Mining Hosting Comparison 2026 – Costs from 4.5 ct/kWh

The one difference that matters

Self-mining means you pay your household or commercial tariff and live with noise, heat and maintenance. Hosting means you pay an industrial kWh price plus a service margin and give up control. Everything else — uptime, support, monitoring — is secondary. Compare your own kWh price against the hosting price first.

When self-mining wins

Self-mining wins with cheap own power — surplus solar, night tariffs, commercial rates — or when you genuinely reuse the waste heat and save on heating. Then your effective electricity price often beats any hosting offer because you pay no margin.

When hosting wins

Hosting wins when your location has expensive power, noise is a problem, or you want to scale several units without building electrics and cooling yourself. At industrial 5–9 ct/kWh hosting clearly beats any household tariff despite the margin.

The hybrid

Many customers run both: one unit at home for winter heat, more units hosted for continuous operation. That spreads risk and uses both cost advantages at once.

Mining hosting costs compared

Hosting is almost always billed per kWh and typically runs between 4.5 and 9 ct/kWh in Germany, depending on contract length, unit count and site. Household power usually costs 28 to 38 ct/kWh, a commercial tariff 15 to 25 ct/kWh.

Example Antminer S21 at 3.5 kW continuous: 3.5 kW x 24 h = 84 kWh per day. At 6 ct/kWh hosting that is about €5.04 per day or roughly €151 per month. At 32 ct household power it would be €26.88 per day or about €806 per month — a difference of more than €650 per unit per month.

Smaller machines scale linearly: an S19k Pro at 2.76 kW costs around €119 per month hosted at 6 ct, versus about €636 at home at 32 ct.

What a hosting price must include

• Price per kWh including all levies, with no separate recalculation later
• Rack, space and setup fees: one-off or monthly?
• Monitoring, reboots and cleaning inside the service package
• Minimum term, notice period and price adjustment clause
• Payout: do the machines mine into your own pool account?
• Insurance and liability in case of downtime or defects

Break-even: when hosting pays off

Rule of thumb: hosting pays as soon as your own electricity price exceeds the hosting price plus service margin and you cannot use the waste heat yourself. At 6 ct hosting versus 32 ct household power the yearly saving per machine is four figures — with surplus solar or genuine heat reuse the picture flips completely.

Shipping, warehouse and delivery time

Stocked units ship within 2–4 business days from our warehouse in Bavaria, Germany. Because the hardware is already imported and cleared inside the EU, there is no import VAT, no customs paperwork and no waiting for air freight from Asia. Models sourced directly from the factory show their own delivery time on the product page.

We ship insured to Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the rest of the EU. Orders above 1,000 € ship free within Germany, and express shipping is available for stocked units.

Payment, invoice and warranty

You can pay by bank transfer, credit card, PayPal, Apple Pay or cryptocurrency. Every order comes with a proper invoice showing VAT. EU business customers with a valid VAT ID are invoiced at 0 % under the reverse-charge scheme, and we can switch your session to B2B mode with net prices.

New and used miners are covered by statutory warranty under EU law. Used units are tested, cleaned and shipped with a logged hashrate; the exact scope is stated on each product page.

Advice before you buy

We help you check electricity tariff, power connection, cooling, noise and realistic payback before you order — including when the honest answer is that a machine will not pay off at your kWh price. Send us your electricity cost and the planned location and we will run the numbers with you.