Steep it cold,
skip the $5 pour.
Cold brew costs a dollar or two 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. Every result is measured against this.
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
The tip is easy to forget, and those checkout screens add 15–25% to every order. It only applies to what you buy out.
3 Fine-tune upkeep
Cold brew doesn’t need much upkeep. These are typical numbers, and you can edit any of them.
Counted against your at-home cost for the whole projection.
The gear and ingredients you'd use to make it yourself.
4 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. Our organic & clean picks →
5 Nitro charge (N₂)
Nitro cold brew gets its creamy cascade from nitrogen. Only your nitro drinks use it, and each charger pours a couple of glasses. If you won’t make nitro at home, pick No nitro. Our organic & clean picks →
No nitro at home: you would pour flat cold brew instead. Nitro drinks you still buy out are counted at full café price, so the comparison below puts a café nitro against a plain glass you make yourself. It’s cheaper, but it isn’t the same drink.
6 Pick your brewer
Anything from a mason jar to a nitro tap. This sets the upfront cost, and you can change the price below.
Your savings
Add your usual drinks above to see what you'd save.
Over 3 years, you'd keep
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One glass
Your money over time
Trash you never make
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Which brewer pays off fastest?
Sorted fastest first, based on the habit you entered.
Complete your cold-brew bar
Bottles and filters for a week’s worth of cold brew, plus a grinder if you buy whole beans.