BeanDeals is a free resource created by coffee lovers, for coffee lovers. Our mission is to find and share the best deals from over 1,500 specialty coffee roasters across North America. Every deal we feature is human-verified to ensure it works, and our site is free from the gimmicks of traditional deal sites.

No. We find and analyze deals. You buy coffee directly from a roaster.

Yes. BeanDeals is 100% free for you to use. There are no subscriptions, no hidden fees, and no required sign-ups.

Yes! While it sounds like a lot, we have invested a huge amount of work (and consumed a lot of caffeine!) in meticulously building our roaster database. Many roasters only offer deals on occassion or almost never, while others offer deals more regularly. That’s why you will likely see some roasters featured on our site at a higher frequency than others. Some roasters we track only offer small deals like 10% off that just doesn’t make the cut to be featured.

In short, we don’t. We do this for the love of the bean. Our independence and integrity are crucial. We currently have no revenue of any kind from this project, and do not participate in any affiliate programs. To help support the work we do, we may in the future consider certain ways of helping to pay for the costs to run this site. We commit that any kind of advertising or affiliate programs we participate in in the future will be clearly labeled and not affect the impartiality or quality of deals we feature. You can read more on our Affiliate Disclosure page.

We have no open positions at this time. But if you have a passion for coffee deals and are skilled with website development, database management or social media please feel free to reach out to us at info@beandeals.com.

Right now we only cover the USA but we hope to expand to other countries eventually. Are you passionate about coffee deals in your country? Let us know: info@beandeals.com.

Our “Deal Detectives” are constantly sleuthing, tracking over 1,500 roasters through a proprietary system we designed. We also hunt down and verify deals through a variety of other channels, and we love receiving tips and submissions from our community of coffee lovers.

We will always post expiration dates for deals when that information is available to us. But sometimes roasters don’t provide that information, or we source deals through channels (like user tips) where the full terms are not available to us. Rest assured, even when no expiration is available, all live deals are monitored by us daily to make sure they are still valid.

All deals are human-verified and rigorously analyzed when they are posted. After that, our very well caffeinated BeanBot monitors all of our live deals multiple times times a day to make sure they stay valid. Our deal detectives also check in on live deals periodically to make sure our analysis is still valid and that no better deal has surfaced.

We’d love to hear from you! Please visit our Contact Us page to send us a tip. Our community is a vital part of what makes BeanDeals great.

This is going to vary based on the shipping destination. Most roasters don’t charge sales tax in most states (given various exemptions). Most of the deals you see here probably will not include sales tax. Things like having an employee or operations in a state, or selling too many goods to a state in a given year can require a merchant to collect sales tax.

Please let us know! Our commitment is to feature only active, verified deals. If you find an issue, you can use the “Report this deal” link found on every deal post.

On occasion we have published deals at roasters that offer both unflavored and flavored beans, but our focus and the personal interest of our team is firmly on unflavored beans. We have noted in our coverage when flavored beans are available. Generally, however, we pass on roasters who predominantly offer flavored coffees. If there is enough demand, we might consider covering flavored deals as a separate category or section of this site. Do you love flavored coffee? Drop us a line to let us know.

The BD Deal Score is our proprietary scoring system, designed to give you an at-a-glance understanding of a deal’s quality. It is not just about the discount percentage; it’s a sophisticated score that reflects the true, objective value of an offer.

Our algorithm calculates a raw numerical score for every deal by analyzing and weighting numerous factors, including:

• The effective discount percentage based on an optimized free-shipping order.
• The price per weight for an optimized free shipping order – a measure of raw value.
• How accessible is the order – the total cost required to get the deal.
• Any “strings attached,” such as “New Customers Only,” subscription requirements or limited selection, bulk bags only, etc.
• Other factors we deem relevant to assessing the attractiveness of an offer

The final letter grade (from “B” to “A+”) is then assigned based on that deal’s ranking relative to all other deals in our historical database. This creates a self-calibrating system where an “A+” grade is always a truly exceptional and rare find.

