Cheapest coffee near you
Across the 760 cafes we hold a small flat white price for, coffee runs from $3.50 to $8.00, with a median of $4.50. A small long black runs from $3.30 to $8.00 across 613 cafes, median $4.50.
Those are the two drinks we measure everything on. One drink, one size, one milk, so a price in Geelong means the same thing as a price in Newcastle. Prices are read off the menus cafes publish and confirmed by people who paid them, across 610 suburbs.
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The two drinks this page measures, so a price here means the same thing everywhere. Looking for something else? Filter by drink on the map.
What a flat white costs
Small, full cream milk, one price per cafe. Based on 760 cafes.
Half of the cafes we hold a price for sit between $4.50 and $5.00. The shaded band above is that middle half.
What a long black costs
Small, no milk, one price per cafe. Based on 613 cafes.
Half of the cafes we hold a price for sit between $4.00 and $5.00. The shaded band above is that middle half.
By region
Cafes are grouped by the population centre they are closest to, largest first. A cafe more than the cluster's radius from every centre is counted nationally but sits in no region. Prices here are for a small flat white or a small long black. Nothing else counts towards them.
- Sydneyfrom $3.50
216 priced cafes of 2,163 tracked, across 508 suburbs, median $4.60 across 139 cafes with a baseline price. Around 5,450,000 residents.
- Melbournefrom $3.50
255 priced cafes of 2,492 tracked, across 356 suburbs, median $4.50 across 151 cafes with a baseline price. Around 5,200,000 residents.
- Brisbanefrom $3.30
108 priced cafes of 1,111 tracked, across 290 suburbs, median $4.00 across 89 cafes with a baseline price. Around 2,700,000 residents.
- Perthfrom $3.70
89 priced cafes of 926 tracked, across 232 suburbs, median $4.30 across 78 cafes with a baseline price. Around 2,300,000 residents.
- Adelaidefrom $4.00
34 priced cafes of 663 tracked, across 239 suburbs, median $4.80 across 29 cafes with a baseline price. Around 1,450,000 residents.
- Gold Coastfrom $4.00
55 priced cafes of 648 tracked, across 72 suburbs, median $4.50 across 43 cafes with a baseline price. Around 700,000 residents.
- Newcastlefrom $4.50
23 priced cafes of 278 tracked, across 81 suburbs, median $5.00 across 15 cafes with a baseline price. Around 500,000 residents.
- Canberrafrom $4.00
40 priced cafes of 338 tracked, across 92 suburbs, median $4.85 across 28 cafes with a baseline price. Around 470,000 residents.
- Sunshine Coastfrom $3.50
48 priced cafes of 383 tracked, across 67 suburbs, median $4.00 across 34 cafes with a baseline price. Around 390,000 residents.
- Wollongongfrom $4.50
7 priced cafes of 177 tracked, across 49 suburbs, median $5.00 across 6 cafes with a baseline price. Around 310,000 residents.
- Geelongfrom $3.50
113 priced cafes of 267 tracked, across 43 suburbs, median $4.00 across 98 cafes with a baseline price. Around 290,000 residents.
- Hobartfrom $4.00
8 priced cafes of 171 tracked, across 43 suburbs, median withheld for a thin sample. Around 250,000 residents.
- Townsvillefrom $4.00
14 priced cafes of 125 tracked, across 32 suburbs, median $4.00 across 11 cafes with a baseline price. Around 200,000 residents.
- Cairnsfrom $4.00
9 priced cafes of 138 tracked, across 31 suburbs, median $5.00 across 7 cafes with a baseline price. Around 155,000 residents.
- Toowoombafrom $4.00
11 priced cafes of 62 tracked, across 19 suburbs, median $4.50 across 10 cafes with a baseline price. Around 145,000 residents.
- Darwinfrom $4.00
10 priced cafes of 105 tracked, across 36 suburbs, median $4.50 across 8 cafes with a baseline price. Around 140,000 residents.
- Ballaratno prices yet
1 priced cafe of 46 tracked, across 18 suburbs, median withheld for a thin sample. Around 120,000 residents.
- Bendigofrom $4.75
2 priced cafes of 56 tracked, across 19 suburbs, median withheld for a thin sample. Around 105,000 residents.
Cheapest suburbs
Only suburbs where we hold enough prices to publish a page, ranked on the cheapest small flat white or small long black we hold. A cheaper short black or piccolo in the same suburb does not count, because it is not the same cup. Each links to every cafe we track there.
- 1Corio, VIC4 baseline prices of 5 priced, 8 tracked$3.50
- 2Docklands, VIC7 baseline prices of 11 priced, 26 tracked$3.50
- 3Melbourne, VIC16 baseline prices of 19 priced, 55 tracked$3.50
- 4Narellan, NSW3 baseline prices of 3 priced, 13 tracked$3.50
- 5Newtown, VIC8 baseline prices of 9 priced, 27 tracked$3.50
- 6Noosaville, QLD4 baseline prices of 4 priced, 17 tracked$3.50
- 7Randwick, NSW1 baseline price of 3 priced, 14 tracked$3.50
- 8South Morang, VIC1 baseline price of 3 priced, 13 tracked$3.50
- 9Midland, WA4 baseline prices of 4 priced, 19 tracked$3.70
- 10Barangaroo, NSW3 baseline prices of 4 priced, 8 tracked$3.80
- 11Hillarys, WA3 baseline prices of 3 priced, 17 tracked$3.80
- 12Newcomb, VIC2 baseline prices of 3 priced, 8 tracked$3.80
Where these prices come from
A menu we read, a photo a machine read and a person telling us what they paid are not the same kind of evidence, so the mix is published rather than blended away.
- Read from a photo of a menu79%
17,965 prices across 308 cafes
- Read from a published menu19%
4,416 prices across 791 cafes
- Entered from a cafe's rate card1%
232 prices across 25 cafes
- Submitted or confirmed by people0%
53 prices across 24 cafes
How this is measured
- Two drinks only. Every price on this page is a small flat white with regular milk, or a small long black. A cafe may sell a cheaper short black or piccolo, and we hold plenty of them, but they are not the same cup and comparing them across suburbs would be misleading.
- One price per cafe. A venue we hold nine prices for does not outvote one we hold a single price for.
- A median needs at least 5 cafes. Below that we say so and publish nothing, rather than quoting a middle value from a handful of venues.
- Prices sourced from a cafe's online shop are left out. A bag of beans is not a cup of coffee, and those pages priced one as the other.
- Regions are the nearest population centre within a set radius. Resident numbers are approximate and are used to order this page, never as a denominator.
- Covering 11,334 cafes, of which 1,136 cafes have a price, across 139 suburbs with enough data to publish.
Last price update 8 Nov 2026. More on how prices are gathered and kept current is on our methodology page.