Antminer S21 XP

270 TH/s at 3,645 watts. 13.5 J/TH, which is rank 17 of 85 in this comparison.

What this machine earns at your electricity price

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Further assumptions

Bitcoin price in euro

Pool fee in percent

Purchase price in euro

Waste heat replaces heating A miner in a living space heats it. Whatever gas or electricity you therefore do not buy counts against the power bill, but only in the months you would be heating anyway.

Network hashrate 973 EH/s ·

Household prices per Eurostat, 2. Halbjahr 2025, including all taxes and levies. Your own tariff may differ considerably; cheap switching offers often sit ten cents below. Just type yours in.

The break-even electricity price is the price per kilowatt-hour at which earnings exactly cover the power bill. Below it the machine earns, above it the machine burns money. In central Europe that is the number almost everything turns on.

The sum behind it

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BTC per day = hashrate ÷ network hashrate × 144 blocks × 3.125 BTC × (1 − pool fee) Power cost = watts ÷ 1000 × 24 h × price per kWh Break-even = earnings in euro ÷ kilowatt-hours per day

Not included: connection, cooling, power-supply losses, downtime and maintenance. Water cooling adds the loop itself, hosting adds the slot fee. Network difficulty rises over the long run, which lowers earnings at the same hashrate; the payback figure uses today's values and is therefore on the optimistic side.

Specifications

ManufacturerBitmain

Hashrate270 TH/s

Power draw3,645 W

Efficiency13.5 J/TH

CoolingAir

Form factorStandalone unit

AlgorithmSHA-256

Price per terahash22 €

Market reference6,004 € / 6,890 $

Assessment

The S21 XP is the most efficient air-cooled machine in this catalogue. 13.5 J/TH without a water loop is remarkable and was for a long time the best available without rebuilding the site. You pay for it with the highest price per terahash among the air-cooled machines here. It makes sense wherever power is expensive and space is limited, which is precisely the position most private operators are in.

Against machines of similar efficiency

Model	TH/s	J/TH	Net/day	Break-even	Price
Teraflux AH3880	600	13.5	–	–	4,966 €
SealMiner A3 Hydro	500	13.5	–	–	—
WhatsMiner M78S	498	13.5	–	–	—
WhatsMiner M76S	384	13.5	–	–	—
Antminer S21 XP Imm	300	13.5	–	–	—
WhatsMiner M72S	282	13.5	–	–	—
Antminer S21 XP	270	13.5	–	–	6,004 €

All 85 models compared

Do the sums before you buy

If you do not like the numbers, you are not alone: at household prices almost none of these machines pay off in central Europe. If you still want to understand how mining works economically, you can play it through in the Coinovo app, with the same models and the same formulas, but without hardware and without a power bill.

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