Why does your income differ from other calculators?

We take the coin price from our own feed — 14 exchanges we listen to directly, not from a middleman service. Network parameters (difficulty, reward, block time) are open WhatToMine data refreshed every ten minutes. On top of that our defaults include a 1% pool fee and 98% uptime, which most calculators omit: they show income nobody actually receives.

By income here and now, almost always the ASIC. By risk, the GPU: it knows several algorithms, survives the death of one coin and resells to ordinary people, not only to miners. An ASIC is a bet on one specific network for years ahead.

Can I mine on a laptop or a normal PC?

Technically yes, economically almost never: the income will be cents a day while the wear and the power bill are real. The one sensible case is Monero on a strong CPU, and even then only with cheap electricity.

Why is the coin I mine not on the list?

We only calculate coins present in our screener: those have a live price from exchanges we listen to. If a coin trades only on venues we do not cover, we have no honest price for the calculation — and we will not count income at someone else's price.

What is break-even per kWh?

The electricity price at which revenue exactly equals the power bill. Below it you are in profit, above it in loss. It is the most stable number in the table: it does not depend on your tariff and moves only with network difficulty and the coin price.

Mining: what to mine and on what

Of the 2161 coins in our screener, 14 can be mined — the rest have no blocks or block reward of their own. For each we calculate income from the current network difficulty and the live price; below is the best machine for every algorithm.

Electricity price$ per kWhPool fee%Uptime%

Hardware

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Coin	Algorithm	Best machine	Rig price	Power	Net per day	Payback	Break-even per kWh	Where to sell
ZEC	Equihash	BITMAIN AntMiner Z15 Pro840 kSol/sASIC	$7K	2,780 W	$126.97	57 days	$1.983	BinanceMEXCOKX9 more
DOGE	Scrypt	Bitdeer SealMiner DL1 Hydro52.5 GH/sASIC	$9K	7,823 W	$10.56	853 days	$0.136	BinanceOKXGate10 more
BTC	SHA-256	MicroBT Whatsminer M79S1.35 PH/sASIC	$12K	20,000 W	$3.72	3300 days	$0.088	BinanceOKXGate10 more
XMR	RandomX	AMD CPU Threadripper 3990X53.0 kH/sCPU	—	280 W	$1.62	price unknown	$0.321	BinanceHyperliquidHTX7 more
BCH	SHA-256	MicroBT Whatsminer M79S1.35 PH/sASIC	$12K	20,000 W	$1.17	10464 days	$0.082	BinanceOKXBybit10 more
CFX	Octopus	NVIDIA Tesla A100148 MH/sGPU	—	200 W	$0.76	price unknown	$0.238	BinanceOKXBingX9 more
KAS	kHeavyHash	BITMAIN AntMiner KS740.0 TH/sASIC	—	3,080 W	−$0.04	price unknown	$0.079	BinanceMEXCBybit7 more
CKB	Eaglesong	NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti1.08 GH/sGPU	—	145 W	−$0.28	price unknown	$0.000	BinanceBingXMEXC6 more
ETC	Etchash	NVIDIA Tesla A100170 MH/sGPU	—	200 W	−$0.32	price unknown	$0.013	BinanceOKXBybit10 more
BEAM	BeamHashIII	NVIDIA RTX 309057 Sol/sGPU	—	285 W	−$0.39	price unknown	$0.022	BybitUpbitBitget3 more
RVN	KawPow	NVIDIA RTX 509085.0 MH/sGPU	—	600 W	−$0.82	price unknown	$0.023	BinanceOKXBingX5 more
DASH	X11	StrongU STU-U6440 GH/sASIC	—	2,200 W	−$2.78	price unknown	$0.027	BinanceMEXCOKX9 more
LTC	Scrypt	Bitdeer SealMiner DL1 Hydro52.5 GH/sASIC	$9K	7,823 W	−$11.60	never pays back	$0.018	BinanceGateOKX9 more
DGB	SHA-256	MicroBT Whatsminer M79S1.35 PH/sASIC	$12K	20,000 W	−$14.48	never pays back	$0.050	HTXBinanceBingX

We calculate 14 of the 2161 screener coins: the rest have no blocks and no reward of their own, they cannot be mined.

Mining hardware: what to buy →

Income is calculated for ONE rig using your own numbers: electricity price, pool fee and uptime are in the fields above and are remembered. Not included: difficulty growth, hardware wear and withdrawal fees.

Network parameters are open WhatToMine data, refreshed every 10 minutes. The price is ours, collected from exchanges directly.

How to choose what to mine

Start not with a coin but with your electricity tariff. The table has a “Break-even per kWh” column — the power price at which the rig breaks even. If your tariff is above it, the rig loses money whatever the market does; if below, the gap between your tariff and the break-even point is your margin of safety.

Then pick the type of hardware. An ASIC is one chip for one algorithm: hundreds of times faster than a GPU, but it can do nothing else and becomes scrap when its coin dies or forks to another algorithm. A GPU is slower, but it switches between coins and resells to anyone, not only to miners. A CPU is needed by exactly one coin on our list — Monero: its RandomX algorithm is designed so that ASICs get no advantage.

Payback is the rig price divided by today's profit. It is an upper bound, not a promise: network difficulty almost always grows, and with it the income of the very same machine falls. Read payback as “no faster than”, not as “I am in profit after that many days”.

Last comes what to do with what you mined. The coin has to be sold somewhere, and the “Where to sell” column shows the venues that actually trade it, with our live price. A coin with no venues, or with one thin venue, is income that is hard to turn into money: check the daily volume on the coin page before buying hardware for it.

What the calculation does not know

·Difficulty growth. Networks retarget from minutes (Kaspa) to two weeks (Bitcoin), and difficulty almost always rises: the same rig mines less tomorrow than today.
·Coin price. Revenue is counted at the live price; a price cut in half halves the income while electricity stays the same.
·Wear and failures. Power supplies, fans and boards die; the 98% uptime in the calculation is an optimistic figure for home conditions.
·Noise, heat and space. A 3000 W ASIC is a three-kilowatt hair dryer running around the clock: it needs ventilation, wiring and a place where its noise bothers nobody.
·Fees beyond the pool. Withdrawing from the pool, transferring to an exchange and selling — every step takes its cut; none of them are in the calculation.
·Taxes and legality. Mining and selling coins are taxed differently across countries, and somewhere they are banned outright.

Frequent questions

Why does your income differ from other calculators?: We take the coin price from our own feed — 14 exchanges we listen to directly, not from a middleman service. Network parameters (difficulty, reward, block time) are open WhatToMine data refreshed every ten minutes. On top of that our defaults include a 1% pool fee and 98% uptime, which most calculators omit: they show income nobody actually receives.
ASIC or GPU?: By income here and now, almost always the ASIC. By risk, the GPU: it knows several algorithms, survives the death of one coin and resells to ordinary people, not only to miners. An ASIC is a bet on one specific network for years ahead.
Can I mine on a laptop or a normal PC?: Technically yes, economically almost never: the income will be cents a day while the wear and the power bill are real. The one sensible case is Monero on a strong CPU, and even then only with cheap electricity.
Why is the coin I mine not on the list?: We only calculate coins present in our screener: those have a live price from exchanges we listen to. If a coin trades only on venues we do not cover, we have no honest price for the calculation — and we will not count income at someone else's price.
What is break-even per kWh?: The electricity price at which revenue exactly equals the power bill. Below it you are in profit, above it in loss. It is the most stable number in the table: it does not depend on your tariff and moves only with network difficulty and the coin price.