How Much More Caffeine Does Cold Brew Have Than Iced Coffee?

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How Much More Caffeine Does Cold Brew Have Than Iced Coffee? By Dylan Murray Aug. 7, 2025 11:20 pm EST

At some point or another, we've all learned that cold brew and standard iced coffee are vastly different from one another. Whether this happened the easy way — finding out early on in your journey as a beginner to drinking coffee — or the hard way — drinking three cups of cold brew it thinking it was the same as iced coffee — the two types of coffee give their consumers very distinct experiences from one another, in large part due to the difference in caffeine between the drinks. On average, a 16-ounce cup of cold brew contains 205 milligrams of caffeine, a jump up from the average of 165 milligrams of caffeine that a 16-ounce cup of iced coffee has.