The ASIC miners earning the most today Live daily mining profit for every machine we sell — ranked.

ASIC mining profit equals daily revenue minus daily electricity cost. Revenue is the miner’s hashrate multiplied by the current payout of its algorithm, converted to your currency at the live exchange rate. Cost is the miner’s wattage times 24 hours, divided by 1,000 to get kWh, times your electricity rate in $/kWh — which you set yourself via the adjust controls above the table. The result is gross of pool fees and hardware depreciation.

Use your actual rate from your latest electricity bill — the field above the table is fully adjustable. US home users typically pay $0.13–$0.22/kWh, EU home users $0.20–$0.40/kWh, and industrial hosting facilities $0.04–$0.08/kWh. Below $0.10/kWh most modern ASICs run profitably; above $0.15/kWh only top-efficiency miners (sub-15 J/TH) stay green. The $0.070/kWh shown by default approximates a low-cost hosting environment.

The most profitable ASIC rotates daily with network difficulty and coin prices — sort the table above by Profit / day to see the current live leader at your electricity rate. As of 2026, top-tier SHA-256 miners like the Antminer S21 XP Hydro (473 TH/s, 14.5 J/TH) and S21 Pro Hydro consistently rank first at low electricity rates, followed by high-efficiency Kaspa miners (IceRiver KS5L, Antminer KS5 Pro) and Litecoin ASICs (Antminer L9).

Three reasons. Electricity rate — we default to $0.070/kWh but you can set any value, while other tools often assume $0.10/kWh or your pool-bid rate. Revenue snapshot — we pull live mining-pool feeds; some sites average the last 24 hours, which lags during volatile markets. Pool-fee assumptions — most calculators, ours included, show figures gross of pool fees. Set your real rate above and the numbers match your situation.

No — the Profit / day column is gross of pool fees. Typical 2026 pool fees: Antpool 1%, ViaBTC 2%, F2Pool 2.5%, Foundry USA 0%, Luxor 0.7%. Subtract the relevant percentage from Income / day for a net-of-pool figure. Solo mining has no pool fee but produces far higher payout variance — at home scale (1–5 ASICs) it is impractical for Bitcoin.

Algorithm revenue and coin prices refresh every few minutes from public mining-pool APIs and exchange feeds. The table recalculates on every page load and whenever you change the electricity rate, currency, sort order or filter. There is no 24-hour smoothing in the math — the daily profit shown uses live network difficulty and live price data.

Treat them as a today-snapshot, not a 12-month forecast. Daily profit at current network difficulty and coin price is reliable; projecting it across months requires assumptions about price trajectory, difficulty growth (historically 4–6% per two-week epoch) and your uptime. For a full ROI model on a specific miner, open its product page for payback period and break-even rate at your set $/kWh.

For top-tier 2025–2026 SHA-256 ASICs, break-even typically sits between $0.13 and $0.18/kWh at current price ranges and post-halving difficulty. At $0.10/kWh you are solidly profitable on any modern hydro miner; at $0.18/kWh only sub-15 J/TH miners stay green; above $0.22/kWh almost no Bitcoin ASIC turns a profit. Set your real rate above the table to see your exact break-even point.

Payback depends on your electricity rate, purchase price and market conditions. As a 2026 baseline: at $0.05/kWh, premium SHA-256 miners pay back in 10–14 months; at $0.10/kWh, 16–22 months; at $0.15/kWh, 30+ months — by which point a more efficient generation may already exist. Kaspa and altcoin ASICs sometimes pay back faster (6–10 months) during a coin pump, but carry higher difficulty-spike risk.

Yes, if your rate is below roughly $0.10/kWh and you accept lower margins than industrial operations. At typical US home rates of $0.13–$0.18/kWh, only the newest hydro-cooled ASICs generate positive daily profit at current difficulty. Above $0.20/kWh, home Bitcoin mining is structurally unprofitable in 2026 — consider altcoin ASICs, heat-reuse setups, or hosting at industrial rates instead.

Hashrate is the total computing power a miner produces — TH/s for Bitcoin, GH/s for Kaspa and Litecoin. Efficiency is how much electricity it consumes per unit of hashrate, measured in J/TH for SHA-256. A miner with high hashrate but poor efficiency wastes electricity and ranks lower once power cost is deducted. In 2026, under 18 J/TH is efficient; sub-14 J/TH is top-tier.

