We analysed the Amazon.co.uk subcategory Filtering Bottles and kept only products with at least 200 reviews and 4.3 stars. Only 36 listings exist in the whole subcategory, and the revenue top ten is six BRITA bottles, two Hario glass bottles that strain cold-brew tea rather than filter tap water, and one glass water pipe that has landed here because its listing mentions a filter.
The revenue leader: a 600 ml bottle with two MicroDisc filters in the box, sold for the taste of tap water rather than for its safety.
Check the price on AmazonThe revenue leader: a 600 ml bottle with two MicroDisc filters in the box, sold for the taste of tap water rather than for its safety.
The same money as rank 1 in a different colour, and its 4,783 reviews are a shared pool rather than a separate verdict — rank 8 shows exactly the same figure.
The highest price here at £33 and not a water filter at all: a glass bottle with a strainer for brewing cold tea or coffee in the fridge.
The cheapest entry here at £8.59 and the only squeezable one: a soft sports bottle rather than a rigid one, with two discs in the box.
Two bottles for £12.99, and the only listing on this page that states a filter capacity: 150 litres.
The same 600 ml bottle as rank 1 in apricot, 76p dearer and climbing: the price rose 34% over the observed period.
An older BRITA listing at £14.99, £4.26 more than the current 600 ml bottles for what the title describes in the same terms.
The dearest BRITA in this top ten at £19.29, on a listing whose title gives you nothing but the colour — and whose 4,783 reviews are the same pool as rank 2.
The second Hario here and the second entry that strains tea leaves rather than filtering tap water, down 33% in price over the period.
Not a drinking bottle in any sense: a 26 cm glass water pipe that appears in this subcategory because its listing mentions a filter.
| Product | Score | Stars | Reviews | Feature | Material | Price | Offer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01. BRITA Filter Bottle Light Green, 600 ml Best seller BRITA · BRITA |
9.2 | 4.5 ★ | 4,380 | 600 ml · 2 discs | Plastic | £10.73 | Amazon › |
| 02. BRITA Vital Filter Bottle, Pastel Blue BRITA · BRITA |
9.2 | 4.5 ★ | 4,783 | 600 ml · pastel blue | Plastic | £10.73 | Amazon › |
| 03. Hario Filter-In Bottle 750 ml, Olive Green Top rated HARIO · Hario |
9.3 | 4.6 ★ | 3,152 | 750 ml · glass | Glass | £33.00 | Amazon › |
| 04. BRITA Active Sports Filter Bottle, 600 ml Lowest price BRITA · BRITA |
9.1 | 4.5 ★ | 3,085 | 600 ml · squeezable | Plastic | £8.59 | Amazon › |
| 05. Aquaphor City Filter Bottle, 2-pack AQUAPHOR · Aquaphor |
8.4 | 4.4 ★ | 400 | 2-pack · 150 L | Plastic | £12.99 | Amazon › |
| 06. BRITA Filter Bottle Apricot, 600 ml BRITA · BRITA |
9.1 | 4.4 ★ | 4,140 | 600 ml · apricot | Plastic | £11.49 | Amazon › |
| 07. BRITA S1186 Filter Bottle Lime, 600 ml BRITA · BRITA |
9.2 | 4.5 ★ | 4,379 | 600 ml · lime | Plastic | £14.99 | Amazon › |
| 08. BRITA Water Filter Bottle, Blue BRITA · BRITA |
9.2 | 4.5 ★ | 4,783 | 600 ml · blue | Plastic | £19.29 | Amazon › |
| 09. Hario Cold Brew Bottle 750 ml, White HARIO · Hario |
9.0 | 4.5 ★ | 1,742 | 750 ml · cold brew | Glass | £32.99 | Amazon › |
| 10. Snake Glass Water Pipe, 26 cm bongbongbong · bongbongbong |
8.1 | 4.3 ★ | 282 | 26 cm · glass | Glass | £18.50 | Amazon › |
Every genuine filtering bottle here is sold against chlorine, taste and organic impurities in mains water. None of them is a microbiological purifier, so they are the wrong tool for stream water, a well or a tap you have been told to boil. That distinction is the single most important thing on this page.
BRITA puts a MicroDisc in the lid or the straw, so the water is filtered as you drink rather than while it stands. That means no waiting, but also that a slow disc turns into a hard suck. Check that the bottle is sold with spare discs, because the disc is the part you keep buying.
The Active is a soft, squeezable bottle for running and cycling; the rest are rigid ones for a desk or a bag. A squeezable bottle pushes water through the disc for you and fits a bike cage, a rigid one survives being dropped in a rucksack. They suit genuinely different days.
Every real filtering bottle in this top ten holds 600 ml, and the two 750 ml entries are cold-brew bottles with no water filter in them. If you want a litre of filtered water on the move, this subcategory does not have it — you are back to filling from a jug at home.
The BRITA listings include two MicroDiscs and the Aquaphor pack states 150 litres; none of them puts a week count on the label. Work out roughly how much you drink from the bottle, because a disc used twice a day at a desk is exhausted far sooner than one used at weekends.
A filter bottle has a wet disc sitting in a warm lid all day, and that is where smells and slime start rather than in the body. Look for a lid that comes apart, and be honest about whether you will take it apart every few days — otherwise buy the plain bottle and filter at home.
No. These are activated carbon taste filters sold for mains water: they take out chlorine, some organic compounds and the flat taste. They are not rated against bacteria, viruses or protozoa, and nothing in these listings claims they are. For hiking or travel where the water is genuinely suspect you need a purifier bottle, which is a different product in a different subcategory.
Because Amazon files them here. The Hario Filter-In holds a strainer for tea leaves or coarse coffee and brews in the fridge; the filtering it does is to the drink you make, not to the tap water you start with. Two of the ten places in this ranking go to those bottles, and one more goes to a glass water pipe.
Amazon pools reviews across the variants of a listing, so the Vital at £10.73 and the blue bottle at £19.29 carry the same figure. Ranks 1 and 7 do the same thing with 4,380 and 4,379. The rating is a fair verdict on the BRITA bottle family and tells you nothing about which colour or price point to pick.
The products are ordered by estimated monthly revenue per ASIN, not by star rating and not by bestseller rank. Only products with at least 200 reviews and an average of 4.3 stars were included. With just 36 listings in the whole subcategory, the filter is doing very little work here — which is exactly why three of the ten entries are not filtering bottles.
The score is not our own hands-on test. It is calculated transparently from public Amazon data: 75% from the average star rating and 25% from the number of reviews, weighted logarithmically. The ranking order itself comes from estimated monthly revenue per ASIN. Prices, ratings and review counts were retrieved from Amazon.co.uk on 22 July 2026 and can change at any time.
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