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The Race to Build the DeepSeek of Europe Is On
Against that backdrop, Europe’s reliance on American-made AI begins to look more and more like a liability. In a worst case scenario, though experts consider the possibility remote, the US could choose to withhold access to AI services and crucial digital infrastructure. More plausibly, the Trump administration could use Europe’s dependence as leverage as the two sides continue to iron out a trade deal. “That dependency is a liability in any negotiation—and we are going to be negotiating increasingly with the US,” says Taddeo.
The European Commission, White House, and UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology did not respond to requests for comment.
To hedge against those risks, European nations have attempted to bring the production of AI onshore, through funding programs, targeted deregulation, and partnerships with academic institutions. Some efforts have focused on building competitive large language models for native European languages, like Apertus and GPT-NL.
For as long as ChatGPT or Claude continues to outperform Europe-made chatbots, though, America’s lead in AI will only grow. “These domains are very often winner-takes-all. When you have a very good platform, everybody goes there,” says Nejdl. “Not being able to produce state-of-the-art technology in this field means you will not catch up. You will always just feed the bigger players with your input, so they will get even better and you will be more behind.”
Mind the Gap
It is unclear precisely how far the UK or EU intends to take the push for “digital sovereignty,” lobbyists claim. Does sovereignty require total self-sufficiency across the sprawling AI supply chain, or only an improved capability in a narrow set of disciplines? Does it demand the exclusion of US-based providers, or only the availability of domestic alternatives? “It’s quite vague,” says Boniface de Champris, senior policy manager at the Computer & Communications Industry Association, a membership organization for technology companies. “It seems to be more of a narrative at this stage.”
Neither is there broad agreement as to which policy levers to pull to create the conditions for Europe to become self-sufficient. Some European suppliers advocate for a strategy whereby European businesses would be required, or at least incentivized, to buy from homegrown AI firms—similar to China’s reported approach to its domestic processor market. Unlike grants and subsidies, such an approach would help to seed demand, argues Ying Cao, CTO at Magics Technologies, a Belgium-based outfit developing AI-specific processors for use in space. “That’s more important than simply access to capital,” says Cao. “The most important thing is that you can sell your products.” But those who advocate for open markets and deregulation claim that trying to cut out US-based AI companies risks putting domestic businesses at a disadvantage to global peers, left to choose whichever AI products suit them best. “From our perspective, sovereignty means having choice,” says de Champris.
But for all the disagreement over policy minutiae, there is a broad belief that bridging the performance gap to the American leaders remains eminently possible for even budget- and resource-constrained labs, as DeepSeek illustrated. “If I would already think we will not catch up, I would not [try],” says Nejdl. SOOFI, the open source model development project in which Nejdl is involved, intends to put out a competitive general purpose language model with roughly 100 billion parameters within the next year.
“Progress in this field will not to the larger part depend anymore on the biggest GPU clusters,” claims Nejdl. “We will be the European DeepSeek.”
Server manufacturers have been working in recent years to adapt their datacentre products to meet the growing demand for artificial intelligence (AI). While major public cloud providers have the resources and scale to handle AI workloads, there is renewed interest in private clouds and on-premise AI. This shift is partly due to the realisation that public large language models (LLMs) are not well-suited for specific enterprise needs. Additionally, geopolitical uncertainties have raised concerns about relying solely on hyperscale cloud providers, prompting businesses to prioritise digital sovereignty and seek greater control over their IT infrastructure.
Lenovo, for instance, positions digital sovereignty in the context of customer requirements and AI deployment strategies. During its latest quarterly earnings call, Lenovo chairman Yuanqing Yang said: “User priorities are shifting towards personalisation and the private domain. This is accompanied by growing emphasis on efficiency, response speed, security, privacy and sustainability.”
The company answers the question of digital sovereignty through its hybrid AI advantage programme, which integrates AI hardware with AI-powered services and AI infrastructure to provide digital sovereignty and address customer privacy requirements.
