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Every illy 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 illy 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 illy coffee we track, across whole bean, ground, pods and instant, on one honest unit.
The quick version
A middle-of-the-road medium roast, black or white, and it is cheap.
Cheaper than 93% 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
- 5/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 5/5
Cheapest cup£0.43across 11 products
Against the market−39%vs the ground median
Two cups a day£6.05a week, £3.84 less than typical
Largest pack1.5kg£28.80 per kg
Buy it ifyou finish a 1.5kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifyou are chasing a named farm or origin
illy coffee, cheapest per cup
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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 illy coffee costs
The range runs from 17p to 65p a cup across 11 products. That is a 3.8× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is illy expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Decaf Instant in the 95g, and the dearest is Decaffeinated in the 125g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decaf Instant | instant | 95g | £0.17 | £85.26 |
| Classico | ground | 250g | £0.43 | £24.00 |
| Intenso | ground | 250g | £0.48 | £26.64 |
| Espresso Bold Roast | ground | 250g | £0.48 | £26.64 |
| Classico | whole bean | 1.5kg | £0.52 | £28.80 |
| Coffee | pods | 10 pods | £0.55 | — |
| Costa Rica | whole bean | 250g | £0.57 | £31.68 |
| Decaffeinated | ground | 250g | £0.58 | £31.96 |
| Decaffeinated | whole bean | 250g | £0.58 | £32.00 |
| Brazil | whole bean | 250g | £0.58 | £32.00 |
| Decaffeinated | ground | 125g | £0.65 | £35.92 |
Bags themselves run £4.49 to £43.20. 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 illy, buy Classico. At 43p a cup it comes in around 39% under the median for ground coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against illy's own list prices. Nothing else in the range gets close on that test.
illy against the ground market
Every ground coffee we track, cheapest cup on the left. The marker is this brand at its cheapest.
illy 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.
- 95g1 product
- 125g1 product
- 250g7 products
- 1.5kg1 product
What that costs over a year
How much coffee do you drink?
- illy£0.43 per cup£315
- Typical ground£0.71 per cup, our median£516
At 2 cups a day, illy costs £200 less a year than the typical ground 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.
- For pods, price a compatible capsule for your machine first. The brand premium on capsules is usually the largest one going.
- Check again before you reorder. Whoever was cheapest last month frequently is not.
What else to look at
Coffees priced like illy
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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