pack is not in the box.
You want brushless printed on a 125 mm listing and you will not pay for a metaBOX. The W 18 L BL 9-125 cardboard body is about £74.95, at 10,000 rpm and 900 W. The star line is 5.0 from one review, with no review text stored.
You need a light brushless head for a narrow gap, and you already own a CAS pack. The CC 18 LTX BL MetaLoc is the best value at about £42.97, 640 g and 20,000 rpm, with 4.9 from 27 reviews. Review text puts the disc at 76 mm.
The top pick for light metal on a 125 mm disc is the W 18 7-125 at about £68.99, with 4.6 from 158 reviews, when you already own CAS 18 V packs. The bullets do not say brushless. The best value is the CC 18 LTX BL MetaLoc at about £42.97, for a narrow gap: 4.9 from 27 reviews, brushless, in a MetaLoc, with the disc at 76 mm in review text. The cardboard brushless 9-125 is about £74.95 with one review. The flat-head is about £245.77 and has no star line. None of these scores is a laboratory test, and a pack is not in the boxes that state their contents.
CC 18 LTX BL MetaLoc
About £42.97, the lowest shelf price with a star line, for a 76 mm gap: brushless, 4.9 from 27 reviews, case included, no pack.
Editorial
Peter F. is the editor for DIY & tools at productscompared.co.uk. Comparisons in this category are checked against amazon.co.uk listings, review evidence and public UK sources.
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