Meanwhile, during HPE’s fiscal 2025 fourth-quarter earnings call, CEO and president Antonio Neri said: “Sovereign and enterprise bookings now account for more than 60% of the cumulative orders since Q1 of fiscal year 2023, demonstrating our strategy to prioritise profitable AI infrastructure build-out opportunities.”
The company recently introduced its first AMD Helios AI rack-scale architecture integrated with HPE Juniper networking, which it claims is designed to accelerate AI training and inferencing for sovereign clouds.
Similarly, Dell is ramping up efforts to place sovereign cloud capabilities, as Dell vice-chairman Jeffrey Clark explained during the company’s third-quarter 2026 earnings call. “Our salesforce is winning new opportunities across the neocloud customer base, sovereign customer base and enterprise customer base,” he said in response to a question about the factors contributing to incremental AI revenue of $5bn, which was referenced during the earnings call.
Given the trend among server manufacturers to offer digital sovereign capabilities, digital sovereignty is highly likely to be an area of focus for the tech sector in 2026 when targeting customer opportunities.
No regs for digital sovereignty
When looking at what is and what is not digital sovereignty, the authors of analyst Forrester’s Demystifying full digital sovereignty report note that there is no single regulation for digital sovereignty worldwide, which means it is not a compliance issue.
Instead, Forrester analysts Dario Maisto, Pascal Matzke, Lauren Nelson, Lorenzo Annicchiarico and Rachel Birrellone describe digital sovereignty as a risk mitigation exercise, where technology firms and IT service providers subject to foreign jurisdictions may affect an organisation’s ability to keep operations running. Rather than being considered a compliance issue, the Forrester analysts regard digital sovereignty as a request for proposal (RFP) when procuring new IT products and services.
Although it involves access to the organisation’s data, in terms of data residency, Forrester does not recommend treating digital sovereignty as a privacy and data protection issue.
In the report, the Forrester analysts note that data sovereignty concerns the ownership of data. “When you put your data in the infrastructure of a third-party subject to a foreign jurisdiction, such as the US hyperscalers’ datacentres in Europe, you may end up losing access to it,” they warn.
As an example, they note that while Microsoft’s sovereign public cloud ensures that customer data remains within Europe and only European nationals will be responsible for operations, this does not protect Microsoft customers from the risk of the US government “pulling the kill switch”.
Forrester recommends that organisations correctly frame the data sovereignty issue as a first step in gaining stable, long-lasting sovereign control of their data.
A balanced approach to in-country technology capacity
Power International Holding, which has headquarters in Qatar, is using Nutanix’s sovereign cloud capabilities and has adopted a private cloud to ensure sovereignty over its own data and AI models.
The company has been using Nutanix to tackle a proliferation of shadow AI projects when application development teams use external software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based LLMs without centralised controls, as CIO Jasim Rahman explains: “We selected Nutanix to do classical HCI (hyper-converged infrastructure) file management, but it has also allowed us to deploy our own models within the Nutanix AI stack, and this now powers a lot of our use cases in healthcare, IT, HR and facilities management.”
Nutanix Enterprise AI functions as a private cloud, allowing Power International Holding to create and use its own AI models, as well as fine-tune open source ones. It ensures data stays within the country where the company operates, maintaining data residency.
He says the company has a multi-layered approach to digital sovereignty, which includes in-country control over compute infrastructure and the development of AI models and platforms tailored to local needs “Our full-stack sovereignty has multiple stacks. We’re taking a very balanced approach to this, with both western and eastern clusters,” he says.
While Power International Holding is a private company, it participates in nation-building efforts, supporting the Qatar government to develop sovereign AI capabilities. Rahman says this makes it a key partner in advancing Qatar’s digital sovereignty and innovation goals.
“Governments need compute capacity to build models that are tuned for their country, culture, and language,” he adds.
For Rahman, digital sovereignty means ensuring that the compute infrastructure, models, platforms and physical AI remain within the country.
“Governments need a lot of compute capacity to build their AI models,” he says. “The risk is not just data residency. It’s data plus the models. Nobody can see what’s inside the model. It’s like a black box. So we’ve got to be able to intervene to make sure these models are tuned for the country, the culture and the languages spoken in that country.”
