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Brand review · 3 min readDunkin' Donuts coffee review
What Dunkin' Donuts sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Dunkin' Donuts sells 1 coffee in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 43p a cup, which is less than most of the pods 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
Push-button coffee and it undercuts the average.
Cheaper than 61% of the pods coffee we track
- Tastes
- Chocolatey and nutty, low acidity
- Strength
- Strong
- Best for
- Quick weekday cups
- 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£0.42across 1 product
Against the market−18%vs the pods median
Two cups a day£5.95a week, £1.30 less than typical
Mostly roastedMedium-darkchocolate, nutty
Buy it ifyour machine takes these capsules
Skip it ifJose Gomez at 42p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Dunkin' Donuts sells pods in the UK, and we track 1 of its coffees, in 10 pods.
Dunkin' Donuts is a blender: 100% of the range we can classify is blended rather than sold as a named origin. That is a choice, not a shortcut. A blend can be rebuilt season to season to taste the same, which is what you want if you buy the same coffee every month and would rather it did not move under you. Everything is roasted to the same point on our five-point scale, so the roast is not a choice you make here; it is the house style, take it or leave it. Capsules here are compatible capsules, so check that against your machine before anything else on this page matters.
Formats and origins
What Dunkin' Donuts sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Dunkin' Donuts coffee costs
Everything Dunkin' Donuts sells lands at the same 43p a cup, across one product. That makes the choice about roast and origin rather than money.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Original Blend | pods | 10 pods | £0.42 | — |
The one to buy
If you buy one thing from Dunkin' Donuts, buy Original Blend. At 43p a cup it comes in around 18% under the median for pods coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Dunkin' Donuts'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?
- Dunkin' Donuts£0.42 per cup£310
- Typical pods£0.52 per cup, our median£378
At 2 cups a day, Dunkin' Donuts costs £68 less a year than the typical pods coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Dunkin' Donuts tastes
We have not tasted Dunkin' Donuts, 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 Dunkin' Donuts 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 already know they like a medium-dark 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. Dunkin' Donuts 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.
Dunkin' Donuts products we track
Cheapest per cup first, with live prices.
Check today’s pricePrices 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 Dunkin' Donuts, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Dunkin' Donuts
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
PricesDunkin' Donuts price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Dunkin' Donuts pricesLive prices on all 1 product, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery pods coffeeAll 129 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewJose Gomez reviewThe closest brand to Dunkin' Donuts on price, at 42p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.