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Kismile vs Gevi Nugget Ice Maker
Both are budget-brand nugget machines you can buy today. One prints a rated power, a refrigerant charge and an operating range; the other prints nothing you can check. That is the entire comparison.
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Quick picks
| # | Machine | Best for | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Gevi GIMN-1000B 170 W rated, R600a with its charge, 50F to 90F and a published footprint. | The one you can check | |
| 2 |  Kismile Not stated on the listing A live listing at the cheap end, bought on trust rather than on documentation. | If price decides it |
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These two brands sit in the same part of the market and are bought by the same person: someone who wants nugget ice without Opal money. They look alike, they claim similar output, and both are genuinely on sale.
The difference is not in the ice. It is that one manufacturer filled in an engineering template and the other did not, and at this price that is the only axis with any evidence on it.
What each brand publishes
| Question | Gevi V2.0 (GIMN-1000B) | Kismile nugget |
|---|---|---|
| Rated power | 170 W | Not published |
| Power supply | 120V/60Hz/3.0A | Not published |
| Running cost at 4 hrs/day | About $3.67 a month | Not calculable |
| Refrigerant | R600a, 24 g charge | Not published |
| Net weight | 36.4 lbs | Not published |
| Footprint | 9.6" W x 17.2" D x 16.7" H | Not published |
| Operating range | 50F to 90F | Not published |
| Clearance | 6 in on all sides | 6 in around the hot air outlet |
| Ice rate | Not published | Not published |
| Bin capacity | Not published | Not published |
| Model on the listing | V2.0, tied to GIMN-1000B | None stated |
The row with money attached
Gevi prints a rated power of 170W, which at four running hours a day and 18 cents per kWh is about $3.67 a month. It is one of only three nugget machines on this site whose manual prints a consumption figure rather than only a nameplate.
Kismile publishes no electrical figure of any kind, so this site carries no running-cost number for it. That is not a rhetorical position: a cost figure needs either watts or volts and amps, and copying one across from a machine that looks similar would be a guess wearing a citation. The method is on how we work, and the arithmetic it would use is on the running-cost page.
Knowing which machine you bought
Gevi's V2.0 badge maps to a model number, GIMN-1000B, with a manual you can read before you buy. It is not perfect — the brand also sells a GIMN-1102 and an IMNA0 under similar names with different figures — but the mapping exists.
Kismile's does not. A catalog search on 21 September 2026 returned ten Kismile nugget listings on sale at once, rated 33, 35 and 44 lbs a day, several sharing the same title and photography, and none naming a model. Kismile's own manual library covers 58003RIM0 and HZB-20EN among others, and nothing on a listing tells you which one is in the box.
The practical consequence arrives later: when a part fails, when a seller asks which model you have, or when you want to know whether a revision changed anything. It is the same problem this site documented with Euhomy.
The one thing both brands agree on
Both ask for six inches of air. Gevi states 6 inches of clearance on all sides in its before-first-use section; Kismile's troubleshooting table asks for a minimum of 6 inches around the hot air outlet and lists blocked ventilation as a cause of slow ice.
That is double what GE asks for a full-size Opal, and it is the number most buyers at this price never see, because on one machine it is buried in a fault-finding table and on the other it is on a page most people skip. If your counter cannot give it up, neither machine is the right buy, and the alternatives are on nugget ice makers for small kitchens.
What the gap costs you after the purchase
The documentation argument sounds academic until something goes wrong, so here is where it actually lands.
- Diagnosing a fault. Slow production has a short list of causes — blocked ventilation, water too warm or too cold, scale on the cylinder. Both brands document the first two. Neither publishes a rate, so neither lets you tell "slower than it should be" from "normal for this machine".
- Replacing it or matching a part. With a model number you can search for a filter, a scoop or a drain plug. With a listing title you are searching photographs.
- Planning the electrics. If the machine shares a circuit with a freezer or a microwave, 170 W is a number you can add up. Nothing is not.
- Selling it on. A machine with a model number and a manual has a resale identity. An unlabeled one is "countertop ice maker, works fine".
None of that makes the cheaper machine a bad object. It makes it an unknown one, and the premium between them is the price of turning an unknown into a known.
Which one to buy
- Buy the Gevi V2.0 unless price is the deciding factor. You get a costable machine, a documented temperature range and a footprint you can measure a counter against, for a modest premium over the cheapest Kismile listings.
- Buy a Kismile if the budget is fixed at the cheap end and you accept that everything about the machine will be discovered after it arrives. Buy the listing you can verify is in stock and new, and do not pay up between listings that publish no difference.
