NiceHash Alternatives for Selling and Renting Hashpower

NiceHash still works. It calls itself "The Hashrate Marketplace": miners sell the power of their GPUs, CPUs or ASICs, buyers rent that power to mine the coin they choose, and sellers are paid in bitcoin. The site also offers NiceHash OS, ASIC firmware, a Docker miner and EasyMining. Its fee API lists a 2% seller fee, and moving BTC out to your own wallet costs 0.00003 BTC.

People leave for three reasons: they want a second marketplace to compare rental prices, they want to mine a coin directly instead of selling to an unknown buyer, or they want their coins out of a custodial wallet. Hackers took bitcoin from NiceHash in December 2017, and the company finished refunding 4,640 BTC to users in December 2020, CoinDesk reported, and that history still shapes how some miners feel about leaving balances on any platform.

The picks below are tools you run on hardware you own, plus one rental market. We left out cloud mining contracts on purpose. Many are scams: the US Justice Department says HashFlare sold more than $577 million in contracts while lacking the computing capacity for most of the mining it promised. Mining income moves with coin prices, network difficulty and your power bill, and none of these tools promises a profit.

Prices below are as of November 6, 2026. Our method is on How we review tools.

Quick comparison

Mining Rig Rentals

Mining Rig Rentals works like NiceHash with one big difference: you rent a specific rig from a specific owner for a set time, instead of placing an order into a shared pool of hashpower. The homepage lists more than 100 algorithms, among them kHeavyHash for Kaspa, Autolykos v2 for Ergo, RandomX for Monero, KawPOW, Scrypt and SHA-256.

Renters pay in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash or Dogecoin and point the rig at their own pool. Owners list their hardware, set a price and get paid when a rental ends. The site holds funds in the middle, much like an escrow, and steps in when a rig delivers less than it promised.

Best for: Rig owners who want a second market next to NiceHash, and buyers who want to rent a known rig for hours or days.

Pricing:

• 3% fee, charged only on transactions; the service is otherwise free
• Owner payouts are held up to 12 hours after a rental completes

Watch out for:

• Refund claims for partial hashrate must be filed within 12 hours of the rental ending, per the FAQ, and the FAQ itself says it is outdated and points to the Help Center.
• Renting hashpower to mine a coin is a bet that the coins mined will be worth more than the rental; often they are not.

Official site: Mining Rig Rentals.

Kryptex

For a gamer who ran NiceHash QuickMiner on one Windows PC, Kryptex is the nearest experience. Kryptex Miner detects the hardware, switches algorithms on its own and can auto-convert everything it mines to bitcoin. The main difference is that you mine through Kryptex Pool rather than selling hashpower to a buyer.

Withdrawals are flexible: BTC, USDT, ETH, USDC, LTC, BNB or TRX, or Volet and Amazon gift cards, from 0.00025 BTC. The pool side supports PPS+, PROP and SOLO across roughly 30 coin listings, and it accepts hashrate from rented rigs too. We cover more options on our Kryptex alternatives page.

Best for: One Windows PC owner who wants NiceHash-style simplicity with BTC or stablecoin payouts.

Pricing:

• Kryptex Miner: free download
• Pool fee: 1%, per the About Pool page; Kryptex does not say if it covers SOLO or PROP, and the homepage says only "a small pool fee"
• Minimum payout: 0.00025 BTC

Watch out for:

• The desktop app is Windows only; macOS and Linux are not mentioned.
• The homepage figures, such as about $22 a month for an RTX 5090, carry no stated electricity cost or date.

Official site: Kryptex. Our listing: Kryptex.

2Miners

A plain GPU pool with clear fees. The 2Miners homepage lists 1.0% for its pool mode and 1.5% for solo, with automatic payouts every 2 hours. Coins include Kaspa, Ergo, Ravencoin, Ethereum Classic, Zcash, Nexa and Grin.

Several of those coins are marked "Paid in BTC", among them Kaspa, Ergo, Ravencoin and Ethereum Classic, so you can keep NiceHash's bitcoin payout while choosing the algorithm yourself. You run your own miner, such as lolMiner, and point it at the pool address.

Best for: GPU miners who know which coin they want and still like being paid in bitcoin.

