Starbucks Venti Caffeine: How Much Caffeine In Starbucks Drinks?

Learn how high the Starbucks Venti caffeine is as well as in all other drink sizes so that you don’t overdo the caffeine intake and cause harm to yourself.

Venti is short for “20 ounces” in Italian. A Venti drink is made with double the amount of coffee, compared to a regular cup.

Whether you’re drinking a venti iced coffee or iced tea, Starbucks is a place where you can get your caffeine fix. But what makes their drinks so caffeinated, and how much caffeine is in their drinks? 

This post compiles all the Starbucks drinks as per the caffeine content per cup size in different categories like hot coffees, iced teas, etc.

All the information in this post was collected from the official Starbucks website.

The Magic Formula At Starbucks

Before we look into the details of the caffeine amount in each Starbucks drink, let’s set the basis on which the international coffee chain serves espresso-based drinks. 

For Short and Tall coffees, one espresso shot; for Grande and Venti, two shots. This applies to almost all espresso drinks except for Americanos, flat whites, iced shaken espressos, and venti cold drinks. 

Just remember that in one shot of espresso (0.75 fl oz), there is 75 mg of caffeine. 

So, when you order a Starbucks coffee next time, keep a tab on the number of espresso shots to calculate the amount of caffeine in the coffee.

Here’s a table of the amount of caffeine in single or solo, double or doppio, triple, and quad shots of espresso. 

Size	Servings (fl. oz)	Servings (ml)	Shots	Caffeine (mg)	Used In
Solo	0.75	22	1	75	Short or Tall
Double	1.25	36	2	150	Grande or Venti
Triple	2.25	60	3	225	Served on request only
Quad	3	88	4	300	Served on request only

Starbucks Cup Sizes In A Nutshell

Briefly, let’s look at the Starbucks cup sizes.

The Short has 8 fl oz, the Tall has 12 fl oz, the Grande has 16 fl oz, and the Venti has 20 fl in hot drinks and 24 fl oz in cold drinks.

Another size is the Trenta which has a 30 fl oz capacity.

If you’d like to know about the Starbucks Cup Sizes, read this article.

Caffeine Amount In Starbucks Hot Coffees

From this table, we can see that among the Starbucks Hot Coffees category, Venti caffeine is highest in a Veranda Blended brewed coffee at 475 mg of caffeine per cup. This is more than 6 espresso shots per cup. 

This caffeine amount is also beyond what is recommended by Mayo Clinic – 400 mg of caffeine per day for any healthy adult. 

For the least amount of caffeine of 30mg in a Starbucks venti size, you can choose from Decaf Pike Place Roast or Decaf Espresso Roast Clover or decaf brewed coffee like Decaf Sumatra Clover or Clover Brewed Decaf Pike Place Roast. 

If you want to walk the middle path within 200mg of caffeine per Venti cup, you can choose from the following hot coffees that include Starbucks brewed coffee:

1. Caffe Misto
2. Cappuccino
3. Flat White
4. Caffe Latte
5. Cinnamon Dolce Latte
6. Starbucks Reserve Hazelnut Bianco Latte
7. Starbucks Blonde Vanilla Latte
8. Caramel Macchiato
9. Caffe Mocha
10. White Chocolate Mocha
11. Papua New Guinea Moanti Clover® Starbucks Reserve
12. Brazil Fazenda Catanduva Clover® Starbucks Reserve®
13. Clover® Starbucks Reserve® Costa Rica Naranjo
14. Perú Cajamarca Clover® Starbucks Reserve®
15. Rwanda Hingakawa Clover® Starbucks Reserve®

If you are feeling a little more adventurous and want to try a Starbucks hot coffee within 300mg of caffeine per Venti cup, try out the following:

1. Caffe Americano
2. Honey Almondmilk Flat White
3. Starbucks Reserve Latte
4. Starbucks Reserve Dark Chocolate Mocha

For those of you who can stomach within 400mg of caffeine per Venti cup, you can try Featured Starbucks Dark Roast Coffee at 340mg of caffeine.

