2026 ASIC Miner Rankings
Quickest ROI ASIC Miners in 2026
Ranked live by estimated payback time in days.
See the quickest ROI ASIC miners in 2026, ranked by how many days each machine needs to earn back its own price at today's rates. The estimates recalculate as prices and difficulty move, and the ranking rows further down draw the current top ten as a staircase, shortest payback first.
Compare the Quickest ROI ASIC Miners in One Live Table
Estimated payback days for every machine we stock, recalculated as the market moves.
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| Brand | Mineable Coins | Cooling | Forecasting Notes | % Change | Details | ||||||||||||||||
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| 4 |  Bitmain |
 SHA-256 |
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293TH | 5567W | — | 19W/TH |  Hydro |
£1,470.00 | £5.02/TH | £7.56 | — | £229.97 | — | — | 194 Days | 188% | ||||
| 5 | Bitmain |
 RandomX |
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1000KH | 2470W | — | 2.47W/KH |  Air |
£5,800.00 | £5.80/KH | £22.12 | — | £673.35 | — | — | 262 Days | 139% | ||||
| 11 | Bitmain |
SHA-256 |
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120TH | 2760W | — | 23W/TH | Air |
£800.00 | £6.67/TH | £3.09 | — | £94.19 | — | — | 259 Days | 141% | ||||
| 14 | Bitmain |
SHA-256 |
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319TH | 5104W | — | 16W/TH | Hydro |
£2,233.00 | £7.00/TH | £8.23 | — | £250.38 | — | — | 271 Days | 135% | ||||
| 17 |  MicroBT |
SHA-256 |
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336TH | 6686W | — | 19.9W/TH | Hydro |
£2,450.00 | £7.29/TH | £8.66 | — | £263.72 | — | — | 283 Days | 129% | ||||
| 19 | MicroBT |
SHA-256 |
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280TH | 5460W | — | 19.5W/TH |  Immersion |
£2,072.00 | £7.40/TH | £7.22 | — | £219.77 | — | — | 287 Days | 127% | ||||
| 22 | Bitmain |
SHA-256 |
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395TH | 5925W | — | 15W/TH | Hydro |
£2,970.00 | £7.52/TH | £10.19 | — | £310.03 | — | — | 291 Days | 125% | ||||
| 23 | MicroBT |
SHA-256 |
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274TH | 5452W | — | 19.9W/TH | Immersion |
£2,072.00 | £7.56/TH | £7.07 | — | £215.06 | — | — | 293 Days | 125% | ||||
| 25 | MicroBT |
SHA-256 |
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406TH | 7308W | — | 18W/TH | Hydro |
£3,080.00 | £7.59/TH | £10.47 | — | £318.66 | — | — | 294 Days | 124% | ||||
| 26 | Bitmain |
SHA-256 |
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358TH | 5370W | — | 15W/TH | Hydro |
£2,730.00 | £7.63/TH | £9.23 | — | £280.99 | — | — | 296 Days | 123% | ||||
| 28 | Bitmain |
SHA-256 |
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235TH | 3877W | — | 16.5W/TH | Air |
£1,810.00 | £7.70/TH | £6.06 | — | £184.45 | — | — | 299 Days | 122% | ||||
| 29 | Bitmain |
SHA-256 |
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338TH | 5070W | — | 15W/TH | Hydro |
£2,600.00 | £7.69/TH | £8.72 | — | £265.29 | — | — | 298 Days | 122% | ||||
| 30 | MicroBT |
SHA-256 |
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370TH | 6660W | — | 18W/TH | Hydro |
£2,842.00 | £7.68/TH | £9.54 | — | £290.40 | — | — | 298 Days | 123% | ||||
| 31 | Bitmain |
SHA-256 |
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220TH | 3520W | — | 16W/TH | Immersion |
£1,698.00 | £7.72/TH | £5.67 | — | £172.67 | — | — | 299 Days | 122% | ||||
| 32 | Bitmain |
SHA-256 |
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225TH | 3712W | — | 16.5W/TH | Air |
£1,750.00 | £7.78/TH | £5.80 | — | £176.60 | — | — | 302 Days | 121% | ||||
| 35 | MicroBT |
SHA-256 |
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428TH | 7276W | — | 17W/TH | Hydro |
£3,339.00 | £7.80/TH | £11.04 | — | £335.93 | — | — | 302 Days | 121% | ||||
| 37 | MicroBT |
SHA-256 |
