#1
Ethereum Name Service (ENS)
Ethereum's .eth naming protocol: NFT-owned names with per-year, length-tiered pricing and broad wallet/browser resolution.
no KYC provable open source self-custody
from $5 per year min $5
Cheapest options by category
Ranked on the lowest documented entry price in each vertical - with the caveat that cheap and profitable are different questions.
Short answer: Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is our top-rated cheapest option as of 2026-09-24 (7.9/10), from $5 per year.
#2
Stacks BNS (.btc names)
Bitcoin Name System on Stacks: .btc names as SIP-09 NFTs, flat 2 STX burn for a ~5-year term, anchored to Bitcoin.
no KYC provable
from $0.620 per registration (~5-year term) min $0.620
#3
Braiins (Braiins Pool / Braiins Hashpower / Braiins OS)
Longest-running Bitcoin pool (2010) plus a Beta hashrate order book and fixed-premium hashrate contracts; BTC-only, low fees.
from $8.33 per PH/s/day min $8
#4
Voltage Park
US neocloud selling on-demand and reserved bare-metal NVIDIA HGX H100 clusters from $1.99/hr; acquired TensorDock (2025) and merged with Lightning AI (Jan 2026).
from $1.99 per GPU/hr
#5
Chainstack
Managed multi-chain RPC, archive and dedicated-node infrastructure from a named Singapore company; card-payable, SOC 2 Type II / ISO 27001.
from $49 per month
#6
QuickNode
Managed multi-chain RPC endpoints (80+ chains) with method-weighted API credits, free trial and self-serve tiers from $49/mo.
from $49 per month
#7
Basenames (Base)
ENS subnames on Base: length-tiered annual .base.eth rents in ETH, one free qualifying name, wallet-dependent resolution.
no KYC provable
from $0.270 per year
#8
Salad / SaladCloud
Distributed consumer-GPU cloud with published per-second prices and measured host earn rates; no token, fiat only.
no KYC
from $0.015 per GPU/hr
#9
Filecoin
Marketplace of independent storage providers proved by PoRep/PoSt; new Filecoin Onchain Cloud publishes a ~$5/TiB/mo managed warm-storage price.
no KYC provable
from $2.50 per TiB/mo per copy
#10
Lambda (Lambda Labs)
Established US GPU cloud: on-demand H100/B200 instances, 1-Click Clusters and Superclusters, billed per minute with no ingress/egress charges.
from $0.690 per GPU/hr
#11
Sia
Cheap decentralised storage with on-chain storage proofs and host collateral; hosted from ~$2/TB/mo, open market ~$1.1-3.3/TB/mo.
no KYC provable
from $2 per TB/mo
#12
Akash Network
Open permissionless marketplace for containerised GPU/CPU compute; providers bid, tenants pay per block.
from $0.090 per GPU/hr min $0.500
#13
Allnodes
Non-custodial staking and node hosting since 2018; transparent 10% ETH commission and hosting from $5/month.
from $5 per month
#14
Aptos Names
Aptos Labs-operated .apt names: length-tiered annual rents in APT, 30-day grace period, operator can revoke names.
no KYC provable
from $0.820 per year min $0.820
#15
NiceHash
Public order-book hashrate marketplace plus OTC deals; Swiss entity, KYC required and fees paid per order.
from $41.72 per PH/s/day min $83
#16
Sui Name Service (SuiNS)
.sui names on Sui: length-tiered annual subscriptions (USD base, payable in NS/SUI/USDC) governed by the SuiNS DAO.
no KYC provable
from $10 per year min $5
#17
Sazmining
You buy a serial-numbered BTC miner outright; Sazmining hosts it, bills power at cost and takes 15% only on Bitcoin actually mined.
provable
from $0.059 per kWh min $3275
#18
Storj
S3-compatible distributed object storage at $7/TB/mo with $7/TB egress and no API fees; operating under Chapter 11 after the Inveniam acquisition.
no KYC
from $7 per TB/mo min $5
#19
Together AI
Centralized open-model inference and GPU-cluster provider with published per-token and per-GPU rates; fiat-only and not decentralized.
from $1.99 per GPU/hr min $5
#20
Dappnode
Self-custody node hardware (Spain) plus free open-source software: you run validators and keep 100% of rewards, no staking commission.
