Barista Express is $150.00 cheaper today. It was the cheaper on 26 of the 33 days we have held a price for both. They differ on grinder and impress puck system, as Breville lists them on breville.com. Every figure below was read from the retailer by us. A dash means we have no current figure for that one.
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How they differ
Specs as Breville lists them on breville.com, the differences first.
Grinder
Barista Express: 16 settings
Barista Express Impress: 25 settings
Impress puck system
Barista Express: No
Barista Express Impress: Yes: dose and 22 lb tamp
Heating
Barista Express: Thermocoil with PID
Barista Express Impress: Thermocoil with PID
Milk
Barista Express: Manual steam wand
Barista Express Impress: Manual steam wand
Barista ExpressBarista Express Impress
high $799.95low $499.95
Both lines are the best price we recorded on each day, on one money axis. Our record for each starts when we started watching it, so a shorter line is a shorter record and not a cheaper history.
How the gap has moved
Across the 33 days we have held a price for both, the gap between them was widest at $150.00 on Sep 27 and narrowest at $35.05 on Sep 8. Barista Express was the cheaper on 26 of them, Barista Express Impress on 7. Today it is $150.00.
Measured from our own readings, carried forward day by day — a price stands until we record a different one. It starts on the first day we held a price for both, which is later than the day we began tracking one of them.
What they are
6 attributes the retailers describe differently, first. These are their words, not ours — we record prices, we do not test products.
Size
Large
—no figure
Weight
22.09 pounds
23.7 pounds
Dimensions
15.9 × 13.8 × 12.5 inches
16.5 × 14.5 × 12.5 inches
Model
BES870XL
BES876BSS1BNA1
Released
—no figure
September 2022
Warranty
1 Year Limited Product Warranty
2 Year Limited Warranty
Color
Brushed Stainless Steel
Brushed Stainless Steel
2 products compared on the record we keep. Nothing here is ranked by what pays us, and neither of these placements was bought. Other model-against-model comparisons.