
Maintenance
EssentialDescaler
Limescale is what most machines die of, and vinegar attacks the seals. A liquid descaler declared suitable for espresso machines does the same job as the maker’s own branded fluid, usually for less.
€15.90
Go to bol
Philips
The step between the 3300 and the 5500
€419.00
Lowest price we have seenUsually between €439.00 and €479.00 (the middle half of every price we measured)
Updated on 10 November 2026Updated on 10 November 2026
Last 31 days
| Date | Lowest price that day |
|---|---|
| 10 November 2026 | €419.00 |
| 9 November 2026 | €419.00 |
| 8 November 2026 | €419.00 |
| 7 November 2026 | €419.00 |
| 6 November 2026 | €419.00 |
| 5 November 2026 | €448.02 |
| 4 November 2026 | €448.59 |
| 3 November 2026 | €446.44 |
| 2 November 2026 | €479.00 |
| 1 November 2026 | €481.00 |
| 31 October 2026 | €478.99 |
| 30 October 2026 | €481.00 |
| 29 October 2026 | €474.99 |
| 28 October 2026 | €475.99 |
| 27 October 2026 | €481.00 |
| 26 October 2026 | €446.60 |
| 25 October 2026 | €479.00 |
| 24 October 2026 | €460.74 |
| 23 October 2026 | €479.00 |
| 22 October 2026 | €446.52 |
| 21 October 2026 | €448.66 |
| 20 October 2026 | €460.73 |
| 19 October 2026 | €484.16 |
| 18 October 2026 | €479.00 |
| 17 October 2026 | €479.00 |
| 16 October 2026 | €479.00 |
| 15 October 2026 | €479.00 |
| 14 October 2026 | €499.99 |
| 13 October 2026 | €479.00 |
| 12 October 2026 | €494.00 |
| 11 October 2026 | €479.00 |
Price alert
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Twelve drinks instead of five or twenty, the same LatteGo milk system, the same brewing. The Philips range differs mainly in menu and screen, not in the cup that comes out of it.
That makes this the one you buy when the 3300 feels a little bare and the 5500 is hard to justify. Look above all at the price on the day: these three cross each other in the offers regularly.
Who for: Anyone wanting more drinks than the 3300 offers without going to the 5500.
Against 43 other bean-to-cups between €284.00 and €625.00, on the specifications the maker publishes.
These versions are the same appliance under another model number, often only a different colour. The prices differ considerably, so it pays to look at all of them.
This finish, priced as above: €419.00
This is what we know for certain. Dimensions and capacities the manufacturer or the shop does not state are left out rather than estimated. A measurement or a tank volume that is not there is one we do not have.
A worked example, not a specification: 2 cups a day (730 a year), the intervals from the maker's manual, with the water filter the maker recommends, and the lowest price in our catalog today.
Maintenance a year (the priced lines above)
€65.90
How often you descale depends on your water hardness. Where the maker gives no interval for it, we leave it out rather than estimate it.
6.57 kilos a year at 9 grams a cup: €108.34 with the cheapest kilo in our catalog, €445.45 with the dearest.
As the manufacturer states it. What a shop ships may differ.
Picked on what this machine does and does not do itself

Maintenance
EssentialLimescale is what most machines die of, and vinegar attacks the seals. A liquid descaler declared suitable for espresso machines does the same job as the maker’s own branded fluid, usually for less.
€15.90
Go to bol
Maintenance
RecommendedPhilips counts a considerably longer descaling interval when this filter is fitted. Replace it on time: a saturated filter does nothing, and the machine keeps counting regardless.
€32.95
Go to bolEvery bean fits every machine. What differs is the order: on a bean-to-cup the 100% arabica beans come first, because dark-roasted blends carrying robusta give off more oil and that clogs a built-in grinder sooner.

Lavazza
€23.99per kilo
Keenly priced€23.99 · 1 kg bag
All arabica as well, like the Oro. The middle path between the soft arabica blends and the firm bar blends.

Lavazza
€24.26per kilo
Keenly priced€24.26 · 1 kg bag
All arabica, and so softer and more acidic than the blends carrying robusta. Anyone who finds espresso too harsh often starts here.

De Koffiejongens
€29.99per kilo
Ordinary price€29.99 · 1 kg bag
Certified organic and medium roasted. Compare the price per kilo with the branded blends: organic need not cost more.

illy
€46.00per kilo
Lowest price we have seen€11.50 · 250 g tin
A blend of nine arabicas, and per kilo a bean from the top end. The 250 g tin looks cheap and per kilo is nothing of the sort.

€592.00
Ordinary priceW 24.6 x H 37.7 cm · 1.8 l tank
With essential accessories€607.90
machine + descaler

€465.00 in Black chrome
Ordinary priceW 24.7 x H 36.6 cm · 1.8 l tank
With essential accessories€480.90
machine + descaler
What we wrote about this, with the kit each piece names.