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Coffee Under £30/kg — UK 2026
536 coffees · 103 UK roasters · from £10/kg · ranked by value
Specialty coffee spans a wide price range, and per-kilo cost is the only fair way to compare a 250g bag against a 1kg one. The coffees here all come in under this ceiling while still being independently roasted UK specialty — no supermarket commodity blends. Every price below is per kilo so you can compare like for like, and links go straight to the roaster.
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What under £30 a kilo buys you
Around £30 a kilo is the sweet spot where freshly roasted UK specialty coffee gets genuinely competitive with the supermarket aisle. Below this ceiling you’ll mostly find house blends, high-volume origins like Brazil and Colombia, and 1kg formats — the price reflects scale and bag size, not lower-grade beans. You still get roasted-to-order freshness, a named origin and a roaster who stands behind the coffee; what you won’t find down here are scarce microlots, competition lots and Gesha, which trade at multiples of this price. Judge everything on the per-kilo figure: a £7.50 250g bag costs exactly the same per kilo as a £30 kilo bag.
Frequently asked questions
- Is coffee under £30 per kilo actually good?
- Yes — everything listed is a real product from a UK specialty roaster’s own range, in stock and compared per kilo like everything else on this site. The lower price usually comes from high-volume origins, blends or bigger bag formats rather than stale or defective coffee. It’s the everyday end of specialty, not the bargain bin.
- How does this compare with supermarket coffee?
- Supermarket beans can cost half this or less, but they’re typically roasted months before you drink them and rarely tell you who roasted them, where or when. Under £30/kg is roughly where fresh, traceable, independently roasted coffee starts to overlap with premium supermarket ranges — this page exists to find that overlap.
- How do I get the per-kilo price even lower?
- Two levers: buy bigger bags — 1kg formats are consistently the cheapest per kilo, and our best 1kg beans list ranks them — and use roasters’ subscribe-and-save options, which usually take a standing percentage off every recurring order.