Which Coffee Subscription Services is the Best?

Over the past few years I’ve subscribed to a number of coffee to your door delivery services. It started in 2012, a good few months before my interview with the founder of one such service, Kopi / Phil Wilkinson. Since then I’ve been luck enough to subscribe to many other services and trial out new services to the UK market in my quest for the best coffee subscription services in the UK. This post is an over view as to a few services I’ve tried and my thoughts on them – in the coming weeks details from each will be posted along with a table of detail for comparing coffee subscription services.

Kopi Coffee

I started with Kopi and I remain with Kopi – ultimately the quality Kopi have delivered every month to my coffee cup is astounding. They were one of the first such services in the UK and are in my view the best today (still).

Kopi specialise in single origin coffee, they work with some of the best growers in the world and on average a cup of Kopi coffee is just 35p (according to their website). Travelling around the world with seasonality, each month Kopi delivers coffee to your house in box which will fit through any letterbox (inside the box is your coffee in a bag you can use for storage and details about the coffee and guidance on brewing this months coffee).

Kopi Coffee costs £8.95 a month, for that you get 250g of the single origin coffee of the month and free delivery within the UK. So that is 2 or 3 coffees in your favorite high street store for around £9 or somewhere between 20 and 25 amazing brews from Kopi – I know which I prefer.

Give Kopi a try, claim a FREE 250g coffee trial here.

EIGHTPOINTNINE coffee

Coffee can be quite a specific want, each person’s taste buds may want something else. 8point9 are different to Kopi and most other providers in this respect, instead of sending their single-origin coffee or a blend made by the company you choose your blend as per your desire.

This means if you find something you love you can keep getting that same blend every month, it costs £5.95 for a 150g bag. This is about on par with Kopi, however if you are having your own blend made is pretty good value.

For me the coffee from eightpointnine was good quality and ok value. I did feel that they were trying to attract a different audience to me, an audience who wants the same good blend each time and who weren’t willing to pay a little more for better quality. (though let me be clear this is good quality, but my preference to
single-origin means blends aren’t for me when it comes to subscription coffee).

Grab a free 150g bag of your coffee blend by using the code 24X89N2 on the 8point9 website.

Bean And Ground

Offering 2 different coffees in each delivery, with a choice of when your next batch is due (anywhere from one week to six weeks spacing) makes Bean and Ground fairly unique in this market of coffee lovers. The pack size is 125g of each variety of coffee, as with Kopi each coffee comes with a back story and brew guide.

Bean and Ground subscription coffee costs £7.95 a month, which for 250g of good quality coffee is pretty good value for money – and with flexibility built in it’s clear to see why Bean and Ground are a big player in the market.

For me Bean and Ground are perfect for anyone who wants to try something new each month and have plenty of variety, it’s always fresh and always nice.

Give Bean and Ground a trial, once signed up email matt@beanandground(dot)co.uk quoting ‘SEOANDY’ to get your second bag free! Sign Up Here.

Pact Coffee

Our fourth coffee subscription services overview is for Pact Coffee, a service which aims to deliver great coffee and then to make it amazingly easy for you to reorder (because they know you will love the coffee!).

At £6.95 per 250g bag of fresh coffee, again with free shipping, Pact stands firmly with bean and ground in the middle ground of general coffee subscription services in the UK. The quality is comparable with bean and ground, though in my view not with Kopi who tops that league table.

For mean Pact Coffee is for the professional who wants something far superior to supermarket coffee but isn’t sure whether subscription coffee services can offer the great coffee they want. Pact is the perfect recession busting coffee subscription offering.

Get Started with Pact here.

Tonx Coffee UK

In my search for the best coffee subscription service in the UK I was lucky enough to be a beta tester for Tonx Coffee in the UK. Tonx are the biggest subscription coffee provider in the USA currently and are starting to come to the UK.

Tonx offer two sizes of coffee delivered each month, the half bag (roughly 170g) and the full bag (around 340g) at around £8 and £14 respectively. The coffee is very high quality coming second only to Kopi in my rankings.

With Tonx its no fuss coffee, single origin (again), with a brewing guide as per your needs. Unlike Kopi it does vary just not so much. The only issue i’ve ever had with Tonx is simply not having enough of it to keep me happy for a whole month, even on a full bag! That is how nice it is!

Grab a few quid off your first Tonx order by clicking here.

Other Coffee Subscription Services

Above are a few of my favorite services, there are indeed many others though. Over the coming weeks and months I will be posting about those here too and posting interviews with some of the top brands.

If you would like to hear my views on a given service, or would like to know which service is going to best suit you – tweet me @andykinsey or leave a comment below.

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