--- title: Most Expensive Starbucks Drink: 54 Dollar Vanilla Mocha Frappucino description: It cost $54.75. Things have officially gotten out of hand canonical: https://time.com/132075/most-expensive-starbucks-drink/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-28T20:17:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:07.443Z og:title: Behold: The Most Expensive Starbucks Drink Ever og:description: It cost $54.75. og:url: https://time.com/132075/most-expensive-starbucks-drink/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Behold: The Most Expensive Starbucks Drink Ever twitter:description: It cost $54.75. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Behold: The Most Expensive Starbucks Drink Ever Ordered by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 28, 2014 8:17 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 28, 2014 8:17 PM UTC Some guy named Andrew walked into a Starbucks recently knowing that he’d get a complimentary drink, because as a Gold member of the chain’s loyalty program, he gets one free beverage for every 12 that he buys. But Andrew, crafty little devil that he is, decided to up the stakes. Why order a boring old 4-dollar Frappucino when he could order _any drink that he could possibly dream up_? He set out to break the [previous known record ](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/02/20/watch-whats-in-the-worlds-most-expensive-cup-of-starbucks/)for the world’s most expensive Starbucks beverage, and it appears he succeeded. Behold: the Sexagintuple Vanilla Bean Mocha Frappuccino, valued at $54.75: > [](https://twitter.com/ACIFH/status/470365369127821312) Armed with a 128-ounce glass, Andrew strolled into Starbucks, ready to claim his prize. He got the baristas on his side and they worked as a team to think up the priciest possible concoction, Consumerist[ reports](http://consumerist.com/2014/05/27/new-starbucks-free-drink-record-set-with-54-sexagintuple-vanilla-bean-mocha-frappuccino/). He said it was “delicious” but maybe it was the _victory_ that tasted so good rather than the actual beverage, which included 60 shots of espresso. (Yes. Sixty.) Andrew said he drank about a third of it the first day, and then continued to consume it little by little: > [](https://twitter.com/ACIFH/status/471709170941849600) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/132075/most-expensive-starbucks-drink/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/132075/most-expensive-starbucks-drink/"},"headline":"Behold: The Most Expensive Starbucks Drink Ever Ordered","datePublished":"2014-05-28T20:17:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:07.443Z","description":"It cost $54.75. Things have officially gotten out of hand","url":"https://time.com/132075/most-expensive-starbucks-drink/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","Starbucks","Coffee","beverages"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/132075/most-expensive-starbucks-drink/","name":"Behold: The Most Expensive Starbucks Drink Ever Ordered"}}]}] ```