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De'Longhi Rivelia Automatic Espresso Machine

De'Longhi Rivelia Automatic Espresso Machine

By De'Longhi · Espresso Machines · Kitchen & Cooking · More from De'Longhi

  • 19 bar pump pressure
  • 1450 W
  • 120 V
  • 47.34 oz water tank
  • 8.82 oz bean hopper

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Summary

A compact bean-to-cup super-automatic with two interchangeable bean hoppers, a 3.5-inch touchscreen and the LatteCrema Hot milk carafe, for households that alternate between regular and decaf or make several milk drinks a day. Check the milk temperature and the seller before you buy: the carafe serves milk warm rather than hot, and De’Longhi’s own pages listed $999.95 for the Arctic White and $1,299.95 for the Onyx Black in the same week of October 2026.

Strengths

  • Two sealed interchangeable hoppers switch between regular and decaf on the fly.
  • On-screen guidance, four user profiles and routine learning shorten the learning curve.
  • A 9.75-inch-wide body that fits small kitchens.
  • One owner reports a year of 10–20 shots a day with no problems.
  • A removable brew group and dishwasher-safe carafe parts keep home maintenance manageable.

Weaknesses

  • Espresso is less intense than a portafilter machine, and milk is warm rather than hot, about 70 °C in one measurement.
  • The plastic carafe feels flimsy and its weekly deep clean means taking apart many small pieces.
  • It is splattery, purges water often, and its drip tray and grounds bin fill quickly.
  • A 2024 service bulletin covers a weak grounds-container actuator, but only on machines built before June 15, 2024.
  • Australian owners report a descaling light that stays on after repeated descaling; no failure rate is published.
  • No custom recipes, and the cold drinks are espresso over ice rather than cold brew.

Verified specifications

ModelRivelia family EXAM44055, sold as EXAM44055B (Onyx Black), EXAM44055W (Arctic White), EXAM44055G (Pebble Gray) and EXAM44055BG (Sand Beige).
ElectricalUS 120 V, 1,450 W.
Water tank47.34 oz (1.4 L), side-access and removable.
Bean hopperstwo interchangeable 8.82 oz (250 g) hoppers.
Grinderintegrated burr grinder, 13 settings per De’Longhi; WIRED counted 14.
Grounds container10 oz, roughly 10–15 servings.
Display3.5-inch colour touchscreen with 4 user profiles and 18 drink presets, including three cold drinks.
MilkLatteCrema Hot carafe with auto-clean; cold foam needs the separate LatteCrema Cool set.
Custom recipesnot supported, and Bean Adapt covers straight espresso only.
Maximum cup height5.46 in.
Dimensions17 × 9.75 × 14.75 in (H × W × D) and 21.39 lb; the EU manual lists 250 × 430 × 390 mm and 9.7 kg.
Warranty2 years included, extended to 3 with registration.
Full research notes and sources

Bean switching and the two hoppers

The Bean Switch system is why many buyers pick this machine, and owners say it works as advertised: “Being able to change bean hopper is the main reason I got it, and it works flawlessly.” Each 8.82 oz hopper seals and lifts out, and when you unlock one the machine offers either a drink from the beans still in the grinder or a grind-and-discard purge. That purge is the catch: switching is not zero-retention, wasting roughly 5 g of beans per WIRED and about 10 g per Home Coffee Solutions. If you need strict decaf isolation, run the purge before you load the other hopper. Bean Adapt walks you through grind, dose and temperature for a new bean, but it is a guided starting point for straight espresso, not milk drinks, and owners split between trusting it and dialling in themselves.

Milk and drink temperature

Cold drinks on the US menu are strong espresso poured over ice, not cold brew, and genuine cold foam needs the optional LatteCrema Cool set. The side-access water tank, meanwhile, takes a little getting used to.

Reliability, cleaning and the 2024 service bulletin

A De’Longhi technical bulletin dated July 1, 2024 covers a weak grounds-container actuator that can break and repeatedly trigger the empty-grounds or drip-tray warning, but only on machines produced before June 15, 2024; the revised container keeps the same part number, AS00006685, and a 2026 owner reported a replacement tray fixing the warning. Ownership reports are otherwise mixed and mostly positive: one owner describes a year of 10–20 shots a day with no problems, while others report wet pucks, water in the grounds bin, a screech after about six weeks, or a machine under a year old and under 300 coffees that stopped responding to its power button. A water-circuit error should prompt a careful filter prime to clear trapped air before you assume a bad pump. Warranty outcomes vary too; one owner had De’Longhi arrange a video diagnosis and a return-box repair with the machine back in about 10 days after a leak, another had a broken internal assembly repaired under warranty in about a week, and others describe delays. Australian consumer reports describe a descaling light flashing after repeated descalings, which a technician called not an uncommon fault. None of this gives a failure rate.

Day-to-day upkeep is home-friendly: rinse the removable brew group weekly, run the carafe auto-clean after each milk drink, and descale when prompted, which takes about 30 minutes using De’Longhi descaler only. Startup and shutdown rinses consume water and fill the drip tray faster than you expect, so keep a cup under the outlet.

Running costs, parts and consumables

Consumables add up. Six DLSC002 water filters a year at $19.95 each is $119.70, and two to four descaling doses at $19.95 per five-dose bottle add about $7.98 to $15.96, for roughly $127.68 to $135.66 a year in filters and descaler alone (De’Longhi US, October 2026). Coffee, milk and electricity are extra, and hard water changes the descaler figure. No capsule lock-in.

Spare parts from De’Longhi run a spare DLSC403 hopper at $22.95, a DLSC031 hot carafe at $59.95, and the DLSC032 LatteCrema Cool set at $129.95, or $99.95 on sale. The 2024 bulletin’s improved grounds container keeps part number AS00006685, but De’Longhi does not publish a US retail price for it. Replace parts when they are damaged, not on a fixed schedule.

Is it worth it?

At a $999 street price the Rivelia is strong value: dual hoppers, four profiles, a compact body, real microfoam and a warranty that reaches three years with registration are hard to match in a mainstream super-automatic. Above about $1,150 the case weakens, because the warm milk, flimsy carafe and lack of custom recipes are harder to justify against machines with larger tanks and more drinks, and at the $1,299.95 RRP it is weak value. De’Longhi listed it at $1,499 at the May 2025 US launch; by October 2026 its store showed $999.95 on the Arctic White page, $1,299.95 on the Onyx Black page and $1,299.99 for the Sand Beige, while a Best Buy category page showed the black model at $999.95 as a 365-day low. Check the colour, the seller and the final cart price before you commit. Comparable De’Longhi machines, from the same brand, are the Magnifica Evo with LatteCrema at $899.95, the Magnifica Duo at $999.95 and the Eletta Explore at $1,999.95, the last worth it only if you need genuine cold brew.

Which model this is

This page covers the US Rivelia super-automatic, family EXAM44055, sold as EXAM44055B (Onyx Black), EXAM44055W (Arctic White), EXAM44055G (Pebble Gray) and EXAM44055BG (Sand Beige). In some markets it sells as the Rivelia LatteCrema.

The listing this page tracks is ASIN B0FBSP99LX.

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