How much does an air fryer cost per month in Montana?

About $1.63 a month, assuming 1,500 W at a 70% duty cycle, 24 minutes a day, 300 days a year at 15.57¢/kWh.

How many kilowatt-hours does an air fryer use?

Roughly 126 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 1.05 kWh for every hour it runs.

Is that expensive compared with other states?

Montana has the 19th cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $22.88 a year.

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Cost to run an air fryer in Montana (August 2026 rates)

At 15.57¢ per kilowatt-hour — Montana's average residential price in August 2026 — running an air fryer costs $19.62 a year. That is 14% less than the national average of $22.88. Montana's residential rate is up 9.0% from August 2025, which moves this appliance from $18.01 to $19.62 a year.

Per hour: 16.3¢
Per day of use: 6.5¢
Per month: $1.63
Per year: $19.62

Assumption: 1,500 W at a 70% duty cycle, 24 minutes a day, 300 days a year — 126 kWh a year. A 5-quart basket model, roughly 25 minutes of cooking a day. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.

How Montana compares

Montana pays 15.57¢/kWh, the 19th cheapest residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $3.26 less a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same air fryer costs $16.03 a year in Nevada and $59.45 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $43.42 a year.

State	Rate	Per month	Per year
South Dakota	15.15¢	$1.59	$19.09
Kansas	15.47¢	$1.62	$19.49
Montana	15.57¢	$1.63	$19.62
South Carolina	15.76¢	$1.65	$19.86
Georgia	15.90¢	$1.67	$20.03

States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for an air fryer.

What else costs about the same in Montana

Washing machine$20.24 a year in MT Laptop$18.68 a year in MT Box fan$17.52 a year in MT

Cutting the number down

The saving is not the wattage, it is the volume: a small cavity reaches temperature in two minutes instead of twelve.
Cooking two batches back to back skips the second preheat entirely.

Questions

How much does an air fryer cost per month in Montana?: About $1.63 a month, assuming 1,500 W at a 70% duty cycle, 24 minutes a day, 300 days a year at 15.57¢/kWh.
How many kilowatt-hours does an air fryer use?: Roughly 126 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 1.05 kWh for every hour it runs.
Is that expensive compared with other states?: Montana has the 19th cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $22.88 a year.