The Best Coffee Subscription Boxes That Bring the Beans to You

Peet’s Coffee & Tea has been operating since the 1960s and offers a coffee subscription so that you can enjoy beans shipped to you within 24 hours of roasting. The company offers four curated subscription boxes: the Small Batch Series ($21.95 per month), the Single Origin Series ($19.95 per month), the Signature Blend Series ($18.95 per month), and the Seasonal Essentials Series ($22.95 per month).

With the Frequent Brewer program, you can customize your subscription by choosing your favorite roast and your preferred schedule. There's a short quiz on the website that matches your flavor preferences and habits to the roast that's right for you. No matter which subscription you select, the company allows you to choose your quantity and offers discounts on larger quantities.

Trade Coffee's unique model offers a subscription service that connects you with over 60 craft coffee roasters in the U.S. Every roaster commits to a "Roaster Pledge," agreeing to a set of standards regarding sourcing, sustainability, and quality. Trade’s commitment to ethical business practices is visible across all aspects of its brand, including its eco-friendly packaging and shipping materials. Trade boasts a collection of over 400 types of coffee, including single-origin blends and roast-to-order coffees, all shipped within 24 hours.

After taking a brief quiz about your coffee habits and preferences, you're matched with your first bag of beans at 25% off, plus free shipping. After that, choose your quantity (one to three bags) and shipping frequency (10 days or 28 days). Trade allows you to give feedback after your first order which helps inform your next match, making for a truly personalized experience. However, you can alter your order at any time.

Atlas Coffee ships coffee from 50 countries to your doorstep each month in a beautifully-designed bag, inspired by international landscapes and textiles. Each delivery comes with a postcard featuring the country of origin, as well as the coffee processing from bean to bag, including flavor notes and brewing tips. 

Alta Coffee allows you to purchase a half-bag (6 ounces), a single bag (12 ounces), or a double bag (24 ounces) delivered every two weeks or four weeks. Contact the company to order bulk for an office or event. At around $14 for a 24-ounce double bag, Atlas is slightly pricier than other brands without its global variety.

Driftaway Coffee delivers coffee with a conscience, as this company strives for complete transparency about where and how its beans are grown and sourced. Based in Brooklyn, New York, whole beans are roasted on-site twice a week in eight different varieties. When you sign up for a subscription, Driftaway sends you a tasting kit, so that the company can match future orders to your taste preferences. Choose between 8 ounces to 4 pounds of coffee per order, delivered weekly, bi-monthly, or monthly.

As a way of giving back, Driftaway donates five cents for every pound of coffee roasted to World Coffee Research (WCR). Coffee is delivered in 100 percent compostable packaging, made from sugarcane waste and plant fibers. The company also gives customers detailed information on their carbon footprint and how they work to offset it.

With close to 600 coffees from 60 of the country’s best roasters, MistoBox offers a tremendous subscription variety to choose from. Options include single-origin coffees, blends, light roasts, dark roasts, beans for cold brew, certified organic coffees, and almost 70 varieties of decaf. To help you filter through the hundreds of coffees, MistoBox offers two tiers of coffee selections, Deluxe ($12.71 a bag) or Exclusive ($15.26 a bag). For additional cost savings, you can opt into a payment plan and commit to six or 12 bags, instead of paying for one at a time. 

Delivery schedules are customized based on how much coffee you drink per week. If you're an avid coffee drinker, you may want to choose a weekly delivery, but if you only drink five or six cups per week, opt for a monthly delivery. And, manage your subscription with Alexa!

If you only drink organic brews, Java Presse is for you. The company's selection is small, with only four varieties, but it's well-curated. Because the beans are organic, the coffee is completely free of pesticides, additives, and preservatives. And Java Presse's practices careful sourcing, assuring all beans are also sustainably grown. Beans are shipped to you within two hours of roasting, making this option the freshest of any of the subscriptions we reviewed. The company even claims to have special roasting techniques designed to optimize the coffee’s antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits. 

The Java Presse subscription plan ships every two weeks or monthly, and you can choose from light, medium, or dark roast blends, or opt for the Brewer’s Choice subscription, which features small-batch coffee from a different country each month.

Want to share great coffee with your office mates? In addition to individual subscriptions, Crema.co will ship 5 to 20 pounds of coffee per week to your workplace. You also have the option to choose preferred tasting notes, like sweet, floral, or fruity, along with your preferred roast level. Crema.co also has an option for workplaces with decaf drinkers.  

After filtering your tastes and habits, choose your coffee selection from curated choices. Next, create a "playlist" where you can rate the coffee you received, adjust the delivery frequency, and add favorite roasts for future deliveries. If you don’t want to be in charge of your entire work team, invite colleagues to sign up as “team members” so that they can add to the playlist, too.

Copper Cow Coffee offers a subscription service specifically for Vietnamese-style pour-over coffee. The company's coffee is a blend of 70 percent Robusta and 30 percent Arabica beans for a “concise ratio of a strong, yet silky brew.” Copper Cow Coffee sources its beans from farms in Vietnam that use agricultural processing methods without chemicals or pesticides. And, the company pledges to pay farmers a fair wage as a part of its commitment to sustainability. All milk in the company's coffee creamers is also sourced sustainably from local farms in California.

Coffee subscriptions include a beautifully packaged box of five to eight individual pour-over servings with a filter delivered every one to two months. You can also choose flavored packages—Salted Caramel Latte, Churro Latte, Ginger Latte, and Lavender Latte—that include creamers.

Blue Bottle Coffee welcomes its customers to "the best of what coffee can be." The company's entire inventory of coffee is ethically sourced from trusted producers and roasted in small batches before being packaged and sent directly to consumers. Blue Bottle also offers a slew of customizable coffee subscriptions—17, to be exact—with five of them dedicated specifically to espresso.

Among Blue Bottle's espresso offerings, you'll find organic whole-bean espressos like Hayes Valley, with notes of chocolate and orange zest, or 17ft Ceiling, which features hints of caramel, almond, and dark cherry. If you're into instant espresso, Blue Bottle's version boasts flavors of dark chocolate, molasses, and toasted malt. All subscriptions include free shipping and can be ordered on a schedule of every one to four weeks.

Since 1994, Philadelphia-based coffee roaster La Colombe has been supplying its customers with top-notch beans. The company boasts over 30 cafe locations, and its products are sold in retailers across the country. But if you'd rather have your La Colombe coffee shipped straight to you, its online store is here to help. There, you'll find dozens of coffee varieties across a range of roasts and flavor profiles, along with an impressive selection of cold brew available in either cans or "fridge packs," which essentially function the same way as a box of wine.

To sign up for a La Colombe subscription, click the "subscriptions" tab on the website's homepage. From there, you can choose from multiple cold brew varieties, including a single-origin Brazilian cold brew, Nitro Extra Bold, and lattes that combine cold brew with frothed milk. All subscriptions come with free shipping, and you'll get a discount if you prepay for three, six, or 12 months at a time.