How we compare saunas

Short version: we read what manufacturers publish, put it side by side, and add the costs they leave out.

What we do

• We open each sauna's page on the manufacturer's site (or, where the brand sells only through dealers, a named retailer) and record price, heater, power, warranty, size, wood and delivery.
• Every number on this site links to the page it came from. If we couldn't confirm something, we write "not stated" or "not confirmed" rather than guess.
• We add the costs that aren't on the sticker: electrician, foundation, and electricity, from named cost guides and the US Energy Information Administration.
• We re-check prices every week against each seller's own page. A change we can read exactly (most brands' stores publish machine-readable prices) goes on the site; anything we can't confirm, we check by hand. Prices last checked 2 November 2026; specs 2 November 2026.

What we don't do

• We don't run a test lab and we haven't sat in every sauna. Our picks are based on published specs, what's included, warranty and installation needs, and we say that on each page.
• We don't make health claims. Where brands make EMF claims, we quote them as the brand's words.
• We don't repeat third-party prices for brands that don't publish their own.

How we make money

Right now, we don't. No link on this site earns us anything yet. We plan to join some brands' affiliate programs, which would pay us a commission if you buy after clicking, at no cost to you. When that happens we'll say so here and on every page with an affiliate link, and it won't change which saunas we list or how we describe them.

Contact

Found a wrong price, a spec that changed, or a sauna we should add? Email hello@saunacompared.com. We fix errors and note the date we re-checked.

Running-cost math

Rated heater watts × hours × 18.16¢ per kWh (EIA, US residential average, August 2026, preliminary). Traditional: 1.33 hours (60-minute warm-up, from Almost Heaven's heater page, plus 20 minutes of use). Infrared: 0.75 hours (15-minute warm-up, our assumption, plus 30 minutes). These are upper bounds because heaters cycle off at temperature. Yearly figures assume 156 sessions (3 a week).

Sources

Each opened on 2 November 2026. Prices change often, especially around sales.