Is crypto mining profitable?
How to tell whether mining pays for you: earnings, fees, electricity, difficulty and coin price, and how to check it all in the mining calculator.
Is mining profitable for you?
Mining is profitable when your earnings beat your costs. For most miners, the electricity price decides it. The mining calculator shows which side you are on.
How to work out your profit
Profit is what you earn minus what you spend.
- Earnings: your hashrate's share of the block rewards.
- Fees taken from earnings: the pool fee and your miner software's fee.
- Costs: mostly electricity, plus the up-front price of the hardware.
If your earnings beat your power bill, you are mining at a profit.
Why electricity is the deciding factor
For most miners, the power price makes or breaks profitability. The calculator can show your break-even electricity price. That is the rate at which earnings exactly cover power.
Pay less than that per kWh and you profit. Pay more and you lose. It is the fastest way to judge whether a rig is worth running.
Why the numbers keep moving
Mining income is never fixed. It moves with three things:
- the coin's price;
- network difficulty, which is how hard it is to find a block;
- the pool's luck.
A healthy margin today can turn thin or negative. That happens when difficulty climbs or the price falls. Treat any estimate as a snapshot, not a promise.
How to check before you commit
- Open the mining calculator.
- Enter your real GPUs.
- Enter your actual power price.
- Read the estimated earnings against your costs.
Use careful assumptions rather than best-case ones.