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Mining Profitability Calculator
Find out whether mining pays at your numbers. Enter your hash rate, power draw, electricity price and the coin's reward economics, then press Calculate for daily, monthly and yearly profit plus a payback timeline.
Written by TopicDrill Editorial Team·Updated June 2026
Cumulative profit (after rig cost)
Net position
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How the mining profitability calculator works
Mining rewards are a lottery weighted by hash power. The calculator finds the slice of the network you control, scales it by how many blocks are mined each day and the reward per block, and applies your pool fee to land on the coins you can expect to keep. It then prices those coins, subtracts the electricity your rig burns, and reports profit per day, month and year.
The chart tracks your cumulative position over two years, starting below zero by the cost of the rig and climbing as daily profit accrues. The point where the line crosses zero is your break-even, the moment the hardware has paid for itself.
A quick example
A 100 TH/s rig drawing 3250 watts on a 600 PH/s network, with a 3.125 coin block reward, ten minute blocks, a coin price of 65,000 dollars and a one percent pool fee, earns a tiny fraction of a coin each day. After roughly 7.80 dollars of daily power cost, the net result is a modest daily profit that compounds into the monthly figure shown, with payback on a 3,000 dollar rig measured in months rather than years.
Things to keep in mind
Coin price and network difficulty move constantly, so a result that looks profitable today can flip negative after the next difficulty adjustment. Track live network conditions on a chain explorer such as Blockchain.com before committing capital. If you would rather model buying and holding the coin instead of mining it, try our future value calculator.
Frequently asked questions
How is mining profit estimated?
Your share of the network is your hash rate divided by the total network hash rate. Multiply that share by the number of blocks mined per day and the block reward to get your expected coins, convert to dollars at the coin price, then subtract electricity cost and the pool fee to reach net profit.
Why does network hash rate matter so much?
Block rewards are split across everyone mining, so your slice shrinks as the network grows. If total network hash rate doubles while yours stays the same, your daily coins roughly halve even though nothing about your rig changed.
How is the electricity cost worked out?
The rig power draw in watts is turned into kilowatt-hours per day by multiplying by 24 and dividing by 1000, then multiplied by your price per kilowatt-hour. A 3250 watt rig at ten cents per kilowatt-hour costs about 7.80 dollars a day to run.
What does the payback figure mean?
Payback is how long the rig must run at the current net daily profit to earn back its upfront cost. If daily profit is negative the hardware never pays for itself, which the tool flags rather than showing a misleading number.
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