{"url":"https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-cheapest-ai-infra","section":"rankings","title":"The cheapest AI infrastructure ETFs | ETFIQ","description":"The cheapest AI infrastructure ETFs, ranked by the annual fee the fund charges, as of Oct 2, 2026. 10 funds from ETFIQ\u2019s own published figures.","as_of":"Oct 2, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"ItemList","name":"The cheapest AI infrastructure ETFs","numberOfItems":10,"itemListOrder":"https://schema.org/ItemListOrderDescending","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"CHPX","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/chpx"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"PHOX","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/phox"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"AINF","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/ainf"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"KSMH","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/ksmh"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"TCAI","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/tcai"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":6,"name":"AIPO","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/aipo"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":7,"name":"CGPT","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/cgpt"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":8,"name":"COOL","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/cool"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":9,"name":"IVEP","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/ivep"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":10,"name":"AIHY","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/aihy"}]},{"@type":"Dataset","name":"The cheapest AI infrastructure ETFs","description":"The cheapest AI infrastructure ETFs, ranked by the annual fee the fund charges, as of Oct 2, 2026. 10 funds from ETFIQ\u2019s own published figures. 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A ranking is not a recommendation.","url":"https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-cheapest-ai-infra","dateModified":"2026-10-04","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"speakable":{"@type":"SpeakableSpecification","cssSelector":[".lede"]},"publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org"}}],"characters":3121,"truncated":false,"content":"ETFIQ / Rankings / The cheapest AI infrastructure ETFs \n \n As of Oct 2, 2026 . Rebuilt every trading night.\n The cheapest AI infrastructure ETFs\n A fee is one fact and not a verdict on the fund. Where the funds on a theme hold different companies, the cheapest is not even the same bet, and the holdings are on the theme page.\n The cheapest AI infrastructure ETFs, ranked by the annual fee the fund charges, as of Oct 2, 2026. Source: ETFIQ. # Ticker Fund Fee Net assets Weight in S&P 500 companies Total return, 1Y \n 1 CHPX Global X AI Semiconductor & Quantum ETF 0.50% $125m 62.1% +98.8% \n 2 PHOX Aura AI Photonics ETF 0.60% $0 not filed too new \n 3 AINF Defiance Inference AI Chip ETF 0.65% $518,954 not published too new \n 4 KSMH xETFs Korea AI Semiconductor ETF 0.65% $0 not filed too new \n 5 TCAI Tortoise AI Infrastructure ETF 0.65% $217m 63.2% +56.7% \n 6 AIPO Defiance AI & Power Infrastructure ETF 0.69% $925m 63.0% +24.2% \n 7 CGPT VegaShares AI Inference ETF 0.75% $0 not filed too new \n 8 COOL VegaShares AI Thermal, Cooling & Power M 0.75% $0 not filed too new \n 9 IVEP Dan IVES Wedbush AI Power & Infrastructu 0.75% $19m 67.1% too new \n 10 AIHY Defiance AI Hyperscale Leaders ETF 0.76% $17m not published too new \n \n Method\n The 10 of 11 ETFs in the ai infrastructure and chips theme that publish an expense ratio, cheapest first. Across the funds listed here the annual fee runs from 0.5% to 0.8%. A fee is the one number a fund controls and the one a holder pays whatever happens. The ranking is the published field sorted, nothing else: no scoring, no weighting and no view on any fund. Every fund ETFIQ covers in this category is eligible, including funds that have closed, because leaving them out would flatter the category.\n Where to next\n Every AI infrastructure ETF and what it holds The largest AI infrastructure ETFs Where these figures came from\n Fund holdings from SEC Form N-PORT and from the issuers own daily files SEC EDGAR, full-text search of fund filings SEC Form N-PORT, what a fund filed it holds Rule 19a-1, what a distribution notice must say ETFIQ links to the documents behind every figure. It is not affiliated with any issuer, and a link is not an endorsement.\n A ranking is not a recommendation and no order on this site is an opinion. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, not an adviser. Standards and sources \n Cite this page. 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