Jura Z10 Review (2026): One-Touch Hot, Cold and Milk Drinks

Specs current as of October 2026.

Every Z10 drink is one touch, and each person can save their own version

You choose a drink on the touchscreen and the Z10 does the rest. It grinds between 5 and 16 g of beans, and the grinder moves to a finer setting for an espresso and a coarser one for a large mug of coffee or a cold brew before it starts. Milk comes up a thin hose from a carton, a jug or Jura's small milk fridge, and the Z10 switches from hot milk to foam partway through the drink on its own. Every drink pours from the same spout, so the cup stays in one place. An owner who moved from Jura's J8 says the single spout and the automatic switch between milk and foam are what he likes most about the Z10.

Any drink can be copied, adjusted and saved under its own name. Owners use this so each person in the house gets a flat white or cappuccino made their way at one touch. One owner saves a cappuccino with 20 seconds of hot milk and 8 seconds of foam, and another keeps two flat whites, one for each partner. The Gen 2 adds profiles for up to four people.

The daily routine takes a few minutes. You refill the 2.4 L water tank, empty the grounds bin and drip tray, and run the milk cleaning cycle at the end of any day you made a milk drink. The Z10 also rinses the milk system by itself a few minutes after each milk drink. Every few weeks the screen asks for a cleaning tablet for the coffee side, and the water filter needs changing every few weeks to a few months, depending on how hard your water is. One owner a month into his Z10 says the routine takes about the same work as his previous Philips machine.

Owners rate the Z10's milk foam as one of its strengths

Owners describe the foam as silky and fine-textured. Two owners who compared the Z10 with other brands' super-automatic machines, the kind that grind, brew and froth on their own, prefer the Z10's foam for dairy milk, while an owner who froths milk by hand with the steam pipe on an espresso machine found the Z10's cappuccino foam less fluffy than his own. An owner who also runs a Jura GIGA 10 likes how the Z10's milk spout sits in one head with the coffee spouts, which he finds easier to keep clean than the separate milk spout on Jura's E-line machines. On the Gen 1, the milk temperature has 10 steps, and one owner measured milk above 65°C at the top step.

Dairy milk works best. Owners who drink plant milk report that thin almond and oat milks spit from the spout, while barista-style oat milks and 2% lactose-free milk foam well. Heavy cream is too thick for the hose. The Gen 2's chocolate attachment needs a thin chocolate syrup, because thick sauces are too heavy to flow through it.

Z10 cold brew is smooth and thinner than cold brew steeped overnight

For cold brew, the water bypasses the heater. The Z10 pumps cold water through coarsely ground coffee in slow pulses at high pressure, which Jura calls the Cold Extraction Process. The menu has cold brew versions of the espresso, coffee and milk drinks, and the milk drinks use cold milk foam, so a cold brew latte is one touch like a hot one.

Owners who drink it often are enthusiastic. One Gen 2 owner calls it the best cold brew he has had from a home machine, and another owner of four years makes a small, strong cold brew from an Ethiopian coffee for affogatos, ice cream with coffee poured over it. Owners who know overnight cold brew find the Z10's version smooth but thinner and less heavy, and a few find it too weak and pour a hot double espresso over ice instead. If you want the heavier kind, our guide to how to make cold brew covers the overnight method.

Medium roasts suit the Z10's grinder best

Most owners get their best espresso from medium and medium-dark roasts, and blends made for espresso are the easiest place to start. Light roasts, the fruity coffees roasted for a shorter time, often come out sour, because the Z10's grinder and its 16 g dose leave less room to adjust than a manual espresso machine, where you set the grind and the amount of coffee yourself. Several owners spent weeks or months trying beans before they found ones they liked, and one owner took a year. One owner enjoys local light roasts in his Z10. Very dark, oily beans are the ones to avoid, because the oil builds up in the grinder.