Rahman notes that the underlying graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructure needed for AI requires a balanced approach to digital sovereignty. “In Qatar and the other countries we operate in, we’re taking a very balanced approach to GPU infrastructure. Not many countries produce chips. We are dependent on the west, the Americas and the east.”
This approach means Power International Holding takes into account the specifics of the countries in which it operates. Some of them are leaning west, while some lean east. The underlying stack is the GPU infrastructure. “We’re going to be providing a platform of GPU infrastructure that will allow these countries to have their own digital embassies within this GPU infrastructure. They can operate within that infrastructure independently as sovereign clouds,” says Rahman.
He defines digital embassies as secure, sovereign cloud environments hosted within Qatar’s GPU infrastructure. They are designed to serve as disaster recovery and continuity hubs for other countries and enable countries to store critical data and systems outside their borders, ensuring resilience in case of emergencies such as wars or natural disasters.
Qatar has diplomatic relationships with other nations, such as Rwanda, which facilitates establishing digital embassies for disaster recovery and continuity planning for these countries. “Rwanda wants to have a country business continuity plan outside of Rwanda. That’s where Qatar would come in,” says Rahman.
Minimum requirements
While there have been many discussions around on-premise and private clouds being built to enable digital sovereignty, that does not necessarily mean moving workloads and data out of hyperscale IT infrastructure.
Forrester advises IT and business leaders to determine the minimum level of digital sovereignty needed to meet their business goals. This should be practical and capable of supporting the organisation’s workload requirements. A digital sovereignty plan should focus on delivering useful outcomes, rather than just meeting compliance or avoiding risk, as these alone do not benefit the business.
As Rahman highlights, such a strategy must also consider the countries where the business operates and their geopolitical context. This means IT infrastructure may need to be deployed in a different country from where the business is based. For example, as noted in Forrester’s Demystifying full digital sovereignty report, Estonia’s data embassy is located in Luxembourg to protect its critical data and information.
Other Ebikes We Like
Bike Friday All-Day for $5,600: Bike Friday bills the irresistibly tiny All-Day (7/10, WIRED Review) as the world’s lightest Bosch-powered ebike, and it’s true. You can customize all the colors and components of this folding electric bike, and it has a surprisingly powerful motor for its size. The Brompton above is more widely available and easier to use, but I love this little bike a lot.
Radio Flyer Via Pro for $2,900: Editor Julian Chokkattu could not have had a better experience than this easy-to-use and easy-to-assemble class 2 electric cargo bike. For more info, check out our guide to the Best Electric Cargo Bikes.
GoTrax Mustang for $1,799: We liked the Mustang, which is a surprisingly punchy little bike for just the right price. However, it only comes in one size so you should try it if you can before you buy it.
Aventon Level 3 for $1,899: The Aventon Level 3 is an easy-to-ride ebike that features a clean, step-through design and every feature you could want in a standard-size ebike for riding around town. There are built-in fenders and lights, and a big color display shows you how much of the up to 70 miles of advertised range you have remaining. I have ridden it up to about 25 miles at a time with my heavy 6’2″ frame, easily ending my rides with 20 percent of battery left. The frame feels comfortable and sturdy, thanks to a double-walled construction and improved Shimano gears and brakes. The front suspension fork and semi-hidden suspension seat post add to comfort relative to other bikes I’ve tested in this price range, and I like that the Aventon app lets you set up things like remote locking and geofencing, so you can keep an eye on your expensive bike from afar. The built-in turn signals, which use the bike’s rear lights, are another bonus when riding in cities at night. —Parker Hall
Tenways CGO800S for $1,799: This is a budget step-through city ebike. It boasts up to 50 miles of battery life, and I got more than 30. The torque sensor is smooth and responsive to pedaling at various speeds. However, there’s no throttle, and because this bike is meant to fit riders of a huge range of sizes (they say 5’1” to 6’3”), the frame was not as comfortable to pedal for me (5’11”) as some large-size bikes. —Martin Cizmar
Aventon Ramblas for $2,899: Aventon made a mountain bike! It’s a lot of bike for an affordable price, but just a little too heavy to take out for its intended use case. It makes a nice, rugged commuter, however.
