I have a comparison with the Philips LatteGo 5400, which we have in the family too. Everyone has their pros and cons and are aimed a little differently.
Philips allows more settings (volume of milk and coffee separately, use of coffee beans), but the controls are not as intuitive as here on the touch screen. The profiles at Krups and Philips are differently conceived. At Philips, there is a pre-set setting, always for all drinks and can be changed before preparation. Krups uses profiles as quick choices for user-selected and set drinks, which start preparing as soon as they are clicked. The concept at Krups seems more practical to me, just because each profile has its own button and thus the user gets to the desired drink with two clicks (against clicking on the profile, selecting the drink and confirmation at Philips).
In terms of maintenance, Philips has larger bowls for waste water and sediment, but they are harder to empty (the unit is still connected to a piece of sheet metal), with Krups both are separate and emptying is as easy as possible (but usually the coffee machine wants to empty both at once, ).
Krups has a much larger water tank and better designed for coffee (at Philips the coffee has to be brought to the grinder from time to time), both solutions have their pros and cons (with Krups you can add water from the bottle without removing the tank, but it is harder to pull out) .
Dairy system - Philips has a container that has nothing to clog and can be put with the rest of the milk in the refrigerator (where it tends to tip over due to the narrow profile) and washed in the dishwasher, Krups tube, which can be put in anything and in a nice package container, but again it is necessary to wash the nozzles and rinse the hose from time to time. The milky way rinsing for the drink is on both models, Krups will offer it himself, at Philips he has to choose in the menu.
Remaining maintenance is easier at Krups, where the brewing unit cannot be cleaned (Philips needs to be removed, rinsed and lubricated from time to time). The automatic flush can be switched on when switched on, otherwise the coffee machine does this occasionally, sometimes when switched on, sometimes when switched off, sometimes not at all (Philips when switched on and off). Flushing takes longer than Philips (overall, Krups takes a little more time, but is quieter overall). For both, the filter changes once in a while and makes a more thorough cleaning, it comes to us already comparable.
We are satisfied with the Krups coffee machine, we did not make a mistake with Philips either and we did not make a mistake, Krups is more intuitive to operate, at Philips you can win more with settings, Krups can do two milk drinks at once, at Philips the milk roads are not cleaned.
