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How to Use the MinerPrices Calculator

Learn how to use the MinerPrices calculator to estimate mining revenue, electricity costs, pool fees and profit across multiple time periods.

MinerPricesMining research desk Sep 24, 2026 · 6 min read

How to Use the MinerPrices Calculator Page for Better Mining Estimates

ASIC mining profitability can look simple until you start changing the variables.

Hashrate determines how much computing power you contribute. Electricity determines a major part of your operating cost. Pool fees reduce the rewards you keep. Coin prices and network conditions can move after you make your calculation.

The MinerPrices Calculator page brings these variables together so miners can build a more useful estimate instead of relying on a single profitability number.

The calculator currently starts with a searchable list of cryptocurrencies. After selecting a coin, users can enter their own mining parameters and see estimated results across daily, weekly, monthly and yearly periods.

Here is how to use it properly.

🔎 Step 1: Start With the Cryptocurrency

Open the MinerPrices Calculators page.

Instead of beginning with a particular ASIC model, this section starts with the cryptocurrency you want to calculate. The page provides a Search cryptocurrency field followed by its supported coin list. Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, Kaspa, Siacoin, Zcash and many other networks are currently represented.

Choose the coin that matches the algorithm your hardware can mine.

This matters because ASICs are algorithm-specific. You should not take the hashrate from a SHA-256 Bitcoin miner and enter it into a calculator for a completely different mining algorithm.

Once you select a cryptocurrency, MinerPrices opens its dedicated calculator.

⚙️ Step 2: Enter Your Hashrate

Let’s use the Bitcoin calculator as an example.

The page identifies Bitcoin as SHA-256 and provides a field for entering your hashrate in TH/s.

Your hashrate should represent the performance you realistically expect from the machine.

If an ASIC is rated at 200 TH/s, for example, you could begin with:

Hashrate = 200 TH/s

Avoid entering an overclocked figure while leaving power consumption at the manufacturer’s standard specification. If hashrate increases because of tuning, electricity consumption may change as well.

The calculator is only as useful as the assumptions you give it.

💸 Step 3: Add Your Pool Fee

MinerPrices also includes a Fee (%) input.

Mining pools generally retain a percentage of mining rewards in exchange for coordinating miners and distributing payouts. MinerPrices uses the fee input when calculating estimated earnings and displays the resulting pool fee in its profitability breakdown.

For example, if your pool charges:

1.5%

enter 1.5, rather than assuming every coin mined becomes revenue you keep.

A seemingly small fee becomes more meaningful when projected across months or years.

⚡ Step 4: Enter Power Consumption

Next comes Power consumption (W).

Suppose your ASIC draws 3,500 W.

That means:

3,500 W ÷ 1,000 = 3.5 kW

Over 24 hours:

3.5 kW × 24 = 84 kWh/day

This is one of the most important numbers in the calculation because the ASIC can consume electricity continuously whenever it is operating.

Use realistic power consumption rather than hashrate alone. Two ASICs producing similar hashrate can have very different electricity requirements, which can produce very different net results.

🔌 Step 5: Use Your Actual Electricity Price

The calculator provides an Electricity price (USD) field.

This is where mining calculations become specific to your situation.

Consider our 3,500 W example, which consumes 84 kWh per day.

At $0.04/kWh:

84 × $0.04 = $3.36/day

At $0.06/kWh:

84 × $0.06 = $5.04/day

At $0.08/kWh:

84 × $0.08 = $6.72/day

At $0.10/kWh:

84 × $0.10 = $8.40/day

Nothing about the ASIC changed. Only electricity did.

MinerPrices’s own calculator guidance recommends using your actual power price rather than a global average or an unusually favorable rate you do not really have.

For hosted mining, use the applicable electricity or hosting power rate. For home mining, consider whether your real effective rate includes taxes, distribution charges or other relevant electricity costs.

📊 Step 6: Read More Than the Daily Profit Number

Once your inputs are entered, don’t stop at the largest profit figure on the screen.

MinerPrices’s coin calculator provides several outputs, including profit per day, week, month and year, along with estimated mined coins, pool fees and electricity costs for those periods. It also provides advanced information such as estimated daily coins and earnings.

That separation is useful because revenue is not the same as profit.

A simplified calculation looks like this:

Mining revenue − electricity − applicable fees = mining profit

Suppose an ASIC produces $12 in gross mining revenue per day while electricity costs $6.72.

Before considering other operating expenses:

$12 − $6.72 = $5.28/day

Looking only at the $12 figure would significantly overstate what the machine is actually producing after electricity.

🧮 Step 7: Compare Multiple Electricity Scenarios

One of the most useful ways to use a mining calculator is to change one assumption at a time.

Suppose you’re evaluating the same 3,500 W machine.

Run the calculator at each rate.

You will quickly see where the machine has a comfortable operating margin and where electricity begins consuming most of its mining revenue.

MinerPrices has previously recommended this type of scenario testing because small changes in electricity can materially alter mining economics.

📉 Step 8: Treat the Result as a Snapshot

This may be the most important part of using the MinerPrices Calculator correctly.

A calculator output is an estimate, not a guaranteed return.

MinerPrices’s own guidance notes that mining conditions can change and that calculator results should be treated as projections rather than promises. Network difficulty, cryptocurrency prices, fees, performance and downtime can all affect the eventual result.

If the calculator shows $8/day today, don’t automatically multiply $8 by 365 and assume you will receive exactly $2,920 over the next year.

Instead, treat today’s result as your baseline.

Then ask what happens if conditions become less favorable.

🔄 Step 9: Stress-Test Before Buying an ASIC

A stronger approach is to run several scenarios before committing capital.

Start with your expected electricity rate and manufacturer-rated hardware specifications. Then run a more conservative scenario with higher electricity costs or lower expected revenue.

You can also compare different ASICs through MinerPrices’s miner database before returning to the calculator with the machines you are seriously considering.

The objective isn’t to find the scenario with the biggest number.

It is to understand how sensitive your potential investment is to changing conditions.

A miner that only looks attractive under perfect assumptions deserves more scrutiny than one that retains a reasonable margin across several scenarios.

🚫 Common MinerPrices Calculator Mistakes

Several errors can make otherwise useful calculations misleading:

Entering an electricity price lower than what you actually pay.
Using overclocked hashrate with stock power consumption.
Ignoring pool fees.
Looking at gross mining revenue instead of net profit.
Assuming 100% uptime indefinitely.
Treating today’s coin price and network conditions as permanent.
Comparing hashrate across unrelated mining algorithms.
Using a single scenario to make a long-term hardware decision.

MinerPrices’s published calculator guidance similarly emphasizes realistic electricity, hashrate, power and fee assumptions.

🎯 Conclusion

The MinerPrices Calculator is most useful when you treat it as a modeling tool rather than a prediction machine.

Start by choosing the correct cryptocurrency. Enter realistic hashrate and power consumption. Add your actual pool fee and electricity price. Then examine mined coins, electricity costs and estimated profit across several timeframes.

Most importantly, change the assumptions.

Try cheaper and more expensive electricity. Compare different ASICs. Recalculate when coin prices or network conditions move.

That turns a calculator from a simple daily-profit display into something much more useful: a way to understand why an ASIC is profitable, how much margin it has, and which variables could change the result.

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