⛏️ Crypto Mining Profitability Calculator

Estimate daily and monthly profit for proof-of-work mining based on your hash rate, network hash rate, block reward, electricity cost, and pool fee — plus hardware break-even and break-even electricity price.

⛏️ Mining Inputs
Placeholder value only — check the current network hash rate on a block explorer (e.g., blockchain.com, mempool.space) before relying on this estimate. It changes constantly as miners join or leave.
Default reflects a post-halving Bitcoin-style reward. Adjust for the coin and current era you are mining.
144 assumes a ~10 minute average block time. Change this for coins with a different target block time.
Placeholder price only — update to the current market price before relying on this result. Crypto prices are highly volatile.
Enter your rig/ASIC purchase price to estimate break-even days. Leave blank to skip this calculation.
📈 Profitability Estimate
Estimated Daily Profit
Daily Coin Reward
Monthly Coin Reward
Daily Revenue (USD)
Monthly Revenue (USD)
Daily Electricity Cost
Monthly Profit
Hardware Break-Even
Break-Even Electricity Price

📊 Profit at Different Electricity Rates

Monthly Revenue vs Electricity Cost
⚠️ Not financial advice. Coin price, network hash rate, and difficulty change constantly — the figures above are illustrative estimates based on the values you entered. Always check current live network hash rate, price, and electricity rates before making a hardware purchase or mining decision. Actual results will vary with difficulty adjustments, pool luck, hardware efficiency loss, and downtime.
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Enter your mining setup and calculate to see profitability

Guide

About the Crypto Mining Profitability Calculator

Last updated: August 2026 · Reviewed by the NeftCal editorial team

The crypto mining calculator on this page estimates how much profit a proof-of-work mining setup can earn by balancing what you mine against what it costs to mine it. Acting as a mining profitability calculator and hash rate calculator in one, it takes your hash rate, the network's total hash rate, the block reward, block time, coin price, pool fee, and electricity cost, and turns them into a daily and monthly profit estimate — plus the hardware break-even period and the break-even electricity price at which profit hits zero.

What This Calculator Estimates

The calculator derives your expected share of the network, multiplies it by the blocks found per day and the block reward, then removes the pool fee to get a daily coin reward. From there it computes daily and monthly revenue (reward × coin price), daily and monthly electricity cost (power draw in kilowatts × 24 hours × your $/kWh rate), and net profit. If you provide a hardware cost, it also estimates how many days of that profit it takes to pay back the equipment, and it back-solves for the electricity price at which your daily revenue would exactly cover your power bill.

Who Should Use This Calculator

It's built for hobbyist GPU miners checking whether a rig still earns, ASIC owners evaluating a new generation of hardware, mining operators comparing power contracts, and anyone modeling a small mining fleet before committing capital. It's equally useful for students and researchers learning how proof-of-work economics actually work, since it makes the network-share, difficulty, and electricity math concrete rather than buried in a mining pool's payout dashboard.

Why Mining Economics Matter

Mining margins are thin and move fast. Electricity is usually the single largest controllable cost, so knowing your break-even electricity price tells you immediately whether a given power contract or region makes sense. Meanwhile network hash rate (difficulty) and coin price are the two variables entirely outside your control — both can erase a profitable setup within days. Running the numbers before buying hardware, and re-running them periodically afterward, helps you catch a shift from profit to loss before it costs you real money. This mirrors how infrastructure teams already budget compute and network costs with tools like a GPU Cost Calculator or Cloud Cost Calculator: estimate first, commit second.

