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Brand review · 3 min readCafePod coffee review
What CafePod sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
CafePod asks 61p a cup at its cheapest, which is more than most whole bean 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
Easy-drinking coffee with caramel and chocolate about it, at an unremarkable price.
Cheaper than 58% 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
- 3/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 5/5
Cheapest cup£0.61across 31 products
Against the market−3%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£8.57a week, £0.25 less than typical
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifMissing Bean at 60p would do
What kind of roaster this is
CafePod sells whole bean, ground and pods in the UK, and we track 31 of their coffees, in 36 pods, 1kg and 200g.
Expect blends here rather than named farms: 100% of the classified range is blended. The trade is a familiar one. You give up the story on the label and you get a cup that does not drift between orders. The roasting spans 4 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 CafePod sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What CafePod coffee costs
The range runs from 44p to 99p a cup across 31 products. That is a 2.3× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is CafePod expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Brunch Blend in the 36 pods, and the dearest is Easy Rider in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brunch Blend | pods | 36 pods | £0.44 | — |
| Intense Roast | pods | 36 pods | £0.44 | — |
| Supercharger Espresso | pods | 36 pods | £0.45 | — |
| Decaf Brunch Blend | pods | 36 pods | £0.45 | — |
| Brunch Blend | whole bean | 1kg | £0.61 | £34.00 |
| Decaf Brunch Blend | whole bean | 1kg | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Afternoon Delight Decaf | whole bean | 1kg | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Smooth Operator Decaf | whole bean | 1kg | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Grounds for Celebration | whole bean | 1kg | £0.70 | £39.00 |
| Xanadu | whole bean | 1kg | £0.70 | £39.00 |
| Samba! | whole bean | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| Soulmate | whole bean | 1kg | £0.74 | £41.00 |
Bags themselves run £8.50 to £55.00. 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 CafePod, buy Brunch Blend. At 44p a cup it comes in around 16% under the median for pods coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against CafePod'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?
- CafePod£0.61 per cup£447
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, CafePod costs £13 less a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How CafePod tastes
We have not tasted CafePod, 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 CafePod 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 4 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. CafePod 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.
CafePod 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 whole bean coffees we track to CafePod, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like CafePod
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.
Compare against the market
Keep reading
PricesCafePod price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll CafePod pricesLive prices on all 31 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery whole bean coffeeAll 812 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewMissing Bean reviewThe closest brand to CafePod on price, at 60p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.