What coffee actually costs, and what moves the price.
Every figure here is a median over 8,610 priced coffees from 486 of the 741 roasters we hold, every one of them pricing in pounds, measured at the cheapest bag each roaster sells, worked out per kilo. Where a group is too small to mean anything, it says so instead of printing a number. The catalogue also covers the UK, France, Poland, Ireland and Czechia, and because nothing here is converted between currencies these figures describe the sterling market only.
Prices are the bag, not the basket: delivery is never included. The whole catalogue runs from £11.20 to £150.00 a kilo on that same basis, which is why the figure above is a median and the range beside it is the middle 80% rather than the extremes. Read from the roasters’ own shops and checked 6 November 2026.
Measured at the cheapest bag each roaster sells, worked out per kilo — usually the 1 kg one, and on 29% of these coffees a 200 g to 350 g bag. Comparing one coffee against similar coffees uses the other basis instead, the standard 200 g to 350 g bag, where the median is £48.00/kg across 7,208 coffees. Every figure on this page has its own page at /stats saying what it counts and when it was collected. How we measure.
Does the processing method change the price?
Yes. It is not the widest of the 7 differences measured on this page — variety is, at £25.05 a kilo — but it does move the price. Anaerobic coffees run to a median of £54.00/kg against £34.25/kg for pulped natural — £19.75 a kilo apart.
| Process | Coffees | Roasters | £20.00 to £110.00 per kilo | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washed | 2,874 (2,306 priced) | 394 | £40.00 | |
| Natural | 1,183 (831 priced) | 285 | £41.50 | |
| Anaerobic | 483 (328 priced) | 135 | £54.00 | |
| Honey | 289 (222 priced) | 98 | £44.85 | |
| Pulped Natural | 90 (70 priced) | 47 | £34.25 | |
| Wet Hulled | 59 (38 priced) | 32 | £36.38 | |
| Carbonic Maceration | 41 (28 priced) | 21 | £46.25 | |
| Anoxic | 25 | 19 | £55.50 |
The bar is the middle 80% of each row, from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the tick is the median. Rows with fewer than 20 priced coffees show a count but no figures, because a median of a handful of coffees is one roaster’s pricing. A coffee with more than one process is counted under each, so the rows do not sum to the catalogue.
Does being able to trace it cost more?
This is the question the industry argues about, and the answer in the data is: a little, but less than you would think. The whole spread across the four levels is £7.78 a kilo, against £25.05 for variety, the widest difference on this page. 655 coffees name the farm. Every coffee carries a traceability level, which is not the same thing as the axis having no missing data: for 5,623 of them — the No origin stated row below, the largest in the table — that level is the roaster having published nothing. That is a stated absence rather than a measurement, and it is the cheapest of the four rows, so the spread quoted above is measured partly on it.
| Traceability | Coffees | Roasters | £20.00 to £80.00 per kilo | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traced to a farm | 655 (504 priced) | 183 | £44.28 | |
| Traced to a region | 2,262 (1,751 priced) | 386 | £40.50 | |
| Traced to a country | 4,253 (2,846 priced) | 429 | £38.23 | |
| No origin stated | 5,623 (1,706 priced) | 344 | £36.50 |
The bar is the middle 80% of each row, from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the tick is the median. Rows with fewer than 20 priced coffees show a count but no figures, because a median of a handful of coffees is one roaster’s pricing. A coffee with more than one traceability is counted under each, so the rows do not sum to the catalogue.
Where it comes from
Origin countries with at least one priced coffee, most first. A coffee from a blend of several countries counts under each of them. Across the 20 countries with enough priced coffees to measure, the spread is £24.05 a kilo, from Bolivia at £48.30/kg down to Vietnam at £24.25/kg.