Real-World Applications

  • Checking whether an existing GPU rig or ASIC is still profitable at today's network hash rate and coin price
  • Evaluating a specific hardware purchase by comparing break-even days against the equipment's expected lifespan
  • Comparing electricity plans or regions to find the cheapest all-in $/kWh rate before signing a power contract
  • Stress-testing a setup against a doubling of difficulty or a 30% coin price drop before scaling up a mining fleet
  • Pairing with NeftCal's Gas Fee Calculator and Staking Rewards Calculator to compare proof-of-work income against on-chain fees and proof-of-stake alternatives

Tips for Accurate Results

  • Pull the current network hash rate from a reputable block explorer immediately before calculating — it is the single input most likely to be stale
  • Use your actual all-in electricity rate, including any demand charges or taxes, not just the advertised per-kWh rate
  • Factor in that ASIC efficiency degrades with heat and age — real power draw can run higher than the manufacturer's spec sheet over time
  • Remember that difficulty tends to rise over a hardware's useful life, so a profitable day-one estimate can turn unprofitable well before the hardware is paid off
  • Re-check coin price right before making a decision — a double-digit percentage price swing is common and will move your profit estimate substantially
Formula

The Mining Profitability Formula, Explained

How this crypto mining calculator turns hash rate, block reward, and electricity cost into a dollar figure

Network Share Formula
Share = Your Hash Rate (H/s) ÷ Network Hash Rate (H/s)

Coin Reward Formula
Daily Coin Reward = Share × Blocks per Day × Block Reward × (1 − Pool Fee ÷ 100)

Revenue & Electricity Formulas
Daily Revenue = Daily Coin Reward × Coin Price
Daily Electricity Cost = (Power in Watts ÷ 1,000) × 24 hours × $/kWh

Profit & Break-Even Formulas
Daily Profit = Daily Revenue − Daily Electricity Cost  |  Monthly Profit = Daily Profit × 30
Break-Even Electricity Price = Daily Revenue ÷ kWh per Day
Break-Even Days = Hardware Cost ÷ Daily Profit

All hash rates are normalized to hashes per second (TH/s × 10¹², GH/s × 10⁹, MH/s × 10⁶) before the share is computed, so the two sides of the ratio are always unit-consistent. The break-even electricity price is the $/kWh rate at which daily revenue exactly equals daily electricity cost; break-even days is how long cumulative profit takes to cover the upfront hardware price.

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Network Share

Your expected share of new coins is simply your hash rate divided by the network's total hash rate. A 110 TH/s miner against a 600 PH/s network holds a 0.0183% share — every block reward is multiplied by that fraction before pool fees.

Electricity Cost

Convert power draw from watts to kilowatts, multiply by 24 hours, then by your rate. At 3,250 W and $0.10/kWh that is 78 kWh/day and $7.80/day — a small line item that becomes decisive at higher rates or lower coin prices.

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Pool Fees & Break-Even

Pool fees (typically 1–3%) come straight off your coin reward before conversion to dollars. The break-even electricity price and break-even days are the two "how bad can it get" outputs that tell you your margin of safety.

⚙️ Why This Formula Works

Proof-of-work distributes each block's coin reward in proportion to work contributed, so over a long enough window your expected reward equals your share of total hashing power. Multiplying that share by blocks per day and block reward captures the coin's emission rate, and subtracting electricity cost converts gross reward into the number that actually matters for a wallet — net profit.

🎯 When to Use It

  • Before purchasing an ASIC or building a GPU rig
  • When comparing electricity plans, power contracts, or hosting facilities
  • Periodically re-checking an existing miner as difficulty and coin price drift

📋 Assumptions

  • Your hardware runs close to 24/7 with minimal downtime
  • Pool fees, block reward, and block time stay constant over the estimate window
  • Power draw matches the value you enter (spec-sheet efficiency)

⚠️ Limitations of the Formula

  • Difficulty increases and network hash rate growth are the biggest unknowns — a rising network shrinks your share even if your own hardware never changes
  • Coin price volatility can swing daily profit by double digits overnight; the formula uses a static snapshot
  • Doesn't model pool luck variance, downtime, hardware failure, or resale value
  • Assumes constant power draw, ignoring thermal throttling and efficiency loss over time
Walkthrough

Step-by-Step: How to Use the Crypto Mining Profitability Calculator

From entering your rig's hash rate to reading your projected daily profit

Enter your hash rate and unit

Type your miner's hash rate (e.g., 110 for a modern ASIC) and choose the matching unit — TH/s, GH/s, or MH/s. This is the computing power you contribute to the network.

