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Brand review · 2 min readCosta Coffee coffee review
What Costa Coffee sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
This is an assessment of Costa Coffee as a brand rather than a live price list — for current prices on every product, the Costa Coffee hub is the page you want. Here we look at how the range is shaped, where it sits on value, and what we would buy instead.
Live prices for every Costa Coffee product are on the Costa Coffee brand page. This review is the analysis that sits alongside it.
The range
Costa Coffee sells whole bean and ground in the UK. We currently track 5 products, in 5kg, 2kg and 1kg. A brand that spans several formats is usually worth judging format by format — the same name can be excellent value in one and poor in another.
What Costa Coffee coffee costs
We track 5 Costa Coffee products, spanning £0.08 to £0.40 per cup — a 5.3× spread within one brand. The cheapest is Signature Blend Roast & for Cafetiere (5kg); the most expensive is Signature Blend (1kg).
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Signature Blend Roast & for Cafetiere | ground | 5kg | £0.08 | £4.18 |
| Beans Signature Blend | whole bean | 2kg | £0.35 | £19.45 |
| Beans Signature Blend | whole bean | 1kg | £0.37 | £20.78 |
| Signature Blend Mocha Italia | whole bean | 1kg | £0.38 | £21.00 |
| Signature Blend | whole bean | 1kg | £0.40 | £21.99 |
Pack prices run from £20.78 to £38.89. As always, the pack price is the least useful number here — the per-cup column is the one that compares.
Best value in the range
Signature Blend Roast & for Cafetiere is the strongest value Costa Coffee currently offers: at £0.08 per cup it sits about 84% below the median cup price for ground coffee across everything we track. That is a comparison against the whole market, not against Costa Coffee's own list prices.
Who it suits
- Home espresso and cafetière drinkers, if the large-format bags are within your six-week window.
- Anyone comparing against supermarket own-brand on price per cup rather than on the label.
- Anyone who wants a repeatable cup rather than a rotating single origin.
Value for money
On our own test — cost per cup against the median for the same format — Costa Coffee has at least one genuinely strong product in the range. That is a better result than most brands manage, and it is concentrated in the larger pack sizes.
Costa Coffee 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.
Alternatives worth comparing
Before buying, put Costa Coffee next to the wider format list. The comparison hubs sort every brand we track onto the same per-cup basis, which is the only way to see whether a brand premium is buying you anything.
Compare against the market