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438TH | 6789W | — | 15.5W/TH | Hydro |
£3,416.40 | £7.80/TH | £11.29 | — | £343.78 | — | — | 303 Days | 121% | ||||
| 38 | MicroBT |
SHA-256 |
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418TH | 7106W | — | 17W/TH | Hydro |
£3,268.00 | £7.82/TH | £10.78 | — | £328.08 | — | — | 303 Days | 120% | ||||
| 41 | Bitmain |
SHA-256 |
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216TH | 3564W | — | 16.5W/TH | Air |
£1,700.00 | £7.87/TH | £5.57 | — | £169.53 | — | — | 305 Days | 120% | ||||
| 42 | Bitmain |
SHA-256 |
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151TH | 2642W | — | 17.5W/TH | Air |
£1,200.00 | £7.95/TH | £3.89 | — | £118.52 | — | — | 308 Days | 118% | ||||
| 45 | MicroBT |
SHA-256 |
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318TH | 5406W | — | 17W/TH | Immersion |
£2,657.80 | £8.36/TH | £8.20 | — | £249.59 | — | — | 324 Days | 113% | ||||
| 47 | MicroBT |
SHA-256 |
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472TH | 7316W | — | 15.5W/TH | Hydro |
£3,981.00 | £8.43/TH | £12.17 | — | £370.46 | — | — | 327 Days | 112% | ||||
| 53 | MicroBT |
SHA-256 |
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206TH | 4099W | — | 19.9W/TH | Air |
£1,781.00 | £8.65/TH | £5.31 | — | £161.68 | — | — | 335 Days | 109% | ||||
| 63 | MicroBT |
SHA-256 |
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376TH | 7482W | — | 19.9W/TH | Hydro |
£3,345.60 | £8.90/TH | £9.70 | — | £295.11 | — | — | 345 Days | 106% | ||||
| 64 | MicroBT |
SHA-256 |
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126TH | 3024W | — | 24W/TH | Air |
£1,130.00 | £8.97/TH | £3.25 | — | £98.89 | — | — | 348 Days | 105% |
Table Guide
How to Read Payback Times
Four short steps to judge ROI figures like an operator.
1
Read Est. ROI in Days
The ROI column estimates how many days each machine needs to earn back its price at today's rates. Shorter is stronger, all else being equal.
2
Apply Your Energy Cost
Payback stretches once electricity is paid. Enter your pence per kWh to see realistic days for your setup rather than the zero cost baseline.
3
Weigh Price Against Speed
A cheap machine can pay back faster than a stronger earner simply because there is less to pay back. Read the price and the ROI together.
4
Stress Test the Estimate
Rates move. Nudge your energy cost upwards and imagine earnings a fifth lower, then prefer the machines whose payback survives the stress.
2026 ROI Explainer
How the ROI Ranking Works
What the payback estimates assume, what changes them and how to use them honestly.
ROI is the most seductive number in mining and the most misread. The sections below explain exactly how the payback estimates are built, the forces that stretch and shrink them, and the honest way to buy on payback speed.
Price Divided by Earnings
Each machine's delivered price is divided by its current estimated daily earnings to give payback in days. Simple, transparent and easy to sanity check.
Today's Rates Only
The estimate assumes today's coin price and difficulty hold for the whole period. They will not, which is why ROI is a comparison tool rather than a forecast.
Your Power Changes Everything
At zero electricity cost the estimate is the machine's best case. Your pence per kWh stretches the days, and the table recalculates the moment you enter it.
Coin Price Moves
A rally shortens every payback on the page and a slump stretches them. ROI inherits all the volatility of the coins being mined.
Difficulty Climbs
Network difficulty usually rises over time, trimming earnings and quietly adding days to every estimate on the page.
Purchase Price
Half the equation is what you paid. Buying well on delivered price is the one ROI input you fully control.
Hardware Generations
New machines lift the earnings bar and slow older machines' payback. The ROI leader is often a recent, efficient, sensibly priced model.
