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☕ Buying Guides · 2026The V60 explained from Hario's own pages and listings: size 01 for 1-2 cups, 02 for 1-4, 03 for 1-6 at 120 ml a cup; why the plastic one brews best for beginners; what ceramic, glass and metal change; the 72-rib NEO; the Switch that steeps; and which filter fits which - fifteen verified listings.
Written and reviewed by the CoffeeLabAdvisor editorial team · Published 16 September 2026
Buy the V60 02 unless you know why not. Hario sizes the V60 by cups of 120 ml: 01 for one or two cups, 02 for one to four, 03 for one to six, and the 02 brews a single mug as well as it brews a small carafe. On material, the plastic V60 is the cheapest and, counter-intuitively, the one many baristas prefer, because thin plastic steals the least heat from the water; ceramic and glass look better and hold heat once warmed, and metal is for travel. Every V60 shares the same geometry - a 60-degree cone, spiral ribs and one large hole - so the pour, not the material, decides the cup. The Switch is a V60 with a valve in the base that lets you steep and then release, and the NEO is the 2025 redesign with 72 ribs and no handle. Filters come in 01, 02 and 03 and only fit their own size.
Hario introduced the V60 in October 2005 - its NEO listing marks the 20th anniversary - and the name is the shape: a cone with walls at a 60-degree angle, spiral ribs running up the inside and a single large hole at the bottom. The ribs hold the paper filter off the wall so air can escape and water can drain along the whole cone, and Hario's product pages describe them as allowing a deeper bed of coffee and flexible control of pour speed; the large hole means nothing restricts the flow but the coffee and the paper, so pouring fast gives a lighter cup and pouring slowly a richer one, which is exactly what the starter set's listing says. The V60 Mugen is the exception that proves the rule, with a smaller hole and fewer ribs for a slower drawdown, and the NEO re-engineers the ribs - 72 fine ones converging into nine at the bottom - to spread water evenly and speed extraction.
Because the geometry is constant, the variables are size, material and what you pour with. The V60 rewards a gooseneck kettle and a scale, and our pour-over method guide gives the recipe that Hario's own instructions and a competition recipe agree on: about 1:17, medium-fine grind, water just off the boil, a bloom, then slow pours to finish around three to four minutes. The gooseneck kettle guide and coffee scale guide cover the two tools; the Drip-Assist lid on this page is Hario's answer for people who have neither, spreading any kettle's pour into an even shower.
Hario counts a cup as 120 ml (4.2 fl oz), which its listings state outright, so translate before you choose. The 01 is rated for one to two cups - up to about 240 ml, one mug - and it is the right size only for someone who brews exactly one small cup and wants the smallest cone; the ceramic 01 measures 119 by 100 by 82 mm on Hario's page. The 02 is rated one to four cups, up to roughly 480 ml, and it is the size to buy: it brews one mug with a filter that has room, two mugs into a 600 ml server, and it is the size every recipe, every kit and every accessory assumes; the plastic 02 is 137 by 116 by 102 mm. The 03 is rated one to six cups, about 720 ml, for a table; it is 157 by 137 by 122 mm and 142 g in plastic, and it takes its own 03 filters, which are harder to find in shops.
A bigger cone brewed small works, but the coffee bed is shallower and the pour less forgiving, so buy the size you brew most days. The Switch sizes follow the same codes with different capacities, because it holds water rather than passing it: Hario's page gives 200 ml for the 02 and 360 ml for the 03. The Range Server in 600 ml is the carafe matched to an 02; the starter set pairs the plastic 02 with a 700 ml server and 40 filters, and is the cheapest complete V60 setup Hario sells.
Plastic is the V60 to start with, and not only for price. Hario's plastic 02 is AS resin, dishwasher safe and boiling-water safe, made in Japan, and it won the 2007 Good Design Award; thin plastic has almost no thermal mass, so it takes almost no heat from the brew water, which is why many professionals use it in preference to heavier cones and why a cold ceramic cone can drop the first pour by several degrees unless it is preheated. It also survives being dropped. Ceramic is porcelain made in Arita, the traditional Japanese ceramics town, per Hario's listing - heavier, beautiful, and heat-retaining once warmed, which its listing states keeps the brew temperature steady through the cycle; preheat it with hot water every time. Glass is Hario's heatproof glass on a plastic or wooden base, showing the drawdown and behaving between plastic and ceramic thermally. Metal is stainless steel for travel and camping, light and unbreakable, and it sheds heat fastest of all. The NEO is Tritan, handle-free with a silicone holder, and deliberately thin to limit the temperature drop, with the 72-rib wall for even flow; at 135 g it is the new default for anyone who wants the technical case rather than the classic look.
