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Brand review · 3 min readCosta Coffee coffee review
What Costa Coffee sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Costa Coffee sells 5 coffees in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 39p a cup, which is less than most of the whole bean coffee we track. Cheap coffee is easy to find and hard to trust, so the useful question is not whether it is cheap. It is what the range actually contains, and whether the bag doing the heavy lifting is the one you would want.
Short answer
A middle-of-the-road medium roast, black or white, and it is cheap.
Cheaper than 91% 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
- 5/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 4/5
Cheapest cup£0.39across 5 products
Against the market−37%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£5.52a week, £3.30 less than typical
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced
Buy it ifyou finish a 2kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifyou are chasing a named farm or origin
Costa Coffee products we track
Cheapest per cup first, with live prices.
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What kind of roaster this is
Costa Coffee sells whole bean and ground in the UK, and we track 5 of their coffees, in 1kg and 2kg.
100% of the Costa Coffee 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 sits on just 2 of our five levels, so this is a range with a house style rather than a spread to pick from. Every bag we list is a kilo or more, which is what pushes the per-cup figure down and also what makes this a bad fit if you drink slowly, since coffee is past its best four to six weeks after roasting.
Formats and origins
What Costa Coffee sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Costa Coffee coffee costs
The range runs from 39p to 40p a cup across five products. That is a 1× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Costa Coffee expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Signature Blend Mocha Italia in the 1kg, and the dearest is Signature Blend in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Signature Blend Mocha Italia | whole bean | 1kg | £0.39 | £21.90 |
| Signature Blend | whole bean | 1kg | £0.40 | £21.99 |
Bags themselves run £21.90 to £21.99. 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 Costa Coffee, buy Signature Blend Mocha Italia. At 39p a cup it comes in around 37% under the median for whole bean coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Costa Coffee'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?
- Costa Coffee£0.39 per cup£288
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Costa Coffee costs £172 less a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Costa Coffee tastes
We have not tasted Costa Coffee, 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 Costa Coffee 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.
- Households getting through real volume. The kilo bags are the whole value case, and they only work if you drink them fresh.
- People who already know they like a medium roast, because that is essentially all there is here.
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. Costa Coffee 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.
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 Costa Coffee, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Costa Coffee
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
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