Electricity Rates
The cheaper your power, the closer real payback sits to the zero cost estimate. Hosted rates keep the gap small and domestic rates widen it.
Most Profitable
Chases the highest estimated earnings. Best when your electricity is cheap.
Highest Efficiency
Puts watts per hash first. Best when your power price is the problem.
Best Value
Ranks delivered price against performance for the most machine per pound.
Best Overall
Balances every factor into one score for the all-round buying decision.
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Earnings, profit and ROI are estimates only. Actual results vary with electricity price, network difficulty, asset price, pool fees, uptime, cooling, firmware, hosting costs and operating conditions.
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Quickest ROI ASIC Miners: Your Questions Answered
Frequently Asked Questions About ASIC Miner Payback
Straight answers about payback estimates: how they are calculated, what makes them move and how to buy on ROI without fooling yourself.
What the payback figure measures, what it assumes and what it deliberately leaves out.
It changes with hardware prices and mining conditions, sometimes daily, which is why this page ranks machines from live data instead of naming one model in writing.
The staircase below and the table above always show the current order. Whichever machine holds the top row is the answer right now.
Each machine's delivered price, including duties and taxes, is divided by its current estimated daily earnings. The result is payback expressed in days.
Enter your electricity rate and the daily earnings become profit instead of revenue, which lengthens the estimate to something closer to your reality.
No, and you should treat anyone who promises a payback time with suspicion. The figure assumes today's coin price and difficulty hold, and both will move.
Pool fees, uptime, cooling and your real power rate all shape the outcome too. Use ROI to compare machines against each other, never as a promise of when you break even.
Earnings fall with it and the payback stretches. A machine estimated at three hundred days can become four hundred without anything changing in your setup.
It cuts both ways: rallies shorten paybacks. The estimate is a snapshot of a moving picture, which is exactly why it updates live on this page.
Substantially. The zero cost baseline is the machine's best case, and every penny per kWh you pay moves real payback further from it.
Enter your rate and watch the days stretch. Machines whose estimate barely moves are the efficient ones, and that resilience is worth paying attention to.
Why the leader changes, how ROI plays against efficiency and what a good payback looks like.
Because both halves of the equation move. Hardware reprices as new models arrive, and earnings shift with coin prices and difficulty all day.
A price cut on one machine can hand it the top row overnight. That churn is normal and the reason a live ranking beats any written list.
They answer different questions. Quick payback shortens the period your money is exposed, while efficiency protects the years after the machine has paid for itself.
The strongest buys score well on both. A machine near the front of the ROI and efficiency views at your rate is as safe as this market gets.
No. A low price helps because there is less to recover, but a machine that earns little can still crawl. The ratio decides, never the price alone.
That is why mid-priced, recent, efficient machines so often hold the quickest ROI spots rather than the very cheapest hardware.
Treat resale as a cushion rather than part of the calculation. Hardware depreciates with every new generation, and resale prices swing with the same markets earnings do.
If a purchase only makes sense with resale included, it usually does not make sense.
There is no universal number, because conditions change year to year. What you can judge is relative position: the machines at the front of this ranking are the strongest available paybacks today.
Shorter horizons simply carry less exposure to difficulty rises and price swings, which is why buyers compete for the front of this table.
Difficulty rises, hosting, new model launches and turning an estimate into an order.
Difficulty usually climbs as more hashrate joins a network, which trims every machine's earnings and quietly adds days to every payback estimate.
Buy machines whose breakeven power price sits well above your rate. That headroom is what absorbs difficulty rises without tipping the machine into loss.
Hosted power from around 4p per kWh keeps real payback close to the zero cost estimate, where domestic rates stretch it substantially.
Select a hosting site in the table to see the effect on your shortlist, then read about our hosting options for current rates.
Earnings for existing machines do not change on launch day, but the newcomer raises the competitive bar and difficulty tends to follow as units deploy.
Machines bought near the front of the ROI and efficiency views absorb that pressure best. Timing launches perfectly is not possible, so buy the numbers in front of you.
Shortlist machines that keep a strong estimate at your energy rate, then check their live stock status and delivered prices before ordering.
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