You've already narrowed it down to a KitchenAid blender. Now, which one?
The range covers different types of machines: a precise everyday blender, a serious kitchen workhorse, and a cordless system built for portability. Getting the right match depends on how you cook.
By the end of this guide, you'll know exactly which KitchenAid blender belongs in your kitchen.
How to choose: four things to consider
What you blend most
The biggest factor. If you mostly use your blender to make smoothies, soups and the occasional frozen drink, the Pure Power Blender handles all of that confidently.
If you blend a wide variety of things across the week (frozen drinks, hot soups, thick dips, batch smoothies) and want a machine with the presets, tamper, accessory range and adaptive motor to match, the K400 is the better fit. It's built for the kitchen that asks more of a blender.
If you mostly want single-serve smoothies with the freedom to blend anywhere, try the Go Cordless Personal Blender.
How much you make at once
The Pure Power Blender has a 2L main jar that tackles most blending tasks comfortably.
The K400's main jar is 1.7L, but a real advantage is a broader accessory ecosystem: a Personal Blending Jar for single serves and a Small Batch Jar for dressings and marinades.
The Go Cordless Personal Blender is 473ml, meant for one quick serve.
How hands on you want to be
The Pure Power Blender gives you ten variable speeds and pulse; precise manual control with three useful presets – Smoothie, Ice Crush and Clean. The K400 has five variable speeds and adds a fourth preset (Icy Drink), a tamper for thick mixtures, and a broader accessory range. The Go Cordless Personal Blender is as simple as it gets: turn it on, turn it off, or pulse.
Your kitchen
If you already have KitchenAid appliances on your bench, the K400's seven Australian colours and the Pure Power Blender's four make it easy to coordinate. The Go Cordless Personal Blender comes in classic Black Matte.
Compare at a glance
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Pure Power K200 |
K400 |
Go Cordless Personal Blender |
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Price |
From $199 |
From $499 |
From $159 (battery separate) |
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Main jar capacity |
2L BPA-free plastic or glass |
1.7L BPA-free plastic |
473ml BPA-free plastic |
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Key uses |
Smoothies, soups, sauces, frozen drinks |
Frozen drinks and ice, smoothies, hot soups, thick dips and nut butters |
Single-serve smoothies and frozen drinks, cordless blending anywhere |
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Presets |
Ice Crush, Smoothie, Clean |
Ice Crush, Icy Drink, Smoothie, Clean |
On/off (1 min auto-run) + Pulse |
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Self-clean cycle |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Tamper included |
No |
Yes |
No |
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Warranty |
1 year |
5 years |
1 year |
Now, let’s go a bit deeper into each model and why it might (or might not) be right for you.
Why KitchenAid blends the way it does
The K400 and the Pure Power Blender built around a 3-part blending system. The asymmetric blade cuts at four distinct angles, creating a powerful vortex that pulls ingredients inward and downward continuously rather than just spinning them.
The ribbed jar design works with that blade geometry; the ridges disrupt the rotation just enough to keep ingredients cycling through the blade path rather than spinning freely on the sides.
The Intelli-Speed Motor Control senses what's in the jar and maintains the right speed automatically, so the machine adjusts to a dense load of kale and frozen berries as readily as it handles a thinner smoothie.
The result: whole foods like carrots, chia seeds and kale blended to smooth in 20 seconds.
Pure Power Blender
The Pure Power Blender is for the cook who wants complete control without complexity. Twist the precision control knob to any point between one and ten, and you're exactly where you want to be – chunky salsa stays chunky, green soup goes silky.
Three presets have your cold drinks and cleaning sorted at the touch of a button, and the 2L jar (the largest jar in the KitchenAid range) means you can make enough for the household, or enough to stock your freezer.
It handles hot ingredients too. The vented lid lets steam escape safely, so you can blend soups and hot sauces with confidence. Just let the ingredients cool slightly before adding them to the jar, start on the lowest speed, and build up from there.
The Pure Power Blender looks beautiful on your bench. It won the Red Dot Award for Product Design – an international recognition for outstanding design quality. And it's available in four colours: Porcelain, Black Matte, Empire Red and Charcoal Grey.
Or, if you choose the Pure Power Blender with Glass Jar, you can choose from Agave, Black Matte, Cardamom and Porcelain.
Both a glass jar version and a bundle with a personal blending jar are available with free engraving.
And in happy news, the lid, jar assembly and lid centre cap are dishwasher safe on the top rack. The base is wipe-down only. The Pure Power Blender carries a 1-year warranty.
Worth knowing: there's no tamper included. For the everyday blending this machine is built for, that's not something you'll miss.
The K400
Does your blender see the full range of your cooking? Green smoothies before work, hot soups on a Sunday, frozen margaritas when people come over. The K400 will keep up. Its 3-part blending system with an asymmetric blade, ribbed jar and Intelli-Speed Motor Control senses what's in the jar and adjusts automatically.
The included tamper lets you push thick or stubborn mixtures back toward the blade, through the lid, without switching the machine off.
And you can work with hot soups and purees. Cool the liquid slightly, keep it under 1.2L, start on the lowest speed – the same jar handles both ends of the temperature range.
The Icy Drink preset ramps up gradually for frozen drinks and icy blends rather than hitting full power immediately, helping create silky smooth icy drinks.
Four presets (Ice Crush, Icy Drink, Smoothie, and Clean) plus variable speeds and a pulse button cover most of what you'll make. The accessories extend the rest: the Personal Blending Jar Expansion Pack for single serves on the go, the Small Batch Expansion Pack for dressings, marinades and small sauces.
Available in seven colours—Pistachio, Black Matte, Almond Cream, Dried Rose, Contour Silver, Empire Red, and Onyx Black—with free engraving too. The die-cast metal base and a 5-year warranty on parts and labour mean you’ll have it for the long term.
