Blenders, Ranked on What They Actually Cost You

What won, and what it costs today

Category winners

The top pick from every ranking on the site, with the price pulled live from Amazon. Where we have no verified live price we show none rather than a number that has gone stale.

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  Best blender overall

  Ninja Professional Plus BN701

  7.6

  The one brand here that publishes both a continuous and a peak wattage instead of only the flattering one. A large pitcher and real power for about a fifth of the premium price.

  $99.95·on Amazon
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  Best under $100

  Ninja Professional Blender BL610

  6.2

  The default budget recommendation of the last decade, and now a machine whose own manufacturer no longer publishes a spec page for it. Cheap and capable; poorly documented.

  $99.00·on Amazon
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  Best under $200

  Ninja Professional Plus BN701

  7.6

  The one brand here that publishes both a continuous and a peak wattage instead of only the flattering one. A large pitcher and real power for about a fifth of the premium price.

  $99.95·on Amazon
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  Best high-power blender

  Vitamix 5200

  8.2

  The seven-year warranty is the product. A machine with a fully variable dial, a tall narrow jar and a tamper, backed longer than almost anything else at any price.

  $479.00·on Amazon
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  Best for buying once

  Vitamix 5200

  8.2

  The seven-year warranty is the product. A machine with a fully variable dial, a tall narrow jar and a tamper, backed longer than almost anything else at any price.

  $479.00·on Amazon
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  Best budget full-size

  Ninja Professional Blender BL610

  6.2

  The default budget recommendation of the last decade, and now a machine whose own manufacturer no longer publishes a spec page for it. Cheap and capable; poorly documented.

  $99.00·on Amazon
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  Best for protein shakes

  Beast Mega 1200

  7.7

  Two years of warranty in a class where one is standard, and the only brand here that publishes usable blending capacity separately from total vessel volume.

  $219.00·on Amazon
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  Best everyday bullet blender

  NutriBullet Pro (900 W)

  7.4

  The default bullet blender, and a good one. Note that NutriBullet's own product page contradicts itself about which cups are in the box.

  $75.87·on Amazon
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  Best portable blender

  Beast GO Cordless

  6.5

  A cordless blender that publishes no wattage at all — only a battery voltage. That is not evasion; there is no meaningful watt figure to publish, and most rivals invent one anyway.

  $114.00·on Amazon

Where to start

Browse by what you are making

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  HUB 01

  Best Blenders

  The flagship ranking — every form factor, scored on the numbers the manufacturers publish and nobody tabulates.

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  HUB 02

  Countertop Blenders

  Full-size machines from $60 to $650 - ranked on published power, warranty length and cost to run.

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  HUB 03

  Personal Blenders

  Bullet and cordless blenders for one cup at a time - and an honest answer on which can handle ice.

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  HUB 04

  Immersion Blenders

  Stick blenders for soup, sauces and anything you would rather not pour into a jar while hot.

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  HUB 05

  Smoothies & Frozen

  Matched to the job: frozen fruit, crushed ice, nut butter and smoothie bowls - each has a different winner.

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  HUB 06

  Comparisons

  Brand against brand and format against format, each ending in a decision rule rather than a shrug.

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  HUB 07

  Guides

  Running costs, hot-liquid safety, nut butter, and how to choose without paying for power you will never use.

Why this site exists

Four things we do that this category does not

• The running cost is computed, not implied

  Not one blender publisher we surveyed shows what a machine costs to run for a year. It is a trivial calculation on public inputs, and the answer — usually a few dollars — is worth knowing precisely so you can stop weighing it. We show the arithmetic, name the electricity rate, and let you substitute your own.

• Warranties are tabulated, with the document linked

  Warranty length is the closest thing to a binding durability statement a manufacturer publishes, and almost nobody puts the terms side by side. We do, we link each one to the manufacturer's own warranty page, and we date it — because terms change and an undated warranty figure is worth very little.

• Prices are live and dated, or absent

  Two of the highest-ranking publishers in this category put prices behind a paywall while ranking first for searches made by people who want to know the price. Ours are free and stamped with the date they were checked. After 48 hours without a refresh the number disappears rather than going stale.

• Every pick names a reason to skip it

  A roundup where everything is great is precisely why people add “reddit” to a shopping search. Every pick here carries a specific, disqualifying reason not to buy it. Those lines cost us conversions on purpose.

Read these first

The pages that carry the argument

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  How Much Does a Blender Cost to Run?

  The number nobody else publishes, worked out in full for nine machines - and the reason it should not influence your purchase.

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  Blender Warranties, Compared

  The Blendtec Classic 575 is a 2-year machine, not an 8-year one - Blendtec's own schedule says so. Plus every other term we could verify, and two we could not.

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  Ninja BN701 vs Vitamix 5200

  Ninja publishes 1,200 watts continuous and 1,400 watts peak. Vitamix publishes no watt figure at all for the 5200 — only 2 HP and an 11.5 amp nameplate. The decisive published difference is the warranty: one year against seven.

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  Blending Hot Liquids Safely

  Why hot soup lifts a blender lid, the rules that prevent it, and the one blender type where the problem does not exist.