5 Best Personal Blenders of 2026, Lab-Tested and Reviewed
We tested options from Ninja, NutriBullet, and 6 other brands to find the best choices for on-the-go smoothies and small-batch meal prep
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A personal blender can be handy for whipping up breakfast smoothies on a busy morning or for prepping ingredients for a small batch of soup or salsa for dinner. They don’t take up as much space as a full-sized blender, so you can store them away more easily.
Below, you’ll find the best personal blenders from our tests, listed in alphabetical order. For more options, see our complete personal blender ratings. Not sure which to choose? Consult our blender buying guide for advice before you shop. And if you expect to perform more power-hungry blending jobs, check out our ratings for full-sized blenders.
You can expect to make smoothies with a uniform texture—no big chunks—in the Beast B10 personal blender. It aces our tests for both smoothies and purées. But while its convenience score is very good based on its ease of cleaning and controls, at 7 pounds it’s one of the heaviest personal blenders we’ve tested. It has a removable blade for easy washing and comes with a two-year warranty, which is longer than those of other blenders on this list.
The Beautiful by Drew Barrymore PowerExact 19443 Personal Blender is the only blender on this list that comes with a full-sized attachment (though we haven’t tested it as a full-sized blender). As a personal blender, it aces our purée tests, in which we purée raw ingredients into a soup. It also performs admirably in our smoothies test, and it’s convenient to use. This blender does less well at crushing ice, though, and, like most of the personal blenders we’ve tested, it’s a bit noisy.
The three-speed, 3-cup Ninja BlendBoss DB301 purées like a champ, it’s very good at making smoothies, and our lab testers found it convenient to use, but it’s just middling at crushing ice. Like most blenders, it’s on the noisy side (think lawn-mower-level noisy), but if you’re operating it in short bursts, you may not mind. It’s worth noting that Ninja blenders receive a middling owner satisfaction score in our surveys, meaning their owners are less likely to recommend them to friends and family than owners of other brands.
The budget-priced, 600-watt NutriBullet Original NBR-0801 Personal excels at making smoothies and puréeing raw vegetables into soup, and it’s convenient to use. And at 4 pounds, it’s one of the lightest personal blenders in our ratings. Its performance in our ice-crush tests is so-so, on a par with or better than that of other personal blenders we’ve tested. It also receives a passable score for noise, and NutriBullet blenders receive middling scores for predicted reliability and owner satisfaction in our surveys.
Our lab testers find that the 4-cup NutriBullet Ultra NB50500 personal blender is very good at making smoothies and better than others at crushing ice. It also aces our purée tests, and it’s convenient to boot. Its 4-cup capacity is the largest of the personal in our tests. While NutriBullet is a popular personal blender brand, its owner satisfaction and predicted reliability scores are just midrange.
How CR Tests Blenders
For smoothies, our testers evaluate how well each machine blends oranges, apples, carrots, yogurt, and milk, using a sieve to catch any unblended pieces of fruit or vegetables.
In our purée tests, we blend potatoes, carrots, and green peas into a soup. Our ice crush tests measure how well the blender can crush ice cubes without water in a specific period of time.
A personal blender’s convenience is determined based on ease of assembly, programming, cleaning, and stability during operation.
Each blender’s noise is measured in decibels while operating at counter height. Even those blenders that receive a relatively good noise score are loud (70 to 89 decibels, similar to heavy traffic, a noisy restaurant, or a lawn mower). Those that get a middling score are very loud (90 to 109 decibels), comparable to a subway, a shouting conversation, or a motorcycle.
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