no KYC provable
from $2194 per device (hardware, one-off, ex-tax)
#21
Runpod
Developer GPU cloud with published per-second rates across Community and Secure Cloud, plus serverless endpoints and clusters.
from $0.160 per GPU/hr min $10
#22
SimpleMining (SimpleMining OS)
Polish GPU mining OS (SMOS, $2/rig/month prepaid) plus SimplePod.ai GPU cloud; not an ASIC host despite the name.
from $0.050 per GPU/hr
#23
Prime Intellect
US (Delaware) marketplace for aggregated on-demand GPU instances and token-priced hosted RL training/inference, with an open-source AI research profile.
from $0.470 per GPU/hr
#24
Tezos Domains
.tez names as FA2 NFTs on Tezos: length-tiered annual rents in XTZ, DAO-governed, QUANTSAMP-audited, modest wallet integration.
no KYC provable
from $0.980 per year min $0.980
#25
Unstoppable Domains
One-time web3 domains with no renewal, plus at-cost ICANN DNS registrations from an accredited registrar.
no KYC self-custody
from $2 per domain one-off min $2
#26
Vast.ai
Host-set GPU marketplace with per-second billing; on-demand, interruptible and reserved tiers, plus serverless and clusters.
no KYC
from $0.088 per GPU/hr
#27
Walrus (Mysten Labs)
Sui-based decentralized blob storage with fixed USD pricing ($0.023/GB/mo on encoded size), paid in WAL plus SUI gas.
no KYC provable open source self-custody
from $0.023 per GB/mo
#28
Fil One (successor to Storacha / web3.storage)
S3-compatible object storage on Filecoin at a flat $4.99/TB/mo with no egress or API fees and a 99.9% SLA (2026-09-24).
no KYC
from $4.99 per TB/mo min $4.99
#29
Filebase
S3-compatible object storage plus IPFS pinning with free object egress; $15/TB, free 5 GB tier (2026-09-24).
no KYC
from $15 per TB/mo
#30
Nym
Swiss mixnet/VPN project: NymVPN offers a 5-hop metadata-private mode and a faster 2-hop mode from $4.00/month (annual), plus NYM rewards for node operators.
no KYC
from $4 per month min $4
#31
BNB Greenfield
BNB Chain storage side-chain: rented object storage at ~$0.031/GB/month (Sep 2026) with 4+2 erasure coding and S3-compatible gateways; not permanent.
no KYC
from $0.031 per GB/month (storage, Sep 2026 global price)
#32
Chutes (Bittensor subnet)
Serverless AI inference on Bittensor subnet 64 with an OpenAI-compatible API, public per-1M-token pricing and attestable TEE compute.
provable
from $0.025 per GPU/hr
#33
Thunder Compute
Centralized GPU cloud built on the company's own GPU-virtualisation layer: cheap per-minute A100/L40/H100/A6000 instances; no crypto, no token.
from $0.350 per GPU/hr
#34
Hyperbolic
US curated GPU cloud and OpenAI-compatible inference; H100 $3.19/hr, H200 $3.99/hr on-demand with hourly billing and $5 never-expiring credits.
from $3.19 per GPU/hr min $5
#35
Luxor Technology
Alias of Luxor (luxor.tech): institutional hashrate forward/derivatives desk and publisher of the Hashrate Index; KYC + ISDA required.
from $39.76 per PH/s/day
#36
Luxor Technology (Hashrate Derivatives + Hashrate Index)
Institutional hashrate forward/derivatives desk, miner financier and publisher of the Hashrate Index; KYC + ISDA required.
from $39.76 per PH/s/day
#37
Pocket Network
Decentralised multi-chain RPC: free keyless public endpoints and $1 per billion compute units wholesale via POKT app stakes; Foundation-run.
no KYC
from $1 per 1 billion Compute Units (wholesale, F-Chains)
#38
ar.io (AR.IO Network)
Arweave access + naming layer: independent gateways serve permanent data and ArNS names lease from ~$4.60/yr; protocol state runs on Solana.
no KYC provable
from $4.60 per year (9-char ArNS lease, live quote) min $2.30
#39
Figment
Institutional non-custodial staking across 30+ PoS networks; fees charged on-chain per protocol, no public price list.
