MinerLottery

Avalon Nano 3

The first-generation Nano. Same 140W envelope as the 3S but a third less hashrate, which makes it a poor buy new — the 3S is the direct replacement and is barely more expensive.

Hashrate
4.00 TH/s
Power
140 W
Efficiency
35.0 J/TH
Chips
4× Canaan A3 (5nm)
$200$50 / TH

Typical street price, excluding shipping and duties.

No tracked retailer yet. Search the brand's own store.

Specs verified 5 Aug 2026. Source

What it costs, what it might win

Currency
$/ kWh
h

Running costs across the site use this rate. The default is a typical household tariff — check your own bill for the real number.

Power cost / month
$17.39
3.36 kWh per day
Power cost / year
$209
1227 kWh per year
Expected BTC / day
201 sats
Long-run statistical average
Expected value / month
$0.0000
$17.39 below power cost

The odds, honestly

At the current network difficulty of 1.262e+14, a Avalon Nano 3 is expected to find a block roughly once every 4.3K years. That is an average across infinite attempts, not a countdown — a block could come tomorrow, or never.

Odds in 1 year
1 in 4.3K
Odds in 5 years
1 in 859.52
Chance of a win in 5 yrs
0.12%
If you win, you win
3.155 BTC
≈ $0 at the current price — the full block subsidy plus fees, paid to you alone.
Five years of ownership
$1,243
Hardware plus power. This is what the ticket costs you, win or lose.

If you pooled instead

Point the same device at a normal mining pool and you would receive the statistical average steadily instead of gambling on it: about $0.0000 a month, against $17.39 of electricity. At your electricity rate that loses money — every 201 sats mined costs $0.5712 in power. Buying the same BTC on an exchange would be cheaper.

Full specifications

ASIC chip
4× Canaan A3 (5nm)
Stock hashrate
4.00 TH/s
Stock power
140 W
Efficiency
35.0 J/TH
Power input
USB-C PD
PSU included
Yes
Connectivity
Wi-Fi 2.4GHz
Display
Status LEDs
Noise
~35 dB
Dimensions
104 × 104 × 61 mm
Weight
1 kg
Form factor
desktop
Firmware
Canaan (app-managed)
Open source
No
Solo mining
Yes
Pool mining
Yes
Built-in full node
No
Released
2024

The verdict

Best for: Clearance pricing only.

Strengths

  • Very quiet
  • Doubles as a small heater
  • Often discounted

Trade-offs

  • 35 J/TH — the worst efficiency of any current-production device here
  • The 3S is 50% faster at the same power

About Canaan Avalon

One of the two large ASIC manufacturers. The Avalon Nano, Mini and Q lines are Canaan's consumer push: closed firmware and an app instead of a web UI, but proper industrial silicon, real warranties and usable waste heat.

canaan.io

Consider instead