Best Cheap Cigars: Premium Cigars Under $15 Our Customers Buy Most

Short answer: the best cheap cigars are the ones people keep coming back for. These are the cigars under $15 a single that our customers bought most over the past year, from Drew Estate, Arturo Fuente, J.C. Newman, Tatiana, Macanudo and My Father. The table reads each price and stock level from our inventory when the page loads.

The best cheap cigars we sell

Listed in order of how many orders included each cigar over the past year, from our own sales records, among cigars that sell for $15 or less as a single. Most also come as a 5-pack and a box.

Everything else in this price range is on our premium cigars under $15 page.

The best cheap cigars by taste

Flavored and sweet

• Tabak Especial Café con Leche: Drew Estate's coffee-infused 5½ x 54 belicoso.
• ACID Blondie (4 x 38, Connecticut wrapper) and ACID Kuba Kuba (5 x 54, Sumatra wrapper, mild to medium): Drew Estate's infused ACID line.
• Tatiana Cherry Corona, Vanilla Corona and Groovy Blue Robusto: Sumatra-wrapped, mild to medium, made at La Aurora in the Dominican Republic.
• Macanudo M Espresso Belicoso: a 6 x 54 with espresso-infused Nicaraguan filler under a barber-pole wrapper.

Sweet and dark

• Deadwood Sweet Jane Corona: a 5 x 46 maduro that Drew Estate rates mellow.
• Deadwood Leather Rose Torpedo (5 x 54) and Petite Corona (4 x 43): maduro, full-bodied by Drew Estate's rating.
• Deadwood Fat Bottom Betty Toro and Robusto: maduro, medium to full.

Mild, with no flavoring

• Arturo Fuente Chateau Fuente Natural: 4½ x 50 under U.S. Connecticut Shade, rated mild by Cigar Aficionado.
• Perla del Mar Shade Short Robusto: 3¾ x 56 under an Ecuadorian Shade wrapper, mild, made by J.C. Newman in Estelí.
• J.C. Newman House Handmade Double Toro and Robusto Sungrown: hand-rolled in Nicaragua with Dominican, Honduran and Nicaraguan filler.
• San Lotano Requiem Connecticut Gran Toro: a 6 x 60 under Connecticut Shade, listed as mild to medium.
• Camacho Connecticut Toro: 6 x 50 under Ecuadorian Connecticut, mild to medium.

Arturo Fuente classics

• Hemingway Short Story: a 4 x 49 perfecto under a Cameroon wrapper.
• Hemingway Classic (7 x 46) and Work of Art (4⅞ x 60): Cameroon-wrapped, medium to full; the Work of Art also comes in Maduro.
• Casa Cuba Doble Cuatro: 4½ x 54 under an Ecuadorian Havana wrapper.
• Exquisitos Sun Grown and Maduro: 4½ x 33, the least expensive Fuente cigars on the list.

Fuller

• My Father Blue Robusto: Connecticut Broadleaf Rosado over Honduran tobacco, medium to full by My Father's rating.
• My Father The Judge Toro Fino: 6 x 52 under a Sumatra oscuro wrapper over Nicaraguan tobacco, full by My Father's rating.
• Brick House Maduro Mighty Mighty: 6¼ x 60 under a Brazilian Arapiraca wrapper, full.
• Undercrown Maduro Robusto: Drew Estate's 5 x 54 under Mexican San Andrés, medium to full.

How to get the most from a cheap cigar

• Buy one first. Every cigar in the table sells as a single, so you can try it before buying a 5-pack or a box.
• Go by size within a line. Shorter sizes usually cost less than the long ones in the same blend; compare the Hemingway Short Story with the Hemingway Classic in the table.
• Read the wrapper. Connecticut shade usually smokes lighter, and maduro darker and sweeter; our guide to cigar wrapper types explains the rest.
• Keep them at 65–70% humidity. An inexpensive cigar dries out as fast as an expensive one.

For a first cigar, see our best cigars for beginners; for what drives price, how much cigars cost; and to try several at once, our cigar samplers. Sweet and infused cigars are all on our flavored cigars page, and the lighter ones on mild cigars and in our best mild cigars guide.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best cheap cigar?

Going by what our customers buy most, Drew Estate's Tabak Especial Café con Leche, a coffee-infused belicoso, leads our cigars under $15, followed by the San Lotano Requiem Connecticut Gran Toro, the Deadwood Leather Rose Torpedo and the Deadwood Sweet Jane Corona. For a cigar without flavoring, the Arturo Fuente Chateau Fuente Natural and Hemingway Short Story are the Fuente picks on the list.

Are cheap cigars any good?

A low price does not have to mean a lesser cigar. The Hemingway Short Story and Chateau Fuente are made at Tabacalera A. Fuente in the Dominican Republic, and the House Handmade is hand-rolled in Nicaragua for J.C. Newman. The flavored picks, from Drew Estate, Tatiana and Macanudo, are made to taste of coffee, vanilla or fruit as well as tobacco.

How much does a good cheap cigar cost?

Every cigar in this guide comes from our under-$15 range. The price table near the top of this guide shows each one's current single, 5-pack and box price from our inventory, and a 5-pack or box brings the price per cigar down.

What is a good cheap cigar for a beginner?

A mild cigar without flavoring, such as the Arturo Fuente Chateau Fuente Natural, which Cigar Aficionado rated mild, the Perla del Mar Shade Short Robusto or the Camacho Connecticut Toro. If you would rather start sweet, the Tatiana Vanilla and Cherry Coronas are listed as mild to medium.

Do you ship these cigars?

Yes. $9.99 flat shipping, free on orders of $125 or more, and every order ships with a Boveda humidity pack.