- Buy neither if you want a published ice rate or bin capacity, because neither brand gives you one. The machines that do are ranked on the nugget roundup, and the honest case for spending less is on the budget roundup.
The picks in full
1. The one you can check
Gevi V2.0 Nugget Ice Maker
The best-documented budget nugget machine on this site, and the only one you can buy new besides the Frigidaire EFIC255 whose manual prints an actual power consumption.
- Rated output
- Not published
- Bin capacity
- Not published
- Electrical
- 170 W published
- Ceiling at 4 hrs/day, $0.18/kWh
- $3.67/month (from published watts)
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Gevi's technical parameters table prints a rated power, a nameplate current, the refrigerant and its 24 g charge, the housing steel grade and the climate class. For a machine at this price that is more than GE publishes.
It does not print an ice-making rate, a water tank capacity or a basket capacity. The 38 lbs a day on the retail listing is a claim, not a specification, and this site records the rate as Not published.
The 6 inch clearance is the practical catch. A machine 9.6 inches wide that wants 6 inches of air on each side occupies 21.6 inches of counter, which is wider than the largest machine here.
Skip this if
Your counter cannot give up six inches of air on every side, or you want a published ice rate. Gevi's table does not print one.
2. If price decides it
Kismile Countertop Nugget Ice Maker (44 lbs/24H)
One of the best-selling nugget brands on Amazon, and the one that tells you least: no model number on the listing, and no specification section anywhere in its manual.
- Rated output
- Not published
- Bin capacity
- Not published
- Electrical
- Not published
- Ceiling at 4 hrs/day, $0.18/kWh
- Not published
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Kismile's own manual has no specifications section at all. Its contents run safety, getting to know your unit, before first use, using your ice maker, cleaning and troubleshooting, and then stop.
The listings make the problem worse rather than better. At least eight Kismile nugget machines are on sale at once, rated 33, 35 and 44 lbs a day, several sharing the same photographs and the same title, and none naming a model number.
The two facts the manual does give are useful and are on this page: 6 inches of clearance around the hot air outlet, and water between 45F and 90F.
Skip this if
You want to know what you are buying before it arrives. Every numeric field on this page reads Not published because Kismile publishes nothing to fill it.
Questions people actually ask
Is Kismile or Gevi the better nugget ice maker?
On evidence, Gevi, and it is not close. Gevi's manual prints a rated power of 170 W, a 120V/60Hz/3.0A supply, R600a with a 24 g charge, the net weight, the unit size and an operating range of 50F to 90F. Kismile's manual has no specifications section at all. That does not prove the Gevi machine is better built; it proves you can check one of them before you spend and not the other.
Do Kismile and Gevi make the same kind of ice?
Yes. Both are auger machines: flakes are frozen onto a chilled cylinder, scraped off and compressed into soft chewable pellets. The ice from a budget nugget machine is the same product as the ice from an Opal, which is the single most useful thing to know at this end of the market.
Which is cheaper to run?
Gevi's is about $3.67 a month at four running hours a day and 18 cents per kWh, from its published 170 W. Kismile's is not calculable at all: no wattage, no voltage and no current rating are published anywhere we could find, and this site will not borrow a figure from a machine that looks similar.
Which Kismile or Gevi model would I actually be buying?
With Gevi you can tell: the manual this site used is for model GIMN-1000B, sold as the V2.0, and the brand also lists a GIMN-1102 and an IMNA0 with different figures, so the model badge is at least checkable. With Kismile you cannot: a catalog search on 21 September 2026 returned ten Kismile nugget listings at once, rated 33, 35 and 44 lbs a day, several sharing a title, and not one naming a model number.
Is the cheaper machine a false economy?
Not necessarily. Plenty of people buy an undocumented machine, use it for years and are perfectly happy. What you are buying with the extra money on the Gevi is not better ice, it is the ability to answer questions before purchase rather than after: what it draws, what it weighs, how much room it needs and what room temperature it tolerates.
Sources
- Gevi GIMN-1000B User Manual, p.17 (Technical Parameters) (read 2026-09-21)
- Gevi GIMN-1000B User Manual, p.9 (Before First Use) (read 2026-09-21)
- Kismile 58003RIM0 / HZB-20EN User Manual, contents page (no specifications section) (read 2026-09-21)
- Kismile 58003RIM0 / HZB-20EN User Manual, p.11 (Troubleshooting) (read 2026-09-21)
- EIA Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.6.A, June 2026 (read 2026-09-02)
Read next
- Gevi V2.0 Nugget Ice Maker (GIMN-1000B)
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