Breville the Barista Express Impress: Price Tracker
Today's best price
1 store · sorted by price| Store | Price | vs 90-day avg | Checked | |
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| Best Buy Best price | $799.95 | - | Aug 29, 23:00 ET | Go to store |
90-day price history
lowest new price per dayIs the Impress priced like a bargain right now?
No. Our reading of the Impress is typical: the current tag sits close to where this machine has spent most of the last 90 days, and the 90-day low is not meaningfully below it. That means there is no discount to hurry for. If your kitchen can wait, waiting costs nothing; if it cannot, you are not overpaying either.
Grinding, dosing and tamping handled in one body
The Impress is an assisted-tamp espresso machine with a grinder built into the same chassis. Two things follow from that description. First, beans go from hopper to portafilter without a separate grinder on the counter, so the whole espresso setup is one appliance and one footprint. Second, the tamping step, which is the part most new espresso owners get wrong, is guided by the machine rather than left to wrist pressure. That is the design argument for this model over a pump machine that expects you to buy a grinder and learn a tamp by feel.
It suits someone who wants to pull real espresso at home and is willing to learn dialling in, but does not want the outcome to depend on hand technique from day one. Someone who mainly drinks drip coffee or pods should skip it; a machine built around grinding and tamping is wasted effort for a cup you could pour from a carafe.
What the assisted workflow gains and what it costs
Strengths, following from the grinder-plus-assisted-tamp design: fewer separate purchases, less counter space than a machine and standalone grinder, and a more repeatable puck than a manual tamp gives a beginner.
Trade-offs from the same design: an all-in-one body means the grinder and the brew group share a service life, so a grinder fault is a whole-machine problem, and any machine that grinds fresh beans asks for regular cleaning of the burrs and group head. There is also a price floor here that pod and drip machines do not have.
For anything else on the spec sheet, check the model listing on Breville’s own site before ordering.
Ordering when only one tracked listing exists
There is a single tracked listing at present, and it is a first-party seller, which means standard retailer returns and warranty handling rather than a third-party seller’s terms. The price table below shows the current standing. Our reasoning on seller types is in the first-party vs marketplace guide.
When a number on this machine would move
Espresso machines at this level move on retailer promotions rather than daily repricing, so the chart matters more than any single day. We log the tag every day and the 90-day range on this page updates with it; the method is described in how we track prices.
Other coffee machines we follow
The Impress grinds beans and pulls espresso, which is a different job from filling a carafe or dropping in a pod, so decide which of those you actually drink before comparing tags. We also track the Ninja CM401, the Ninja ES601CY and the Keurig K-Select, each on its own page with its own live pricing. For the wider picture, see the coffee-maker tracker.
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