Best Coffee Makers of 2024

Coffee Maker With Carafe
The Bunn HB Heat N Brew is a classic programmable drip coffee maker with a unique design that’ll add a modern touch to your kitchen appliance lineup. It scored very well in our tests for brew performance, and our testers found its controls intuitive to use and the carafe easy to handle. It can brew a full pot of 10 cups of coffee in about 12 minutes, though you can also brew as little as 20 ounces to fill your travel mug before you head out the door. One downside, though, is that you can’t remove the carafe during the brew process. It has auto-shutoff, an indicator to let you know when it’s time to clean the machine, and a cupcake-style filter. It’s a little on the pricey side compared with other models that perform just as well—but as a drip coffee maker brand, Bunn receives our highest ratings for reliability and owner satisfaction in CR’s member survey, so it’s a machine you can count on.

Coffee Maker With Carafe
A traditional drip coffee maker with a modern twist, the Cuisinart DCC-T20 offers slick touchscreen controls and makes plenty of coffee for a full house, thanks to its 14-cup glass carafe. This model hits our tests for brewing performance and convenience out of the park, and it’s better than most when it comes to handling the carafe. It features programming, auto-shutoff, a cleaning indicator, a permanent filter, a water filter, brew-strength control, and a small-batch setting. Cuisinart’s drip coffee machines overall receive a stellar rating for owner satisfaction and a very good score for reliability in CR’s member survey, one reason you’ll find your pick of Cuisinart models at the top of our ratings.

Self-Serve Drip Coffee Maker
The Cuisinart Coffee on Demand DCC-300 is a self-serve drip coffee maker: It brews your coffee and keeps it hot in a reservoir, and to dispense a cup, you simply place your mug below the dispenser and press a lever. It aced our brew test and scored very well for convenience, too—in no small part thanks to handy features like its removable water reservoir and a display that shows how much coffee remains in the coffee reservoir. It also has auto-shutoff, a water filter, a cleaning indicator, and a cupcake-style filter.

Coffee Maker With Carafe
The unassuming, inexpensive Hamilton Beach 12-Cup Programmable 49465R might be easy to miss, but it can brew a mean cup of joe at a fantastic price. It has all the essentials in a basic black-plastic finish. It’s programmable and has auto-shutoff. What’s more, it does a superb job in our brewing test and can make a fresh pot in just 10 minutes. This model also performs strongly for convenience and carafe handling in CR’s lab tests. But it’s worth mentioning that this model is more prone to overflow, unlike other models listed here.

Grind-and-Brew Coffee Maker
The Melitta Aroma Fresh Plus 10-Cup coffee maker is a grind-and-brew model, which means you can start with fresh beans every morning and let the machine do the rest of the work for you. It scored very well in our brew test, but our testers found it especially excellent in terms of convenience and carafe handling. In addition to its conical burr grinder with a 7.5-ounce bean hopper capacity and 3 grind settings, it features an LCD display, touch controls, auto-shutoff, a cleaning indicator, and a cone-type filter. This model is a little expensive, but it saves you the cost of a grinder if you don’t already have one—and you may be pretty pleased at how much of a difference it makes to brew with fresh-ground beans.

Coffee Maker With Carafe
Though the Ninja 12-Cup Programmable CE201 looks like a pretty typical drip coffee maker, it has a wide range of programmable functions, like the ability to program a brew 24 hours ahead of time, a mid-brew pause so you can pour a cup of coffee before it’s done brewing, a warming plate that can keep your coffee hot for up to four hours, and a small-batch brewing function. It performed excellently in our brew test, and scored very well in our tests for convenience and carafe handling too. It has auto-shutoff, a removable water reservoir, and a permanent cone-type filter.

Coffee Maker With Carafe
The Ninja Specialty CM401 is one of the most versatile coffee makers we test. This terrific all-in-one machine is capable of brewing hot and iced coffee, lattes, macchiatos, and other specialty brews. In our tests, it receives the highest possible marks for brew performance, and its glass carafe handles comfortably. This model is easy to clean and comes packed with features, including an over-ice brew mode for iced coffee, a built-in milk frother, brew-strength control, and brew-size adjustment for everything from travel mugs to full carafes.

The same company that brought us the Instant Pot also produces the Instant Dual Pod Plus coffee maker—and we were pleased to find that it’s pretty good. In our tests, it delivered speedy and consistent cups of coffee, though the temperatures of each coffee could be a little variable. But our testers found it especially easy to operate and clean, and the machine allows for different brew strengths and sizes. It also takes both K-cups and Nespresso capsules, making it especially versatile among single-serve coffee makers. It has auto-shutoff, a removable water reservoir, and a height-adjustable drip tray.

What sets the Keurig K-Café Smart apart from the rest of the single-serve makers is its WiFi connectivity. Through the Keurig app, you can control this coffee maker remotely with your smartphone. In addition, it delivers superb results in our brewing range, convenience, and size consistency tests. This machine, which uses K-Cup pods, also has a removable reservoir, a height-adjustable drip tray, and auto-shutoff.

With its built-in milk frother, the Nespresso CitiZ EN267BAE takes single-serve coffee to the next level. It’s great when you’re hosting events, considering it aces CR’s tests for both speed and size consistency. The brand’s single-serve coffee makers also get top marks for reliability and owner satisfaction in our member surveys. This machine requires a bit more maintenance due to the milk frother, but if you love your morning latte, it’s a quick and easy way to get your fix. And like other Nespresso models, it requires Nespresso capsules, which the company recycles at no charge.

There’s good Nespresso representation in this list already, but we can’t leave out one of the highest-rated single-serve machines in our tests, and an incredibly popular model: the Nespresso Essenza Mini. It stands out for speedy brewing and its ability to control the brew volume for different strengths. This affordably priced, compact model is great for the office or anywhere you need to accommodate a variety of tastes. The adjustable drip tray and auto-shutoff function add to its low-maintenance profile.

A major draw of the manual Asobu Insulated Portable Brewer is that you can whip up your cold-brew coffee on the go. It offers excellent ratings for convenience and brews in 12 to 24 hours, depending on how strong you like your coffee. The Asobu isn’t dishwasher-safe, but it has a stainless steel insulated carafe, which is rare for a manual model.

The Primula Burke Cold Brew Coffee Maker PBPBK-5101 is the most inexpensive manual cold-brew model in our ratings—and one of the best. This machine receives a top-notch rating for convenience. It comes with a glass carafe, and most of its parts are dishwasher-safe. It’s the only cold brewer in our ratings that calls for a full 24-hour brew time, but you might find the results are worth the wait.

Unlike the cold-brew makers above, the Ninja Hot and Cold Brewed System CP307 is an automated cold-brew machine in addition to functioning as a hot drip coffee maker: It doesn’t really brew coffee cold, but it brews it at a lower temperature than hot coffee, making something close to cold brew much more quickly than manual cold-brew makers: It brews in about 10-15 minutes, though you’ll probably want to allow more time for the brew to chill in the fridge for true cold coffee. In our tests, it scored excellently for convenience—it’s incredibly versatile with all its functions—though it was only adequate for taste and ease of cleaning. It can also brew tea, and it has separate baskets for coffee and tea, six brew sizes, five brew styles (including the cold-brew setting), and it has a double-walled thermal carafe.