
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
Saeco
The Xelsis engineering with a 5 inch screen and a metal front
€998.00
Price verdict from 5 DecWe have measured this price since 5 November (5 days). Lowest measured: €998.00 on 10 November. A price verdict follows on 5 December at the earliest, and only after 2 more readings.
Updated on 10 November 2026Updated on 10 November 2026
Last 6 days
| Date | Lowest price that day |
|---|---|
| 10 November 2026 | €998.00 |
| 9 November 2026 | €998.00 |
| 8 November 2026 | €998.00 |
| 7 November 2026 | €998.00 |
| 6 November 2026 | €998.00 |
| 5 November 2026 | €998.00 |
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The Xelsis Deluxe sits below the Xelsis Suprema and shares almost everything with it: 22 pre-programmed drinks, iced coffee among them, eight user profiles, wifi, a ceramic grinder with 12 settings, a 1.7 litre water tank and a 450 gram bean hopper. The difference Philips names is the screen: 5 inches instead of 7.8.
Milk goes through a tube from a supplied 0.6 litre jug or straight from a carton, and with LatteDuo it makes two cups at once. That also means the upkeep of a tube system: the HygieSteam programme every day and a deep clean with milk cleaner every month. Anyone who finds that too much looks at a Philips with LatteGo, such as the Café Aromis 8000.
Who for: Anyone who wants the Xelsis features and has no need for the Suprema’s large screen.
Against 27 other bean-to-cups between €699.00 and €1,479.00, on the specifications the maker publishes.
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.

Saeco · SM8885/00
Saeco’s flagship with a 7.8 inch screen, wifi and the filter in the box
€1,459.00
Price verdict from 5 Dec1.7 l tank
With essential accessories€1,474.90
machine + descaler

Saeco · SM6680/00
Philips engineering under another name, with a real milk carafe
€719.00 in Glossy Black
Price verdict from 5 DecW 26.2 x H 38.3 cm · 1.8 l tank
With essential accessories€734.90
machine + descaler

Philips · EP8757/12
Hot and cold milk froth from two LatteGo Pro jugs, and cold brew
€999.99
Price verdict from 5 DecW 25.1 x H 38.9 cm · 1.9 l tank
With essential accessories€1,015.89
machine + descaler