Enter the network hash rate and unit

Enter the total hash rate of all miners on the coin you're mining, from a current block explorer or network stats page. This is the single most important input to keep fresh.

Set block reward, blocks per day, and coin price

Enter the coin's per-block reward (default 3.125, a post-halving Bitcoin-style reward), how many blocks the network finds per day (144 for ~10-minute block time), and the current coin price in USD.

Enter power consumption and electricity cost

Enter your hardware's power draw in watts and your electricity rate in $/kWh. Add any cooling or efficiency overhead to the power figure for a more realistic estimate.

Set pool fee and optional hardware cost

Enter your mining pool's fee percentage (typically 1–3%). Optionally enter the hardware purchase price to enable the hardware break-even (ROI) calculation.

Click Calculate Profitability and review results

Press the calculate button to see daily and monthly coin reward, revenue, electricity cost, profit, break-even electricity price, break-even days, and profit across electricity rate tiers.

Example

Worked Example

Using the calculator's own default scenario — 110 TH/s against a 600,000,000 GH/s network, 3.125 reward, 144 blocks/day, $65,000 coin, 3,250 W, $0.10/kWh, 1.5% pool fee

Scenario

Suppose you run a single 110 TH/s ASIC against a network of 600,000,000 GH/s, on a coin with a 3.125-coin block reward found 144 times per day. Coin price is $65,000, the rig draws 3,250 W, electricity costs $0.10/kWh, and your pool charges a 1.5% fee.

Your Hash Rate110 TH/s
Network Hash Rate600,000,000 GH/s
Block Reward3.125 coins
Step 1 — Normalize units: Your hash rate = 110 TH/s = 1.1 × 10¹⁴ H/s. Network hash rate = 600,000,000 GH/s = 6 × 10¹⁷ H/s.
Step 2 — Network share: 1.1 × 10¹⁴ ÷ 6 × 10¹⁷ = 0.00018333 (0.0183%).
Step 3 — Daily coin reward: 0.00018333 × 144 × 3.125 × (1 − 0.015) = 0.08126250 coins/day.
Step 4 — Daily revenue: 0.08126250 × $65,000 = $5,282.06/day.
Step 5 — Daily electricity cost: (3,250 ÷ 1,000) × 24 = 78 kWh/day × $0.10 = $7.80/day.
Step 6 — Daily and monthly profit: $5,282.06 − $7.80 = $5,274.26/day → × 30 = $158,227.88/month.
Step 7 — Break-even electricity price: $5,282.06 ÷ 78 kWh = $67.72/kWh.
Step 8 — Break-even days (with $3,000 hardware): $3,000 ÷ $5,274.26 ≈ 0.57 → rounded up to 1 day.
Daily Coin Reward
0.08126250
Daily Revenue
$5,282.06
Daily Profit
$5,274.26

Explanation: These defaults are deliberately illustrative placeholders, not real market values — the network hash rate here (600 PH/s) is far below a real Bitcoin-sized network, so the profit looks extreme. The math chain is what matters: your share of the network determines the coin reward, the coin reward times price determines revenue, and subtracting electricity leaves profit. In real use, replace the placeholder network hash rate and coin price with live values; on a realistic network the share, reward, and profit all shrink dramatically, which is exactly the sensitivity the comparison table below exposes.

