Breville Oracle Jet BES985 vs Gevi 20Bar Super Automatic Espresso Machine

Cafe-standard espresso and hands-free milk without learning to grind, dose and tamp by hand

Scores higher on build quality & durability, steam power & milk texturing, maintenance & cleaning.

Home baristas wanting an all-in-one espresso machine with integrated grinder and steam wand

Scores higher on value for money.

• +Auto grind, dose and tamp into a 58 mm portafilter holding 22 g, the size cafe machines use.
• +Auto MilQ steams microfoam hands-free with 8 texture levels, settings for alternative milks and a temperature range of 104 to 167 F.
• +Barista Guidance detects an over or under extracted shot and helps you correct the grind.
• +Cold Brew in under 3 minutes and Cold Espresso in just over a minute, which almost no home machine offers.
• +Six finishes, from Brushed Stainless Steel to Black Truffle and Damson Blue.

• −Breville's product page does not publish pump pressure, power rating or water tank size; the tank and warranty figures here come from an authorised dealer.
• −At $1,999.95 list it costs more than twice the Barista Touch, which also grinds and steams automatically.
• −Heating is a ThermoJet group head rather than a boiler, and no steam capacity figure is published, so back-to-back milk drinks cannot be compared on paper.
• −It is built to make decisions for you, so someone who wants to learn espresso by feel will get less out of it than out of a semi-automatic machine.

• +Two boilers, so steaming and brewing do not queue behind each other, which nothing else at this price offers
• +PID, a 58mm portafilter, a pressure gauge with a marked pre-infusion range, and both single and dual-wall baskets
• +An integrated grinder in a stainless steel body

• −$699.99, which is the category median, so not a budget buy
• −20 bar is a pump maximum, and espresso is pulled at 9
• −Manual microfoam by hand, and no warranty term is published