If you came here searching for the Elizabeth3 and landed on a page for the Elizabeth V3, you're not doing anything wrong. Lelit has announced the Elizabeth3 (model PL92T3) and it's already shipping in Europe, but no US retailer has it listed yet — including us. The two machines have almost the same name and are not the same machine.
Here's what actually changed, what we know about US availability, and our honest read on whether you should wait for it.
The headline: Pagaia
The Elizabeth3 gets Pagaia, Lelit's patented electronic flow control system. It's the lever on the front, and it's the same technology that debuted on the MaraX3.
Flow control means you're shaping water flow across the shot instead of letting the pump run flat out from the first second. In practice that's a slower, gentler start that lets the puck saturate evenly, then whatever ramp you choose after. It's the difference between pouring a shot and steering one.
Lelit gives you three ways in:
- Two automatic profiles — "Lever shot" and "Modern shot." Pick one, pull the lever, the machine does the rest.
- Manual profiles with up to five programmable steps, so you can build a curve and repeat it.
- Freestyle mode, where you drive the lever yourself with live feedback on the display.
We wrote a full breakdown of what Pagaia does and who actually benefits from it when the MaraX3 launched. If you want the deep version, read that first — the system works the same way here.
What else is different
Pagaia gets the attention, but it isn't the only change. Lelit describes the Elizabeth3 as a new-generation machine, and several components are genuinely new:
A saturated grouphead. The Elizabeth3 uses a new LELIT58 saturated group with its own stainless-steel heating element. A saturated group is plumbed into the boiler circuit and heated directly, which usually means better temperature stability shot to shot — particularly on the second and third drink, where most machines start to drift.
A new silent pump. Lelit specifies it as new and quieter. We haven't run one, so take that as the manufacturer's claim until someone measures it.
An OLED display. High-resolution graphic display rather than the segment readout. It's also what makes Freestyle mode usable, since you're reading flow in real time while you move the lever.
The steam boiler can be switched off. If you drink straight espresso on weekday mornings, you can run it as a single boiler and skip heating 600 ml you aren't going to use.
The boilers themselves: a 200 ml brass coffee boiler and a 600 ml steam boiler. Water tank is 2.5 litres. Footprint is 36 × 38 × 38 cm — about 14 × 15 × 15 inches — at 15.3 kg (33.7 lb). Measure before you commit, especially height if you have cabinets above your counter.
And the Victoria3, which is the more interesting machine
Lelit announced a second Pagaia machine at the same time: the Victoria3 (PL91T3). It's a single boiler with electronic flow control, which as far as we know has not existed before at any price.
Flow control has been a prosumer feature its entire life. It arrived on E61 machines, it generally means a paddle or a needle valve, and it has essentially never appeared below the dual-boiler tier. Putting it on a single boiler changes who can buy into profiling at all.
It's a smaller machine — 27 cm wide against the Elizabeth3's 36, and 11.3 kg — with the same 200 ml brass coffee boiler and the same LELIT58 saturated group. If you've been looking at the current Victoria and wondering whether to stretch, this is worth knowing about before you decide.
We'll cover it properly when it's orderable here.
What we don't know yet
US pricing. Lelit's spec sheets list 120 V / 60 Hz Type B versions of both machines — PL92T3-9B and PL91T3-9B — so US variants are specced and coded. That's real, and it's the clearest signal we have that these are coming. What we don't have is a date or a US price.
European retailers are listing the Elizabeth3 around €1,351 excluding VAT. We're deliberately not converting that into a dollar figure, because Lelit sets US pricing separately through its US distributor and the exchange-rate math has historically been a poor predictor. For reference, the current Elizabeth V3 is $1,799.95 in the US.
Timing. We're asking. When we have a date, this page gets updated and anyone on the notify list hears first.
So — wait, or buy the V3 now?
Our honest answer depends on one question: do you actually want to profile shots?
Buy the Elizabeth V3 now if:
You want a dual boiler that makes excellent espresso and you want it working this month. The V3 has been in the field for years. We know its failure modes, parts are stocked, and US warranty support is sorted. It has PID control, programmable pre-infusion, and the same 58 mm commercial group — the fundamentals are not what Pagaia is fixing.
There's also a case for not being first on any new platform. The Elizabeth3 pairs new electronics with a new group and a new pump. That combination is usually fine. It is occasionally not, and early buyers are the ones who find out.
Wait for the Elizabeth3 if:
You specifically want flow control and you're not in a hurry. If profiling is the reason you're shopping in this tier at all, buying a machine that doesn't do it and then wanting it in eight months is the expensive path.
One thing worth saying plainly before you wait for flow control: it amplifies your grinder, it doesn't substitute for one. Profiling gives you control over how water meets the puck, but if the puck itself is inconsistent — wide particle distribution, a grinder that can't hold a setting — you're steering around a problem you could have solved for less money. If your current grinder is the weak link, fixing that will do more for your cup than any flow profile. We'd rather tell you that now than sell you the wrong upgrade.
And a fair number of people who buy flow control never use it past the first month. That's not a knock on the feature. It's just worth being honest with yourself about whether you'll be the person building five-step profiles or the person who picks "Modern shot" and leaves it there. If it's the latter, the V3 already does what you need.
Want to know when it lands?
We'll have both machines when Lelit brings them to the US. If you want the date and the price the day we get them, sign up on this page and we'll send it — nothing else.
If you'd rather just talk it through, call us at 800-410-8867. We'll tell you if the V3 is the right machine for you, including when the answer is that you should wait.
