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Brand review · 3 min readCoffee Factory coffee review
What Coffee Factory sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Coffee Factory asks 50p a cup at its cheapest, which is more than most pods 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
Push-button coffee priced about where you would expect.
Cheaper than 55% of the pods coffee we track
- Tastes
- Balanced, caramel and chocolate
- Strength
- Medium
- 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£0.49across 16 products
Against the market−4%vs the pods median
Two cups a day£6.93a week, £0.32 less than typical
Largest pack1kg£22.95 per kg
Buy it ifyour machine takes these capsules
Skip it ifBean Coffee at 50p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Coffee Factory sells whole bean, ground and pods in the UK, and we track 16 of their coffees, in 1kg and 10 pods.
Expect blends here rather than named farms: 88% of the classified range is blended. The trade is a familiar one. You give up the story on the label and you get a cup that does not drift between orders. The buying reaches 5 countries across the range, which is a wide book for a brand this size. The roasting spans 4 of our five levels, so there is a genuine choice to make inside the range rather than one house style applied to everything. 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 Coffee Factory sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Coffee Factory coffee costs
The range runs from 41p to 60p a cup across 16 products. That is a 1.5× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Coffee Factory expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is No Waste Misfits Blend in the 1kg, and the dearest is Uganda Bujuku Valley in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Waste Misfits Blend | — | 1kg | £0.41 | £22.95 |
| Black Bear | pods | 10 pods | £0.49 | — |
| Daily Brew Blend | — | 1kg | £0.58 | £31.95 |
| Big Red Coffee Blend | ground | 1kg | £0.58 | £31.95 |
| Black Bear Coffee Blend | — | 1kg | £0.58 | £31.95 |
| El Salvador Santa Ana | — | 1kg | £0.58 | £32.30 |
| Seasonal Decaf | — | 1kg | £0.59 | £32.95 |
| Kenya Kamundu | — | 1kg | £0.60 | £33.50 |
| Brazil Monteiro Lobato | — | 1kg | £0.60 | £33.50 |
| Brazil Vinhal Estate | — | 1kg | £0.60 | £33.50 |
| Guatemala Monte Rosa | — | 1kg | £0.60 | £33.50 |
| Uganda Bujuku Valley | — | 1kg | £0.60 | £33.50 |
Bags themselves run £4.95 to £33.50. 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 Coffee Factory, buy Big Red Coffee Blend. At 58p a cup it comes in around 19% under the median for ground coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Coffee Factory'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?
- Coffee Factory£0.49 per cup£361
- Typical pods£0.52 per cup, our median£378
At 2 cups a day, Coffee Factory costs £17 less a year than the typical pods coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Coffee Factory tastes
We have not tasted Coffee Factory, 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 Coffee Factory 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 want to choose their own roast rather than take the roaster's word for it, since the range covers 4 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. Coffee Factory 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.
Coffee Factory 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 pods coffees we track to Coffee Factory, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Coffee Factory
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
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