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Brand review · 3 min readPact Coffee coffee review
What Pact Coffee sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Pact Coffee sells 9 coffees in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 53p 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
Bold everyday coffee that stands up to a splash of milk, for below the going rate.
Cheaper than 74% of the whole bean coffee we track
- Tastes
- Dark, smoky and bold
- Strength
- Very strong
- Best for
- Everyday milk coffee
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 3/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 4/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 3/5
Cheapest cup£0.53across 9 products
Against the market−16%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£7.43a week, £1.39 less than typical
Mostly roastedDarksmoky, bold
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifSource Climate Change at 53p would do
Pact Coffee products we track
Cheapest per cup first, with live prices.
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What kind of roaster this is
Pact Coffee sells whole bean and ground in the UK, and we track 9 of their coffees, in 1kg, 500g and 250g.
100% of the Pact 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 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. Brazil turns up in 100% of the range, so it is fair to call that the backbone of what they buy.
Formats and origins
What Pact Coffee sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Pact Coffee coffee costs
The range runs from 53p to 93p a cup across nine products. That is a 1.7× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Pact Coffee expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is House in the 1kg, and the dearest is Bourbon Cream Espresso in the 250g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| House | ground | 1kg | £0.53 | £29.50 |
| House | whole bean | 1kg | £0.53 | £29.50 |
| House Espresso | whole bean | 1kg | £0.53 | £29.50 |
| House | whole bean | 500g | £0.59 | £33.00 |
| House | ground | 500g | £0.59 | £33.00 |
| Bourbon Cream Espresso | whole bean | 1kg | £0.72 | £39.80 |
| Bourbon Cream Espresso | whole bean | 500g | £0.72 | £39.90 |
| House | whole bean | 250g | £0.86 | £47.60 |
| Bourbon Cream Espresso | whole bean | 250g | £0.93 | £51.60 |
Bags themselves run £11.90 to £39.80. 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 Pact Coffee, buy House. At 53p a cup it comes in around 25% under the median for ground coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Pact 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?
- Pact Coffee£0.53 per cup£388
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Pact Coffee costs £72 less a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Pact Coffee tastes
We have not tasted Pact 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 Pact 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.
- Anyone whose real comparison is supermarket own-brand, judged per cup rather than by the label.
- 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. Pact 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 Pact 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 Pact 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
Keep reading
PricesPact Coffee price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Pact Coffee pricesLive prices on all 9 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery whole bean coffeeAll 812 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewSource Climate Change reviewThe closest brand to Pact Coffee on price, at 53p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.