Atlas Coffee Club vs Intelligentsia Coffee Subscription

Drinking a different country every delivery, with the plan set out before you sign up

Scores higher on choice & personalisation, delivery & straight answers.

A Chicago roaster's own rotating single origins, shipped free and roasted to order

Scores higher on freshness & roast dates, what actually arrives.

• +A 30-day money-back guarantee, which is a refund rather than the replacement most of this market offers.
• +The entire plan builder, including the price, is shown before you create an account or hand over an email address.
• +Every coffee is a single origin from a named country, sent with a postcard and tasting notes for that origin.
• +$58.82 a kilo on the 12oz bag, which is materially cheaper than Trade's $70.94.
• +Grind is offered for drip, French press, pour over, espresso, AeroPress and cold brew, plus whole bean, and decaf is available.

• −Atlas roasts everything itself, so you are choosing between origins rather than between roasters.
• −The United States and Canada only.
• −The 'Bright and Expressive' flavour profile costs $2 a bag more than the standard one.
• −Frequency is limited to every two weeks or every four, with no longer interval offered.
• −The advertised price is a sale price against a struck-through list price, so what you pay after the first bag needs checking.

• +Always roasted to order, stated plainly as one of three headline promises rather than implied.
• +Always free shipping on subscriptions, with no bundle or spend threshold.
• +From $18 for 12 oz on Intelligentsia Classics, about $53 a kilo.
• +Skip an order or move the next one to any future date from My Subscriptions, and gift subscriptions are sold.
• +20% off the first four orders with code 20OFFFOUR, which is a longer discount runway than most.

• −Prices sit on each subscription's own page, not on the subscriptions page that compares them.
• −One roaster, so there is no discovery beyond Intelligentsia's own range.
• −No money-back guarantee is stated.
• −Gift subscriptions cannot be paid for in full up front.
• −No shipping destinations are stated on the subscriptions page.