Owners who help newcomers suggest this starting point. Set the grind one step finer than the middle, put the coffee strength at its maximum, and make an espresso of 45 to 60 ml. Then change only the amount of water until the shot tastes right: more water if it tastes sour, less if it tastes bitter. Changing several settings at once makes it hard to tell which one helped.

Black coffee takes the most setting up. Several owners find the 240 ml "coffee" button thin, because 16 g of coffee spread over a large mug tastes weak. Instead, those owners make an Americano, an espresso with hot water added after it, so the water skips the coffee grounds and the cup keeps the flavour of a strong shot. One owner who used to make pour-over by hand says his adjusted coffee setting tastes much like coffee from a good drip machine.

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Owners complain about plastic trim, a slow touchscreen and drinks that come out warm rather than very hot

The Z10's body and trim are mostly plastic, including the silver drip tray cover and the spout adjuster. Owners who moved from older Z models with metal trim notice the change, and the chrome finish on the drip tray cover wears on some machines. On the drip tray, a small plastic tab that tells the machine the tray is in place has broken on at least five owners' machines, either in shipping or soon after. The machine then reports the tray as missing, and Jura replaced the tray for at least two of those owners. Two owners who use pre-ground decaf through the chute also find dry grounds behind the drip tray that they wipe out.

Owners of the Gen 1 find the touchscreen slow to respond and the menus hard to learn, and they rate Jura's app poorly. On the Gen 1, you can turn on text labels under the drink icons in the settings menu, which makes the menu easier to learn. The Gen 2 has a redesigned screen layout, and early Gen 2 owners are split on it.

Drinks come out warm rather than very hot. Owners of other super-automatic machines report the same. One owner measured his coffee and hot water at 77°C, and owners' milk readings range from about 50°C to just over 65°C at the higher settings. Turning the coffee and milk temperatures up and warming the cup first both help. One owner who wanted the hottest milk drinks chose the Gen 1 for its 10 milk temperature steps.

Owners report Z10s running for years, and milk sputtering is the fault that recurs

The Z10 has been sold since 2021, and owners with two to four years of daily use mostly report few problems. Owners of earlier Jura Z models report 8 to 20 years from one machine, with services or repairs along the way. Two owners say Jura's phone support found the fault quickly and mailed a part, and two others had a poor experience.

The fault owners report most is milk that sputters and sprays from the spout, usually within the first months. About a dozen owners describe it. For most, a thorough clean of the milk parts, a new milk hose or a replacement frothing unit from Jura fixed it, and one owner traced sputtering in every drink to a faulty water filter. For four owners the sputtering came back after Jura's repairs or replacement parts, and two of them returned or sold the machine. On the Gen 1, two owners found the machine clogged at the finer grind settings, and oily beans make it worse. Jura's support had them wipe away coffee grounds from behind the flap inside the drip tray opening, and that cleared the clog. Other faults are single reports: a circuit board that failed at 33 days, a milk system that stopped steaming at three years, one machine with repeated leaks and repairs over three years, and a leak after a winter move. Before moving a Z10 in winter, run the setting that drains its water. The number of Z10s sold is unknown, so these reports have no base to measure a failure rate against, and owners with a problem are the ones most likely to post about it.

The brewing unit stays inside the machine, and Jura cleans it with tablets the machine asks for. Owners disagree on whether that is enough: one owner who opened his Z10 after two years found it clean inside, and others plan to send theirs to Jura for a service every few years.

Jura covers the Z10 for two years or 6,000 drinks

The warranty runs for two years or 6,000 drinks, whichever comes first, and covers parts and labour. In the United States, Jura pays for ground shipping to and from its repair centre. In Canada, Faema distributes Jura and runs Jura's service centre in Mississauga. The Canadian warranty covers machines Faema distributed, and the owner pays the shipping both ways. Owners who called Jura about a fault were usually sent a part to fit first, and repairs that needed the machine back took from about a week to four weeks.

