Blue Bottle Coffee Subscription vs Intelligentsia Coffee Subscription

One roaster you already like, shipped free, with the roast chosen rather than matched

Scores higher on delivery & straight answers.

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

Scores higher on cost per bag, and per kilo, freshness & roast dates.

• +Shipping is always free, on every subscription, with no bundle or minimum to earn it.
• +From $22 for a 12 oz bag, about $65 a kilo, less than Trade before postage.
• +Around twenty subscriptions covering dark, medium, light, single origin, espresso and Craft Matcha.
• +Change, pause or cancel at any time with no notice period stated.
• +A limited-time extra 10% off when you prepay the first three shipments.

• −No roast-to-despatch time is stated, and no roast-date claim, so freshness scores on an absence.
• −One roaster only, so there is no discovery of anybody else's coffee.
• −The bag size is in the help centre, not on the subscriptions page where a buyer compares.
• −No money-back guarantee is stated on the subscriptions page.

• +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.