Best Cold Press Juicers of 2026

Ten years of warranty on one of the least expensive machines here is the sort of claim that makes us check twice, and the Smoothpress holds up where it counts. It's the value pick of this group: a 300-watt motor turning at 58 RPM, a 6-inch chute, and a footprint of about six inches square.

We paid close attention to the filter, because that's where cheap juicers usually punish you. There's no fine metal mesh here — the press cup and filter skeleton rinse clean under the tap in less time than it takes to drink the glass — and every removable part is dishwasher safe. For a machine this size, that's the difference between juicing on a Tuesday and not.

What it doesn't have is a hopper. Produce goes in through the chute as the auger clears it, which for one or two people is less a compromise than simply a smaller machine to wash at the end. At 7.9 pounds it also lifts out of a cupboard without a second thought, which is more than the 12-pound machines here can say.

If the J2's self-feeding hopper is the feature that sold you and the price is what stopped you, start here. The ZM1919 pairs a 6.5-inch chute with a 90-ounce hopper, and the chute has cutting blades built in, so whole apples go in and juice comes out without a chopping session first.

We think it's the best batch machine of this group for the money. Load it once and come back to a full pitcher, with the pulp sitting in its own container off to the side. At 13.3 inches tall it's one of the two shortest machines here, so it slides under a cabinet that most of the others — 16 to 18 inches tall — won't clear.

Two speeds and a reverse button cover the usual jam, and the juicing body comes off in one piece instead of a dozen loose fittings, which is where cleanup usually goes wrong. It's a lot of capacity for a machine that doesn't take over the counter.

Narrow and tall is the shape of the C16: 6.89 inches wide, 17.32 inches high. On a crowded counter that's exactly right, and under a low cabinet it's exactly wrong. Measure the gap above your counter before you commit — the usual 18 inches clears it, a shelf or a window sill doesn't.

The quiet is the headline. Canoly quotes 35 dB, which we treat as a best case, but even with carrots and almonds going through, we could hold a conversation beside it — this is the machine for an apartment with thin walls. The touchpad is a small upgrade over the dials on the other machines and makes the whole thing feel better finished.

Three strainers cover juice, sorbet, and nut milk, and swapping between them is a matter of lifting one out rather than dismantling the body. The 90-ounce hopper is the other reason it stays on the counter: a Sunday batch goes in at once, and the narrow body keeps the rest of the counter usable. For a kitchen where the juicer lives out, that's the right pair of virtues.

We started with nut milk, because that's the job that usually means fishing a different screen out of a drawer. The TM-780SJ doesn't have one to fish for: a single strainer handles juice, nut milk, and frozen sorbet, so a session that moves from almond milk to apple juice to dessert is one setup instead of three.

That's why it's the all-in-one pick. Add a 100-ounce hopper, a 6.5-inch chute, and a 60 RPM auger, and you have a machine that behaves like the expensive ones for a fraction of what they cost. Performance wasn't the question with this one — the pulp comes out dry and the 350-watt motor took a full hopper of carrots without complaint.

The 13-inch width is the trade for that hopper: give it a dedicated spot rather than a cupboard shelf. The removable parts are dishwasher safe, which a few machines here costing far more can't claim, and that's the difference between a Sunday project and a Tuesday habit.

The JC151 is a glass-at-a-time machine, and it's a good one once you plan around that. The juice jug holds 24 ounces and the pulp container 36, so this is a juicer for breakfast rather than meal prep, and the two one-touch programs mean there's nothing to learn before your first carrot.

Where it earns its place is texture. Two interchangeable pulp filters, marked Less Pulp and Lots of Pulp, decide how much body the juice keeps — if you've been straining juice through a bag to get the consistency you want, that's the feature to look at, and it's a more useful kind of control than another speed setting.

Every removable part is dishwasher safe, which matters more than any number on the box once the novelty wears off, and at 7.15 inches wide by 15.93 inches tall it slots into places the taller machines can't. Fifteen recipes come in the box, which is a small thing until you're standing in front of a full crisper drawer at seven in the morning.

Twenty-seven pounds of stainless steel and a glass pitcher: the Greenstar Pro is the only machine here that feels like shop equipment. Twin gears crush rather than auger, slowly enough that you can watch the pulp come out, and the glass pitcher is a detail you notice every time you pour.

It's also more versatile than the listing makes clear. The included homogenizing and breadstick blanks let it press nut butter, grind grain, and extrude pasta without a separate setup, and the twin gears take a wider range of produce without stopping to change parts — which is the thing single-auger machines can't say.

We think it's the pick for someone who wants one machine to do the whole job and accepts that the job is slow. What the money buys is dry pulp, juice that keeps in the refrigerator for a couple of days, and a stainless build that doesn't flex when you lean on it. It's a specialist's machine at a specialist's price, and it doesn't pretend otherwise.

At the bottom of the price range sits the FORLIM, and it makes fewer apologies than you might expect. A 200-watt motor turns a single auger through a metal screen, a 57-ounce hopper self-feeds, and a reverse dial handles the moment produce stops moving. Two 27-ounce cups catch juice and pulp separately, so you're not hunting for a bowl.

We like it as a first juicer for someone who isn't sure the habit will stick. The two-year warranty is longer than what comes with the Nama, the Ninja, or the Canoly, which isn't what you expect at this end of the range.

What you give up is prep. The chute is 4.3 inches, so apples get quartered and celery gets broken down, and the wide-chute machines genuinely save that step. If you're making a glass or two at a time and don't mind a knife, that's a fair trade for the money.