Bugaboo Bee 5 vs Britax B-Agile 3 (2017)

The Bugaboo Bee 5 makes for a good, if unremarkable, Standard Stroller for people with a $490 budget.

The Britax B-Agile 3, however, is merely mediocre at its $181 asking price, when compared to similarly priced products, and won't satisfy the needs of most people.

In either case, we suggest that you first take a look at some other options at the $490 and $160 price points before committing to one of these - it's likely that you'll be able to find some better alternatives.

If you're still interested in learning more about the Bugaboo Bee 5 and Britax B-Agile 3, however, we wrote a summary of what we could find about them:

While the Bugaboo Bee 5 wasn't able to make it to the very top of any roundups from sources that perform quality hands-on testing, it still got featured in a large number of them. MadeForMums, BabyGearLab, Reviewed, The Independent, and Wirecutter (NYTimes) have all deemed it worthy of a place on their respective shortlists.

As for the Britax B-Agile 3 - it impressed reviewers at Reviewed, a trustworthy source that conducts solid hands-on testing. It did great in its "The Best Strollers Under $300 of 2021" roundup - in fact, it earned its "Ranked 3 out of 6" title, which, on its own, indicates a certain level of quality.

We conducted an analysis of all of the review data that we could find on these two products. First, we focused on sources that tested and rated both of them, like BabyGearLab, and learned that they all showed a preference for the Britax B-Agile 3.

Then we took a look at the highest review scores that these two Standard Strollers received. We found that the Bugaboo Bee 5 managed to earn a rating of 9.2 from MadeForMums, whereas the Britax B-Agile 3 got its highest, 10, score from reviewers at BabyGearLab.

Lastly, we averaged out all of the reviews scores that we could find on these two products and compared them to other Standard Strollers on the market. We learned that both of them performed far better than most of their competitors - the overall review average earned by Standard Strollers being 7.0 out of 10, whereas the Bugaboo Bee 5 and Britax B-Agile 3 managed averages of 8.6 and 9.5 points, respectively.

Due to the difference in their prices, however, it's important to keep in mind that a direct Bugaboo Bee 5 vs. Britax B-Agile 3 comparison might not be entirely fair - some sources don't take value for money into account when assigning their scores and therefore have a tendency to rate more premium products better.