The Switch changes the method rather than the material. It is a glass V60 cone on a silicone base with a stainless steel ball valve worked by a plastic switch; closed, it holds water and coffee together like a French press, and opening it drains through a V60 filter. Hario's page calls it a hybrid that brews like a standard pour-over or as an immersion brewer, and it is the most forgiving V60 there is: a steep needs no pouring technique, and the paper still gives a clean cup. It ships with 40 filters and comes in 02 and 03, and in a ceramic 02 version.
V60 filters are cone-shaped papers sized 01, 02 and 03 to match the drippers, and a filter fits only its own size: a 02 filter in a 01 cone stands proud of the rim, and a 01 filter in a 02 cone sits below the ribs. Hario's listings state the capacities the same way as the drippers - 01 for 1 to 2 cups, 03 for 1 to 6 - and they come white (oxygen-bleached, no chlorine) or natural (unbleached, which some people find gives a faint paper taste unless rinsed) and tabbed or untabbed, the tab being a fold-over strip that makes the filter easier to lift out. Rinse the filter with hot water before adding coffee; it warms the cone, seats the paper on the ribs and removes any paper taste, and it is the single step that most improves a first V60 cup. A box of 100 lasts a daily brewer three months, and the 02 is the size found everywhere; the 01 and 03 are worth buying in twos when you find them. Our coffee filters guide covers paper versus cloth and metal for the V60 and others.
The V60 recipe that Hario's own instructions and a competition recipe agree on is simple: about 1 part coffee to 17 parts water by weight, ground medium-fine to the texture of table salt, water at 200 to 205 F, a bloom of two to three times the coffee's weight for 30 seconds, then slow circular pours in two or three stages so the drawdown finishes between three and four minutes. For one mug in a 02 that is 15 g of coffee and 250 g of water; for a 600 ml server, 30 g and 500 g, which is where the 02 stops being comfortable and the bed gets deep enough that the pour has to slow. In a 01 the same 15 g sits deeper and drains a little slower, which is why some people prefer the 01 for a single cup; in a 03, 40 g and 680 g fills the cone with room to spare. Rinse the paper, preheat the cone if it is ceramic or glass, and use a scale: the V60 punishes guessing more than any other pour-over because the large hole gives it no built-in flow control. Our coffee-to-water ratio guide has the numbers for every size, and the grind size chart the setting on the grinders we have evaluated.
The Switch changes the recipe rather than the ratio. Close the valve, add coffee and all the water at once, steep for two to three minutes, open the valve and let it drain: an immersion brew that tastes fuller and more forgiving than a poured V60, with the paper still holding the sediment back. The NEO's 72 ribs drain faster than the classic cone, so grind a touch finer or pour a touch slower than you would in a standard 02. None of these are rules, and the point of a V60 is that the same cone makes a bright fast cup or a heavy slow one depending on how you pour it.
First V60, or a replacement for a cracked one: the plastic 02 clear, with 02 filters. Everything in one box: the starter set - plastic 02, 700 ml server, 40 filters. You want the classic look on the counter: ceramic 02 (white or a colour), preheated each time. Exactly one small cup, always: ceramic or plastic 01, with 01 filters. Brunch for four to six: plastic 03 with 03 filters. Pouring technique is the problem: the Switch 02, or the Drip-Assist on any 02. You want the newest engineering: the NEO 02. Camping and travel: the metal 02. You brew into a carafe: the 600 ml Range Server. The V60 sits beside the Kalita Wave and the Chemex on our pour-over coffee maker guide, and the Chemex guide is the comparison if you are deciding between a cone and a carafe.
Fifteen verified listings: the drippers by size and material, the NEO, both Switch sizes, the three filter sizes, the server and the Drip-Assist. Each capacity and material claim is the listing's own statement, read on the date shown on the card; live prices come from Amazon rather than being retyped here.
The V60 most people should start with: the cheapest, the lightest, and the one that loses the least heat. Listing states a dishwasher-safe, boiling-water-safe AS resin dripper for 1 to 4 servings at 4.2 fl oz (120 ml) per cup, winner of the 2007 Good Design Award.
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Dripper, server and filters in one box - the gift and the first setup. Listing states a kit of the V60 02 plastic dripper, a 700 ml heatproof glass server with a BPA-free handle and lid, and a 40-pack of 02 filters, made in Japan, with the V60's single large hole letting you pour fast for a lighter cup or slowly for a richer one.
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The reference cone: one large opening, spiral ribs, and total control handed to your kettle. Listing states the Hario V60 Dripper 02 in white ceramic.
Check price on Amazon →The single-cup ceramic V60. Listing states a size 01 porcelain dripper made in Arita-yaki, a traditional Japanese ceramic style, heat-resistant, dishwasher safe, with a ceramic body that retains heat through the brew.
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The same cone in glass: lighter than ceramic, and you can watch the bed drain. Listing states the Hario V60 coffee dripper in size 02, glass, black.