Linus eDutchi for $1,799: Need a comfy cruiser? The Linus eDutchi is a comfy class 1 ebike with beautiful colors and loads of proprietary accessories.
Electra Loft Go! for $960: I also love the Electra Loft Go! (7/10, WIRED Recommends), which is another comfy sit-up beach cruiser, but the Priority has a slightly more powerful motor for the same price.
Xtracycle Estoker for $4,499: This is probably the bike that I see most often in my Portland, Oregon, neighborhood. It has a durable, sturdy Chromoly steel frame and larger 24-inch wheels, along with a Shimano mid-drive motor that makes it perfect for more grueling conditions. Unfortunately, you do have to be over 5’6″ (which I am not) to ride it.
Gazelle Eclipse for $6,399: If you want to know just how great the Bosch system can be, the Eclipse (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is the more expensive version of the Radster Road above. It has a nicer shifter, a smarter motor—even the paint job is nicer. It’s just much more expensive.
The Gocycle G4I+ for $5,999: Gocycle’s high-end, fast-folding luxury bikes are designed by a former McLaren engineer. This quieter, lighter iteration has better torque, a new carbon-fiber front fork, and an even more painful price.
The Bunch Original Electric Cargo Bike for $6,499: I didn’t care for the Bunch (5/10, WIRED Review), but my family did. It’s a standard, if slightly expensive, box bike as you might see in Europe. It’ll work well if you live in a flat area and don’t have to go very fast.
Bikes We Dislike
Pass on the left.
The Retrospec Jax Rev for $1,100: We wanted to love this sleek, stylish folding bike, but we couldn’t help worrying about its durability.
Niu Electric Bike BQi-C3 Pro for $999: Commerce director Martin Cizmar tested this bike and had a litany of complaints. The riding position is too aggressive, and the bike frame doesn’t fit common components like a water bottle and his pannier. The disc brakes weren’t suited to stopping it from 28 mph.
FAQs
How Does WIRED Procure Ebikes?
Bike companies reach out to me, and I request testers in my size. Once I have finished testing, I either return the bikes to the manufacturer, the shop that assembled them, or donate them to nonprofit organizations.
How Do You Secure an Ebike?
Many ebikes have removable batteries, displays, or built-in wheel locks that make securing your bike much easier. Other bikes, like the Specialized Turbo Vado SL 2, are also compatible with Apple Find My. Check out our Best Ebike Locks guide for more options.
Should I Build My Own Bike?
Many affordable bikes now come direct-to-consumer—meaning that they are pre-tuned or partially assembled in a box. As Peter Flax recently noted in Bicycling magazine, these bikes do not get nearly the testing or vetting that bikes from a bigger manufacturer get. Unless you’re not riding much or for many miles, or are experienced with modifying your own bike, I recommend working with an established manufacturer that has a dealer network.
What Terrain Do You Live On?
If you live in a flat area, you’re probably fine with a 250-watt motor, which is the European speed standard. However, if you live near hills or haul a lot of stuff, you might want to consider a 500-watt or 750-watt motor and a few extras, like hydraulic disc brakes, which will help prevent you from skidding into traffic.
How Do I Prevent Bike Fires?
The idea of your garage suddenly setting alight is terrifying, but don’t worry—the batteries that manufacturers use today are much safer than those of yore. We only write about bikes that have been certified safe by a third-party organization. Also, exercise a bit of common sense. Do not leave your bike battery charging overnight in a boiling hot garage. Don’t use aftermarket accessories to charge your bike. And don’t plug in a battery that has deformed or smells weird, or try to turn on a bike with a cracked display or computer.