Because we only feature the best deals. Our deal detectives sift through dozens of offers every day. Any deal that would score a “B-” or lower in our system simply doesn’t make the cut. This is our commitment to quality curation.

The Deal Grinder is an example purchase for each offer that illustrates the cost and effective discounts of putting together a cart that optimizes for free shipping. It’s the type of deal that we personally would make for ourselves. We do our best to sketch out a real world example of how we think buyers should approach each deal.

The analysis assumes that a buyer would want to purchase multiple bags of different coffees (not just multiple bags of the cheapest coffee) though skews more heavily towards popular blends. Single origin only buyers should expect to usually pay a little bit more. In certain situations, we also assume that a buyer would want to swap in a selection of slightly more premium coffees if it meant having to buy less bags to hit a free shipping threshold (e.g. 3 blends / single origins vs 4 blends). No ultra-premium single origins ever factor into our carts.

We also carefully look at any other ways to stack discounts from a roaster with sampler packs, on sale items or other available discounts.

If no free shipping is available, we assume three 12oz bags is a typical order size. That ends up being approximately 50-60 drinks, which is a standard monthly supply for two people’s morning coffee. Or for a single person who has two drinks per day.

You wouldn’t be here if you didn’t already appreciate the best way to buy coffee is direct from a roaster so that it’s shipped to you right after roast, and usually stamped with a roasted on date for freshness transparency.

A nitrogen-flushed, sealed bag of whole bean coffee stays at peak freshness for approximately a month after roasting, though this varies based on roast level, beans and packaging. And then it is still at decent freshness for another couple weeks after that. Dark roasts go stale faster. Plan accordingly based on ~1 week delivery time. You can’t go wrong buying 3-4 weeks of beans at once. For two people having one drink per day, buying three 12oz bags is a good sweet spot.

If you buy a larger amount at once to take advantage of one of our compelling deals, consider throwing a bag into the freezer once it hits the one-week mark after roast. Some theories suggest freezing beans too early while they are still rapidly off-gassing is not preferred.

A question that has been debated since the dawn of time! Here at the BeanDeals Lab we have tried every method out there, from Argon-flushed single dose storage canisters to larger vacuum-pump canisters. You name it, we’ve tried it.

Our recommendation for good quality packaged coffee is just leave it in the bag it came in if you are going to finish a bag within 1-2 weeks after opening it. This is because good quality coffee is usually nitrogen-flushed by the roaster when it is packaged. This protects from the beans from oxygen and oxidation which is what accelerates beans degrading. Try not to keep your bags open for too long each morning to keep the precious nitrogen inside.

The flaw with any third-party canister is that you are immediately introducing oxygen. Even so-called vacuum canisters don’t form anything close to a true vacuum devoid of air.

If you are buying large bags for additional savings, or procuring coffee from a tiny neighborhood garage roaster without proper packaging equipment (or using the dreaded grocery store coffee chutes with a paper bag), then you should consider a different approach, like freezing some of your beans in small canisters.

A common confusion among coffee buyer is what different roast levels really mean. The bottom line — we are firm believers in the philosophy that you should pay attention more to tasting notes than to roast levels.

Roast levels (light-medium-dark) are relative to an individual roaster. It’s helpful when mentally sorting the offerings from any particular roaster, but it is quite often the case that one roaster’s “medium” roast is as dark as another roaster’s “dark” roast — so proceed with caution.

Tasting notes tell you a more objective story. Not only do they clue you in to things about the roast but they also are one of your biggest clues to help understand the acidity level of a given coffee, which is as important as the roast to buying coffee you will love.

Notes like “dark chocolate,” “bakers chocolate” or “smoky/burnt” are immediate clues to dark roast.

Notes like “milk chocolate,” “nutty, ” or similar descriptors should clue you in to to medium or medium-dark roasts.

Anything with citrus fruits or even apple should jump off the page that a coffee is not only going to be in the light-medium range, but that it will also be acidic.