Pricing:

• Pool (PPLNS): 1.0%
• Solo: 1.5%
• Minimums vary by coin, for example 50 KAS or 1 ERG

Watch out for:

• Its statistics server has gone offline at times; 2Miners says mining is not affected, so check the current status on its homepage.
• PPLNS pays by blocks the pool finds, so payouts on small coins can be uneven day to day.

Official site: 2Miners.

Braiins Pool

ASIC owners who sold SHA-256 hashpower on NiceHash can mine bitcoin directly at Braiins Pool, the former Slush Pool. It has run since 2010 and says it has mined more than 1.3 million BTC.

Rewards use FPPS, which pays for hashrate rather than for blocks found. Payouts can go over Lightning from 1 sat with no fee, which helps small miners who would otherwise wait months for an on-chain minimum. Running Braiins OS firmware on supported machines drops the pool fee to 0%.

Best for: Bitcoin ASIC owners who want BTC from the pool itself, not from a marketplace.

Pricing:

• FPPS: 2.5% pool fee; 0% with Braiins OS
• On-chain payout: from 0.0002 BTC, 0.0001 BTC fee below 0.005 BTC
• Lightning payout: 1 sat to 0.005 BTC, no fee

Watch out for:

• Only SHA-256 hardware fits; GPUs have no place here.
• The 2.5% FPPS fee in the rewards docs is higher than NiceHash's 2% seller fee, unless you run Braiins OS, which the pool page says cuts it to 0%.

Official site: Braiins Pool. Our listing: Braiins Pool.

Hive OS

NiceHash OS users who want more control usually land on Hive OS. It is a Linux-based mining OS run from a web dashboard, and a flight sheet points each rig at any pool or marketplace, NiceHash included. That means you can split rigs between NiceHash, a pool and Mining Rig Rentals from one screen.

Overclocks, miner updates, alerts and remote reboots all sit in the same dashboard, and it supports ASICs as well as GPU rigs.

Best for: Owners of several GPU rigs who want to switch pools or markets without touching each machine.

Pricing:

• Free for 2 workers, with 3 days of stats
• GPU rig: $0.50 per card per month, capped at $3.00 for 6 or more cards
• ASIC: $2 per month, free with Hiveon firmware

Watch out for:

• Once you add a third worker, all three are billed, per the pricing page.
• Subscriptions are paid in crypto only, through CoinPayments.

Official site: Hive OS.

lolMiner

NiceHash's own Excavator is tied to its marketplace. lolMiner is a standalone GPU miner you can aim at any pool, and version 1.98a supports algorithms such as Autolykos V2, KarlsenhashV2, Etchash, FishHash, Octopus and Tari's Sha3x and Cuckaroo-29.

It covers NVIDIA cards from the GTX 1000 series to RTX 5000 and AMD from RX 400 to RX 9000, which makes it a common choice inside Hive OS flight sheets.

Best for: GPU owners who want to pick the coin and pool themselves.

Pricing:

• Free download
• Built-in dev fee: 2% on Cuckaroo-29 and Octopus, 1% on Sha3x; other algorithms vary

Watch out for:

• The source is closed; only binaries are published on the releases page.
• Builds are for 64-bit Windows and Linux only.

Official site: lolMiner.

XMRig

Owners of spare CPU cores can skip the marketplace and mine Monero directly. XMRig is the standard open source RandomX miner, GPL-3.0, with binaries for Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD and support for x86, ARM and RISC-V chips.

Version 6.26.0 shipped on March 28, 2026. It also runs on AMD GPUs through OpenCL and on NVIDIA through a CUDA plugin, though most people use it on CPUs.

Best for: Home servers and desktops with spare CPU cores, including Apple and ARM machines.

Pricing:

• Free and open source (GPL-3.0)
• 1% default donation, which you can change in the config

Watch out for:

• It is a command-line program set up through a JSON config file or flags, per the README; there is no desktop app.

Official site: XMRig.

How to choose

When to stay with NiceHash

NiceHash still makes sense if you want to sell raw hashpower without choosing a coin, and you are fine with a 2% fee and a custodial wallet. Its BTC deposits of 0.00005 BTC or more are free, and you never have to pick a coin or follow difficulty changes yourself. Withdraw often if you stay, and keep only what you need on the platform. For hardware ideas outside NiceHash, our GoMiner alternatives page covers more mining tools.

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