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Every STARBUCKS 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 STARBUCKS 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 STARBUCKS coffee we track, across whole bean, ground and pods, on one honest unit.
The quick version
A middle-of-the-road medium roast, black or white, and it is cheap.
Cheaper than 85% 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
- 4/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 5/5
Cheapest cup£0.45across 8 products
Against the market−29%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£6.30a week, £2.52 less than typical
Largest pack1.8kg£26.83 per kg
Buy it ifyou finish a 1.8kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifyou are chasing a named farm or origin
STARBUCKS 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 STARBUCKS coffee costs
The range runs from 30p to 72p a cup across eight products. That is a 2.4× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is STARBUCKS expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Decaf by Nespresso in the 10 pods, and the dearest is Guatemala Antigua in the 250g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decaf by Nespresso | pods | 10 pods | £0.30 | — |
| Blonde | whole bean | 1.2kg | £0.45 | £24.99 |
| Colombia | whole bean | 1.8kg | £0.48 | £26.83 |
| Pike Place Roast | whole bean | 1.8kg | £0.51 | £28.27 |
| Pike Place Roast | whole bean | 1.8kg | £0.51 | £28.27 |
| Guatemala Antigua | whole bean | 250g | £0.72 | £39.96 |
Bags themselves run £3.00 to £50.88. 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 STARBUCKS, buy Decaf by Nespresso. At 30p a cup it comes in around 42% under the median for pods coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against STARBUCKS's own list prices. Nothing else in the range gets close on that test.
STARBUCKS against the whole bean market
Every whole bean coffee we track, cheapest cup on the left. The marker is this brand at its cheapest.
STARBUCKS 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.
- 200g1 product
- 250g1 product
- 1.2kg2 products
- 1.8kg3 products
What that costs over a year
How much coffee do you drink?
- STARBUCKS£0.45 per cup£328
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, STARBUCKS costs £131 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.
- 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 STARBUCKS
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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