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What Allpress Espresso UK sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Allpress Espresso UK asks 63p a cup at its cheapest, which is more than most pods coffee we list. Plenty of brands charge that and are worth it. The question is what you get for the difference, so here is the range, what it costs against everything else, and where we would put the money.
Short answer
Push-button coffee at a price that expects you to care.
Cheaper than 28% of the pods coffee we track
- Tastes
- Bright and floral, noticeably acidic
- Strength
- Mild
- Best for
- Quick weekday cups
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 2/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 4/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 4/5
Cheapest cup£0.63across 14 products
Against the market+22%vs the pods median
Two cups a day£8.87a week at its cheapest
Largest pack3kg£29.85 per kg
Buy it ifyour machine takes these capsules
Skip it ifHalo Coffee 2018 at 63p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Allpress Espresso UK sells whole bean and pods in the UK, and we track 14 of their coffees, in 3kg, 60 pods, 1kg and 250g.
93% of the Allpress Espresso UK range we can classify is blended. Blending has a bad name it does not deserve; it is how a roaster keeps a coffee tasting like itself when the harvest behind it changes, and it is the reason your regular bag is still your regular bag in January. The roasting spans 3 of our five levels, so there is a genuine choice to make inside the range rather than one house style applied to everything. Bags come in both small and kilo sizes, and the gap between them per kilo is usually the largest saving available anywhere on this page.
Formats and origins
What Allpress Espresso UK sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Allpress Espresso UK coffee costs
The range runs from 54p to £1.16 a cup across 14 products. That is a 2.2× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Allpress Espresso UK expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is The Good Brew in the 3kg, and the dearest is Edier & Fabian Vargas in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Good Brew | whole bean | 3kg | £0.54 | £29.85 |
| Allpress Espresso Blend | whole bean | 3kg | £0.54 | £29.85 |
| Haus Decaf Blend | pods | 60 pods | £0.63 | — |
| A.R.T. Espresso Roast | pods | 60 pods | £0.63 | — |
| Blend | pods | 60 pods | £0.63 | — |
| The Good Brew | — | 1kg | £0.72 | £39.80 |
| Allpress Espresso Blend | — | 1kg | £0.72 | £39.80 |
| A.R.T. Espresso | — | 1kg | £0.72 | £39.80 |
| House Decaf | — | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| Kongo | — | 1kg | £0.74 | £41.00 |
| Mbata | — | 1kg | £0.76 | £42.00 |
| Karatina AA | — | 1kg | £0.81 | £45.20 |
Bags themselves run £12.20 to £89.55. 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 Allpress Espresso UK, buy The Good Brew. At 54p a cup it comes in around 15% under the median for whole bean coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Allpress Espresso UK's own list prices. Nothing else in the range gets close on that test.
What that costs over a year
How much coffee do you drink?
- Allpress Espresso UK£0.63 per cup£462
- Typical pods£0.52 per cup, our median£378
At 2 cups a day, Allpress Espresso UK costs £84 more a year than the typical pods coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.
How Allpress Espresso UK tastes
We have not tasted Allpress Espresso UK, so we are not going to invent a tasting note. A flavour score we did not earn would be worth less than none, and this section would be the easiest place on the site to quietly make one up. What we can show you is measured: where every coffee in the range sits on our own five-point roast scale, and which origins go into it. Roast is the strongest single predictor of whether a cup arrives bright and fruity or dark and chocolatey, so it is the closest honest answer to what this brand is like to drink.
How Allpress Espresso UK roasts
Every coffee standardised onto our own five-point scale rather than the roaster's. Read these as tendencies: origin, process and how you brew all move the cup.
Who it suits
- People who found something they like and want it to taste the same next year, which is what a blend is for.
- Pod machine owners, though price a compatible capsule for your machine before committing to the brand's own.
- People who want to choose their own roast rather than take the roaster's word for it, since the range covers 3 of our five levels.
Is it good value?
Our test is simple, and it is the same one we apply to everything: cost per cup against the median for the same format. Allpress Espresso UK clears it comfortably on at least one product, which more brands fail than pass. Worth knowing that the saving is concentrated in the larger bags rather than spread evenly, so buying the small size gives most of it back.
Allpress Espresso UK products we track
Cheapest per cup first, with live prices.
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 else to consider
No brand is worth buying without knowing what sits next to it on price. These are the closest pods coffees we track to Allpress Espresso UK, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Allpress Espresso UK
The closest pods 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.
Compare against the market
Keep reading
PricesAllpress Espresso UK price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Allpress Espresso UK pricesLive prices on all 14 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery pods coffeeAll 129 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewHalo Coffee 2018 reviewThe closest brand to Allpress Espresso UK on price, at 63p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.