Follow Some Basic Safety Tips
Not sure where to start? The biking advocacy group PeopleForBikes has a safety education program, E-Bike Smart, which it created in collaboration with the League of American Bicyclists and Bicycle Colorado. Do not let your children ride your bike unsupervised. An 80-pound child should not be piloting a 65-pound bike, even if the motor makes it possible for them to do so. And always wear a helmet, but you already know that. Right?
Over the past few years, WIRED’s Reviews team has tried almost every kind of electric bike, from the best heavy-duty cargo bikes to high-end mountain bikes. We review upward of 50 new ebikes a year by riding them on a variety of terrain for at least 40 miles over the course of at least two weeks. We test cargo bikes by hauling kids and groceries, we ride mountain and gravel bikes on trails, and we test commuter bikes while running errands on regular city streets (including up and down steep hills). In addition to our real-life testing, we also evaluate specs like weight, tire size, battery life, motor power, and the sourcing of key components.
Whenever I talk to anyone about a possible ebike purchase, the biggest deterrent is usually the price. If this is you, check out our guide to the Best Cheap Ebikes. But I do want to say here that these are vehicles, not toys. When I’m carrying my kids to school or flying down a hill at 25 mph, I want the safest possible ride, and I think you should too.
Reasonable auto financing options are the only reason a $2,000 electric bike can feel prohibitively expensive while a $6,000 beater gas-powered car has easy monthly payments. Many states now feature incentive programs that offer rebates or tax credits for ebike purchases. Some bike manufacturers and retailers offer financing through companies like Affirm or PayPal. Your bank might cover ebikes under its vehicle loan program, and I also recommend looking at eBay locally, Craigslist, or local Facebook groups. You probably have more options than you think.
Ebike Classifications and Rules
Before you buy your electric bike, make sure you can actually use it! Many cities and states have laws regulating when and where you can ride an ebike. Check out our guide on the three classes of ebikes. At least 22 states now use this three-class system, and they may restrict when and where different classes of ebikes are used, depending on whether they have a throttle or can assist above 20 mph. Cities may also have laws about whether mountain ebikes are allowed on single-track trails. If your state classifies ebikes under the same laws governing motorcycles and mopeds, you may need a license to ride one.
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How We Tested and What We Tested
We put each juicer through the paces, funneling a mountain of vegetables and fruit through each device, testing especially its ability to handle both tough and fibrous veggies and softer produce such as greens and berries. We taste-test a classic green juice (apples, carrots, celery, cucumber, leafy greens) and a carrot-apple-ginger. We also compare both the yield and frothiness of the juice among different juicers, from the same recipe or the same fruit.
As of the most recent round of testing (January 2025), we also subjected each device to “torture tests” by intentionally not following instructions: loading produce in the wrong order, failing to chop ginger or pineapple, and leaving lemon in its peel, to see which devices spin fruitlessly or jam up sadly with fiber and pulp.
We test each device with a decibel meter, noting when it’s much louder or quieter than the 65 decibels one might reach during polite conversation. And we assess each device for ease of cleaning.
Some cocktails were also created, all in the name of research.
What Are the Different Types of Juicers?
Most all-purpose juicers fall into one of two types. Centrifugal juicers or masticating slow juicers that are also known as “cold press.”
A centrifugal juicer offers speed and a lot of power. In essence, it operates a bit like a blender with an added mesh screen to separate juice from pulp. A fast-rotating blade shreds fruit and produce and grinds them up against a mesh screen, often at a speed of thousands of revolutions per minute. Whatever passes through the mesh is the juice.
The power and speed mean centrifugal juicers are often whizzes at processing roots, pineapples, and other harder or dense-fibered produce that might pose difficulty for a slow-press auger. Softer fruits such as berries or leafy greens won’t do so well here, offering lower juice yields or even clogging up the mesh screens. Centrifugal juicers also tend to produce frothier juice, given the high agitation. That said, rotating quickly also makes them quick.
A masticating juicer—sometimes called a “slow” or “cold press” juicer—is both the newest trend in juicing and a much older technology. Basically, slow juicers operate on the same principle as an old-fashioned cider mill, slowly “chewing” and pressing fruit at a much lower rate, which some believe subjects fruits and vegetables to less oxidation and heat and thus preserves more of their essential character.
