Eight bean to cup machines have a page here, running from £349 to £1,295 on 21 September 2026. They differ less in what comes out of the spout than in how much worktop they take, how milk gets into the cup and what you wash afterwards. Those are the machines we cover, not the whole UK market.
The eight side by side
| Machine | Width x depth x height | Water tank | Beans | Milk | Grind settings | UK warranty | UK price on 21 September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| De’Longhi Magnifica Evo | 240 x 440 x 360 mm | 1.8 L | 250 g | carafe | not published | not published | £349 to £443.99 |
| De’Longhi Rivelia | 245 x 430 x 385 mm | 1.4 L | 250 g | carafe | not published | not published | £592 to £749.99 |
| De’Longhi Eletta Explore | 260 x 450 x 385 mm | 1.8 L | 300 g | carafe | not published | not published | £949.99 to £969.99 |
| Philips Series 3300 LatteGo | 247 x 434 x 366 mm | 1.8 L | 275 g | carafe | 12 | 24 months | £422.95 to £569.99 |
| Jura ENA 8 | 271 x 445 x 323 mm | 1.1 L | 125 g | milk pipe | not published | 25 months | £1,095 |
| Jura E8 | 270 x 446 x 348 mm | 1.9 L | 280 g | milk pipe | 7 | 25 months | £1,245 to £1,295 |
| Smeg BCC12 | 180 x 433 x 336 mm | 1.4 L | 150 g | manual steam wand | 10 | 24 months | £699 to £699.95 |
| Krups Intuition Experience+ | 240 x 400 x 365 mm | 3 L | 250 g | automatic wand | 13 | 24 months | not published |
If the counter is the limit
The Smeg is 180 mm across, 60 mm narrower than anything else here. Next come the Magnifica Evo and the Krups at 240 mm, and the widest is the ENA 8 at 271 mm.
Depth catches people out. Seven of the eight are 430 to 450 mm deep, the Eletta Explore deepest at 450 mm, and the Krups is the exception at 400 mm. Add the plug behind whichever number applies.
The ENA 8 is the lowest at 323 mm, the Smeg next at 336 mm, and the Rivelia and Eletta Explore the tallest at 385 mm. None of the eight publishes the height with the hopper lid open, so clearance under a wall cupboard is not a published figure for any of them. Measure the gap and leave a margin. Cup clearance is published by everyone but Philips and Jura: 185 mm on the Smeg, 140 mm on the Magnifica Evo and Rivelia, 143 mm on the Eletta Explore.
If you want the milk made for you
Four of the eight use a carafe you fill and clip on: the Magnifica Evo, the Rivelia, the Eletta Explore and the Series 3300 with its LatteGo.
The two Juras use a milk pipe instead. The machine draws milk through a tube from whatever container you set beside it, so a carton out of the fridge does the carafe’s job. The Krups also uses a tube, feeding an automatic wand from a milk pot.
The Smeg is the odd one out, with a manual steam wand: it grinds and brews for you, then hands you a jug. Our guide to bean to cup against a traditional espresso machine sets out what that changes each morning.
If you hate washing milk parts
The makers do not ask for the same thing here.
Philips asks the least. Philips’s manual for the Series 2300 and 3300 says “LatteGo consists of a milk container, a frame and a storage lid”, and after every use you “Clean all parts in the dishwasher or under the tap with lukewarm water and some washing-up liquid”. There is no tube to flush.
The De’Longhi carafes come with a clock attached. De’Longhi’s manual for the Magnifica Evo says a carafe with milk still in it “can be kept in the refrigerator for no more than 2 days”, and that “If the milk carafe is left out of the refrigerator for more than 30 minutes, disassemble and clean all components”. De’Longhi’s manual for the Rivelia and the manual for the Eletta Explore both say that for best results the carafe goes in the dishwasher.
Jura splits it into a rinse and a clean. Jura’s manual for the ENA 8 says “After each milk preparation, the ENA prompts you to perform a milk system rinse”, and separately that “To ensure that the milk system in the dual spout always works properly, you must clean it daily when you have been preparing milk”. Jura’s manual for the E8 gives the same rinse prompt. Jura also tells owners to “Use only original JURA maintenance products”, so budget for its own cleaner.
The Krups has two milk jobs after every drink. Krups’s manual for the Intuition Experience+ says “We recommend that you clean the milk pot with hot water and with soap after each use” and that “You can put the milk jug in the dishwasher without its lid”, then asks for a rinse that “consists of carefully manually cleaning the milk tube and its metal nozzle with hot water AFTER EACH USE”.
The Smeg has the shortest instruction of the lot. Smeg’s manual for the BCC12 says “Clean the steam wand every time you use it, to avoid milk residues or clogging”, and supplies a needle for the steam outlet. Less to wash, more to remember. The rest of the routine is much the same on all eight, and our guides to cleaning a coffee machine and descaling one cover it.
If you make several drinks in a row
Tank and hopper decide how often you get up. The Krups holds 3 L, nearly three times the ENA 8’s 1.1 L, and the E8 is next at 1.9 L. The ENA 8 also has the smallest hopper, 125 g against 300 g on the Eletta Explore, so it is the one to rule out for a busy kitchen despite costing £1,095.
The grounds container follows the same logic: 16 servings on the E8, 12 on the Series 3300, 10 on the Rivelia and ENA 8, 9 on the Krups and 7 on the Smeg. De’Longhi publishes no figure for the Magnifica Evo or the Eletta Explore.
If the budget is fixed
Two machines sit at the bottom. The Magnifica Evo was £349 to £443.99 and the Series 3300 LatteGo was £422.95 to £569.99 on 21 September 2026. Nothing we cover was listed under £300 that day. Our Philips LatteGo against the Magnifica Evo comparison goes through that choice.
The middle is the Rivelia at £592 to £749.99 and the Smeg at £699 to £699.95, and the Magnifica Evo against Rivelia comparison covers the cheaper stablemate question. Above that, the Eletta Explore was £949.99 to £969.99, the ENA 8 £1,095 and the E8 £1,245 to £1,295. The Krups has no UK price we can quote for that date.
Warranty is worth reading alongside the price. Jura publishes 25 months on both machines in Jura’s UK warranty conditions, an unusual length in a market of round years. Philips, Smeg and Krups all publish 24 months, and De’Longhi publishes no warranty length for any of its three.
What the makers leave out
De’Longhi publishes the least of the four: no grind settings count on the Magnifica Evo, Rivelia or Eletta Explore, no warranty length, no burr detail and no descaling interval. Philips’s product leaflet for the Series 3300 is the fullest: 12 grind settings, ceramic burrs, 24 months, and a descaling claim of up to 5,000 cups with an AquaClean filter fitted.
Three things none of the eight publishes: warm-up time, a noise figure in decibels, and the height with the hopper lid open. Only Krups states the burr shape, and only Philips and Smeg state the burr material, ceramic and steel. If a page elsewhere gives you those numbers for these machines, it did not get them from the makers.
