Is crypto mining profitable?
How to work out whether mining pays for you: hashrate, electricity price, network difficulty and coin price, with the calculator to check it.
The simple equation
Profit is what you earn minus what you spend. Earnings come from your hashrate's share of the block rewards, minus the pool fee and your miner-software fee. Costs are mostly electricity, plus the up-front price of the hardware. If earnings beat your power bill, you are mining at a profit.
Electricity is the deciding factor
For most miners, the power price is what makes or breaks profitability. The calculator can show your break-even electricity price: 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.
The numbers move
Mining income is never fixed. It moves with the coin's price, with network difficulty, and with the pool's luck. A margin that looks healthy today can turn thin or negative if difficulty climbs or the price falls, so treat any estimate as a snapshot, not a promise.
How to check before you commit
Open the mining calculator, enter your real GPUs and your actual power price, and read the estimated earnings against your costs. Do it with conservative assumptions rather than best-case ones. Merged mining helps here too: on this pool the same shares earn Pearl and modelOS together, so both count toward the total.