| Origin | Coffees | Roasters | £10.00 to £150.00 per kilo | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colombia | 1,556 (1,218 priced) | 385 | £40.38 | |
| Brazil | 1,213 (989 priced) | 364 | £34.95 | |
| Ethiopia | 857 (628 priced) | 297 | £42.00 | |
| Kenya | 532 (373 priced) | 215 | £41.65 | |
| Guatemala | 550 (350 priced) | 188 | £38.00 | |
| Peru | 420 (321 priced) | 181 | £38.00 | |
| Costa Rica | 395 (296 priced) | 143 | £39.60 | |
| Honduras | 341 (227 priced) | 127 | £37.95 | |
| El Salvador | 255 (214 priced) | 108 | £40.00 | |
| Mexico | 243 (214 priced) | 137 | £39.55 | |
| Uganda | 253 (204 priced) | 117 | £38.00 | |
| Rwanda | 375 (185 priced) | 133 | £40.00 | |
| Nicaragua | 242 (184 priced) | 93 | £39.99 | |
| Indonesia | 189 (151 priced) | 89 | £38.00 | |
| India | 194 (148 priced) | 95 | £33.75 | |
| Burundi | 136 (81 priced) | 67 | £41.50 | |
| Papua New Guinea | 74 (65 priced) | 44 | £36.50 | |
| Tanzania | 88 (62 priced) | 48 | £40.88 | |
| Vietnam | 86 (58 priced) | 34 | £24.25 | |
| Bolivia | 71 (54 priced) | 18 | £48.30 | |
| Ecuador | 46 (35 priced) | 19 | £53.75 | |
| Jamaica | 58 (32 priced) | 23 | £51.96 |
The bar is the middle 80% of each row, from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the tick is the median. Rows with fewer than 20 priced coffees show a count but no figures, because a median of a handful of coffees is one roaster’s pricing. A coffee with more than one origin is counted under each, so the rows do not sum to the catalogue.
Is the big bag really cheaper?
Measured across every believable bag in the catalogue rather than once per coffee, so a roaster selling only kilos counts the same as one selling only 250 g. 94% of the coffees sold in more than one size are cheaper per kilo in the bigger bag, by a median of 20%. A row here is a bag, so these spreads cannot be set beside the per-coffee ones above.
| Bag size | Coffees | Roasters | £10.00 to £130.00 per kilo | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 g | 163 | 26 | £49.00 | |
| 120 g | 69 | 4 | £56.25 | |
| 125 g | 338 | 22 | £27.28 | |
| 150 g | 76 | 27 | £98.17 | |
| 200 g | 1,102 | 110 | £56.38 | |
| 220 g | 119 | 8 | £43.18 | |
| 225 g | 184 | 17 | £42.22 | |
| 227 g | 371 | 28 | £44.49 | |
| 240 g | 59 | 2 | £49.79 | |
| 250 g | 4,200 | 351 | £47.80 | |
| 300 g | 24 | 3 | £53.17 | |
| 340 g | 41 | 3 | £43.97 | |
| 350 g | 26 | 4 | £50.71 | |
| 400 g | 42 | 8 | £53.13 | |
| 450 g | 55 | 4 | £35.44 | |
| 454 g | 38 | 2 | £33.04 | |
| 480 g | 40 | 1 | £50.00 | |
| 500 g | 1,694 | 144 | £39.00 | |
| 750 g | 29 | 5 | £34.00 | |
| 908 g | 28 | 1 | £30.84 | |
| 1 kg | 4,935 | 402 | £38.00 |
The bar is the middle 80% of each row, from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the tick is the median. Rows with fewer than 20 priced coffees show a count but no figures, because a median of a handful of coffees is one roaster’s pricing. A coffee with more than one bag size is counted under each, so the rows do not sum to the catalogue.
Variety
The varieties that carry a premium are the famous ones. Gesha has a median of £60.00/kg; the cheapest measurable variety is Mundo Novo at £34.95/kg — £25.05 a kilo apart, the widest difference on this page.
