Compare coffee prices
Paying £4 a cup?
It costs about 44p at home.
Coffee prices keep climbing and there is not much you can do about that. What you can change is what a cup costs in your own kitchen. We price 8,700 coffees across 42 UK shops by the cup, covering all available brands in the UK, and tell you honestly what they are like.
Compare the coffee you already drink
Name the brands or beans in your cupboard. We price that exact coffee across all 42 retailers, then show you what else in the catalogue tastes like it for less.
No coffee knowledge needed. If you only know it as “the red Lavazza one”, that is enough.
You get two answers. Where your coffee is cheapest today, and what tastes similar for less.
Same bag, better price: usually a saving of £2 to £4 per kilo. Different bag, better coffee: that is the one worth reading the review for.
1. What flavours do you like?
Pick as many as you want.
2. How do you brew?
Pick your usual brew method.
All available brands in the UK. Every coffee we put forward is our honest opinion on flavour, price and value, and we say when a cheaper one beats the expensive one.
8,700 coffees · 42 retailersPick your roast
Roasters use different scales. We standardise every coffee onto five roast levels to make choosing easier.
Roast level is one factor, not the whole picture. Origin, variety, processing, the roaster’s profile and how you brew all move the flavour, so read these as tendencies rather than guarantees. What we can promise is that the level itself is measured on our own five-point scale rather than the roaster’s.
Cheapest per cup this week
Bag prices hide the truth. A £9 bag of 250g costs more per cup than a £22 kilo.
Ranked by what one cup costs you today, with what you keep against a Costa flat white.
Signature Blend
Qualità Rossa
Jailbreak
Christmas Blend
Skip the queue, not the coffee
This is not about giving anything up. It is about not queueing at 8:40 to pay four pounds for a drink you could make better.
Your syrup, your foam, your name spelled right. Pick your drink and see what the queue costs.
What is in the home figure21p of coffee and 23p of whole milk, at supermarket prices.
What is notThe machine, the electricity and your time.
PaybackAt £1,773 a year, a £400 machine and grinder covers itself in about 12 weeks.
This week's review
One coffee, properly tested, every Thursday. Same dose, same water, same grinder, labels covered.
If it is dull we say so, and we still show you where it is cheapest. Any coffee supplied by a brand is labelled as such on the review.
Signature Blend N°1
14 Jul 2026
Milk chocolate and toasted hazelnut, with a soft red apple finish that fades quicker than we would like. Forgiving at 18g in, 36g out, and it did not fall apart when we pulled it badly on purpose. Holds its shape in a flat white, which is where most supermarket blends turn to cardboard. Not exciting. Very hard to argue with at 21p.
What Britain is drinking
Origin tells you more about taste than the brand does.
Ranked by new UK listings this month, with what to expect in the cup.
Expect: blueberry, jasmine, black tea. Light roasts, high acidity, and the origin most likely to taste like fruit rather than coffee. Not the one to start with if you drink it with milk.
+34 new listings this month
Expect: caramel, red apple, cocoa. The safest single origin in Britain and the one most blends lean on. Works in everything from a cafetière to a flat white.
+21 new listings this month
Expect: blackcurrant, tomato, grapefruit. Sharp, structured and divisive. When people say a coffee is too sour, it is often a Kenyan brewed too fast.
+17 new listings this month
Expect: peanut, dark chocolate, low acidity. The backbone of most espresso blends and the cheapest way to get something drinkable. Rarely thrilling, rarely wrong.
Steady · cheapest per kgLook after the machine you own
A dirty machine ruins good coffee faster than cheap beans do.
Find your machine for cleaning and descaling steps, the parts that usually fail first, and what owners say goes wrong.
Barista Express
Watch for: grinder chute clogging with oily beans
Maintenance tips →
Magnifica
Watch for: brew unit seizing if it is not rinsed
Maintenance tips →
Vertuo
Watch for: scale in hard water areas, weak flow
Maintenance tips →
Classic Evo
Watch for: steam wand blocking, worn group gasket
Maintenance tips →The full UK catalogue
8,700 coffees from 42 retailers. That is all available brands in the UK, priced by the cup.
Every one carries a price and a full specification, and where we put a coffee forward it is our honest opinion rather than the roaster’s.
Eleven supermarket beans, tasted blind
Two were genuinely good. One is a well known roaster in a different bag at half the price. Four we poured away.
Your coffee is sour and it is probably not the beans
Grind, temperature and rest days, in the order worth fixing them. Ten minutes of work, no new equipment.
What a pod machine really costs over three years
The machine is the cheap part. Nine popular models, modelled against beans and against the high street.
FAQs
How do you work out price per cup?
Whole bean and ground are calculated on an 18g espresso dose, filter on 60g per litre, pods per pod, and tea per bag. Change the dose in settings and every figure on the site recalculates against how you actually brew. Where we compare against a coffee shop, we add the milk at supermarket prices and say so.
How independent are the reviews?
Scores are set by the tasting sheet, never by a commercial relationship. Where a coffee was supplied by a brand rather than bought by us, the review says so at the top. No roaster can pay to appear, to rank higher or to have a score changed.
How do you decide what to recommend?
We list all available brands in the UK, with specification and price on every one. When we recommend a coffee, that is our honest opinion, formed from the cup, the roast profile and what it costs against everything comparable. We add roughly one full review a week and revisit blends annually, because blends drift and last year’s score can quietly stop being true.
What does the roast scale actually mean?
Roasters use their own words, so we normalise everything to five levels using colour measurement and blind tasting. Level three here means the same thing whether the bag says medium, city or classic.
How do you make money?
Affiliate commission when you buy through a link, and nothing else. No roaster can pay to appear, to rank higher or to have a score changed. Cheapest always sorts to the top, including when the cheapest retailer pays us nothing.