Interpretation

Understanding Your Result

What your daily profit figure and break-even electricity price actually imply

Daily Profit SignalWhat It Generally MeansRecommended Next Step
Strongly positive, break-even electricity well above your rateHealthy margin with a wide safety buffer against rate or difficulty increasesKeep mining 24/7; consider locking in the electricity rate or modestly scaling up
Positive, break-even electricity above your rateProfitable at today's inputs, but the buffer is thinRe-check your all-in electricity rate and pool fee; monitor difficulty and price
Near zero, break-even electricity close to your rateMarginal — a difficulty bump or small price drop flips you to a lossReduce power cost or pool fee; re-run with live data before relying on the number
Negative, but revenue still covers most of the electricity billMining at a loss before hardware costs; only price or difficulty moves can rescue itHold off on expansion; consider shutting down during peak-rate hours
Negative, break-even electricity below your rateDeeply unprofitable — revenue doesn't cover the power billTurn off the rig or switch coins; do not buy new hardware at these inputs

If break-even electricity price is far above your actual rate: you have room to absorb electricity increases or a meaningful difficulty rise before profit turns negative. That buffer is your real margin of safety — a rig with a $0.15/kWh break-even against a $0.10 rate is far more robust than one breaking even at $0.105.

If break-even electricity price is close to or below your rate: the setup is marginal or already underwater. Small changes to pool fee, cooling, or hardware efficiency can matter more than a slightly cheaper coin price. Treat the result as a flag to re-check inputs, not a stable forecast.

These are point-in-time estimates. Because network hash rate, coin price, and electricity rates all drift, the same rig can swing from profitable to losing within weeks — re-run the calculator whenever any input changes materially.

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This calculator provides planning estimates only. Actual mining results depend on live network hash rate, difficulty adjustments, pool luck, hardware efficiency, downtime, and your true electricity cost. Nothing here is financial advice — always verify with current live data before purchasing hardware or committing power.

Use Cases

Practical Use Cases for the Crypto Mining Profitability Calculator

Where estimating mining economics up front genuinely helps

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GPU rig profitability check

Verify a home GPU rig still earns at today's difficulty and coin price before leaving it running 24/7.

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ASIC purchase evaluation

Compare break-even days of a new ASIC against its expected lifespan and the current generation's resale value.

Electricity cost sensitivity

Test how moving from $0.10/kWh to $0.15/kWh changes monthly profit — and find the rate where mining stops paying.

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Pool comparison

Quantify the profit difference between a 1% and 2.5% pool fee to decide whether switching pools is worth it.

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Cooling and facility planning

Model the electricity impact of fans, AC, and ventilation overhead on a rig's true all-in power draw.

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Difficulty stress-testing

Re-run the numbers assuming the network hash rate doubles to see if the setup survives the next difficulty adjustment.

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Power contract negotiation

Bring a break-even electricity price to a supplier or landlord negotiation to justify a lower all-in rate.

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Home vs hosted mining

Compare residential electricity rates against a hosted facility's bundled power-and-space pricing.

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Coin selection

Compare profitability across different coins by adjusting block reward, block time, network size, and price per coin.

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Teaching mining economics

Demonstrate the share, difficulty, and electricity math behind proof-of-work in a classroom or workshop.

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Downtime impact modeling

Estimate how much a 10% downtime rate or a maintenance day per week reduces monthly coin reward and profit.

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Off-peak electricity arbitrage

Model running rigs only during cheap off-peak hours to see if time-of-use rates flip a marginal setup to profit.

Pros & Cons

Benefits and Limitations

What this mining profit calculator does well, and where it can't replace live market data

✅ Benefits

  • Free, instant, and requires no signup or account
  • Runs entirely in your browser — your data is never uploaded to a server
  • Handles TH/s, GH/s, and MH/s units for both your rig and the network
  • Computes coin reward, revenue, electricity, and profit for daily and monthly windows
  • Back-solves a break-even electricity price, not just a raw profit number
  • Estimates hardware break-even days when a purchase price is entered
  • Shows profit across six electricity rate tiers with one click
  • Visualizes monthly revenue versus electricity cost in a chart
  • Downloadable plain-text summary of your estimate
  • Fast-loading, mobile-friendly, no ads blocking the calculator
  • Useful as a repeatable check as difficulty and price drift
  • Educational — exposes exactly how proof-of-work economics work