| Variety | Coffees | Roasters | £20.00 to £130.00 per kilo | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caturra | 897 (742 priced) | 249 | £39.52 | |
| Bourbon | 744 (576 priced) | 235 | £38.98 | |
| Catuai | 605 (515 priced) | 205 | £36.45 | |
| Castillo | 403 (344 priced) | 176 | £40.00 | |
| Typica | 408 (320 priced) | 159 | £37.76 | |
| SL28 | 298 (263 priced) | 136 | £43.00 | |
| Gesha | 384 (215 priced) | 93 | £60.00 | |
| Heirloom | 267 (213 priced) | 131 | £42.00 | |
| Red Bourbon | 213 (161 priced) | 110 | £41.40 | |
| Catimor | 185 (150 priced) | 91 | £36.63 | |
| Mundo Novo | 164 (124 priced) | 82 | £34.95 | |
| SL34 | 120 (108 priced) | 79 | £45.20 | |
| Pink Bourbon | 117 (95 priced) | 66 | £56.00 | |
| Pacamara | 131 (94 priced) | 52 | £45.00 | |
| Ruiru 11 | 103 (85 priced) | 67 | £46.75 | |
| Batian | 98 (82 priced) | 65 | £48.00 | |
| Yellow Bourbon | 100 (71 priced) | 51 | £36.00 | |
| Sarchimor | 51 (46 priced) | 34 | £38.88 |
The bar is the middle 80% of each row, from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the tick is the median. Rows with fewer than 20 priced coffees show a count but no figures, because a median of a handful of coffees is one roaster’s pricing. A coffee with more than one variety is counted under each, so the rows do not sum to the catalogue.
Decaf, and what the roaster roasts it for
| Caffeine | Coffees | Roasters | £20.00 to £70.00 per kilo | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caffeinated | 11,887 (6,065 priced) | 482 | £39.00 | |
| Decaffeinated | 906 (742 priced) | 428 | £38.00 |
The bar is the middle 80% of each row, from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the tick is the median. Rows with fewer than 20 priced coffees show a count but no figures, because a median of a handful of coffees is one roaster’s pricing. A coffee with more than one caffeine is counted under each, so the rows do not sum to the catalogue.
| Roasted for | Coffees | Roasters | £20.00 to £80.00 per kilo | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| For espresso | 2,178 (1,679 priced) | 314 | £37.50 | |
| For filter | 1,659 (1,462 priced) | 239 | £40.00 | |
| Espresso or filter | 127 (54 priced) | 38 | £40.98 |
The bar is the middle 80% of each row, from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the tick is the median. Rows with fewer than 20 priced coffees show a count but no figures, because a median of a handful of coffees is one roaster’s pricing. A coffee with more than one roasted for is counted under each, so the rows do not sum to the catalogue.
What roasters say their coffee tastes like
Not a tasting. This counts how often each flavour family appears in the roasters’ own descriptions, across the 4,961 coffees that carry notes. It is a map of how coffee is sold in Britain, which is a different thing from how it tastes — and the only one of the two we can honestly measure.
| Family | Coffees | Share | Catalogue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fruity | 2,954 | 60% | 60% |
| Caramel and sweet | 2,853 | 58% | 58% |
| Chocolate | 2,558 | 52% | 52% |
| Citrus | 1,442 | 29% | 29% |
| Nutty | 1,403 | 28% | 28% |
| Floral | 726 | 15% | 15% |
| Spice | 433 | 9% | 9% |
| Tea-like | 361 | 7% | 7% |
| Winey | 248 | 5% | 5% |
| Earthy | 186 | 4% | 4% |
Every origin and flavour page carries the same chart for its own coffees, drawn against this one.
By roaster
The 25 roasters with the most priced coffees, out of the 486 with at least one. A wide bar is a roaster with a broad range, not a roaster with inconsistent pricing.