from $5
#40
Irys
Arweave-born bundler turned own L1 'datachain': pay for 30 days, a year, or permanent storage; ~$2.44/GB one-off for permanence in the documented model.
no KYC provable
from $2.44 per GB one-off (permanent storage, whitepaper model)
#41
ArDrive
Polished 'Pay Once. Store Forever.' onramp that resells Arweave permanence via Turbo; ~$89/GiB one-off for card buyers.
no KYC
from $89.02 per GB one-off
#42
Arweave
One-time per-byte upload to a permanent, public, replicated ledger - permanence is an endowment bet, not an SLA.
no KYC provable
from $57.90 per GB one-off
#43
Luganodes
Institutional-grade, non-custodial validator infrastructure on 30-40+ PoS networks; Cayman entity, Swiss law, commission on request.
from $2.50
#44
Sentinel (dVPN)
Cosmos-based layer-1 bandwidth marketplace: dVPNs from $0.033/day in USDC on Base, no KYC/accounts, with node hosts keeping 80% and 20% going to P2P stakers.
no KYC
from $0.033 per day min $0.033
#45
Namebase
Non-custodial Handshake domain registry and registrar (relaunched July 2026) selling .hns and thousands of TLDs; legacy custodial platform closes 2026-10-01.
from $0.990 per year min $0.990
#46
Solana Name Service (SNS / .sol)
Solana's .sol naming protocol, mid-migration to a new SRS registry: legacy names become .sns, registrations paused Aug 2026, no renewal fees today.
no KYC
from $20 per registration (one-time, no renewal fees today) min $20
#47
Terra Hashes
US ASIC hosting from $0.0750/kWh (1 MW+) with a one-time $100 setup fee and a live ASIC marketplace; Indiana, founded 2022.
from $0.075 per kWh
#48
Aleph Cloud (Aleph.im)
Decentralized cloud (VPS, GPU instances, storage, confidential VMs) on a node network; paid via ALEPH/USDC/card credits.
no KYC
from $0.055 per GPU/hr
#49
Ankr
Long-running multi-chain RPC, Advanced API, AppChains and staking infrastructure with a free public RPC lane and Premium endpoint plans.
no KYC
from $83
#50
Helium Mobile
US consumer mobile service (Air $15/mo, Infinity $30/mo) on a hybrid Helium Hotspot + national 5G network, run by Affiniti Ventures; network operators earn HNT for carrier offload.
from $15 per month min $15
#51
Mysterium Network
Long-running dVPN / residential-bandwidth network: node operators earn MYST per GB on Polygon, consumers buy a residential-IP VPN subscription from a separate Lithuanian entity.
no KYC
from $2.59 per month min $2.59
#52
Spheron Network
Singapore-run GPU aggregator reselling capacity from 5+ neoclouds; H100 from $2.64/hr on-demand, per-minute billing.
from $0.480 per GPU/hr
#53
Pinata
Established IPFS pinning, gateways/CDN and private IPFS; $20/mo for 1 TB, storage overage cheap but bandwidth billed (2026-09-24).
no KYC
from $20 per month (1 TB plan)
#54
Theta EdgeCloud
Hybrid cloud+edge GPU marketplace with cheap consumer-GPU rates (RTX 3090 $0.14/hr, A100 $1.99/hr) and TFUEL-linked node rewards; cloud-launched in 2024. Facing an LA lawsuit alleging fraud/token manipulation.
from $0.050 per GPU/hr
#55
4EVERLAND
Singapore-registered Web3 cloud: IPFS/Arweave pinning and S3 buckets at $0.08/GB/month, plus gateways, DWeb hosting, RPC and AI, paid with USD-pegged LAND.
from $0.080 per GB/mo
#56
Autonomi (formerly Safe Network)
Pay-once, permanent, post-quantum encrypted storage on a permissionless node network; per-node quote pricing, node app still in Beta.
no KYC open source self-custody
from $0.032 per GiB one-time (node-quote baseline, DERIVED)
#57
Kiln
Institutional staking on 30+ PoS networks since 2018: SOC 2 Type II, 0 slashing, but opaque fees and a 2025 security incident.
from $18
#58
Nosana
Solana-based self-serve GPU marketplace for AI inference, CI and agent workloads; live price table, consumer-GPU supply.