Gen 2 adds Light Brew and more grind settings, and drops the Extra Shot milk drinks

Jura sells both generations side by side. The Gen 2 arrived in Europe in September 2025 and in North America in 2026. You can tell them apart by the code after the model name: NAA is the Gen 1 and NAB is the Gen 2. The Gen 2 adds 11 drinks, including Light Brew versions of the coffees, which are brewed at about 60°C to drink straight away, plus a long black, a mocaccino and chocolate foam. Its grinder has 7 settings instead of 5, which gives owners more room to adjust for different beans. It also adds a caffeine setting with three levels, a timer in Jura's app to have a drink ready at a set time, profiles for up to four people, and a redesigned screen.

The Gen 2 drops the Extra Shot versions of the latte, cappuccino, flat white and latte macchiato, so a stronger milk drink means making an espresso first and then the milk drink. Owners who drink a double-shot latte every morning chose the Gen 1 for that reason. The milk temperature also goes from 10 steps to 3.

Choose the Gen 1 if you want Extra Shot milk drinks at one touch or fine control over milk temperature, and the Gen 2 if you want Light Brew, chocolate drinks, the extra grind settings or the new screen. The brewing unit, milk system and cold brew are the same on both.

Buy the Z10 for one-touch milk drinks and cold coffee in a busy household

The Z10 suits a home where two or more people drink lattes, cappuccinos and flat whites, each made their own way, and someone wants cold coffee in summer. Owners who use the milk drinks and cold brew every day are the happiest with it, and several long-time owners say they would buy it again.

Our guide to which Jura coffee machine is right for you covers Jura's simpler machines. If you want decaf and regular beans in separate hoppers, the Jura J8 twin and the GIGA 10 below each have two. For lower-priced machines that also grind, brew and froth at one touch, see our comparison of three super-automatic machines.

Choose the GIGA 10 over the Z10 if you want decaf and regular beans on hand

The Jura GIGA 10 is the next larger and more expensive Jura, and it also brews cold coffee. It has two bean hoppers of 280 g, each with its own ceramic grinder, and two thermoblocks, and it makes 35 drinks. With two hoppers you can keep decaf in one and regular beans in the other, or blend the two in one drink. On the Z10, decaf goes in as pre-ground coffee through the chute, one dose at a time.

The grinders work differently. The Z10 sets the grind for each drink, while the GIGA 10 holds one grind setting per hopper, and owners who have used both say the coffee tastes much the same. The GIGA 10 is larger, at 41.5 cm tall and 18 kg against the Z10's 36.3 cm and about 12 kg. Its drink settings use sliders and cup sizes, where the Z10 shows millilitres or ounces. Choose the GIGA 10 if you drink decaf every day or want two coffees on hand, and the Z10 if one hopper covers your household. For the rest of Jura's range, see which Jura coffee machine is right for you.

Frequently asked questions

Is the Jura Z10 worth it?

The Jura Z10 suits a household that drinks milk drinks and cold coffee every day and wants each person's drinks saved at one touch. Owners who use those features rate it highly after years of use. If you drink mostly espresso or black coffee, Jura's simpler machines make those drinks much as the Z10 does.

What is the difference between the Jura Z10 Gen 1 and Gen 2?

The Gen 2 Z10 has 51 drinks instead of 40, including Light Brew coffees brewed at about 60°C, plus 7 grind settings instead of 5, a caffeine setting, an app timer, profiles for four people and a redesigned screen. The Gen 1 keeps Extra Shot milk drinks and 10 milk temperature steps, where the Gen 2 has 3. The model code ends in NAA on the Gen 1 and NAB on the Gen 2.

Does the Jura Z10 make real cold brew?

Yes. The Z10 skips the heater for cold brew and pumps cold water through coarsely ground coffee in slow pulses at high pressure.

Can you use oat milk in the Jura Z10?

Yes, with a barista-style oat milk. Owners find barista-style oat milks and 2% lactose-free milk foam well in the Z10.

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