Strengths
Compact footprint
Machines that score highly for compact footprint, ranked by our score.
- SageBambino PlusThree seconds from cold to ready, and an automatic wand that textures milk better than most people do by hand. Buy it for the milk and the speed; buy the grinder separately, because there isn't one.Espresso8.4
- De'LonghiLa Specialista Arte EC9155A grinder, non-pressurised baskets and a wand the maker genuinely aims at latte art, in a body smaller than its rivals. Eight grind settings is the constraint, and 51 mm baskets limit what you can buy for it.Espresso7.9
- BialettiMoka ExpressUnchanged since 1933, and still the most coffee per pound in this catalogue. It has no pump, no steam and no electronics, which is exactly why it outlives everything else here.Moka7.4
- De'LonghiDedica Style EC685Fifteen centimetres wide, which is the whole point: it fits where nothing else does. It ships with a pressurised basket and a panarello frother, so it flatters the coffee and caps what you can do with milk.Espresso7.0
- De'LonghiStilosa EC230The cheapest way to own a real portafilter machine, and it makes a better shot than its price suggests. What you give up is the milk: the wand is short, slow and the reason nobody makes a flat white on one.Espresso6.8
- NespressoVertuo PopThirty seconds from cold to cup, and genuinely decent coffee for a capsule machine. The machine is the cheap part: the running cost lives in the capsules, and the tank is small enough to notice.Pod6.5
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