De'Longhi Magnifica Plus vs Ninja AutoBarista Pro

De'Longhi Magnifica Plus

• ✓Intuitive full-color touchscreen
• ✓Excellent auto milk foam with 3 texture settings
• ✓4 user profiles for households
• ✓18 one-touch recipes including iced drinks

• ✗Loud conical grinder
• ✗Small drip tray
• ✗No app or WiFi connectivity
• ✗Must remove water tank to access brew unit

Ninja AutoBarista Pro

• ✓Two swappable 340g hoppers switch between beans or decaf instantly with no purge
• ✓Grind iQ self-calibrates across 50 grind settings by monitoring flow rate and pressure
• ✓FrothPerfect steam-and-whisk system makes genuinely silky microfoam in 5 styles, dairy or plant-based
• ✓Real 53mm brew group packs up to 27g pucks - far bigger doses than Philips or Jura super-autos

• ✗Slow per-drink cycle - reviewers clocked 2-3 minutes of grinding and prep before pouring
• ✗Grind iQ calibration burns through roughly 200g of beans and only allows a ±2-step manual offset
• ✗Huge for a counter machine at 39 lbs and nearly 18 inches deep, with a rear-access water tank
• ✗Brand-new May 2026 release, with early reliability complaints

De'Longhi Magnifica Plus

The Magnifica Plus sits at the top of De'Longhi's Magnifica family and is the model owners point newcomers toward when the cheaper Evo's interface starts to grate. At $1,000 the money buys two concrete things over its siblings: a large touchscreen that walks you through every maintenance step in plain language instead of asking you to decode blinking lights and button combinations, and De'Longhi's higher-dosing brew system, which puts more coffee in the puck than the standard Evo and produces a correspondingly stronger cup. It is a popular first super-automatic precisely because it removes the two things that frustrate beginners — not knowing what the machine wants, and drinks that taste thin. Owners report it holding up well in heavy use, with one logging over 1,300 drinks in under a year without a hiccup. Full owner insights →