Every machine here grinds its own beans. The fork underneath is whether you want to dose, tamp and steam the milk yourself, or press one button and let the machine do all three.
The fifteen machines we cover
These are the machines with a grinder on board that we cover. It is not the whole UK market, nothing here is ranked, and prices are the UK range on 21 September 2026.
| Machine | Kind | Burrs | Grind settings | Beans | Width x depth | Milk | UK price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sage the Barista Express | portafilter | conical, steel | 16 | 250 g hopper | 318 x 351 mm | manual wand | £499.95 |
| Sage the Barista Pro | portafilter | conical, steel | 30 | 250 g hopper | 408 x 350 mm | manual wand | £599.95 |
| Sage the Barista Express Impress | portafilter | conical, steel | 25 | 250 g hopper | 422 x 367 mm | manual wand | £714.99 to £729.95 |
| Sage the Barista Touch | portafilter | conical, steel | 30 | 250 g hopper | 400 x 319 mm | automatic wand | £1,049 to £1,049.95 |
| Sage the Oracle Jet | portafilter | conical, steel | 45 | 340 g hopper | 422 x 360 mm | automatic wand | £1,699.95 |
| De’Longhi La Specialista Maestro | portafilter | steel, type not published | 15 | 250 g hopper | 360 x 365 mm | not published | £1,299 to £1,299.99 |
| Ninja Luxe Café | portafilter | conical, material not published | 25 | not published | 336 x 344 mm | automatic wand | £499 to £499.99 |
| De’Longhi Magnifica Evo | bean to cup | not published | not published | 250 g hopper | 240 x 440 mm | carafe | £349 to £443.99 |
| Philips Series 3300 LatteGo | bean to cup | ceramic, type not published | 12 | 275 g hopper | 247 x 434 mm | carafe | £422.95 to £569.99 |
| De’Longhi Rivelia | bean to cup | not published | not published | 250 g hopper | 245 x 430 mm | carafe | £592 to £749.99 |
| Smeg Collezione bean to cup | bean to cup | steel, type not published | 10 | 150 g hopper | 180 x 433 mm | manual wand | £699 to £699.95 |
| De’Longhi Eletta Explore | bean to cup | not published | not published | 300 g hopper | 260 x 450 mm | carafe | £949.99 to £969.99 |
| Jura ENA 8 | bean to cup | not published | not published | 125 g hopper | 271 x 445 mm | milk pipe | £1,095 |
| Jura E8 | bean to cup | not published | 7 | 280 g hopper | 270 x 446 mm | milk pipe | £1,245 to £1,295 |
| Krups Intuition Experience+ | bean to cup | conical, material not published | 13 | 250 g hopper | 240 x 400 mm | automatic wand | no UK price listed |
What the makers publish about the grinder, and what they do not
Four grinder facts get published often enough to compare: burr type, burr material, grind settings and hopper size. Sage is the only maker here that gives all four for every model, from 16 settings on the Barista Express to 45 on the Oracle Jet.
De’Longhi publishes the least. There is no burr type and no burr material for any of its four machines, and no settings count at all for the Magnifica Evo, the Rivelia or the Eletta Explore. The La Specialista Maestro is the one De’Longhi machine with a published settings count, 15, and steel burrs of an unstated shape.
Jura is nearly as quiet: neither burr type nor material for the E8 or the ENA 8, seven settings on the E8 and no count on the ENA 8. The rest publish three of the four. Philips gives ceramic burrs and 12 settings without saying conical or flat. Smeg gives steel and 10. Krups gives conical and 13. Ninja gives conical and 25 but no hopper capacity.
A settings count on its own says how finely you can move the grind, not how evenly it grinds. Nobody here publishes burr diameter or grind uniformity, so the count is what you have.
If you want to dose, tamp and steam yourself
Seven machines hand you a portafilter, five of them Sage. What separates the Sage five is grind settings and milk: 16 on the Barista Express at £499.95, 30 on the Barista Pro at £599.95. The Barista Express and Barista Pro comparison has the rest of that gap.
Two of the seven take work off you without becoming bean to cup machines. The Barista Express Impress adds a lever that does the tamp, described in its manual as “Assisted Tamping with a Barista Twist Finish”, and the same manual says it is “recommended to tamp twice to achieve a very polished coffee puck”. The Oracle Jet goes further: its manual says the machine “grinds, doses and tamps 22 grams of coffee” into a 58 mm basket, so you lock in a finished puck and steam the milk. That costs £1,699.95, the most of anything here.
If you want the drink at one button
Eight bean to cup machines qualify, from £349 to £443.99 for the Magnifica Evo up to £1,245 to £1,295 for the Jura E8. The bean to cup and espresso machine guide covers what changes daily.
Read down that price list and the extra money buys milk hardware and capacity, not a better published grinder. The Magnifica Evo and the Eletta Explore both pour from a carafe and neither has a published burr type, and the £600 between them buys a 300 g hopper against 250 g. The £1,095 ENA 8 has the smallest hopper of the eight at 125 g and the smallest tank at 1.1 litres.
If the worktop is shallow
Depth is where this choice bites. The bean to cup machines are the deep ones: 430 mm for the Rivelia, 440 mm for the Magnifica Evo, 445 and 446 mm for the two Juras, 450 mm for the Eletta Explore. On a 600 mm worktop with a socket behind the machine, that is most of the run.
The portafilter machines are shallower and wider. The Barista Touch is 400 x 319 mm and the Barista Express 318 x 351 mm. The narrowest machine here is the Smeg at 180 mm across, though it is still 433 mm deep.
If the budget is fixed at about £500
Three machines land there: the Barista Express at £499.95, the Ninja Luxe Café at £499 to £499.99 and the Philips Series 3300 LatteGo at £422.95 to £569.99. The Sage gives 16 grind settings and a manual wand, the Ninja 25 settings and an automatic wand but no published hopper size, the Philips one button and a carafe. The Barista Express and Ninja Luxe Café comparison sets the first two against each other in detail.
If you want milk made for you
Ten of the fifteen do the milk for you, in three different ways. Four use an automatic wand, so the jug stays on the counter but the wand runs itself: the Barista Touch, the Oracle Jet, the Ninja Luxe Café and the Krups. Four pour from a carafe you fill and then refrigerate: the three De’Longhi bean to cup machines and the Philips. The two Juras draw milk through a pipe from your own container. The Barista Pro and Barista Touch comparison shows what the automatic wand costs on an otherwise matched pair.
Four keep a manual wand and a jug: the Barista Express, the Barista Pro, the Impress and the Smeg. De’Longhi publishes no milk system at all for the La Specialista Maestro, which is a gap worth closing before you order.
If long warranties matter
Jura publishes 25 months in the UK for the ENA 8 and the E8. Sage, Philips, Krups, Smeg and Ninja publish 24. De’Longhi publishes none for any of its four machines, the same silence it keeps about its burrs.
