What each one costs per bay.
Blue Whale USA figures are the published prices on this site. Continental Girbau figures are typical 2026 street ranges for comparable vended capacities — dealer, region and bundle all move them.
Per machine, equipment only. Published — every SKU price is on this site.
- ✓ No dealer bundle
- ✓ 2-year parts warranty
- ✓ 30–60 day delivery
- ✓ Coin box and hoses included
Per machine, typical street range. Quote-based — you ask a dealer.
Spanish-engineered soft-mount machines known for very high extract speeds and low water consumption.
On a 20-machine floor, a 53–34% per-unit difference is roughly $35,600–$138,800 of capital. That money is not free — read what you give up further down before you spend it elsewhere.
Where each brand actually wins.
- ✓Very high G-force soft-mount options
- ✓Excellent water efficiency
- ✓Strong OPL and on-premise crossover
- ·Highest cost in the category
- ·Soft-mount units need careful floor prep
- ·Specialised service network
- ✓Capital cost per bay — materially less for the same job
- ✓Price transparency — every SKU published, no quote wall
- ✓~95% Speed Queen consumable cross, so your existing tech covers you
- ✓Direct access to the principal rather than a rotating sales rep
- ·You arrange your own install and service
- ·Lower resale value than Continental Girbau on the secondary market
- ·Controllers, inverters and motors are single-source
- ·Equipment-only — no financing, floorplan or turnkey package
Which one should you buy?
Buy Continental Girbau if the service network, resale value, or a lender or franchise requirement is doing real work in your decision. Those are legitimate reasons to pay more, and a cheaper machine does not fix them.
Buy Blue Whale USA if you already have a repair tech you trust, you are price-sensitive on the equipment line of a build or re-equip, and you would rather put the difference into the buildout, the sign, or your reserve.
If you want to put numbers on it rather than take our word, the retool payback calculator compares keeping your current machines against a re-equip, and the store ROI calculator runs a full ten-year model at whichever equipment cost you enter.