I'm no router expert but this is a decent quality router. I have some really cheap ones and this one is pretty cheap in my opinion. Given that all of my bits come in reasonably priced sets, this might be the highest quality bit I own. So I'm not sure if it's any better than my other beats. Cut quickly and smoothly and works exactly as expected. I can't say anything about durability as I only drove it through some kind of scrap wood to test it. But I'm happy with it, it's functional, well packaged.