13 bean to cup machines have a page here, running from £279 to £1,295 on 21 September 2026. They differ less in what comes out of the spout than in how much worktop they take, how milk gets into the cup and what you wash afterwards. These are the machines we cover, not the whole UK market.
The 13 side by side
| Machine | Width x depth x height | Water tank | Beans | Milk | Grind settings | UK warranty | UK price on 21 September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| De’Longhi Magnifica Evo | 240 x 440 x 360 mm | 1.8 L | 250 g | carafe | not published | not published | £349 to £443.99 |
| De’Longhi Magnifica S | 240 x 430 x 350 mm | 1.8 L | 250 g | manual wand | not published | not published | £294.79 to £349.99 |
| De’Longhi Rivelia | 245 x 430 x 385 mm | 1.4 L | 250 g | carafe | not published | not published | £592 to £749.99 |
| De’Longhi Eletta Explore | 260 x 450 x 385 mm | 1.8 L | 300 g | carafe | not published | not published | £949.99 to £969.99 |
| Philips Series 2200 | 246 x not published x 371 mm | 1.8 L | 275 g | manual wand | 12 | 24 months | £279 to £279.99 |
| Philips Series 3300 LatteGo | 247 x 434 x 366 mm | 1.8 L | 275 g | carafe | 12 | 24 months | £422.95 to £569.99 |
| Melitta Purista | 200 x 460 x 334 mm | 1.2 L | 125 g | none | 5 | 24 months | £299.95 to £399.99 |
| Jura ENA 8 | 271 x 445 x 323 mm | 1.1 L | 125 g | milk pipe | not published | 25 months | £1,095 |
| Jura E8 | 270 x 446 x 348 mm | 1.9 L | 280 g | milk pipe | 7 | 25 months | £1,245 to £1,295 |
| Smeg BCC12 | 180 x 433 x 336 mm | 1.4 L | 150 g | manual wand | 10 | 24 months | £699 to £699.95 |
| Krups Intuition Experience+ | 240 x 400 x 365 mm | 3 L | 250 g | automatic wand | not published | 24 months | not published |
| Krups Arabica Manual | not published | 1.7 L | 260 g | manual wand | 3 | 24 months | not published |
| Gaggia Brera | 256 x 447 x 315 mm | 1.2 L | 250 g | manual wand | 5 | 24 months | not published |
If the counter is the limit
The Smeg is narrowest at 180 mm, then the Purista at 200 mm, then three tied at 240 mm: the Magnifica Evo, the Magnifica S and the Intuition Experience+. The ENA 8 is widest at 271 mm; the Arabica Manual publishes no width.
Depth runs the other way: the Intuition Experience+ is shallowest at 400 mm, the Magnifica S and the Rivelia tie at 430 mm, and the Purista is deepest at 460 mm; the Series 2200 and the Arabica Manual publish no depth. Height puts the Brera lowest at 315 mm, the ENA 8 next at 323 mm, and the Rivelia and the Eletta Explore tied tallest at 385 mm; none of the 13 publishes the height with the hopper lid open, so measure the cupboard gap yourself and leave a margin.
Cup clearance is published by six: 185 mm on the Smeg, 143 mm on the Eletta Explore, 140 mm on the Magnifica Evo, the Rivelia and the Intuition Experience+, and 105 mm on the Arabica Manual. The other seven publish nothing for it.
If you want the milk made for you
Four of the 13 use a carafe you fill and clip on: the Magnifica Evo, the Rivelia, the Eletta Explore and the Series 3300 with its LatteGo. The two Juras use a milk pipe instead, drawing milk through a tube from whatever container you set beside it, so a carton from the fridge does the carafe’s job. The Intuition Experience+ also uses a tube, feeding an automatic wand from a milk pot.
Five hand you a manual wand: the Magnifica S, the Series 2200, the Arabica Manual, the Brera and the Smeg, where you steam and froth the milk yourself and wipe the wand down before it dries. Our guide to bean to cup against a traditional espresso machine covers what that changes each morning. The Purista alone has no milk system, so a milky drink means adding milk frothed some other way.
If you hate washing milk parts
The makers do not ask for the same thing here.
