7 Best Personal Blenders of 2026, Lab-Tested and Reviewed
We tested options from Ninja, NutriBullet, and 17 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 chopping ingredients for a small batch of soup or salsa for dinner. Most aren’t intended for hardcore blending; for that, you’ll likely need a full-sized blender.
Of the 7 models we recommend here, four combine the best of both worlds: They’re full-sized blenders with a personal blender attachment. The other three are single-serve personal blenders only. All are listed in alphabetical order.
Want more options? See our complete personal blender ratings, which include more than 30 models. Not sure which to choose? Consult our blender buying guide for advice before you shop.
Full-Sized Blenders With Personal Attachments
These blenders come with both full-sized and personal blender attachments. For these scores, we test them using the personal-sized cup.
The GE G8BCAASSPSS Personal aces CR’s icy drinks and purée tests, and passes our durability tests with flying colors. However, its ice-crushing prowess was just ho-hum. It’s also fairly noisy. Its personal blender jar has a 2.5 cup capacity, and it’s dishwasher-safe.
Preparing drinks and soups for one is a cinch with the high-performing Ninja BL770 Personal blender. This 1,500-watt personal blender consistently turns out uniformly thick soups and smoothies, earning an excellent score in our purée test and a very good score in our icy drink test. It was also adept at crushing ice, and our testers found it very convenient to use, meaning the blade is easy to remove and clean, and the jar is well-marked and easy to handle and pour from.
The CR Recommended Ninja Professional Plus Kitchen System BN801 Personal offers the highest-scoring personal blender we’ve tested. It doesn’t just make great smoothies—it can purée soups with the best of them. Our lab testers found this model durable and convenient, and it receives and very good score for crushing ice. Like the other blenders on this list, it features a pulse function, allowing you to chop vegetables or other ingredients without overprocessing.
The powerful 1,600-watt Ninja Twisti Duo SS151 Personal is excellent at making smoothies and very good at puréeing. It also earns top marks for durability, but is just mediocre in its ice-crushing performance. Still, it earns a very good score for convenience. The model we tested comes with a 4.2 cup blending jar, 18-ounce and 24-ounce cups, a built-in tamper, and a recipe booklet. As a brand, Ninja full-sized blenders received favorable reliability scores and middling owner satisfaction scores in CR’s latest member survey.
Stand-Alone Personal Blenders
These blenders make single-serve batches of smoothies, soups, and salsas. Despite their size, they also earn impressive marks for icy drinks, purées, and durability.
The budget-priced, 600-watt NutriBullet Original NBR-0801 Personal nailed the functional aspects of our lab testing, earning excellent ratings for ice crushing, making icy drinks, puréeing raw vegetables into soup, and durability. That elevates it to one of the highest-rated, most budget-friendly, and lightest personal blenders (weighing only 4 pounds) in our ratings. But it disappoints with mediocre scores for predicted reliability, owner satisfaction, noise, and convenience (it’s push-down operated and has only one speed).
For a double dose of green, pair the budget-friendly NutriBullet Pro 900 Dark Green Personal Blender with your healthy smoothies made from spinach, green apples, or pears. This blender is excellent at crafting thick, creamy smoothies and puréeing raw ingredients for hearty soups; it also gets a top score for durability. It’s fairly noisy, though. Another push-down-to-operate model, the 900-watt blender comes with a recipe booklet and an 18-ounce cup, and it will help you remember to eat your greens.
The Our Place Splendor blender delivers strong performance in our key tests, snagging excellent ratings for producing icy drinks and smooth purées; we also found it to be highly durable. It’s worth mentioning, though, that it’s only mediocre when it comes to crushing ice and is on the noisier side. It slipped a bit on convenience, too. This model comes with a one-year warranty, and like the other personal-sized models on this list, has only one speed.
How CR Tests Blenders
Consumer Reports tests all blenders on the criteria below. For blenders that come with both full-sized and a personal-sized blender jars, we test each separately. Those models have two separate scores, one for personal blending and one for full-sized blending. Both sets of ratings can be sorted to highlight models with either a personal or full-sized attachment.
Icy drinks: In our lab, we make batches of nonalcoholic piña coladas and use sieves (with diminishing mesh sizes) to evaluate smoothness and thickness. When a blender earns an excellent score in our icy drink tests, it means it produces drinks with a smooth, consistent texture.
Ice crushing: For our ice-crushing tests, we use a second set of sieves to separate the larger chips from the finer particles. A blender that garners a top-level score serves up ice that looks uniformly like snow, while a very good score tells you the ice is more like a snow cone. (The lower the score, the bigger—and more irregular—the ice chips.)
Puréeing: In this test, we blend veggies and other ingredients in water three times for each model, operating on the manufacturer’s recommended speed (or high) for 15 seconds.
Convenience: We measure a machine’s convenience by how easy it is to use its controls, clean its base, and remove and replace the blade, among other factors.
Durability: Our durability test involves crushing seven ice cubes (four for personal blenders) without liquid for one minute on the highest setting.
Noise: To gauge the noise level, CR blends one cup of water and takes an average decibel reading over 30 seconds.
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