JURA E8 (2025): 27 specialities and the premium question

Low but heavy: the E8 in numbers

It is wider than the Philips and De’Longhi machines by two and a half to three centimetres, at 27 cm, and 44.6 cm deep. But at 34.8 cm it is the lowest bean-to-cup machine we list for the UK: by a whisker against the De’Longhi Magnifica S and Start, by a little over two centimetres against the Philips series. If low wall cupboards are your constraint, that counts; still allow for opening the hopper, and for the milk container beside the machine.

• JURA E8 Piano Black (UKD) 1584234.8 cm
• Siemens EQ6 plus s300 TE653M11GB38.5 cm
• Philips 5500 Series LatteGo EP5546/7037.1 cm
• De'Longhi Magnifica Evo ECAM 290.83.TB36 cm

The tank holds 1.9 l, the largest in our UK list, if only by a tenth of a litre over the Philips and De’Longhi machines: 15 to 16 cups of 120 ml a fill before rinsing. JURA’s page mentions a CLARIS Smart+ filter that the machine recognises automatically; what a filter does for scale is explained in our water hardness guide. The hopper takes 280 g, a 250 g bag with a little to spare.

The grounds container takes 16 servings, a figure few makers publish: a household of four at two cups each would empty it every other day. At 10 kg this is the heaviest machine in our UK list, and not one to move about.

Drinks and controls

JURA counts 27 specialities. The total includes Light Brew and Sweet variations of some drinks, a portion of milk foam, and hot water. So the number is not 27 distinct recipes in the way a café menu would count them, and it should not be set too strictly against Philips’s 20 or Siemens’s 11, which are tallied differently.

Controls are a colour display operated with buttons at its sides. It is a display, not a touchscreen, even though our table groups it with TFT displays.

Milk: a hose, and bring your own container

Like the Siemens EQ.6 plus s300, the E8 draws milk through a hose. The hose is supplied. A container is not, in the box contents we read. In this price bracket you might expect one: you either stand a carton or jug next to the machine, or budget for a separate container.

The upside of a hose is capacity: no small integrated carafe to refill mid-round. The care it needs is covered in our cleaning guide, and the designs are compared in bean-to-cup machines with a milk system.

Grinder, heating and brew group

JURA states a thermoblock and a grind setting programmable on 7 levels. The grinder goes by the name P.A.G.2 on JURA’s page, with no material and no burr shape given. Strength and temperature are adjustable in several levels as well.

On the brew group, the page is silent. Other manufacturers state plainly whether theirs comes out; here we have nothing to go on, and we will not guess in either direction. If rinsing the brew group yourself matters to you, the Siemens EQ.6 plus s300 and the Philips 5500 LatteGo both state a removable one.

Which E8, and which UK version

“E8” has been used for several generations. Everything here describes the 2025 generation, the only E8 on JURA’s German and French sites when we checked. We read the figures on the German Midnight Silver (ED) version. In the UK the versions carry the suffix UKD or INTD, Piano Black among them, and JURA’s UK page shows the same capacities, weight and dimensions.

We have not verified earlier generations, and the figures on this page should not be applied to an older E8. Check the article number on the listing before you buy.

What JURA does not publish, or we could not read

• Removable brew group: not addressed.
• Grinder material and burr shape: a trade name only.
• Warranty: not read on the product page; ask the seller for the UK terms.
• App connectivity out of the box: the J.O.E. app needs the optional Wi-Fi Connect transmitter, so our table leaves the connectivity line blank.
• Noise: no decibel figure. Noise is on our list of planned measurements; until then we say nothing about it.

Is the premium bracket worth it for you?

That is not something a spec sheet can settle. What the data can do is show what the higher bracket does and does not change: the drinks list is much longer, the tank marginally larger, the machine lower; the pump pressure is the same 15 bar as on every other bean-to-cup machine we list. Run your own numbers in the cost per cup calculator, which spreads the purchase price over the cups you will make, and use the machine finder to see which cheaper models meet the same needs. The cheaper alternatives are in our bean-to-cup comparison, and the common traps in our guide to buying mistakes.