Mining Electricity Cost per Coin Calculator

Work out what the electricity to mine one coin costs, from your machine and the network: the units, the time, the price that covers it after tax, and your margin.

Your machine

SHA-256 mining. Fills in the block reward, block time and units.

The network

From a block explorer or your pool.

3.125 until the 2028 halving.

Optional.

Against the price (optional)

Your cost per coin

Choose a coin, enter your machine, your electricity rate and the network hashrate, then choose Calculate. Your figures appear here.

Energy per Coin

0 kWh

Units of electricity for one coin

Time to Mine One Coin

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For one machine

Efficiency

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Joules per hash unit

Break-Even Price

₹0.00

To cover the power after tax

Margin a Coin

Not set

Enter the coin price

Electricity Cost per Coin

₹0.00

What the power for one coin costs

Electricity only, at today’s network hashrate and reward: as the network grows, each coin costs more. Tax is charged on the full value of the coins mined, with no deduction for electricity. The block rewards filled in are those of November 2026. To add the machine’s cost, use the Mining Hardware ROI Calculator.

How it is calculated

A coin’s electricity cost is the power a machine burns in the time it takes to mine one coin. That time comes from the machine’s share of the network, the coins paid out a day and the pool fee.

  • Coins a day = hashrate ÷ network hashrate × 86,400 ÷ block time × block reward × (1 − pool fee)
  • Energy a day = power in watts × 24 ÷ 1,000, in kWh
  • Energy per coin = energy a day ÷ coins a day
  • Cost per coin = energy per coin × rate per kWh
  • Time per coin = 1 ÷ coins a day, for one machine
  • Break-even price after tax = cost per coin ÷ (1 − tax rate), because tax is charged on the coin’s full value
  • Margin = coin price × (1 − tax rate) − cost per coin

Frequently asked questions

Short answers on what it costs to mine one coin.

The electricity it takes to mine one coin. Take a 200 TH/s Bitcoin machine using 3,500 W, electricity at ₹5 per kWh, a 2% pool fee and a network of 1,000 EH/s. It mines 0.0000882 BTC a day, so one Bitcoin takes 9,52,381 kWh and costs ₹47,61,905 in electricity, and one machine would need about 31 years to mine it. After India’s 31.2% tax the coin must sell for at least ₹69,21,373 to cover that power; at ₹90,00,000 it leaves ₹14,30,095 a coin.

Two machines mine twice the coins with twice the electricity, so the cost of each coin stays the same. What changes it is the machine’s efficiency, the electricity rate and the network: a bigger network means each machine mines fewer coins for the same power, so every coin costs more.

If the electricity per coin is below the price, mining covers its power; if it is above, every coin mined loses money, and buying the coin would be cheaper. Tax narrows the gap: India taxes the full value of mined coins when sold, with no deduction for electricity, so the price must be well above the cost. The Mining Break-Even Calculator shows every break-even point from what you mine a day.

One well below the price, with room for the network to grow. Miners often compare their cost per Bitcoin with the price to judge how long a machine will last: as the network grows each machine mines less, and the cost per coin rises month by month. The table shows how much a cheaper electricity rate saves on every coin.

This page counts only electricity, the cost that grows with every coin. The machine is paid for once and spread over everything it mines: the Mining Hardware ROI Calculator adds it, with the network growth and resale, to see whether the machine pays for itself.

The machine’s hashrate and power are on its specification sheet, the rate is on your electricity bill (the Mining Electricity Cost Calculator adds duty and fixed charges), and the network hashrate is on a block explorer or your pool’s site. Choosing a coin fills in its reward and block time.

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