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Dark-roast K-Cups, ranked by what they have actually cost

Updated May 27, 2026

Dark roast is a narrower shelf than medium. The shopper is usually after something specific — bittersweet, smoky, an espresso-leaning pull — and the brands that take it seriously are a smaller set. Fewer house-label entries, more named-roaster boxes, a per-pod floor that tends to sit a little higher than the medium shelf for the same reason. So. The useful question isn't which box is loudest about its roast level. It's which one has actually held a defensible per-pod price over the window.

How podpricer reads them

Each box is ranked by what it has actually cost per pod over its rolling ninety-day window — recent typical, recent low. Boxes that have demonstrably traded under their own typical sit above boxes whose only argument is the sticker showing today. Worth noting: the dark-roast shelf skews toward named roasters, which tend to price above the Keurig house labels. That isn't a verdict on the coffee — it's a feature of the shelf. The math reads it the same way regardless.

A first filter, not the last word

Tracked low per pod is the strongest single filter the data supports — and on a narrower shelf like this one, it is doing most of the work. But the figure that decides what you pay is whatever Amazon shows at checkout, after coupons, Subscribe & Save, and shipping. Open each box below for the full chart. Then open Amazon and confirm.