I replaced a 9-year-old Vitamix with this blender. I use it primarily to make smoothies and sauces. I think it does a great job. It doesn't crush ice quite as finely as the Vitamix, but it only costs about 20% of what it would have cost to replace the Vitamix. You also don't have to use a pusher to get everything to reach the blades, and the Ninja blades and containers can go in the dishwasher, which is not an option with the Vitamix. Both are noisy, but the Ninja is slightly less noisy than the Vitamix.

So much quicker and easier to make smoothies than a regular blender. A word of warning: there's a reason it's called "Ninja". Make extra sure you know where your fingers are in relation to the blades at all times...they are quite unforgiving if you touch one by accident while loading it into the dishwasher.

The blender and dual drink/shake mixer works well. We like spinach in our shakes, but hate those little flakes. With this system there are no flakes, everything is pulverized so we get the full nutritional value without the little chunks. The price is a bit steep, but it seems very well made. Time will tell.

Had to get a new base unit sent out covered by warranty because the switch that the cups activate when you twist it on the base, was assembled in the wrong direction and not allowing the cups to activate the system. New base was shipped and received in about 2 days. Excellent customer service from Ninja company... Awesome unit!

Love it!!! Great purchase & this blender does everything I wanted & more. I especially love the interchangeable mini bottles and the fact that you can blend or store the contents in the bottles. Best of all my granddaughter & I broke it in making smoothies for her birthday!

Finally, an economical blender that is powerful enough to completely pulverize even frozen fruit into the smoothest of smoothies. And it doesn't give the usual impression that it's about to blow up. Its suction cup feet really work on a smooth counter top. I'm totally okay with just the 3 presets. Having 10 like some others has never been useful. It's built-in on-off sequencing was a surprise, but it makes sense after seeing it work.

Waste of money! I thought this was going to be a great blender for the amount of money it cost. Boy was i wrong! Even with the blades going up the length of the carafe it still left chunks of fruit in every smoothie i tried to make. I tried all different kinds of fruits, but all of them ended up with chunks. I was so dissatisfied i returned it. I was already on the fence with it being plastic for $80, but not even blending, no thanks. I'll stick with my glass $30 black and decker that actually blends.

My nutribullet just stopped working after several years of faithful service and I decided to give the Ninja a try. Well, it is absolutely fantastic!!! It is powerful and surpassed my expectation, The increased capacity is awesome, now a blend a large batch and can refrigerate for later. Love it!!

I bought this when it was on sale and I wanted to make Smoothies. This does the job extremely well! I don’t like pulp and I put a whole peeled mandarin orange and some fruit with spinach and it came out absolutely delicious! No pulp and very smooth! I will say it’s very loud but it’s only about a min of loudness. The small blender attachment for the cups is good if you use powdered smoothies or want to refresh your already made smoothie.

We all love our Ninja, we make all kinds of nutritious smoothie everyday and often more than once a day. Very happy with how well the blades in the large picture pull everything through and really get everything well blended.