Bitcoin mining profitability calculator
Live math from real network data — enter your miner’s hashrate and power, or pick a model, and every figure recomputes as you type. Nothing is submitted.
Questions
Is Bitcoin mining still profitable in 2026?
It depends entirely on your electricity price and hardware efficiency. A Bitaxe Gamma 601 (1.2 TH/s, 16 W) currently profits −$0.009/day at $0.12/kWh, before accounting for hardware cost. Below its break-even rate of $0.0975/kWh, it's profitable; above it, you're paying to mine. Enter your own numbers above for your exact answer.
How much electricity does a Bitcoin miner use?
Power draw is specific to each device, typically 10–20 W for a small home/solo unit up to 3,000–3,500 W for an industrial ASIC like an Antminer S21. Multiply watts by 24 and divide by 1,000 for daily kWh, then by your utility's per-kWh rate for daily electricity cost — this calculator does that automatically from the wattage you enter or the miner you pick.
What electricity price makes Bitcoin mining break even?
Break-even electricity price is the rate at which a miner's daily revenue exactly equals its daily electricity cost — above it, mining loses money; below it, it profits. It depends on the miner's efficiency and current network difficulty and BTC price, so it changes as those do. This calculator shows the exact current break-even rate for any miner or custom hashrate/power combination.
How do I project Bitcoin mining profit over multiple years?
Switch to Advanced mode above — it runs a month-by-month projection with your own assumptions for BTC price growth, difficulty growth, hardware/infrastructure depreciation, and a HODL ratio, plus NPV at a discount rate you set. Every figure comes from those assumptions, not a guess baked into the tool; change any of them and the whole projection recomputes. Periods past 3 years are explicitly flagged as scenarios, not forecasts.
Does Bitcoin difficulty growth actually affect my mining profit that much?
Yes, and it compounds. Running the same Bitaxe Gamma 601 through a 12-month projection: at 0% assumed annual difficulty growth it mines 0.00021698 BTC over the year; at 40%/yr — a historically ordinary rate, not a pessimistic one — that drops to 0.00018168 BTC for the identical hashrate. Most profitability calculators quietly assume flat difficulty; this one makes you set that assumption explicitly in Advanced mode, which is exactly why it's usually the number that makes naive projections wrong.