from $0.048 per GPU/hr
#59
Deeper Network
Hardware DPN/VPN routers (one-time $299-$424) that share idle bandwidth to mine DPR, advertised with lifetime $0 subscription.
no KYC
from $299 per device (one-time hardware purchase) min $299
#60
Lava Network
Decentralised multi-provider RPC gateway with fee tiers metered in compute units; live docs and pricing disagree on chains and limits.
from $29 per month
#61
Swarm (Ethereum)
Swiss non-profit P2P storage/distribution network: rent expiring postage-stamp space at ~$0.064/GB/month (Sep 2026); node operators stake 10 xBZZ non-refundably.
no KYC provable
from $0.064 per GB/month (storage rent)
#62
Fluence
Swiss-DAO multi-provider neocloud; H200 from $2.80/hr with zero egress, but Console access is still gated to an Alpha VM testing program and top-ups run only in USDC via CopperX.
from $2.80 per GPU/hr min $10
#63
Hivemapper
Solana-based crowdsourced street-level mapping network (Bee dashcam membership $19/mo, 24-month); map data sold per $0.0075 Map Credit, rewards moved from HONEY to USDC in Aug 2026.
from $19 per month min $19
#64
Bitdeer Technologies Group
Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin miner selling short-dated Cloud Hash Rate plans with separate per-T hash-rate and electricity fees.
from $0.056 per TH/s/day
#65
Jackal Protocol
Cosmos L1 storage network selling JKL-priced self-custodial storage plus the card-billed Jackal Pin IPFS resale.
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from $15 per TB/mo min $20
#66
Abundant Mines
Flat $225/machine/month all-inclusive Bitcoin hosting in six self-owned Oregon sites; customer owns the ASIC and keeps 100% of BTC.
from $225 per machine/month min $225
#67
Freename
Swiss ICANN-accredited registrar (IANA 4323) selling annual-renewal Web2 domains and one-time, no-renewal on-chain Web3 domains/TLDs that resolve only via its own DNS tooling.
no KYC
from $11.40 per year min $11.40
#68
MiningStore
Established US (Iowa) ASIC hosting and managed-mining operator; real facilities, but self-reported capacity and a self-published review site.
from $0.067 per kWh min $100
#69
BitFuFu Inc.
Nasdaq-listed, Bitmain-backed Singapore operator selling BTC cloud mining, miner rental and miner co-hosting.
from $8 per contract
#70
Lighthouse
IPFS hot storage + Filecoin deal-making with S3 API and encryption add-ons; $12/mo for 500 GB, Walrus from $11/mo (2026-09-24).
no KYC
from $12 per month (500 GB plan)
#71
Blockware Solutions
US ASIC broker and hosting provider (MaaS) plus short-term hashrate rental (RentHash) and a P2P miner marketplace. Duplicate record of slug 'blockware'.
from $0.078 per kWh min $1000
#72
Blockware Solutions
US ASIC broker and hosting provider (MaaS) plus short-term hashrate rental (RentHash) and a P2P miner marketplace.
from $0.078 per kWh min $1000
#73
GoMining
Tokenised 'digital miner' hashrate NFTs with daily BTC rewards, resale on a marketplace and GOMINING-token fee discounts.
from $12.99 per digital miner (one-off purchase)
#74
ECOS (ECOS-M)
Armenian-operated BTC cloud contracts and hosted-ASIC ownership from $99, with a daily service fee and terms up to 60 months.
from $99 per contract min $99
#75
Clore.ai
Permissionless peer-to-peer GPU marketplace paying in crypto, with on-demand and biddable spot tiers and no disclosed legal entity.
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from $0.027 per GPU/hr
#76
AWS S3 (legacy cloud benchmark)
Object storage, requests, egress
from $0.023 per gb
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#77
Backblaze B2 (legacy cloud benchmark)
Object storage + egress
from $0.0060 per gb
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#78
Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage (legacy cloud benchmark)
Object storage + egress
from $0.0070 per gb
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#79
Wattum
US ASIC distributor and host (Miami, since 2017) with live Shopify stock but a documented record of 2022-2025 customer disputes.
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from $15
#80
SealStorage
Enterprise-grade Filecoin storage, fixed-price contracts, three copies
from $5.99 per TB/mo
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