Best Blenders for Juicing of 2026

This is the most expensive blender in the group by a wide margin, and the money mostly shows up on the spec sheet: a 2.2-horsepower motor, ten variable speeds plus pulse, a tamper that fits through the lid, and a five-year limited warranty that runs longer than anything else on this page. The container holds 64 ounces, which is smaller than the 72-ounce Ninjas — worth knowing before you assume the priciest machine also holds the most.

Where it earns the price is control. A variable dial lets you start slow enough that chunks keep moving and then ramp up as the blend thickens, and the tamper means a pitcher of kale, celery, and a whole apple never stalls with you standing there shaking it. That combination is what makes fibrous juicing feel like a routine instead of a fight with the machine, and it's the one thing the preset-driven blenders here can't quite replicate.

The costs are physical as well as financial. At 19.6 inches it's the tallest blender we recommend, so it wants counter space with nothing overhead, and at 10.2 pounds it isn't the one you tuck into a cupboard between uses. We also came away understanding why the price is divisive, because a good midrange blender gets you most of the way to the same glass. What this one adds is the control to get the last of the fiber out of a stalk of celery, plus a warranty that outlasts the cheaper machines several times over.

Same 72-ounce pitcher as our top pick, same Total Crushing blades, 1,100 watts instead of 1,400 — and two 16-ounce cups with spout lids that the top pick doesn't include. Those cups are the whole reason to look at this one, and they use a separate Pro Extractor blade assembly rather than the big stacked blade, which is exactly the design you want for a single serving of fruit and ice.

On mornings when one person wants one glass, this is the machine we reached for. Blend in the cup, screw on the spout lid, rinse the blade, done: no 72-ounce pitcher to wash for eight ounces of smoothie. The catch is capacity, because a 16-ounce cup fills fast once frozen fruit and a handful of greens go in, so anything kale-heavy still belongs in the big pitcher. Three speeds plus pulse cover the same ground as the larger machines, and the pitcher handles a full batch of frozen drinks when company shows up.

What you give up is value at the top end. This costs more than the top pick while delivering less motor, so the cups have to be worth the difference to you — and in a one-person kitchen, they are. It's the pick we reach for when the goal is a single glass and a thirty-second cleanup rather than a pitcher for the table.

Eighteen hundred watts, 25,000 rpm, a 70-ounce pitcher, and a six-leaf stainless blade: on paper this is the most motor you can get in this group for midrange money. The dial is where it gets interesting. Six presets, and one of them is labeled Juice, which none of the Ninjas here offer by name — for someone whose mornings are a fixed rotation of celery, apple, and ginger, that's a one-button answer instead of a guess.

The rest of the design shows the same intent. Two locking tabs hold the lid down, and a thermal reset cuts the motor if it gets pushed too hard, both sensible precautions around 1,800 watts in a plastic housing. The 30-second self-clean cycle — water, a drop of soap, run it, rinse — is the feature we used most, because a 70-ounce pitcher is a lot of washing otherwise.

So the trade is clear: the most motor and the widest set of programs here, against a brand with a short track record and no service history we can point to. If you replace blenders every few years anyway, that's a fair swap. Measure the space above your counter first, though, because at 19.7 inches this is the tallest machine on the page and it needs a clear stretch rather than a slot under a cabinet.

The glass jar is the reason this blender is on the list. It's 40 ounces, heavy in the hand, and it doesn't stain, hold onto smells, or scratch the way plastic pitchers eventually do — and at the lowest price in the group, it's the only glass option here. Twelve functions run off five buttons, and there's an actual pour spout on the jar, which sounds minor until you've tipped a smoothie over the rim of a spoutless pitcher.

Seven hundred watts and a single blade at the bottom of the jar is a different tool from a 1,400-watt stack, and it asks you to work accordingly: cut fruit into smaller pieces, keep the liquid level generous, and blend in two stages rather than one. Do that and soft fruit, thawed berries, and cooked vegetables come out smooth. Skip it and you get chunks. For a stalk of celery or a kale stem, no amount of patience closes the gap.

Coverage is the surprise. Three years is longer than any Ninja in this guide and second only to the Vitamix, which is unusual on the cheapest machine in a group. The jar, lid, and blades are all dishwasher safe, and the blade assembly lifts out for hand washing — a small mercy when the jar itself is this heavy.