The ceramic Always Pan 10.5″ is $135 in all eight colourways. The Titanium Always Pan Pro 10.5″ starts at $135 too — the Chrome/Gold configuration with the beechwood spatula — and runs to $179 for the top finish.
At the point where those two prices meet, the titanium pan is dishwasher safe, metal-utensil safe, rated to 1000°F and warranted for life. The ceramic pan is hand-wash-only, forbids metal utensils, is rated to 450°F and is warranted for three years. That is not a small gap, and almost nobody writing about the Always Pan mentions that the entry prices are the same.
The two pans do not come with the same things, and that is where the $135 goes.
The ceramic Always Pan ships as a system: the pan, a modular steam-release lid, a nesting beechwood spatula and a steamer basket that doubles as a colander. Our Place markets it as 10-in-1, and the lid and basket are why. If you are replacing a sauté pan, a steamer and a strainer at once, that box is doing real work.
The Titanium Always Pan Pro ships as the pan and a spatula. No lid. No steamer basket. Our Place's own spec list for it names exactly two items in the box.
So the honest framing is not “same price, better pan.” It is: same price, better metal, less kit. A lid is not a small omission on a pan whose whole pitch is that it replaces several pots.
Which way that cuts depends entirely on whether you already own a lid that fits a 10.86-inch pan. Most kitchens do.
Read from Our Place's own product pages and product data on 25 August 2026. Where a page does not state something, the cell says so rather than borrowing a figure from elsewhere.
Sources: fromourplace.com product pages and product data for the Ceramic Nonstick Always Pan 10.5″ and the Titanium Always Pan Pro 10.5″, read 25 August 2026. Induction is stated for the ceramic pan on the Cookware Duo listing but not on its own product page, which is why the cell above reads as it does.
Our Place also sells both pans in a smaller 8.5-inch size, and here the ladder does something odd: the titanium version is the cheaper one.
If you have been putting off the titanium line on price, the 8.5-inch Chrome at $85 is the entry point almost nobody mentions. It is a small pan — an egg-and-one-portion pan, not a dinner pan — but it is the same coating-free surface and the same warranty class as the $179 version.
Buy the Titanium Always Pan Pro 10.5″ if you already own a lid that fits a 10.9-inch pan, and if anyone in your house will eventually put a pan in the dishwasher whatever the instructions say. At the $135 configuration it costs the same as the ceramic pan and outlasts it on every published measure that matters — dishwasher, metal utensils, oven temperature, warranty. This is the pick for most people, and it is the opposite of what the brand's own bestseller badge suggests.
Buy the ceramic Always Pan 10.5″ if the lid and the steamer basket are the point — if you are genuinely replacing several pans rather than buying one good one — or if you want a colour the titanium line does not make. Eight colourways against three finishes is a real difference if the pan is going to live on your hob. Be honest with yourself about hand washing, though: the single most common regret in this category is a ceramic pan bought by someone who owns a dishwasher.
Buy the Titanium Always Pan Pro 8.5″ at $85 if you want to test the titanium surface before committing, or if you mostly cook for one. It is the cheapest coating-free pan Our Place sells.
Buy the ceramic 8.5″ at $109 only for the colour range. On specification the titanium 8.5″ beats it and costs less.
Same entry price as the ceramic pan. No lid or steamer basket in the box.
Check price at Our PlaceLid, beechwood spatula and steamer basket included. Eight colourways.
Check price at Our PlaceUndercuts the ceramic pan of the same size by $24, with the better surface.
Check price at Our PlaceWe have not cooked in either pan. This is a specification and value comparison built from what Our Place publishes, and it is labelled that way deliberately rather than dressed up as a long-term test.
So it cannot tell you how well the titanium surface releases an egg with no coating to do the work, how the ceramic coating behaves at month eighteen, whether the tri-ply pan's extra 0.67 lb is noticeable in the hand, or how either handle feels after twenty minutes on a hob.
Those are the questions that decide whether you like a pan, and they need months of use. What a specification comparison can settle is the thing most Always Pan coverage misses entirely: that the two pans start at the same price, and that the cheaper-looking one is the one with the shorter warranty and the hand-wash rule.
The ceramic Always Pan is not. Our Place states hand wash only, and adds that you should not fully soak or submerge it and should let it cool completely first. The Titanium Always Pan Pro is stated to be completely dishwasher safe. If a dishwasher is non-negotiable in your house, that single line should decide which one you buy.
Not on the ceramic pan — Our Place says wood or silicone only. The titanium pan is stated as safe with metal, wood or silicone, and safe for abrasive cleaning including steel wool. That is unusual, and it follows from there being no coating to scratch through.
The ceramic pan is rated to 450°F. The titanium pan is rated to 1000°F, except the Gold finish which is rated to 750°F. Neither figure is a broiler recommendation — check the current care card before you put anything under a grill.
The Titanium Always Pan Pro page states it works on all cooktops, induction included. The ceramic Always Pan's own product page does not state induction compatibility; Our Place does state it on the Cookware Duo listing. If induction is your hob, buy from a page that says so.
At $135 with a lid, spatula and steamer basket, it is competitively equipped against a $125 Caraway fry pan that ships with a lid alone — and it carries a three-year warranty against Caraway's one. The harder question is not whether it beats Caraway. It is whether it beats the titanium pan sitting next to it at the same price. On published specifications, it does not. The Caraway comparison is here.
Prices and colourway counts were read from Our Place's own structured product data on 25 August 2026, not from page copy — which is how we established that the Titanium Always Pan Pro is a $135–$179 range rather than the single $169 figure reported in most coverage, and that the 8.5-inch titanium pan starts at $85.
Dimensions, capacities, weights, temperature ratings, care instructions and warranty terms come from each product's own page on the same date. Where a page is silent — induction on the ceramic pan, weight without the lid — the tables say so.
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