| Roaster | Coffees | Roasters | £10.00 to £140.00 per kilo | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horsham Coffee Roaster | 150 (148 priced) | 1 | £44.25 | |
| 3FE Coffee | 150 (143 priced) | 1 | £49.00 | |
| Smith's Coffee | 160 (138 priced) | 1 | £26.69 | |
| Hormozi Coffee | 143 (80 priced) | 1 | £15.92 | |
| Django Coffee Co. | 72 | 1 | £35.00 | |
| Mahers Coffee | 65 (62 priced) | 1 | £28.94 | |
| Herbert and Ward | 62 (58 priced) | 1 | £22.00 | |
| Dark Woods Coffee | 58 (55 priced) | 1 | £47.85 | |
| Exchange Coffee Co. | 61 (54 priced) | 1 | £38.00 | |
| Glen Lyon Coffee Roasters | 67 (54 priced) | 1 | £41.00 | |
| York Coffee Emporium | 52 | 1 | £32.50 | |
| Voyager Coffee | 50 (48 priced) | 1 | £57.50 | |
| Butterworth & Son | 47 | 1 | £48.00 | |
| Potterbeans | 55 (47 priced) | 1 | £41.67 | |
| Redber Coffee | 56 (47 priced) | 1 | £24.95 | |
| Adams & Russell | 59 (46 priced) | 1 | £40.75 | |
| Devon Coffee Company | 57 (45 priced) | 1 | £23.56 | |
| RAVE Coffee | 47 (43 priced) | 1 | £33.85 | |
| OddKin Coffee | 39 | 1 | £35.00 | |
| White Rose Coffee Roasters | 42 (38 priced) | 1 | £20.05 | |
| Cafen | 39 (35 priced) | 1 | £76.65 | |
| Caravan Coffee Roasters | 36 (35 priced) | 1 | £47.25 | |
| John Watt And Sons | 37 (35 priced) | 1 | £40.00 | |
| MacBeans | 39 (34 priced) | 1 | £34.00 | |
| Wogan Coffee | 37 (34 priced) | 1 | £26.00 |
The bar is the middle 80% of each row, from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the tick is the median. Rows with fewer than 20 priced coffees show a count but no figures, because a median of a handful of coffees is one roaster’s pricing. A coffee with more than one roaster is counted under each, so the rows do not sum to the catalogue.
Questions this page answers
How much does speciality coffee cost per kilo in the UK?
The median is £39.00/kg across 6,807 coffees from 486 roasters pricing in pounds, measured at the cheapest bag each roaster sells, worked out per kilo. That is usually the 1 kg bag: only 29% of these figures come off a 200 g to 350 g bag. Half cost more and half cost less. The middle 80% runs from £26.00 to £62.00 per kilo. Comparing one coffee against similar coffees uses the other basis — the standard 200 g to 350 g bag, where the median is £48.00/kg — so that every coffee in a comparison is priced on the same size. Delivery is not included. Figures read from the roasters' own shops, checked 6 November 2026.
Does the processing method change what coffee costs?
Yes. It is not the widest of the 7 differences this page measures — variety is, at £25.05 a kilo — but it does move the price. Across 5 processes with enough coffees to measure, the dearest is anaerobic at a median of £54.00/kg and the cheapest is pulped natural at £34.25/kg — a gap of £19.75 a kilo.
Do more traceable coffees cost more?
A little. Coffees traced to a named farm have a median of £44.28/kg across 504 priced coffees, against £36.50/kg for the 1,706 priced coffees whose roaster states no origin at all. The whole range across the four traceability levels is £7.78 a kilo, against £25.05 for variety, the widest difference on this page. Every coffee carries a traceability level, but for 5,623 of them that level is the roaster publishing nothing, which is a stated absence and not a measurement.
Is decaf more expensive than normal coffee?
Decaf has a median of £38.00/kg across 742 priced coffees, which is cheaper than caffeinated coffee at £39.00/kg — a difference of £1.00 a kilo.
Is a bigger bag of coffee cheaper per kilo?
Yes. A 250 g bag works out at a median of £47.80/kg and a 1 kg bag at £38.00/kg, so the kilo is about 21% cheaper per kilo. That is measured across every believable bag in the catalogue rather than once per coffee: 4,935 kilo bags and 4,200 250 g bags, not one row per coffee.
What do UK roasters say their coffee tastes like?
Across 4,961 coffees whose roaster writes tasting notes, the three most common flavour families are fruity on 60%, caramel and sweet on 58%, chocolate on 52%. These are the roasters' own words, grouped into families — not a tasting panel.
What this analysis cannot tell you
Nothing here is a judgement of quality. We hold no cupping scores, no independent review scores and no independently verified certifications, so a dearer coffee on this page is a dearer coffee and nothing more. The figures also rest only on coffees we could read a price from, and that is not an even sample: they miss 4,183 of the 12,793 coffees we list. The largest reason by a wide margin is ours and not theirs: 2,308 of them (55%) carry the same note on their own page, Price not usable — the roaster does publish a price, but one that works out beyond £10.00 to £150.00 per kilo or repeats unchanged across bag sizes, so we will not put a figure to it. Each coffee’s own page names its own reason rather than putting the gap down to the roaster’s silence. The method page sets out every rule used here, including the ones that throw data away, and /stats carries each figure with the date it was collected.