More verifiably, slow juicers tend to net higher juice yields and less waste than centrifugal juicers and are more effective in particular on leafy greens, soft fruits, and berries. They also add less froth and aeration to the resulting juice and produce more evenly textured results.
Masticating juicers were once loaded into a horizontal grinder and chute, which took some effort and required you to attend to juicing during the whole process. More recently, the advent of vertical masticating juicers from South Korea changed all that—with big hoppers one can load up, shrug, and depart from as the juicer does its work. The majority of juicers we’ve included in our guide, and all of our top picks, are now slow, masticating juicers.
We’ve also included a classic citrus juicer for simple orange, lemon, and lime drinks. These are quite simple devices and mostly the same as each other aside from style and ergonomics. Basically, you press a halved citrus fruit onto the ridged dome of a reamer and turn on the device. The reamer will twirl till the juice is juiced.
Masticating and centrifugal juicers can, of course, juice unpeeled citrus—and the added zest can be quite flavorful in lemon and lime juice. (Actually, this is my preference.) But to avoid such zestiness, you’d otherwise have to peel your citrus before loading into a juicing chamber. The easiest way to juice an orange will always be to halve it and press it against the ridged dome of a citrus juicer.
Are Juicers Good for Your Health?
Juicing is an easy way to add more fruit and vegetables to your diet, but it’s not a magic fix. There area few easy ways to maximize the health benefits and minimize drawbacks like blood sugar spikes.
WIRED contributing reviewer Emily Peck talked to Kylie Jane, nutritionist and founder of UK wellness brand SANA Wellness (unrelated to Korean juicer brand Sana Products), for her advice on healthy juicing. These are the five ways to ensure that juicing is a healthful addition to your life and avoid sugar overload.
- Balance fruit with vegetables: Fruits can contain a lot of sugar, so to combat this, make vegetables the base of your juices. Aim for a ratio of 80 percent vegetables to 20 percent fruits. Try spinach, kale, cucumber, celery, ginger, and beetroot. When adding fruits, go for those with a lower glycemic index like green apples, berries, and pears.
- Incorporate fiber: Juicing removes most of the fiber from fruits and vegetables, but it’s crucial for slowing down the absorption of sugar, aiding digestive health, and keeping you feeling full. Consider blending some of your juice with whole fruits or vegetables to keep some of the fiber intact. Alternatively, add a fiber supplement or incorporate some pulp in cooking or baking to ensure you’re getting enough.
- Add healthy fats: To stabilize blood sugar levels and increase satiety, incorporate sources of healthy fats into your juicing routine, such as avocado or coconut oil.
- Enhance with “superfoods”: Matcha and collagen are popular supplements that can easily be added to juices for an extra health boost. A teaspoon of matcha is rich in antioxidants and provides a gentle energy boost without the jitters of caffeine. Collagen may help with skin elasticity and hydration, as well as healthy hair, nails, and joints.
- Choose the right time to juice: Drinking juice on an empty stomach can sometimes cause blood sugar levels to spike more quickly. It’s often better to drink juice as part of a meal or after you’ve eaten some solid food, especially foods high in fiber, protein, or fats, to help slow down the absorption of sugar.
What Juicer Accessories Are Important?
Once you’ve decided what ingredients you want to put in your juicer—be it hard fruit or leafy vegetables—it will be easier to choose between a masticating “slow” juicer or a faster centrifugal design. Either way, it’s important to look for a juicer that comes with the relevant accessories you need. For tasks other than juicing—such as making nut milks and butters or ice creams and sorbets—you’ll need a juicer with the relevant food processing parts.
Also consider how much you’re willing to prep your ingredients. While there are regulations on the size of the feeding chute you can find due to safety reasons, some juicers are equipped to take a whole apple in one, which means less chopping. To make it even simpler, the most modern slow juicers, like those from Nama and Hurom, have self-feeding hoppers.
