Most coffee machine shopping in Australia ends up as a choice between two models that look alike and cost $200 apart. These pages take those pairs one at a time: what actually differs, what owners say, and who each one suits. Prices and stock are checked against The Good Guys and the brands' own stores.

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Manual espresso machines

Compact, no grinder

Built-in grinder

Dual boiler and Oracle

Automatic bean-to-cup machines

Capsule machines

How these pages are put together

Specs come from the manufacturers' Australian product pages and The Good Guys listings. Owner ratings and review counts are quoted from the store linked on each page, with the count shown so a 4.9 from five reviews isn't mistaken for a 4.7 from two thousand. Prices are given as bands because they move weekly; the buttons go to the live listing. Every model on these pages was in stock at the linked store when the page was last updated.

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