Other Semi-Automatic Brands: Café Bellissimo, GE Profile, Smeg, Philips, Chefman and Gevi

Search Amazon for a semi-automatic machine and you'll run into these names quickly. Some are serious kitchen brands, and others are newer sellers with long listing titles.

So this page sorts by what's confirmed. Café's product pages blocked our reader, and Chefman's and Gevi's sites refused repeated requests, so we leave their claims out. How we compare explains why “per listing” matters.

What we could confirm

Café Bellissimo and GE Profile

We start with the Café Bellissimo^* because we could read its manual. That manual, for C7CESAS3RD3, starts you at grind size 7 to 9 on a scale of 0 to 15, where 0 is finest. A press of Single or Double runs about 30 mL or 60 mL. A SmartHQ app handles drink settings over Wi-Fi, and the warranty is one year. Abt, a retailer, lists a 15 bar pump and a 2.8 L tank for the C7CESAS2RS3.

The manual says double layer filters give more consistent results across grind sizes and bean types, and that single layer filters respond more to grind changes. That's the same split we describe for Breville's baskets.

The steam routine is a little fussy. You turn the knob to Steam, wait for steam, go to neutral, put the wand in the milk and turn back. A delay of more than a few seconds shuts the heating off, per the manual.

GE Profile's P7CESAS6RBB manual reads like a close relative, and its warranty also runs one year through GE Appliances. It isn't in the Amazon data we hold, so we have no link for it. The data we hold for the Café listing shows no model number, so match it to the manual before you rely on any of this.

Smeg EGF03

The Smeg EGF03^* is the one you buy partly for how it looks, and it's also the best documented here. Smeg's US page lists a 58 mm filter holder, pressurized and non-pressurized filters, a built-in grinder with stainless steel conical burrs, a pressure gauge, 4 pre-infusion profiles and 4 extraction temperatures. It describes a dual thermoblock, with one circuit for coffee and one for milk, so that you don't wait to froth.

The same page lists a 20 bar pump in its highlights and 15 bar in its technical features. The 15 or 20 bar on the box is what the pump can reach. Espresso is brewed at about 9 bar. So we'd ignore the conflict and look at the gauge instead. Our Amazon entry holds only the listing title, so it stays without a pick label, and it sits in the premium class. Our thermoblock page explains that heater type.

Philips Barista Brew

Philips's US page for the PSA3218/01 lists a 58 mm stainless steel portafilter, single and dual wall filter baskets, a 250 g bean hopper, a 450 ml milk jug and a 2 year warranty. The technical specifications section was empty on the page we read, so we can't give you the pump or heater from Philips. It doesn't appear in the Amazon data we hold, so we have no link for it here.

Whichever brand you land on, the shot in the glass is what you judge.

Chefman: listings only

Chefman's site refused our reader, so everything here comes from Amazon's listing titles.

• CraftBrew^*: a compact machine with a 15 bar pump, digital controls and a steam wand, per its title.
• CaféMaster Pro^*: single or double shots with a built-in milk frother, per its title. Amazon files it under espresso and coffeemaker combos.
• Crema Deluxe^*: sold with a “double boiler” and simultaneous brewing and frothing, per its title. We have not checked whether that means two boilers.

Gevi: listings only

Gevi's site refused our reader too.

• Gevi 20 bar compact^*: a compact machine at the budget end, per its title.
• Gevi with grinder^*: a grinder and steam wand in the body, per its title.
• Gevi “Dual Boiler”^*: a built-in burr grinder and a dual boiler name in the title. Whether it has two boilers isn't checked, so treat the name with caution.

Dual in the title of a lower-priced machine may mean two heating units, and we haven't checked this model by model. Our dual boiler page covers the machines where a maker's page confirms the boilers.

Strengths and weak points

Which way to go

Your order

• If documented specs matter most → Breville Barista Express

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  All our picks

• If you are shopping at the budget end

  Budget machines

• If you were drawn to the dual boiler name

  Dual boiler machines

If you want a grinder in the body, the Breville Barista Express is our benchmark, and machines with a built-in grinder has the wider list.

Our pick: built-in grinderAd

Breville

Breville Barista Express

Machine and conical burr grinder in one body, with PID and a 54 mm portafilter.

Why here: The documented benchmark for this group: a built-in grinder, 54 mm portafilter and PID, all stated on Breville's own page.

Best for: First-time buyers who want one box and no separate grinder to choose

• +Integrated conical burr grinder with 16 settings (Breville)
• +Thermocoil heating with PID temperature control (Breville)
• +Named best overall in America's Test Kitchen's roundup of 2 July 2025

• –A better grinder later means buying a separate one
• –One thermocoil, not two boilers
• –The price swings widely between sale days, so check it on the day

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Heating

Thermocoil

Pump, as stated

15 bar

Brew pressure, as stated

9 bar

Portafilter

54 mm

PID

Yes

Built-in grinder

Yes, 16 settings

Milk

Manual wand

Price class

Mid-range

Need something else? All our picks, side by side is the place to start, and KitchenAid has its own page.