Compare coffee prices
Paying £4 a cup?
It costs from 2p at home.
Pick your roast
Roasters use different scales. We standardise every coffee onto five roast levels to make choosing easier.
Roast level is one factor, not the whole picture. Origin, variety, processing, the roaster’s profile and how you brew all move the flavour, so read these as tendencies rather than guarantees. What we can promise is that the level itself is measured on our own five-point scale rather than the roaster’s.
Cheapest per cup this week
Bag prices hide the truth. A £9 bag of 250g costs more per cup than a £22 kilo.
Ranked by what one cup costs you today, with what you keep against a Costa flat white.
Cappuccino Classic
Aurora
Gold Roast Tin Luxury Freeze Dried
Gold Blend Intense Premium
Skip the queue, not the coffee
This is not about giving anything up. It is about not queueing at 8:40 to pay four pounds for a drink you could make better.
Your syrup, your foam, your name spelled right. Pick your drink and see what the queue costs.
What is in the home figure21p of coffee and 23p of whole milk, at supermarket prices.
What is notThe machine, the electricity and your time.
PaybackAt £1,773 a year, a £400 machine and grinder covers itself in about 12 weeks.
What Britain is drinking
Origin tells you more about taste than the brand does.
Ranked by how many we track, with what to expect in the cup.
Expect: caramel, red apple, cocoa. The safest single origin in Britain and the one most blends lean on. Works in everything from a cafetière to a flat white.
592 coffees · from £0.08 a cup
Expect: peanut, dark chocolate, low acidity. The backbone of most espresso blends and the cheapest way to get something drinkable. Rarely thrilling, rarely wrong.
432 coffees · from £0.08 a cup
Expect: blueberry, jasmine, black tea. Light roasts, high acidity, and the origin most likely to taste like fruit rather than coffee. Not the one to start with if you drink it with milk.
255 coffees · from £0.14 a cup
Expect: blackcurrant, tomato, grapefruit. Sharp, structured and divisive. When people say a coffee is too sour, it is often a Kenyan brewed too fast.
169 coffees · from £0.31 a cupFAQs
How do you work out price per cup?
Whole bean and ground coffee are costed on an 18g espresso dose, pods per capsule, and instant per 2g serving. That is the only way a 1kg bag, a box of ten capsules and a 200g jar can sit in the same list. Where we compare against a coffee shop we add the milk at supermarket prices and say so.
How independent are the reviews?
Scores are set by the tasting sheet, never by a commercial relationship. Where a coffee was supplied by a brand rather than bought by us, the review says so at the top. No roaster can pay to appear, to rank higher or to have a score changed.
How do you decide what to recommend?
Every product carries its specification and its price, and when we put a coffee forward that is our honest opinion, formed from the cup, the roast profile and what it costs against everything comparable. Blends drift, so we revisit them rather than letting an old score quietly stop being true.
What does the roast scale actually mean?
Roasters use their own words, so we normalise everything to five levels. Level three here means the same thing whether the bag says medium, city or classic.
How do you make money?
Affiliate commission when you buy through a link, and nothing else. No roaster can pay to appear, to rank higher or to have a score changed. Cheapest always sorts to the top, including when the cheapest retailer pays us nothing.