Philips asks the least. Philips’s manual for the Series 2300 and 3300 says to “Clean all parts in the dishwasher or under the tap with lukewarm water and some washing-up liquid” after every use. No tube to flush.
The De’Longhi carafes come with a clock attached. De’Longhi’s manual for the Magnifica Evo says milk left in the carafe “can be kept in the refrigerator for no more than 2 days”, and must be stripped down and cleaned if left out more than 30 minutes. De’Longhi’s manual for the Rivelia and the manual for the Eletta Explore both say the carafe washes best in a dishwasher.
Jura splits it into a rinse and a clean. Jura’s manual for the ENA 8 says “After each milk preparation, the ENA prompts you to perform a milk system rinse”, and asks for a full clean daily on any day milk has been made. Jura’s manual for the E8 gives the same rinse prompt, and both tell owners to “Use only original JURA maintenance products”.
The Intuition Experience+ has two milk jobs after every drink. Krups’s manual says to clean the milk pot with hot water and soap after each use, the jug can go in the dishwasher without its lid, and it asks for a rinse that “consists of carefully manually cleaning the milk tube and its metal nozzle with hot water AFTER EACH USE”.
The Smeg has the shortest instruction of the lot. Smeg’s manual for the BCC12 says “Clean the steam wand every time you use it, to avoid milk residues or clogging”, and supplies a needle for the steam outlet. The Magnifica S, the Series 2200, the Arabica Manual and the Brera use the same kind of wand: steam and froth by hand, then wipe it down. Our guides to cleaning a coffee machine and descaling one cover the rest, much the same across all 13.
If you make several drinks in a row
Tank and hopper decide how often you get up. The Intuition Experience+ holds 3 L, nearly three times the ENA 8’s 1.1 L, and the E8 is next at 1.9 L. The smallest hopper ties between the ENA 8 and the Purista at 125 g each, against 300 g on the Eletta Explore. The ENA 8 pairs that small hopper with the smallest tank too, worth ruling out for a busy kitchen at £1,095.
Grounds capacity: 16 on the E8, 14 on the Magnifica S, 12 each on the Series 2200 and 3300, 10 each on the Rivelia and the ENA 8, 9 each on the Intuition Experience+ and the Arabica Manual, 8 on the Brera and 7 on the Smeg. No figure is published for the Magnifica Evo, the Eletta Explore or the Purista.
If the budget is fixed
Only the Series 2200 (£279 to £279.99) was under £300 at every retailer checked on 21 September 2026. The Magnifica S (£294.79 to £349.99) and the Purista (£299.95 to £399.99) dipped under £300 at one retailer each. The Magnifica Evo (£349 to £443.99) was under £500 at every retailer that day. Our guide to bean to cup machines under £500 goes deeper on just those four.
Above £500: the Series 3300 LatteGo (£422.95 to £569.99), the Rivelia (£592 to £749.99) and the Smeg (£699 to £699.95), covered in our Philips LatteGo against the Magnifica Evo and Magnifica Evo against Rivelia comparisons, then the Eletta Explore (£949.99 to £969.99), the ENA 8 (£1,095) and the E8 (£1,245 to £1,295). Three have no UK price for that date: the Intuition Experience+, the Arabica Manual and the Brera.
Jura publishes 25 months’ warranty on both machines, in Jura’s UK warranty conditions, an unusual length in a market of round years. Philips, Melitta, Smeg, Krups and Gaggia all publish 24 months; De’Longhi publishes no warranty length for any of its four models.
What the makers leave out
De’Longhi publishes the least here: no grind settings or warranty length on any of its four models, and a descaling interval only for the Magnifica S. Philips’s product leaflet for the Series 3300 is among the fullest: 12 grind settings, ceramic burrs, 24 months and up to 5,000 cups between descales with an AquaClean filter. The Series 2200 matches it on grind settings, burr material and warranty, but not depth.
Three things none of the 13 publish: warm-up time, noise in decibels, and height with the hopper lid open. Burr shape appears only on both Krups machines, conical. Burr material appears on both Philips models and the Brera (ceramic), and the Smeg, the Purista and the Arabica Manual (steel); the other seven publish nothing for it. If a page elsewhere gives you those numbers, it did not get them from the makers.
