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Every Black Donkey 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 Black Donkey 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 Black Donkey coffee we track, across whole bean and ground, on one honest unit.
The quick version
A middle-of-the-road medium roast, black or white, and it costs very little.
Cheaper than 98% of the whole bean coffee we track
- Tastes
- Balanced, caramel and chocolate
- Strength
- Medium
- Best for
- Everyday coffee, black or white
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 5/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 5/5
Cheapest cup£0.31across 4 products
Against the market−51%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£4.28a week, £4.54 less than typical
Largest pack1kg£16.99 per kg
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifyou are chasing a named farm or origin
Black Donkey 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.
What Black Donkey coffee costs
The range runs from 31p to 47p a cup across four products. That is a 1.5× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Black Donkey expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Whole in the 1kg, and the dearest is Medium Roasting in the 500g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whole | whole bean | 1kg | £0.31 | £16.99 |
| Whole Extra-Strong | whole bean | 1kg | £0.32 | £17.99 |
| Whole Medium Roasting | whole bean | 1kg | £0.36 | £19.99 |
| Medium Roasting | ground | 500g | £0.47 | £25.98 |
Bags themselves run £12.99 to £19.99. 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 Black Donkey, buy Whole. At 31p a cup it comes in around 51% under the median for whole bean coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Black Donkey's own list prices. Nothing else in the range gets close on that test.
Black Donkey against the whole bean market
Every whole bean coffee we track, cheapest cup on the left. The marker is this brand at its cheapest.
Black Donkey pack sizes
Pack size moves the price per kilo more than anything else in a range. Buy the biggest bag you will finish in about six weeks.
- 500g1 product
- 1kg3 products
What that costs over a year
How much coffee do you drink?
- Black Donkey£0.31 per cup£223
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Black Donkey costs £237 less a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
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 Black Donkey
The closest whole bean 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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