How AsicProfit calculates profit and ranks miners
AsicProfit estimates each miner's daily profit from live network data (difficulty, block reward and coin price, refreshed every 15 minutes) minus the electricity it uses, and ranks miners by that profit. Payback and the best price come from real offers by sellers listed on the site, checked against each seller's own product page. Featured sellers pay to be shown first and are always labelled, but paying never changes a price, the best price or the order of the miner rankings.
Updated on · profits last recalculated 2026-11-04 19:00 UTC
What data goes into the numbers?
Every figure on AsicProfit is built from the inputs below. When a source fails, the coin keeps its last numbers; after two hours without an update it stops counting as live, and figures built on it carry an "Estimate" tag with the date of the data.
| Input | Source | How often |
|---|---|---|
| Network hashrate, difficulty, block time and block reward | WhatToMine's ASIC and GPU coin lists; for coins they don't carry, the coin's own block explorer (for example dcrdata for Decred, SiaScan for Siacoin). mempool.space and litecoinspace.org back up Bitcoin and Litecoin. | Every 15 minutes |
| Coin prices (USD) | WhatToMine, CoinGecko and Kraken for the main coins; for small coins, exchange tickers such as MEXC, NonKYC, XT and CoinPaprika (the first with a figure is used). | Every 15 minutes |
| Miner hashrate and power | The manufacturer's specification for each model and, for multi-algorithm devices, for each algorithm. | When a model is added or corrected |
| Electricity price | The cheapest open hosting rate listed on AsicProfit, used only when it is between $0.01 and $0.30 per kWh (now $0.036/kWh). You can set your own price; it is kept in your browser. | Re-read every 5 minutes |
| Miner prices and stock | Offers from sellers listed on AsicProfit (4,949 offers from 77 sellers today), checked against each seller's product page. | Each offer at least once a day |
| Currency rates | European Central Bank reference rates (through Frankfurter), for local currencies and for offers priced in euros or other currencies. | Every 6 hours |
How is daily profit calculated?
For a miner with hashrate H on a coin:
- Coins per day = H ÷ network hashrate × (86,400 ÷ block time in seconds) × block reward
- Revenue per day (USD) = coins per day × coin price
- Electricity per day (USD) = power in W × 24 ÷ 1,000 × price per kWh
- Profit per day = revenue per day − electricity per day
- Efficiency (J/TH) = power in W ÷ hashrate in TH/s
Hashrate is in the algorithm's own unit (TH/s for SHA-256, GH/s for Scrypt and so on); power is the wall power in watts; electricity is in USD per kWh. The block reward is the one the source reports, which for some coins includes average transaction fees.
Example today: 1 TH/s on Bitcoin earns about $0.0342 a day. A 200 TH/s, 3,500 W miner (17.5 J/TH) earns about $6.85 a day, uses 84 kWh costing $3.06 at $0.036/kWh, and keeps about $3.79 a day.
Pool fees are not taken off the ranking and miner-page figures. The coin calculators and the profit tools have a pool fee field (1% to start with) and also let you set uptime, difficulty growth and halvings.
Which coin is a miner rated on?
A miner is rated on the main coin of its algorithm, the way the industry quotes it: Bitcoin for SHA-256, Litecoin plus Dogecoin (merged mining, where the pool pays both) for Scrypt, Zcash for Equihash, Kaspa for kHeavyHash, Dash for X11, Monero for RandomX and Ethereum Classic for Etchash. Other algorithms are rated on the coin that pays most per hash. A small side chain may pay a little more per hash for a while, but it could not absorb a large miner's hashrate, so it is not used for the big algorithms.
A device that can mine several algorithms (every GPU and CPU, and some ASICs) is rated on the algorithm that leaves the most after electricity, with that algorithm's own hashrate and power. Live data always wins over frozen numbers.
How are miners ranked?
Miner lists are sorted by profit per day at the default electricity price, highest first. When you enter your own electricity price, the profit and payback figures are recalculated in your browser. The best ASIC miners list only includes models with at least one offer you can buy (in stock or on pre-order) and live coin data.
Featured plans have no effect on the miner rankings. No seller can pay to move a miner up.
How is payback worked out?
Payback (ROI) in days = the miner's best price ÷ its profit per day, rounded up. The price is the lowest price among the offers on AsicProfit that are in stock or on pre-order, not the manufacturer's list price. If the miner's electricity costs more than it earns, there is no payback and the site says so.
Payback assumes today's difficulty, coin price and electricity price stay the same, and leaves out shipping, import duty, tax, hosting fees and pool fees. Treat it as a comparison between miners, not a forecast.
How is the best price chosen?
The best price is the lowest USD price of any public offer for that model that is in stock or on pre-order. Out-of-stock offers, hidden or blocked offers, offers on hold and offers from companies that are not public never count. Offers in other currencies are converted at the ECB rate. It is always the cheapest offer, whoever sells it, Featured or not.
How are offers and sellers checked?
- Real product pages. An offer must link to the seller's product page. Links that put the product in a cart or checkout are refused or rewritten to the product page.
- Price check. A crawler reads each offer's page at least once a day (Shopify and WooCommerce shop data, or the page's schema.org Product data). The offer takes the seller's current price and stock automatically.
- Problems go to a person. A page that is gone, shows a different product, has no price ("price on request") or can't be read is flagged for our staff. An offer whose page is gone or shows another product on two checks in a row is put on hold until the page works again.
- Seller checks. Sellers get the Verified badge after we check the company: its registration, a contact person and a sanctions screening. Buyers can leave store reviews; staff approve each one before it is shown.
What is Featured, and does it change the ranking?
Featured is a paid plan for sellers, hosting providers and tools companies. Featured rows sit at the top of seller and hosting lists and always carry the ★ Featured label. Below them, everyone stays in price, rate or profit order.
Featured never changes a price, the best-price figure, a payback figure or the order of the miner rankings. Only verified companies can take it. Some links to company websites are affiliate links, where we may earn a commission on a sale; the company's page says so, and an affiliate link never changes prices or the order of a list. See pricing for what the plans include.
How does the scam list work?
The confirmed scammers list names a website only when there is proof that buyers lost money: they paid and nothing was delivered, or a cheaper or broken machine was shipped. A manufacturer calling a site "fake", a regulator's warning about an unlicensed firm or a trademark dispute is not enough on its own. Shops with warning signs but no proof of a buyer's loss (accused in the press or by a few buyers) are shown separately as "Suspicious shops", marked as not proven. Anyone named can dispute an entry through the contact form.
Who runs AsicProfit, and how is it paid for?
AsicProfit is run by the AsicProfit team. It is free for buyers. It is paid for by vendors' paid plans (Verified setup and Featured) and by affiliate commissions, never by changing prices or rankings. Questions or corrections: contact us.
What can the estimates get wrong?
- Difficulty and price move. Figures use today's network difficulty and coin price. Difficulty usually rises over time, so a miner's real earnings usually fall unless the coin price rises.
- Halvings. Rankings use the current block reward. When a coin's reward halves, revenue from it roughly halves overnight.
- Specs are the manufacturer's. Real hashrate and power vary by unit, firmware, temperature and power supply.
- Costs left out. Pool fees, downtime, shipping, import duty and tax, hosting fees, cooling, repairs and the machine's resale value are not in the ranking figures.
- Small coins. Prices of small coins come from thin markets; selling a lot may move the price.
- Prices between checks. A seller can change a price or sell out between our checks. The seller's page is the final word.
- Not advice. These are estimates to compare miners, not financial advice.