Three drivers move daily profit. Coin price scales revenue directly — a 5% move shifts profit by roughly 5%. Network hashrate changes each miner’s share of the block reward; if global hashrate jumps 3% overnight, your revenue drops 3%. Transaction fees vary, occasionally adding 5–15% to the block reward during high-activity periods. Combined daily swings of 10–15% are normal for SHA-256.

There is no permanent answer — the most-profitable algorithm rotates. As of 2026, Kaspa (KHeavyHash) and Bitcoin (SHA-256) usually trade the top spot, with Litecoin/Dogecoin (Scrypt) and Zcash (Equihash) close behind. Use the algorithm filter above to compare miners at your real rate. SHA-256 has the deepest liquidity and most predictable economics; altcoin ASICs can outperform Bitcoin by 30–80% during a coin’s pump phase.

A halving cuts the block subsidy in half, instantly halving the revenue side of the SHA-256 profit equation. The April 2024 halving dropped rewards from 6.25 to 3.125 BTC per block. Historically, BTC price has risen enough within 6–18 months to compensate, but the immediate post-halving period always squeezes inefficient miners offline. The next halving is expected around April 2028, dropping the subsidy to 1.5625 BTC.

For Bitcoin: the Antminer S21 XP Hydro leads at 14.5 J/TH (473 TH/s), followed by the S21 Pro Hydro (15 J/TH) and WhatsMiner M66S (16 J/TH). For Kaspa: the IceRiver KS5L and Antminer KS5 Pro lead at roughly 0.30 J/GH. For Litecoin/Dogecoin: the Antminer L9 at 16 GH/s is top-tier. Sort the table above by Efficiency to see the current live leader for any algorithm.

A typical 2026 Bitcoin ASIC draws 3,000–5,500 watts at the wall. At 3,500 W that is 84 kWh/day (3,500 × 24 ÷ 1,000); at 5,000 W, 120 kWh/day. At the $0.070/kWh default that is $5.88–$8.40 daily; at $0.15/kWh, $12.60–$18.00. Always size your circuit and breaker for at least 25% more than rated draw to handle inrush current and voltage variance.

For Bitcoin in 2026, solo mining needs roughly 100 PH/s (about 200 top-tier ASICs) just for a 50% chance of finding one block per year. Below that scale, pool mining gives dramatically lower variance for the same expected value over time. For low-difficulty altcoins, solo mining a single ASIC occasionally lands a lottery-style block, but variance stays extreme. Use a pool unless you specifically want that variance exposure.

Yes, meaningfully. Hydro variants of the same chip run 10–15% higher hashrate at lower temperatures, improving both efficiency and revenue. The Antminer S21 XP Hydro outputs 473 TH/s versus 270 TH/s for the air-cooled XP — roughly 75% more profit per unit at similar wattage. The trade-off is plumbing, a dry-cooler, dielectric fluid and higher upfront cost. Past 5–10 miners, the math usually favours hydro.

Each miner earns a smaller share of the same block reward, so daily revenue drops proportionally to the difficulty rise. Bitcoin difficulty rises roughly 4–6% per two-week epoch in healthy markets, compounding to 50–80% a year. If coin price stays flat, daily profit slowly erodes — the single biggest reason payback periods stretch the longer you wait to deploy, since every month of delay means buying into higher difficulty at the same price.

Frequently yes, especially during altcoin bull cycles. When KAS or LTC pumps, dedicated KHeavyHash or Scrypt ASICs can out-earn Bitcoin miners per watt for weeks at a time — sometimes by 30–80%. The downside: altcoin networks are smaller and more volatile, so difficulty can double in days if a major operator switches on, halving your profit overnight. Sort by Profit / day at your real rate to compare today.

Yes — that’s the point of this page. Our U.S. facilities run on industrial power, well below typical home tariffs, which is often the difference between a miner that loses money and one that prints. Whether you buy from us or already own the hardware, we can host it, monitor it and keep it running. Tell us which miner and whether you want it hosted in the form above, and we’ll send you the hosted numbers.