Best Coffee Makers for Hot and Iced Coffee of 2026

Ten minutes is the number that decides this one. Cold brew normally means a twelve-hour soak planned the night before; the CM371 runs a Cold Brew cycle that produces a smooth, fresh concentrate in as little as 10 minutes, which moves cold brew from weekend project to weekday habit. Our top pick doesn't make cold brew at all.

Everything else is generous. Four styles — Classic, Rich, Over Ice, Cold Brew — across eight sizes from a small cup to a full 12-cup carafe, all from grounds. No pods, which for a household that already grinds is one less thing to buy, and the removable reservoir meters its own water so you aren't counting ounces before caffeine.

The permanent filter is the detail we appreciated more than expected: no paper cones on the shopping list, and the basket rinses out in the sink. Nine pounds and 15 inches tall means it wants the same cabinet clearance as the top pick, so measure before you commit.

Two brewers share one body: a pod side, a 12-cup carafe side, and a single 72-ounce reservoir feeding both. Fill it once and you can pull a 6-ounce pod at six in the morning and still have a pot ready for guests at nine. That's the whole argument, and for a divided household it's a good one.

The buttons we reached for most were Extra Hot and Strong Brew. Extra Hot gives the single-cup side a genuinely hotter cup, which is the half of a pod brewer that usually disappoints, and Strong Brew does the same job for intensity. MultiStream spreads water over the grounds more evenly, and that shows up as flavor rather than as a number on the box.

Where it slips is the carafe side. Pots can land short of the size you selected, and there's no iced cycle for a full carafe — brew over ice works one cup at a time. If iced coffee by the pitcher is the point, the Ninja Hot & Iced XL CM371 is the better answer; it just can't take a pod.

The reservoir lifts out for filling, which keeps the machine to 12.7 inches tall but means a small lift every morning. Set it up near the sink and that chore disappears.

Five inches is the width, and in a kitchen where the counter also holds a toaster and a cutting board, that is the entire pitch. The 42-ounce reservoir lifts off the back and covers about four cups before a refill — enough that we weren't trotting to the sink mid-morning.

The iced cycle is not a marketing line. It starts the brew hotter to pull flavor out of the pod, then drops the temperature so a full glass of ice doesn't turn the drink watery, and the result holds up as iced coffee rather than coffee that got cold. Choose 8, 10, or 12 ounces — ice counts toward that number, so a 12-ounce iced coffee is a smaller drink than it sounds.

The hot side is the weaker half. Cups can come out drinkable rather than steaming, and Strong Brew does more for flavor than for heat. Iced is where the engineering went, and on a warm afternoon that's the half that matters.

Open the box and you can make a drink: a 22-ounce reusable tumbler with lid and straw, a reusable filter basket, and a two-sided scoop that measures coffee on one side and ice on the other. It's a small thing, but we ended up relying on that scoop — it takes the guesswork out of the ratio that makes or breaks iced coffee.

Brewing is manual by design. You measure water, grounds, and ice for each cup rather than filling a reservoir, which sounds fussy and mostly isn't once the tumbler is marked and the scoop lives in the drawer. Hot cups run 6, 8, 12, or 16 ounces; the iced setting fills the full 22-ounce tumbler, in about four minutes either way.

The iced side is why it's here. A 22-ounce glass of coffee over ice from your own grounds is the least expensive good iced coffee in this guide, and the whole machine takes up 5.5 inches of counter. Hot is the afterthought: those cups can land lukewarm, so treat it as an iced-coffee maker that also does hot in a pinch.

At 1.9 pounds and 4.2 inches wide, this is the machine that goes in a suitcase or on a dorm shelf and gets forgotten until morning. It takes K-Cup pods and loose grounds, brews 6 to 14 ounces, and has an over-ice setting for a cold drink without leaving the room.

We treat it as the travel answer rather than a kitchen workhorse, and on those terms it earns its keep. The spec says three minutes to a cup, and it's close enough that you aren't standing there waiting; there's a descaling reminder for hard-water bathrooms, and the parts go in the dishwasher.

Longevity is the trade: this is the least sturdy of the six, so buy it as a second machine for a bag, a dorm room, or a camper rather than the only brewer in a busy kitchen. The recipe book tucked in the box is a nicer touch than we expected at this size.