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Every Generic 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 Generic 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 Generic coffee we track, across whole bean, on one honest unit.
The quick version
A middle-of-the-road medium roast, black or white, and it is not cheap.
Cheaper than 19% 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
- 1/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 5/5
Cheapest cup£0.85across 1 product
Against the market+36%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£11.96a week at its cheapest
Largest pack400g£47.45 per kg
Buy it ifyou want the same cup every time
Skip it ifLeicester Coffee House Company at 86p would do
Generic coffee, cheapest per cup
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Check today’s pricePrices 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 Generic coffee costs
Everything Generic sells lands at the same 85p a cup, across one product. That makes the choice about roast and origin rather than money.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Costa Coffee Mocha Italia Signature Blend | whole bean | 400g | £0.85 | £47.45 |
The one to buy
Costa Coffee Mocha Italia Signature Blend is the cheapest thing Generic sells, at 85p a cup. We cannot yet set that against a market average for whole bean coffee, so treat it as the floor of the range rather than a verdict on value.
Generic against the whole bean market
Every whole bean 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?
- Generic£0.85 per cup£623
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Generic costs £164 more a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.
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 Generic
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.
Keep reading
ReviewGeneric reviewHow the range is shaped, how it roasts, and who should be buying it.BrandAll Generic pricesLive prices on all 1 product, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery whole bean coffeeAll 812 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewLeicester Coffee House Company reviewThe closest brand to Generic on price, at 86p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.