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Brand review · 3 min readPapercup Coffee coffee review
What Papercup Coffee sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Papercup Coffee asks 68p 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
Balanced everyday coffee that suits almost everyone, at an unremarkable price.
Cheaper than 44% 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
- 2/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 5/5
Cheapest cup£0.68across 11 products
Against the market+9%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£9.58a week at its cheapest
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifScotties Coffee at 68p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Papercup Coffee sells whole bean in the UK, and we track 11 of their coffees, in 1kg and 200g.
Papercup Coffee is a blender: 64% 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. The buying reaches 5 countries across the range, which is a wide book for a brand this size. 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. 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. Colombia turns up in 55% of the range, so it is fair to call that the backbone of what they buy.
Formats and origins
What Papercup Coffee sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Papercup Coffee coffee costs
The range runs from 68p to £2.25 a cup across 11 products. That is a 3.3× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Papercup Coffee expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Ritual Espresso in the 1kg, and the dearest is Fruit Salad in the 200g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ritual Espresso | whole bean | 1kg | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| University of Glasgow | whole bean | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| Naecaf | whole bean | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| Sweeter Things | whole bean | 1kg | £0.75 | £41.50 |
| Honey | whole bean | 1kg | £0.80 | £44.50 |
| Tutti Frutti | whole bean | 1kg | £0.85 | £47.00 |
| Sour Cherry | whole bean | 1kg | £0.97 | £54.00 |
| Naecaf | whole bean | 1kg | £1.11 | £61.50 |
| Watermelon | whole bean | 1kg | £1.53 | £85.00 |
| Passionfruit | whole bean | 200g | £2.07 | £115.00 |
| Fruit Salad | whole bean | 200g | £2.25 | £125.00 |
Bags themselves run £23.00 to £85.00. 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
Ritual Espresso is the cheapest thing Papercup Coffee sells, at 68p a cup. We cannot yet set that against a market average for whole bean coffee, so treat it as the floor of the range rather than a verdict on value.
What that costs over a year
How much coffee do you drink?
- Papercup Coffee£0.68 per cup£499
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Papercup Coffee costs £39 more a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.
How Papercup Coffee tastes
We have not tasted Papercup 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 Papercup 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 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. Papercup Coffee lands around the middle. It is not the cheapest way to a cup of coffee, and the money above the median buys convenience and consistency rather than a smaller bill. Whether that is a fair trade is genuinely your call, not ours.
Papercup 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.
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 Papercup 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 Papercup 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
PricesPapercup Coffee price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Papercup Coffee pricesLive prices on all 11 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery whole bean coffeeAll 812 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewScotties Coffee reviewThe closest brand to Papercup Coffee on price, at 68p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.