Best Portable Blenders of 2026: Ninja, Nutribullet, Beast

Cordless portable blenders weren't truly a happening a decennary ago, oregon possibly adjacent 3 years ago. But artillery tech keeps getting better. This means the champion portable blender I've tested, the Ninja Blast Max ($100), is present afloat capable to marque a six-pack of crushed-ice margaritas astatine your adjacent picnic oregon blend up a berry-filled macromolecule shingle astatine the gym without breaking overmuch of a sweat. Meanwhile, the ingeniously designed Nutribullet Flip ($115) offers much torque than previous-generation blenders, positive capable insulation to support crystal frozen until it's clip for luncheon (or adjacent dinner).

Does this not jibe with your past acquisition with cordless blenders? Reader, I agree. It's a young technology, and astir past (and current!) cordless blenders are a disappointment, particularly compared to the champion blenders that plug into the wall—which are often arsenic overmuch arsenic a 100 times much powerful. But I recovered that our 2 apical cordless blenders were acold superior to the rest, aft investigating 8 of the astir promising contenders for artillery life, crystal crushing, smoothie and milkshake consistency, and all-round blender vortexing.

That said, it's worthy considering whether you really request a cordless blender for blending connected the go—or conscionable a tiny idiosyncratic blender that performs overmuch amended and whose blending enclosure tin alteration magically into a drinking cupful to go. WIRED has been investigating idiosyncratic blenders for years, and our apical pick, the Nutribullet Ultra ($164), conscionable mightiness beryllium the high-powered, sippy-cup, office-bound solution of your dreams.

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Best Portable Blender Overall: Ninja Blast Max

The Blast Max is simply a titan successful the pipsqueak-powered satellite of cordless blenders, each 1 the pitiful “before” successful a Charles Atlas comic. In part, this is the effect of sheer power, erstwhile powerfulness is measured successful simply double-digit wattage. The Ninja's 13.3-volt artillery was the astir almighty I tested, made imaginable with a proprietary charger alternatively of the USB-C cablegram favored by astir cordless blenders.

The Max tin marque macromolecule shakes, of course: Pretty overmuch each of these cordless blenders can. But the cordless Ninja is besides bully astatine plowing done almond food without jamming up. And it's the lone portable blender I tested that was capable to crush crystal without a moving start. Indeed, it tin crook cubed crystal into fluffy snowfall without immoderate ungainly chunks, a feat that nary different cordless blender adjacent came adjacent to achieving. If you adhd tequila and a small margarita mixer and instrumentality the happening to a picnic, the results are adjacent much satisfying.

It inactive takes up to 3 hours to charge, alas. But the Blast Max tin blend for anyplace from 7 to 10 drinks connected a azygous charge, depending connected however overmuch blending is needed—enough to reliably marque an octet of blended cocktails oregon smoothies. The trio of blender settings besides sets the Blast Max apart, from an efficacious crystal crush mounting to an AI mounting that adjusts powerfulness according to the absorption of the assorted ingredients.

My workfellow Adrienne So has told maine that the Ninja Blast Max's predecessor, the max-less Ninja Blast, was a life-changing summation to her greeting rituals erstwhile it arrived successful the doldrums of 2023. The specs connected the caller Max means it whitethorn alteration lives astir doubly arsenic much.

Best Insulated Portable Blender: Nutribullet Flip

Portable blenders person a precise elemental problem: Ice. Ice is what provides a batch of the satisfying texture that makes smoothies fun. But if you're going determination without power, you're astir apt besides going determination without a freezer. This Nutribullet Flip, rather cleverly, solves this occupation by utilizing the aforesaid double-walled vacuum exertion that keeps your java blistery and your h2o acold successful your favourite question mug.

Filled halfway with crystal and lone ice, the Nutribullet Flip was capable to support astir of its crystal intact aft 8 hours, successful my testing. Adding a liquid complicates matters, of course, unless the liquid already happens to beryllium ice-cold. But arsenic agelong arsenic astir of the constituents successful the blender are chilled, you person a beauteous bully accidental of making it to luncheon with immoderate crystal cubes inactive intact.