⚠️ Limitations

  • Static, point-in-time estimate — doesn't project difficulty growth over a hardware's lifetime
  • Coin price volatility isn't modeled; a snapshot can be stale within a day
  • Doesn't account for pool luck variance, downtime, or hardware failure
  • Ignores cooling costs, facility overhead, and efficiency degradation unless you add them yourself
  • Assumes constant power draw and near-100% uptime
  • No hardware depreciation, resale value, or opportunity-cost modeling
  • Defaults for network hash rate and coin price are placeholders, not live data
  • Not a substitute for a live profitability feed or financial advice
Reference

Mining Difficulty & Electricity Sensitivity Comparison

Same 110 TH/s rig, 3.125 reward, 144 blocks/day, $65,000 coin, 3,250 W, 1.5% fee — varying only network hash rate and electricity rate

ScenarioNetwork Hash RateElectricity RateDaily RevenueDaily Profit
Default placeholders600 PH/s$0.10/kWh$5,282.06$5,274.26
Difficulty ×21.2 EH/s$0.10/kWh$2,641.03$2,633.23
Difficulty ×106 EH/s$0.10/kWh$528.21$520.41
Realistic Bitcoin-scale network (~600 EH/s)600 EH/s$0.10/kWh$5.28−$2.52
Cheap electricity600 PH/s$0.05/kWh$5,282.06$5,278.16
Expensive electricity600 PH/s$0.20/kWh$5,282.06$5,266.46
Difficulty ×2 + expensive electricity1.2 EH/s$0.20/kWh$2,641.03$2,625.43

Common Mistakes and Expert Tips

❌ Common Mistakes

  • Ignoring difficulty increases over time — treating today's network hash rate as if it will hold for the whole life of the hardware
  • Forgetting electricity cooling costs — fans, AC, and ventilation add real watts on top of the rig's spec-sheet draw
  • Using the advertised electricity rate instead of the all-in rate including taxes and demand charges
  • Leaving the placeholder network hash rate or coin price in place and trusting the default output
  • Confusing gross revenue with net profit — forgetting the monthly power bill
  • Mixing units (TH/s vs GH/s vs MH/s) between your rig and the network, off by a factor of 1,000
  • Judging a setup on one lucky day of pool payouts instead of the long-run expected reward
  • Ignoring downtime — a rig that is down 10% of the time earns roughly 10% less coin reward

💡 Expert Tips & Best Practices

  • Pull live network hash rate and coin price immediately before calculating — the defaults are placeholders
  • Use your all-in $/kWh, including cooling, in the power-draw estimate for a truer cost
  • Stress-test with a doubled difficulty and a 30% lower coin price before buying hardware
  • Re-run the calculator monthly — difficulty and price drift quickly enough to change the verdict
  • Compare a marginal proof-of-work setup against proof-of-stake income with the Staking Rewards Calculator
  • Model on-chain costs of selling or transacting mined coins with the Gas Fee Calculator so fees don't silently eat the margin
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Summary: This crypto mining calculator gives you an instant, free projection of daily and monthly mining profit from your hash rate, network hash rate, block reward, coin price, power draw, electricity cost, and pool fee — plus break-even electricity price and hardware break-even days. Because difficulty, network hash rate, and coin price are the biggest unknowns and move constantly, treat every result as a snapshot and re-run it with live data before acting. Pair it with the Gas Fee Calculator and Staking Rewards Calculator to compare proof-of-work income against on-chain fees and proof-of-stake alternatives.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about crypto mining profitability

