Steep it cold,
skip the $5 pour.
Cold brew costs pennies a glass to make and $5 to buy. See how fast a pitcher — or a nitro tap — pays for itself against your café habit.
What you buy out now — the spending we compare against.
1 Your cold-brew habit
How many glasses do you buy? Toggle per day or per week; tap Edit prices to match your café.
2 Add the tip
Tipping is one of the most overlooked costs of buying out — those checkout screens add 15–25% to every order. It applies only to what you buy out.
The gear and ingredients you'd use to make it yourself.
3 Choose your coffee
Cold brew is steeped by the pitcher, so a bag stretches across many glasses. Pick a roast or choose Your own bag to enter its price and weight.
4 Nitro charge (N₂)
Nitro cold brew gets its creamy cascade from nitrogen. Only your nitro drinks use it — each charger pushes a couple of glasses.
5 Pick your brewer
From a mason jar to a nitro tap — this sets the upfront cost. Override the price below.
Fine-tune
6 Fine-tune (optional)
Filters and the occasional deep clean — estimated from how much you brew.
Your savings
Add your usual drinks above to see what you'd save.
Savings after 1, 2 & 3 years
Cost of one glass
Your money over time
Break-even progress
Which brewer pays off fastest?
Based on your habit — every brewer eventually pays for itself.
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Complete your cold-brew bar
The extras that make a week of cold brew effortless.