Dishwasher-safe parts are practical and save scrubbing time, but please be aware, even the easiest-cleaning juicers will take time and attention to clean. Pith, rind, pulp, and juice are sticky and messy. That’s just how it is.
A Reverse button is another useful feature to look for, especially with slow juicers. This allows you to reverse the juicing process should you overeagerly stack your juicer and ingredients gets stuck.
Other Juicers We Liked
Photograph: Matthew Korfhage
Tribest Slowstar AI Vertical Hopper Juicer for $600: I’m still testing the full capabilities of this brand-new device from Tribest—perhaps the most interesting new juicer of the past couple years. While the rest of the kitchen went smart, most juicers have remained resolutely analog. But this Tribest is a touchscreen device with preset spin speeds for individual vegetables and an AI-controlled function that modulates spin speed depending on the resistance of each produce item. This seems to work, making this thing an absolute beast for pitching through tough lemon peels or ginger. So far, so good! But there are compromises, including a smaller hopper size and a lower continuous operating time than my top picks. And while its screen-free hopper and feeder design is easy to clean, it’s still not as simple to clean and reassemble as the Hurom H70, and there are more parts to keep track of. And so upon initial testing, it remains just below the top-pick threshold, as I continue to suss out the device’s performance.
Photograph: Emily Peck
Kuvings AUTO10 Juicer for $730: The Kuvings AUTO10 is the original big-big-big juicer, a 3-liter hopper meant for large batches without ever having to load an extra carrot or an extra batch of spinach. The extra liter of space over the J2 will matter to some power users. The stainless steel blade and added strainers on the AUTO10 Plus upgrade are also nice touches. But this size comes at the expense of bulk and height—making this a difficult fit for most kitchen counters. While this Kuvings is a slightly higher-watt machine than the Nama J2, the versatility of the J2’s multiple hoppers and accessories, and its US-based customer service, gives the Nama a slight edge. But if you know you’re a big-batch juicer, you will not go wrong with this Kuvings.
Photograph: Emily Peck
Omega Juicers VSJ843RR for $399: WIRED contributing reviewer Emily Peck tested and recommended this juicer in previous versions of this guide, praising its excellent juice and high yield. But the device is less intuitive than the current generation of high-end juicers, leafy greens required a bit of fiddling to push through the feeder tube, and the device struggled with fibrous vegetables such as pineapple and broccoli.
Photograph: Emily Peck
Sana 707 Cold Press Juicer for $200: This is a classic horizontal juicer, the style in vogue for much of the previous century. It offers a lot of versatility, with attachments for anything from coffee to pasta. And it’s economical, as compared to hopper-style juicers. But as with other skinny-mouth feeders, you’ll find yourself hand-feeding carrots and celery and little apple wedges to make a juice batch.
Omega Time-Saving Batch Juicer for $226: WIRED had previously recommended this set-and-forget model from Omega as a budget slow juicer, despite lower performance than top picks that cost twice as much. But we’ve put it back on the testing bench after seeing some consumer feedback about durability, and for now we’re more likely to recommend fast-spinning centrifugal juicers as a budget option.
Omega Juicers Wide Mouth Cold Press Juicer JC4000 for $135: On the one hand, this Omega wide-mouth is quite economical for a slow cold-press juicer. But it’s also a lot of fiddly work to assemble it properly, it leaves a fair amount of pulp unextracted, and despite its “wide-mouth” name, requires a bit of chopping to feed fruits that aren’t carrots or celery through its vertical feeder—at least as compared to newer-model hoppers. It’ll get the job done, for not a lot of money. But you may not fall in love with it, and as a budget cold-press pick I prefer Omega’s batch model.
Gone but not forgotten: The Sana 868 wide-mouth vertical juicer ($300) is still gettable on Amazon, but it’s listed as discontinued on Sana’s site. The 868’s feeder-tube style is not in vogue at the moment, but the utility for this device comes from the low cost and the coarser screens that allow this device to be used for both juicers and smoothies. This said, if you mostly make smoothies in the morning, a blender is a whole lot easier to clean.
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