And for those super caffeine guzzlers out there who can gulp down anything from 400mg and above caffeine per venti cup, the following hot coffees are up your alley.

1. Veranda Blend brewed coffee
2. Featured Medium Roast – Pike Place Roast
3. Clover Brewed® Pike Place® Roast
4. Organic Yukon Blend® Clover®
5. Clover Brewed® Gold Coast Blend®
6. Clover Brewed® Breakfast Blend
7. Kenya Clover®
8. Veranda Blend® Clover®
9. Clover Brewed® Starbucks Willow Blend
10. Caffé Verona® Clover®
11. Espresso Roast Clover®
12. Ethiopia Clover®
13. French Roast Clover®
14. Italian Roast Clover®
15. Komodo Dragon Clover®
16. Sumatra Clover®

Caffeine Amount In Starbucks Hot Teas

Don’t be under the illusion that only coffee contains caffeine. 

Tea has caffeine too although a cup of coffee has double the amount of caffeine compared to a cup of black tea.

Did you know that the caffeine content in tea is affected by a few factors?

1. The type of leaf used to make the tea affects the caffeine level in your cuppa. Whole leaves release less caffeine than broken leaves in tea bags. 
2. The brewing time also affects the caffeine content in tea. The longer tea is brewed, the more caffeine is released.
3. How much tea is used in each cup also affects the caffeine level. If you use more tea, there will be more caffeine in each cup.
4. Finally, the temperature of the water used to brew the tea affects the caffeine content. The hotter the water, the faster more caffeine is released into the tea.

Let’s take a look at how much caffeine is in a Starbucks venti and other cups from the hot tea selection. 

Things are much easier to figure out as the range of hot teas is not as wide as those of hot coffees. 

The chai tea latte is the only drink with tea that packs in the most caffeine in a venti size at 120 milligrams.

Next in the hierarchy of caffeine content comes the match tea latte with 110mg of caffeine per Venti size.

Within 40mg of caffeine per venti cup, you can choose from the following teas:

1. Chai tea
2. Earl Grey Tea
3. Teavana® London Fog Tea Latte
4. Royal English Breakfast Tea
5. Royal English Breakfast Tea Latte
6. Jade Citrus Mint® Brewed Tea

There are two hot tea drinks that contain only 16mg of caffeine in a venti size – Honey Citrus Mint Tea and Emperor’s Clouds & Mist®. 

For a totally caffeine-free tea, you can choose either Mint Majesty® or Peach Tranquility or both! They have refreshing and invigorating flavors that will gently soothe your senses.

What’s The Caffeine Amount In Starbucks Hot Drinks?

Among the Starbucks hot drinks selection, choosing a drink free from caffeine couldn’t be easier as most of the drinks on the menu are caffeine-free. The only exception is the Starbucks Venti hot chocolate which clocks in at 35mg of caffeine per serving.

As white chocolate doesn’t contain caffeine, you can have a white hot chocolate that’s completely caffeine free.

The Starbucks website doesn’t have any information on the caffeine content of cinnamon dolce crème. This drink is made by combining freshly steamed milk with cinnamon-flavored syrup, sweetened whipped cream, and a cinnamon-flavored topping. If you’re wondering if cinnamon has caffeine, the answer is no, cinnamon does not have caffeine. 

Caffeine Amount In Starbucks Frappuccino Blended Beverages

In this category of frappuccino blended beverages at Starbucks, you don’t get any of the drinks in the Short or 8-ounce cup size. 

The espresso frappuccino in the venti size will give you the highest caffeine shot of 185mg.

For caffeine-free frappuccino blended beverages, take your pick from Caramel Ribbon Crunch Crème Frappuccino or Vanilla Bean Crème Frappuccino, or White Chocolate Crème Frappuccino.

For a slightly higher caffeine content, try Chocolate Cookie Crumble Crème Frappuccino or Double Chocolaty Chip Crème Frappuccino, each packing in 20mg of caffeine in the venti size.

