Mining Break-Even Calculator

Find every point where a mining machine stops paying: the coin price, the electricity rate, the power it can draw and the network growth it can take, after India’s 30% tax.

What it mines

After the pool fee.

Power
Paying back the machine (optional)

Shows the price you would need.

Your break-even points

Enter what the machine mines a day, the coin price, its power and your electricity rate, then choose Calculate. Your figures appear here.

Profit a Day

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After tax and electricity

Break-Even Electricity

₹0.00

The highest rate per kWh it can stand

Most Power It Can Draw

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At this rate, before it loses money

Network Growth It Can Take

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Before your share stops paying

Hardware Payback

Not set

Enter what the machine cost

Break-Even Coin Price

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Below this, mining loses money

Each break-even point changes one figure and keeps the others as entered. Tax is charged on the full value of the coins mined, with no deduction for electricity or hardware. To see how the break-even moves as the network grows over a machine’s life, use the Mining Hardware ROI Calculator.

How it is calculated

Mining breaks even when what is left of the coins’ value after tax just covers the electricity. Every break-even point comes from that one balance: solve it for the price, the rate, the power or the coins mined.

  • Revenue a day = coins mined a day × coin price
  • Electricity a day = power in watts × 24 ÷ 1,000 × rate per kWh
  • Profit a day = revenue × (1 − tax rate) − electricity
  • Break-even price = electricity ÷ (coins a day × (1 − tax rate))
  • Break-even rate = revenue × (1 − tax rate) ÷ kWh a day
  • Most power it can draw = revenue × (1 − tax rate) ÷ (24 ÷ 1,000 × rate)
  • Network growth it can take = revenue × (1 − tax rate) ÷ electricity − 1
  • Price for a payback target = (hardware ÷ days in the target + electricity) ÷ (coins a day × (1 − tax rate))

Frequently asked questions

Short answers on when mining stops paying.

Every point at which a mining machine stops paying. Take a Bitcoin machine mining 0.0000882 BTC a day on 3,500 W, with electricity at ₹5 per kWh and Bitcoin at ₹90,00,000. After 31.2% tax it makes ₹126.13 a day. It breaks even at a Bitcoin price of ₹69,21,373, so the price can fall 23.1% before it loses money. It can stand electricity up to ₹6.50 per kWh, or a network 30.03% bigger than today’s.

India taxes the full value of mined coins when they are sold, at 30% plus cess, with no deduction for electricity or the machine. So tax takes almost a third of the revenue before electricity is paid. In the example the machine breaks even at ₹47,61,905 a Bitcoin before tax but ₹69,21,373 after it, and at ₹9.45 per kWh before tax but only ₹6.50 after.

As more machines join a coin’s network, each one mines fewer coins. This is how much bigger the network can get, at today’s price and electricity rate, before the machine stops paying. Networks often grow by a few per cent a month, so a small figure here means a short life; the Mining Hardware ROI Calculator projects it month by month.

Enter the hardware cost and a payback target in months. The calculator finds the coin price at which the profit after tax covers the machine in that time, if everything else stays the same. In the example, a ₹4,00,000 machine at today’s price takes about 8 years 8 months; to pay back in 24 months Bitcoin would need to reach ₹1,59,51,214.

Your pool’s dashboard shows it, or the Crypto Mining Profit Calculator works it out from your hashrate for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, Monero and other coins. For the electricity rate, the Mining Electricity Cost Calculator adds duty and fixed charges to give the rate you really pay.

No. A trading break-even is the price at which a coin you bought sells for what you paid, after fees; the Crypto Break-Even Calculator works that out. Mining break-even is about running costs: the price, rate or output at which a machine’s coins just cover its electricity after tax.

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