How is crypto mining profitability calculated?
Your share of the network is your hash rate divided by the total network hash rate. Multiply that share by the blocks found per day and the block reward (minus pool fees) to get your expected coin reward. Multiply the coin reward by the coin price for revenue, then subtract your electricity cost (power in kW × 24 hours × your $/kWh rate) to get daily profit.
Why does my estimated profit change so much day to day?
Three inputs move constantly in real mining: the network hash rate (difficulty), which rises as more miners join; the coin price, which can swing double digits in a day; and your electricity rate, which may vary by time of use. This calculator uses the values you enter as a snapshot — always refresh them from a live source before making decisions.
What is break-even electricity price?
It is the electricity rate ($/kWh) at which your daily revenue exactly equals your daily electricity cost — profit is zero. If your actual electricity rate is below this number you are profitable; above it, you are mining at a loss before accounting for hardware depreciation.
Does this calculator account for difficulty increases over time?
No. It produces a static, point-in-time estimate based on the network hash rate you enter. Real mining difficulty typically trends upward over a hardware's lifetime, which reduces your network share and your rewards even if your own hash rate stays constant — factor in a difficulty growth margin for longer-term ROI projections.
Should I include hardware cost in my profitability estimate?
Yes, if you are evaluating a purchase. Entering your hardware cost lets the calculator estimate break-even days — how long it takes for cumulative profit to cover the upfront hardware price. Remember this ignores hardware failure risk, resale value, and rising difficulty, all of which extend real-world payback time.
What is the difference between hash rate and network hash rate?
Your hash rate is how many guesses per second your hardware performs — 110 TH/s means 110 trillion hashes each second. Network hash rate is the total hash rate of every miner on the coin combined. Your share of block rewards equals your hash rate divided by network hash rate, so as the network grows your slice of each block shrinks even though your own machine never changes.
How do I convert TH/s, GH/s, and MH/s?
All three are hashes per second with a different prefix: 1 TH/s = 1,000 GH/s = 1,000,000 MH/s. Each step is 1,000x the last. Use the unit dropdown in this calculator to enter your rig's hash rate and the network hash rate in whatever unit your source reports — the calculator normalizes both to hashes per second before computing your share.
What is a typical pool fee, and how does it affect my profit?
Most mining pools charge between 1% and 3% of your earned rewards. The fee is deducted before the coin reward is paid out, so a 2% pool fee turns a 0.0825 BTC gross daily reward into roughly 0.0809 BTC net. Higher fees matter most at thin margins, so comparing pools on fee plus payout method (PPS vs PPLNS) is worth a few dollars a day on larger rigs.
Does this calculator account for cooling costs?
Not directly. You enter your hardware's power draw in watts, which the calculator uses for the electricity cost calculation. If your setup uses fans, air conditioning, or other cooling that consumes extra power, add that measured draw to the power field — a rig that spec-sheets at 3,250 W can pull noticeably more at the wall once cooling and power-supply losses are included.
What block reward should I enter?
Enter the coin's current per-block subsidy plus, optionally, average transaction fees per block if you want them included. The default 3.125 reflects a post-halving Bitcoin-style reward — after the 2024 halving Bitcoin pays 3.125 BTC per block. Check your coin's current halving era or emission schedule, since the reward changes periodically and directly scales your daily coins.
Why does the calculator show 'Never (at a loss)' for break-even days?
When daily electricity cost exceeds daily revenue, your daily profit is negative, and dividing hardware cost by a negative profit is meaningless — the calculator reports 'Never (at a loss)' instead. That means at your current inputs the hardware would never pay for itself through mining alone. Only a lower power cost, a higher coin price, or an easier network would turn it profitable.
Can I use this calculator for GPU mining?
Yes. The math is identical for ASIC, GPU, and CPU mining — you just enter your rig's hash rate in the matching unit (MH/s or GH/s for most GPUs), its total power draw including motherboard and fans, and the network hash rate for the coin you mine. GPU-based coins usually have far lower network hash rates, so your share can be meaningful at modest rig sizes.
What does a '—' result mean?
A '—' appears when an input needed for that figure is missing or zero. For example, leaving hardware cost blank intentionally skips the break-even calculation and shows 'N/A', while a network hash rate of zero makes the share and all downstream revenue figures undefined until you enter a valid network size. Fill in every input you want included and re-run.
How does coin price volatility affect my estimate?
Coin price is a multiplier on your revenue, so a 10% price move changes daily revenue and profit by roughly 10% in the same direction — more when electricity already eats a large share of revenue. Because price swings are frequent and sometimes large, this calculator is best used as a sensitivity tool: try low, current, and high price scenarios rather than trusting one snapshot.
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