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The travel and drop-proof V60, in metal. Listing states a cone dripper designed and manufactured in Japan with spiral ribs and a large single hole, in sizes 01 (1 to 2 cups), 02 (1 to 4) and 03 (1 to 6).
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The big V60 for a table - six cups through one cone. Listing states an AS resin dripper made in Japan for 1 to 6 cups, 15.7 by 13.7 by 12.2 cm, 142 g.
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The 2025 redesign: 72 ribs, thinner wall, no handle. Listing states a handle-free Tritan (PCT resin) dripper with 72 fine spiral ribs that converge into 9 at the bottom for even flow and fast extraction, a thin wall to limit temperature drop, a silicone holder, 1 to 4 cups, 135 g, made in Japan, released for the V60's 20th anniversary (the V60 was born in October 2005).
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The V60 that can steep: flip the switch and it becomes an immersion brewer. Listing states a hybrid dripper that brews like a standard pour-over or as an immersion brewer, a plastic switch that works a stainless steel ball valve to hold or release the coffee, a glass V60 cone in Hario heatproof glass, compatibility with size 02 filters, and a 40-pack of them included.
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The Switch scaled up for two or three mugs. Listing states the size 03 Switch: the same pour-over or immersion hybrid with a stainless ball valve and a heatproof glass cone, compatible with size 03 filters, 40 included.
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The filter for the 01. Listing states 100 single-use cone filters of 100 percent oxygen-bleached paper pulp, designed for size 01 cone drippers with a 1 to 2 cup capacity.
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The running cost of the method - about a hundred brews per box. Listing states size 02 natural paper coffee filters, 100 count.
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The filter for the 03. Listing states 100 untabbed white cone filters designed in Japan for the size 03 dripper, whose capacity is 1 to 6 cups.
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The carafe a 02 brews into. Listing states a 600 ml heatproof glass server, microwaveable, designed and manufactured in Japan.
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Even pouring from any kettle - the training wheels that many keep. Listing states a lid that sits on the 02 dripper and disperses the pour evenly with minimal agitation, for precise pouring control without a gooseneck kettle, in a portable design.
Check price on Amazon →The 02. Hario rates it for one to four cups of 120 ml, so it brews one mug or a small carafe, and every recipe and kit assumes it. The 01 is for exactly one small cup; the 03 for four to six cups at a table.
For the cup, plastic: it takes almost no heat from the brew water, it is dishwasher and boiling-water safe, and it won a Good Design Award. Ceramic is heavier and holds heat once preheated, and it looks better. The geometry is identical, so the pour decides more than the material.
One to four cups at Hario's 120 ml per cup - up to about 480 ml. A 600 ml server is the matched carafe.
A glass V60 with a stainless steel ball valve in the base worked by a switch. Closed, it steeps coffee and water together; open, it drains through a V60 filter. Hario calls it a hybrid of pour-over and immersion. It holds 200 ml in size 02 and 360 ml in size 03.
No. Filters come in 01, 02 and 03 and each fits only its own dripper. The Switch uses standard V60 filters of its size. White filters are oxygen-bleached; natural ones are unbleached.
Hario's 20th-anniversary redesign: a handle-free Tritan cone with 72 fine spiral ribs converging into nine at the base, a thinner wall to limit temperature drop, and a silicone holder, for 1 to 4 cups.
Hario's NEO listing states the V60 was born in October 2005. The company's name, per its server listing, means King of Glass in Japanese.
It helps more than any other accessory, because the single large hole means the pour controls the brew. If you do not have one, the Drip-Assist lid spreads any kettle's pour evenly, and the Switch removes the need to pour with technique at all.
Sources for this page: V60 sizes and capacities (01: 1-2 cups; 02: 1-4 cups; Switch 02: 200 ml; Switch 03: 360 ml), dimensions, materials (AS resin; porcelain; heatproof borosilicate glass, silicone base, PCT resin switch, stainless ball), made in Japan, the spiral ridges and flow description, and the Switch method: Hario USA's product pages for the V60 plastic 02, ceramic 01 and the V60 Switch, hario-usa.com, read 2026-09-16 · 120 ml (4.2 fl oz) per cup, the 2007 Good Design Award, dishwasher and boiling-water safety, size 03 capacity of 1-6 cups, the single large hole and pour-speed description, the NEO's 72 ribs and October 2005 origin, Arita-yaki ceramic, filter fit and bleaching: each product's own Amazon listing, read 2026-09-16 · Pour-over recipe (about 1:17, medium-fine, 200-205 F, bloom, 3-4 minutes): our pour-over method guide and the two recipes it cites · Product capacities, materials and prices: each product's own Amazon listing (title and feature bullets), read 2026-09-16; every card links to the listing it was read from We have not lab-tested brewers; where a figure is a manufacturer's, the page names the manufacturer, and machine capabilities come from our own published review records.