What an air fryer actually costs to run in Ireland
Quick answer: At Ireland’s domestic day rate of about €0.38/kWh, the air fryers we track cost between €0.34 and €0.99 per hour at full power — €5.13 to €14.82 a month if you run one for 30 minutes a day. On a smart-meter night rate of about €0.18/kWh the same run costs roughly half. These are ceilings: the element only draws full power while it is heating, and most recipes run for 15 to 25 minutes rather than a full hour, so a real bill lands well below them.
Almost every air fryer page online tells you which one to buy and none of them tell you what it costs to keep switched on. This page is the other half: every air fryer we track, its rated power, and what that works out to per hour and per month at Irish electricity prices — with the arithmetic shown so you can redo it with your own unit rate.
Running cost of every air fryer we track
| Model | Rated power | Per hour (day) | Per hour (night) | Per month at 30 minutes a day | Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daewoo 2L Compact Manual Air Fryer | 900 W | €0.34 | €0.16 | €5.13 | 2 L |
| Midea Compact 2L Air Fryer | 1150 W | €0.44 | €0.21 | €6.55 | 2 L |
| Tower T17205AFR 4L Digital Air Fryer | 1300 W | €0.49 | €0.23 | €7.41 | 4 L |
| Tower Vortx T17147 4.2L Digital | 1400 W | €0.53 | €0.25 | €7.98 | 4.2 L |
| Philips 2000 Series Air Fryer 4.2L | 1500 W | €0.57 | €0.27 | €8.55 | 4.2 L |
| Swan Retro Dual Basket Air Fryer | 1700 W | €0.65 | €0.31 | €9.69 | 8 L (2× 4 L) |
| Cooks Professional 8L Dual Digital Air Fryer | 1700 W | €0.65 | €0.31 | €9.69 | 8 L (twin basket) |
| Berdsen XXL 8L Air Fryer (Touchscreen, 1700W) | 1700 W | €0.65 | €0.31 | €9.69 | 8 L |
| Ninja Air Fryer PRO 4.7L (4-in-1) | 1750 W | €0.67 | €0.32 | €9.98 | 4.7 L |
| Russell Hobbs XXL Family Rapid Air Fryer 8L | 1800 W | €0.68 | €0.32 | €10.26 | 8 L |
| Cecotec Cecofry Supreme 8000 (8L, 1800W) | 1800 W | €0.68 | €0.32 | €10.26 | 8 L |
| Russell Hobbs Satisfry 8.3L (9 Programs) | 1800 W | €0.68 | €0.32 | €10.26 | 8.3 L |
| Ninja Foodi Dual Zone 7.6L (AF300UK) | 2400 W | €0.91 | €0.43 | €13.68 | 7.6 L (2 drawers) |
| Cuisinart XXL 10.4L Dual Air Fryer (2×5.2L) | 2400 W | €0.91 | €0.43 | €13.68 | 10.4 L |
| Tower T17181AFR Vortx Dual Basket Air Fryer | 2460 W | €0.93 | €0.44 | €14.02 | 8 L (2× 4 L) |
| Salter EK4548 Dual Drawer Air Fryer | 2600 W | €0.99 | €0.47 | €14.82 | 8.2 L (2 drawers) |
Tariff source: €0.38/kWh day rate and €0.18/kWh night rate, cross-checked against SEAI energy price statistics and published supplier standard rates, July 2026. Rated power and capacity are the manufacturers’ own published figures.
The 4 models where we could not calculate a cost
These air fryers are in our guides, but the manufacturer does not publish a rated power figure for them, so there is no honest way to work out a cost per hour. We would rather show the gap than fill it with an estimate and present it as a measurement.
| Model | Capacity | Rated power |
|---|---|---|
| Linsar Dual Zone Air Fryer 8L | 8 L | Not published by the manufacturer |
| 8L Digital Air Fryer with Visual Window | 8 L | Not published by the manufacturer |
| Tower T17176 Vortx Vizion 8L (Digital) | 8 L | Not published by the manufacturer |
| 9L Dual Air Fryer (2× 4.5L Drawers) | 9 L (2× 4.5) | Not published by the manufacturer |
How these numbers are worked out
The whole calculation is three numbers and one multiplication, and we would rather you checked it than trusted it.
- Rated power — the wattage the manufacturer publishes for that exact model. Not a category average, not a guess from a similar unit. 16 of the 20 air fryers in our guides publish one; the other 4 are listed separately, with no figure at all.
- Tariff — €0.38 per kWh for the day rate and €0.18 per kWh for a typical smart-meter night rate, cross-checked against SEAI energy price statistics and published supplier standard rates, July 2026. Your own unit rate is on your bill and may differ; the arithmetic below is easy to redo with it.
- Cost per hour = rated watts ÷ 1,000 × the unit rate. A 900 W unit is 0.900 kW, so 0.900 × 0.38 = €0.34 an hour.
- Cost per month = cost per hour × 0.5 hours × 30 days. 30 minutes a day is our assumption, not a measurement — scale it to how you actually run yours.
Three things these numbers are not
They are not your bill. Every figure here is a ceiling: rated draw at full power, multiplied out. An air fryer is a fan and a heating element in a small insulated box. The element pulls its rated wattage while it is bringing the box up to temperature and then cycles, so a 2,400 W machine is not pulling 2,400 W for the whole cook. The comparison that matters for most households is not against another air fryer but against the oven: a fan oven drawing around 2 kW has a far larger cavity to heat and a longer preheat, which is where the running-cost saving actually comes from. Either way, treat the table as the worst case.
They do not include standing charges or VAT changes. The unit rate is the marginal cost of running the appliance. Your standing charge is there whether the air fryer is plugged in or not.
Using this table
Free to quote, cite or reproduce with a link back to this page. If you are writing about damp, heating or energy costs in Ireland and want the underlying figures, everything is on this page — the rated wattages, the tariff, and the arithmetic — so the numbers can be checked rather than taken on trust. Spot an error or a wattage we have wrong? Tell us and we will correct it.