Top picks
Set-and-forget brewers for a great pot of coffee every morning.
By the New Coffee Makers editors · Updated
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Six automatic drip brewers that either won a recent expert test or sit on Amazon's best-seller list.
Best overall
Technivorm Moccamaster
Coffee lovers who want great-tasting coffee and a machine built to last for years. Wirecutter calls the Moccamaster a chic, reliable workhorse, and says every taster rated its coffee highest. It tested the thermal KBT and also recommends the glass-carafe KB; the KBGV Select is the same brewer with a glass carafe and a half-batch switch. Source.
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Best for auto-brew
OXO
People who want coffee ready when they wake up. Wirecutter says it makes pleasant coffee quickly and is the pick to get if you want to program your brewer the night before. Source.
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Best for small kitchens
Bonavita
Compact counters and anyone who wants café-style coffee with one-button simplicity. Wirecutter's top pick: it consistently turned out bright, balanced, nuanced coffee and produced one of the hottest cups, with a carafe that kept it steaming after four hours. Source.
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Best for tinkerers
Breville
People who like to adjust their brew, including iced and cold-brew settings. Good Housekeeping's Kitchen Lab names it best overall: sleek, fast, highly customizable, and its carafe kept coffee warm for more than two hours in testing. Source.
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Best value
Ninja
Anyone who wants hot, good-tasting coffee from an inexpensive machine. Wirecutter's top cheap pick: it brewed the best-tasting coffee of the budget machines tested and was the only one that reliably brewed hot enough to extract good flavor. Source.
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Popular pick
Cuisinart
Big households that brew a full pot every day. We found no recent hands-on expert test of this exact model. We include it because it is one of Amazon's best-selling drip machines; Wirecutter liked the related DCC-1200's adjustable hot plate but found its tank hard to fill. Source.
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We started from Amazon's best-seller lists and recent hands-on reviews from Wirecutter, Serious Eats, Good Housekeeping, The Spruce Eats and WIRED, then kept models that are current and widely sold. We didn't test these machines ourselves. What reviewers found is paraphrased, with a link to the source.
Prices and ratings are what the maker or retailer showed on its own product page on Oct 28, 2026. They change, so check before you buy. We don't show Amazon prices or star ratings; the Amazon button lets you check them there.
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