At 40mg of caffeine per cup, you can have a venti size of Chai Crème Frappuccino.

Starbucks Matcha Crème Frappuccino has 95mg of caffeine in the venti size.

Or, if you want to keep things within 115 to 125 mg of caffeine, opt for one of these:

1. Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frappuccino 
2. Caffè Vanilla Frappuccino 
3. Caramel Frappuccino 
4. Coffee Frappuccino 
5. White Chocolate Mocha Frappuccino

At 130mg caffeine per venti serving, you can get either Mocha Cookie Crumble Frappuccino or Mocha Frappuccino.

If you want to go higher on the caffeine ladder, there’s Java Chip Frappuccino with 145mg of caffeine.

Or if you’re looking for low caffeine options, check out our article on Starbucks low caffeine drinks.

What’s The Caffeine Amount In Starbucks Cold Coffees?

None of the cold coffees are available in the Starbucks Short size cup. 

While most of them are there in Tall and Grande cups, a couple are missing from the Venti cup size like nitro cold brew and vanilla sweet cream nitro cold brew. 

There are only seven cold coffee drinks you can choose from in the Trenta or 30 fl oz size at Starbucks:

1. Chocolate Cream Cold Brew
2. Salted Caramel Cream Cold Brew
3. Starbucks® Cold Brew Coffee
4. Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Brew
5. Starbucks® Cold Brew Coffee with Milk
6. Iced Coffee
7. Iced Coffee with Milk

Among these, the highest caffeine content is in Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Brew and Starbucks® Cold Brew Coffee with Milk at 360mg in each drink. 

The lowest caffeine at 190mg in the Trenta size is the Iced Coffee with Milk. 

Speaking of Venti caffeine content in this range of cold coffees, you can get the least amount of caffeine at only 30mg in the following drinks:

1. Iced Decaf Sumatra Clover®
2. Iced Clover Brewed® Decaf Pike Place® Roast
3. Iced Clover Brewed® Decaf Espresso Roast

Surprisingly, there are six cold coffee Venti size drinks with the highest amount of caffeine at 470mg per serving. These are:

1. Iced Espresso Roast Clover®
2. Iced French Roast Clover®
3. Iced Clover Brewed® Gold Coast Blend®
4. Iced Clover Brewed® Italian Roast
5.  Iced Komodo Dragon Clover®
6. Iced Sumatra Clover®

There must be a good demand for these high-caffeinated cold coffees otherwise why would Starbucks offer them!

Let’s take a look at the cold coffees that have a caffeine content of less than 200mg per Venti serving. There is Iced Coffee with Milk at 170mg, Iced Flat White containing 175mg, and the following containing 195mg of caffeine each:

1. Iced Papua New Guinea Moanti Clover® Starbucks Reserve
2. Iced Brazil Fazenda Catanduva Clover® Starbucks Reserve
3. Iced Clover® Starbucks Reserve® Costa Rica Naranjo
4. Iced Perú Cajamarca Clover® Starbucks Reserve
5. Iced Rwanda Hingakawa Clover® Starbucks Reserve

Note: In the above five drinks, you get the same amount of caffeine in Tall, Grande, and Venti sizes.

If you’re looking for a cold coffee with 200-300mg caffeine content in the Venti size, there are a lot of options.

1. Chocolate Cream Cold Brew
2. Salted Caramel Cream Cold Brew
3. Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Brew
4. Iced Caffè Americano
5. Iced Coffee
6. Iced Shaken Espresso
7. Iced Honey Almondmilk Flat White
8. Starbucks Reserve® Iced Latte
9. Starbucks Reserve® Iced Hazelnut Bianco Latte
10. Iced Caffè Latte
11. Iced Cinnamon Dolce Latte
12. Iced Starbucks® Blonde Vanilla Latte
13. Iced Caramel Macchiato
14. Iced White Chocolate Mocha
15. Iced Caffè Mocha
16. Starbucks Reserve® Iced Dark Chocolate Mocha

