Put both profiles on the same footing
Profile A is your baseline. Profile B is the setup you want to compare. For each, enter hashrate in TH/s, wall power in watts and the applicable developer fee. Use hashrate and power from the same operating state and a comparable observation window. Label an estimate as an estimate. An example in this calculator is an arithmetic scenario, not a performance claim for a particular Antminer.
Enter revenue, electricity and other daily costs in US dollars (USD). The model runs both profiles for 24 hours per day. The fleet count represents identical devices using the selected profile, and the period assumes unchanged inputs. A mixed fleet needs separate comparisons for each hardware group.
Start with revenue before the developer fee
Enter gross revenue per TH/s per day before the developer fee. We multiply that value by each profile's hashrate, then apply its fee once. A quoted revenue of 0.05 per TH/s/day and a hashrate of 200 TH/s mean USD 10 of gross daily revenue before fees and costs. These numbers illustrate the formula only.
Do not paste an already fee-adjusted payout into this field and then deduct the same fee again. Check how your source handles pool fees, rejected shares and the revenue period. For a useful comparison, both profiles must use the same revenue basis. This calculator does not fetch a live hashprice, coin price or difficulty forecast.
Every result comes from visible arithmetic
Daily gross revenue = hashrate in TH/s × gross revenue per TH/s/day
Daily revenue after developer fee = daily gross revenue × (1 - developer fee / 100)
Daily electricity use in kWh = wall power in W / 1000 × 24
Daily electricity cost = daily electricity use × tariff per kWh
Daily operating result = revenue after developer fee - electricity cost - other daily cost per miner
Fleet result for the period = daily operating result × miner count × days
Every comparison is Profile B minus Profile A. A positive difference favours B on the entered assumptions. A negative difference favours A. The 30-day comparison is a separate fixed 30-day scenario; changing the selected period changes the period result, not that reference.
Find the electricity price that changes the decision
A higher-hashrate profile can lead at a low tariff and lose at a higher one. We calculate the crossover tariff by dividing the difference in daily revenue after developer fee by the difference in daily electricity use. At that tariff the two operating results are equal. The result also states which profile leads above or below it.
If both profiles use the same power, there is no single crossover tariff: the higher revenue profile keeps its advantage, or both profiles stay equal. Some comparisons have no crossover at a non-negative tariff. That means one profile stays ahead throughout the tariff range supported here. A crossover compares the two profiles; it is not the electricity price at which either miner individually becomes profitable.
Separate operating margin from a payback promise
The result includes the developer fee, entered electricity cost and the other daily cost you supply. The same other daily cost is applied to both profiles, so it changes their absolute results but cancels out of the difference. Cooling, rent, pool fees, repairs, downtime and taxes are included only to the extent that your inputs account for them.
Hardware purchase price and financing are not included. Neither is a future change in hashprice or difficulty. The output is therefore an operating scenario, not a hardware payback date. When one profile has different additional costs or downtime, account for that separately before choosing it. Two negative results can still produce a positive difference: B may lose less than A without making money.
Turn the comparison into a useful next step
For a promising scenario, choose the exact Antminer model and control board in our firmware catalogue, then follow its installation route. Keep the two profiles and the measurement window so you can compare the actual result with your starting calculation. For a fleet, begin with one suitable device before extending the decision to comparable hardware.
If you want our help, prepare the model, control board, device count, tariff, two profiles and the issue you want to solve. We can work from a clear question and visible inputs. Leave passwords, wallet secrets and private access details out of the calculation and your first message.
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Our Energy Cost and J/TH Calculator handles a single profile: power, hashrate, operating hours and tariff. Use it when you need to understand efficiency or calculate an electricity bill. This VNISH profitability calculator adds a second profile, a shared revenue basis, developer fees, fleet size and the decision threshold between the two profiles.
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