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Every Alchemy coffee we track, priced per cup, and which bag is actually the cheap one.
Coffee is sold by the bag and drunk by the cup, and the two almost never rank in the same order. A Alchemy bag that looks dear on the shelf can turn out to be the cheapest thing here once you divide it out, and the one that looks like a bargain often is not. So here is every Alchemy coffee we track, across whole bean and ground, on one honest unit.
The quick version
Easy-drinking coffee with caramel and chocolate about it, at the going rate.
Cheaper than 57% of the ground coffee we track
- Tastes
- Balanced, caramel and chocolate
- Strength
- Medium
- Best for
- Everyday coffee, black or white
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 3/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 4/5
Cheapest cup£0.68across 5 products
Against the market−3%vs the ground median
Two cups a day£9.58a week, £0.31 less than typical
Largest pack1kg£38.00 per kg
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifChimney Fire Coffee at 68p would do
What Alchemy coffee costs
The range runs from 68p to £1.17 a cup across five products. That is a 1.7× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Alchemy expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Colombia Popayan Reserve Decaf in the 1kg, and the dearest is Colombia in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colombia Popayan Reserve Decaf | ground | 1kg | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Uganda Bukonzo Dream | ground | 1kg | £0.74 | £41.00 |
| Kenya Nandi AB | ground | 1kg | £0.77 | £43.00 |
| Ethiopia Bette Buna | ground | 1kg | £0.95 | £53.00 |
| Colombia | whole bean | 1kg | £1.17 | £65.00 |
Bags themselves run £38.00 to £65.00. Ignore that column. A bigger bag costs more and almost always costs less per cup, which is the only number that follows you home.
The one to buy
If you buy one thing from Alchemy, buy Colombia Popayan Reserve Decaf. At 68p a cup it comes in around 3% under the median for ground coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Alchemy's own list prices. Nothing else in the range gets close on that test.
Alchemy against the ground market
Every ground coffee we track, cheapest cup on the left. The marker is this brand at its cheapest.
What that costs over a year
How much coffee do you drink?
- Alchemy£0.68 per cup£499
- Typical ground£0.71 per cup, our median£516
At 2 cups a day, Alchemy costs £16 less a year than the typical ground coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
Alchemy coffee, cheapest per cup
Live prices, updated whenever this page is loaded.
Prices are the last we fetched and can move. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. It never changes the order, which is always cheapest per cup first.
How to pay less for it
- Read the per-cup column, not the shelf price. They order differently more often than not.
- Buy the biggest bag you will finish in about six weeks. Pack size moves the per-kilo price further than anything else on this page.
- Check whether the same coffee turns up in a larger bag further down the range. It often does, at a lower rate.
- Check again before you reorder. Whoever was cheapest last month frequently is not.
What else to look at
Coffees priced like Alchemy
The closest ground coffees on price per cup, from brands we also track. If one of these is cheaper for the same thing, that is worth knowing before you order.
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