Between 300-400mg of caffeine per Venti cup, these are some of the Starbucks cold coffees available:

1. Starbucks® Cold Brew Coffee
2. Starbucks® Cold Brew Coffee with Milk
3. Iced Toasted Vanilla Oatmilk Shaken Espresso
4. Iced Brown Sugar Oatmilk Shaken Espresso
5. Iced Chocolate Almondmilk Shaken Espresso
6. Iced Shaken Espresso
7. Iced Honey Almondmilk Flat White

Now, if you want something above 400mg of caffeine per Venti but less than 470mg, you can try these as each comes with a 445mg caffeine count:

1. Iced Caffé Verona® Clover® 
2. Iced Clover Brewed® Breakfast Blend 
3. Iced Ethiopia Clover® 
4. Iced Clover Brewed® Kenya 
5. Iced Pike Place® Roast Clover® 
6. Iced Organic Yukon Blend® Clover®

For a little lower caffeine per Venti size at 425mg of caffeine, you can choose between Iced Veranda Blend® Clover® and Iced Clover Brewed® Starbucks Willow Blend. 

Now let’s not forget that iced espressos are also part of the Cold Coffees selection at Starbucks but we deal with their caffeine count a bit differently because it depends on how many shots of espresso you want in your cup. So, here’s the lowdown on iced espresso caffeine content.

Count The Caffeine In Starbucks Iced Teas

From the Starbucks Iced Teas selection, there are two things to note:

1. Almost all the drinks are available in four sizes from Tall to Trenta. 
2. The venti size for all cold drinks at Starbucks is not 20-ounce but 24-ounce. This is because Starbucks wanted to make room for ice in the Venti cold drinks without getting the customers to pay the same price for a less amount of the drink base. This also applies to all cold drinks. 

You can grab on the go a bottled iced tea that comes in a 14.5-ounce size. Teavana® Mango Black Tea has more caffeine per bottle at 55mg while Teavana® Sparkling Unsweetened Peach Nectarine Green Tea has a much less amount of caffeine at 16mg. 

The Iced Tea Chai Latte in the Venti cup has the highest caffeine amount at 145mg per serving. 

For a caffeine-free iced tea, choose either Iced Passion Tango® Tea or Iced Passion Tango® Tea Lemonade. 

Within 110mg of caffeine per Venti cup, you can try Iced Matcha Tea Latte or Iced Matcha Lemonade. 

You get quite a few options of iced tea within the 40mg caffeine range. These are:

1. Iced Black Tea
2. Iced Black Tea Lemonade
3. Iced Royal English Breakfast Tea Latte
4. Iced London Fog Tea Latte
5. Iced Peach Green Tea
6. Iced Peach Green Tea Lemonade
7. Iced Green Tea
8. Iced Green Tea Lemonade

It’s interesting to note that the Trenta or 30-ounce size of Iced Matcha Lemonade has a lower caffeine amount (120mg) than the Venti size (24-ounce) of Iced Chai Tea Latte (145mg).

Caffeine Amount In Starbucks Cold Drinks

The Cold Drinks selection at Starbucks has both canned and bottled options as well as drinks that are served in Tall, Grande, Venti, and Trenta sizes. 

All the drinks served in Starbucks cups contain the same amount of caffeine in the same size cups – 35mg in Tall, 45mg in Grande, 70mg in Venti, and 90mg in Trenta. 

SMB milk, lemonade, and blended strawberry lemonade are caffeine-free. 

Except for the energy drinks, the rest of the bottled drinks are free from caffeine.

Final Thoughts

The overwhelming choice of drinks at Starbucks with the different sizes and caffeine levels makes it hard to know which one to choose. 

We hope that the tables we have shared for each drink category above will help you make the right decision. 

Just remember that the daily caffeine intake in a healthy adult should not exceed 400mg. Also, there are people who have certain medical conditions for whom a low-caffeine or no-caffeine drink is the better option. 

Energy drinks like this also contain caffeine so read the label before consuming.

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