Mining Pool Fee Calculator

Work out what your mining pool’s fee costs you: what the pool keeps, what reaches your wallet, how often you are paid, and what a cheaper pool would save.

What you mine
Your pool

Optional: another pool’s fee.

Optional.

Optional; many pools charge none.

Your pool fee

Enter what your machines earn a day, the coin price and your pool’s fee, then choose Calculate. Your figures appear here.

Fee a Day

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Kept by the pool

You Receive a Day

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After the pool fee

Payouts

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Enter the minimum payout

Effective Fee

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With payout fees counted

Against Another Pool

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Enter its fee to compare

Pool Fee a Year

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What the fee costs you in a year

At today’s earnings and price; pools also differ in how they pay, and an FPPS pool shares transaction fees that a PPS pool keeps. Payout fees are counted at the rate entered. To see the profit after electricity and tax, use the Crypto Mining Profit Calculator.

How it is calculated

A pool takes its fee as a share of what your hashrate earns, then pays out the rest once your balance reaches its minimum. Payout fees, where a pool charges them, come off each payout.

  • Fee a day = coins earned a day before the fee × pool fee
  • You receive a day = coins earned × (1 − pool fee)
  • Days to a payout = minimum payout ÷ coins received a day
  • Payout fees a month = payouts a month × fee per payout
  • Effective fee = (pool fee in coins + payout fees) ÷ coins earned before the fee
  • Saving = (your pool’s fee − the other pool’s fee) × coins earned × coin price, over a year

Frequently asked questions

Short answers on mining pool fees and how pools pay.

What your pool’s fee costs and what reaches your wallet. Take machines earning 0.00009 BTC a day before the fee, Bitcoin at ₹90,00,000 and a 2.5% pool fee. The pool keeps 0.00000225 BTC a day, ₹20.25, or ₹7,391.25 a year, and you receive 0.00008775 BTC a day, worth ₹789.75. With a 0.001 BTC minimum payout you are paid about every 11 days, and a pool charging 1.5% instead would save you ₹2,956.50 a year.

They are ways a pool pays you. PPS (pay per share) pays a fixed amount for each share of work you send, from the block reward, whether or not the pool finds a block, so your income is steady. FPPS (full pay per share) does the same but also shares out the transaction fees in blocks, so it pays a little more for the same hashrate. PPLNS (pay per last N shares) pays only when the pool finds a block, by your share of the recent work, so it swings with the pool’s luck but often charges a lower fee.

Large pools usually charge around 1% to 4%. Pay-per-share schemes tend to charge more, because the pool carries the risk of bad luck, while PPLNS pools often charge less. A difference of 1% looks small but it comes off every coin you mine for the life of the machine. Compare what each pool pays for your hashrate, not only its fee: an FPPS pool with a higher fee can still pay more if it shares the transaction fees.

A pool holds your earnings until they reach its minimum payout, then sends them to your wallet. A higher minimum means fewer, larger payouts; a lower one gets coins to you sooner. Some pools charge a fee on each payout, or pass on the network fee for sending it, which adds to the cost: enter it to see your effective fee. Coins left with a pool are not yet in your control, so a payout every few days or weeks is usual.

The calculators here treat the coins you receive, after the pool’s fee, as what you mined. India taxes the full value of mined coins at 30% plus cess when you sell, with no deduction for costs, so a lower pool fee means more coins to sell and more tax on them, but still more money left. The Crypto Mining Profit Calculator works out the profit after electricity and tax.

Your pool’s dashboard shows the earnings, usually after its fee: divide by (1 − the fee) to get the figure before it. Or work it out from your hashrate with the Mining Hashrate Calculator, which shows the coins your share of the network mines before any fee.

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