10 Best Meal Kit Delivery Services of 2026

HelloFresh earns the top spot because its menu is the broadest of any kit here. Each week you choose from 100+ menu and market items, and more than 21 options let you swap or upgrade proteins and sides, or add protein to vegetarian dishes. Six preference plans, from Meat & Veggies to Pescatarian and Fit & Wholesome, set your default recommendations, and you can still mix recipes from any of them. Quick & Easy meals take 20 minutes or less, while most dinners take about 30. The HelloFresh Market adds breakfasts, lunches and snacks to the same delivery, which helps households replace a grocery run. The cost is the trade-off: HelloFresh publishes a starting price of $10.49 per serving plus $12.99 shipping per box, so a small box lands well above EveryPlate or Dinnerly. Shoppers who mainly want the lowest bill should look further down this list.

Home Chef suits cooks who want to decide how much work dinner takes. Its homepage lists three styles: the classic kit with pre-portioned ingredients and recipe cards, Express meals with pre-chopped ingredients that cook in 30 minutes or less, and Oven-Ready meals that go straight into the oven in their own tin. The Customize It tool lets you swap or upgrade the protein on many recipes, which helps when one person avoids pork or wants steak. You choose from 35+ meals and 18 Extras a week, and the Family Plan sells family meals in 4 serving portions. Home Chef says standard meals average $9.99 per serving, and the minimum weekly order is $50.95 including shipping for the Home Chef Plan and $82.91 for the Family Plan. Its homepage lists meal kits from $8.99 per serving, below HelloFresh's starting price.

EveryPlate is the price leader for families. Its plans start at $5.99 per serving and shipping is a flat $10.99 per box, and new customers get a steep discount on the first box. You choose 2, 4 or 6 people and 3 to 5 recipes a week, then pick from 35+ meals, including Big Family Classics that EveryPlate says carry 25% more food at the same price. Recipes are kept to about 6 steps and roughly 30 minutes, and many use one pan or a sheet pan to cut cleanup. Plan types include Meat & Veggie, Veggie, Smart & Fit, Quick & Easy and Family Faves. The limits are clear from EveryPlate's own FAQ: it does not cater to restrictive diets, so households that need gluten-free, keto or vegan menus should look at Green Chef, Purple Carrot or Hungryroot instead.

Hungryroot sits between a meal kit and an online grocery store. You answer questions about your diet, health goals and budget, and Hungryroot fills a weekly cart with groceries and recipes that fit, which you can edit or skip. Prices are listed per serving: breakfast from $3.99, lunch from $5.99 and dinner from $8.99, with snacks from $1.99. The diet coverage is the widest we found, with High Protein, Anti-Inflammatory, Gut-Friendly, Less Sugar, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free and Vegetarian filters plus 13 more, and exclusions for peanuts, tree nuts, soy, eggs and shellfish. Shipping is free on orders over $70. The format suits people who want to stock the whole week rather than cook three set recipes, but it gives less structure than HelloFresh or Home Chef for someone learning to cook.

Dinnerly matches EveryPlate on price and offers a bigger menu. Its homepage lists meals from $5.99 per person and 100+ recipes every week, which is a wide choice for a budget kit. Recipes lean on familiar flavors and family favorites, so it works for households with children or picky eaters, and the Market lets you add ready-to-heat meals, breakfasts and desserts to the same box when you do not want to cook every night. Dinnerly is run by the same company as Marley Spoon. The trade-offs are the usual ones for low-cost kits: fewer diet-specific plans than Green Chef or Hungryroot, simpler ingredients than Marley Spoon, and shipping added on top of the per-serving price. For households that just want cheap, easy dinners and some choice, it is a strong alternative to EveryPlate.

Factor is not a meal kit in the strict sense: meals arrive fully prepared, fresh and never frozen, and heat in about 2 minutes. That makes it the pick for people who want the convenience of a subscription without cooking. Each week Factor offers 100+ dietitian-designed meals and add-ons, with menus for low carb, vegan and vegetarian, high protein, meals under 550 calories and a GLP-1 menu. It also offers 70+ add-ons such as breakfasts, smoothies and snacks, and free nutrition coaching sessions with a dietitian. Factor's own comparison page puts it at roughly $11 to $15 a serving, and a shipping fee applies on every delivery, so it costs more than cooking a kit. It works best for single people or couples who would otherwise order takeout.

Green Chef is the kit to choose when a specific diet drives the decision. It runs dedicated menus for Keto, Protein Packed, Gluten-Free, Vegan, Veggie, Mediterranean and Calorie Smart, where recipes come in at 650 calories or less, plus a Gut, Brain & Health menu. Green Chef uses organic whole fruits, vegetables and eggs, publishes a prohibited ingredients list, and shows FDA nutrition information for every recipe. Quick & Easy meals take 25 minutes or less, and the Green Market adds 10-minute lunches, snacks and breakfasts. It also offers free nutrition coaching. Green Chef generally costs more than HelloFresh, which owns it, and its plans page needs a ZIP code before it shows prices, so our USD check is pending. If you eat everything, HelloFresh offers more recipes for less.

CookUnity takes a different approach from the other prepared meal option, Factor. Instead of one in-house kitchen, it works as a marketplace for about 100 professional chefs, including restaurateurs and Food Network alumni, who sell their own dishes. That gives it up to 400+ meals to choose from, with filters for GLP-1, Pescatarian, Mediterranean, Vegan, Keto, Paleo, Low Calories and Low Carbs. Plans run 4, 6, 8, 12 or 16 meals a week, meals arrive chilled in recyclable containers, and you heat and plate them. CookUnity says it has delivered over 90 million meals to more than 1 million customers. Meals start at $12.59 each, the highest entry price here, so it fits singles and couples replacing restaurant takeout more than families feeding four on a budget.

Marley Spoon publishes the clearest price table of any service here. Its help center lists every Ready to Cook box: 2 meals for 2 people cost $68.95, 4 meals for 4 people cost $188.83 and 6 meals for 6 people cost $372.63, with a $12.99 shipping fee on every order. Per serving, small boxes are expensive, about $17.24 for 2 meals for 2 people, while the 6 meals for 4 people box works out to about $10.53. The 6 person option and Big Batch recipes make it practical for large families, and the Balance by Marley Spoon range adds single-serving prepared meals, from 6 meals for $93.93. You can see the menu three weeks ahead and get a volume discount on bigger baskets. Diet planning is looser than at Green Chef, and couples ordering small boxes will pay far less at Dinnerly, which shares the same parent company.

Purple Carrot is the only service here with a fully plant-based menu, which makes it the simplest choice for vegans. Each week it adds options with 30+ grams of protein, 10+ grams of fiber and under 600 calories, and the menu spans recipe kits, ready-to-eat meals, frozen meals, grab-and-go breakfasts and 4 serving family bakes. Protein add-ons help when a recipe needs to be more filling. You can browse the full menu before signing up, skip any week and cancel anytime, and the site says it has delivered plant-based meals for more than 10 years. The site does not list a starting price without building an order, so our USD price check is pending. Households that eat meat several nights a week will find Green Chef's plant-based menu or HelloFresh's Veggie plan easier to combine with other meals.