Monero XMR

At 5¢/kWh the most profitable Monero miner today, the Bitmain Antminer X9 (1M), earns about $43.83 a day and burns $2.97 of electricity, leaving about $40.86 a day. 2 of 2 RandomX miners we track are profitable at that price. Set your own power price above and the whole page recalculates.

Ranked by profit per day at 5¢/kWh: Bitmain Antminer X9 (1M) ($40.86/day, 1 MH/s at 2,472 W), Bitmain Antminer X5 ($7.67/day, 212 kH/s at 1,350 W). The most efficient machine we track is the Bitmain Antminer X9 (1M) at 2472.0 J/MH; cheap power favours raw hashrate, expensive power favours efficiency, so the order changes with your price.

At today's price and difficulty the Bitmain Antminer X9 (1M) breaks even at about 74¢ per kWh: above that it costs more to run than it earns. Pool fees (usually 1-4%), cooling and any hosting margin come on top, so plan with a buffer. Of the 2 machines we track, 2 are in profit at 3¢/kWh, 2 at 6¢ and 2 at 10¢, which is why miners chase cheap power.

The fastest payback at 5¢/kWh is the Bitmain Antminer X9 (1M): about $5,449 for the machine, $40.86 profit a day, so roughly 4 months if price and difficulty stayed where they are today. In practice difficulty usually rises as new machines ship, so real payback is longer; a falling coin price stretches it further, a rally shortens it.

The Bitmain Antminer X9 (1M), at 1 MH/s, mines about 0.078 XMR a day today, worth $43.83. That is 0.017% of the network's 5.76 GH/s. The whole network mints about 434.9 XMR a day ($245,196), and every miner earns its share of hashrate.

On its own, one Bitmain Antminer X9 (1M) would find a Monero block about once every 8 days on average, and luck can stretch that a long way. With blocks this frequent, even a single machine gets regular rewards; pools still smooth the payouts. FPPS and PPS+ pools pay a fixed amount per share (fees often 2-4%), PPLNS pools pay out only when the pool finds a block (often 0-2%, but lumpier).

Right now each block pays about 0.609 XMR including fees, with a block every 2 minutes on average, about 434.9 XMR a day. About 18.45 million XMR exist today and there is no hard cap. Since May 2022 Monero pays a permanent tail emission of 0.6 XMR per block (about every 2 minutes), around 432 XMR a day, so miners never run out of block rewards; fees add a little.

RandomX (Monero since November 2019) runs random programs in a virtual machine and keeps a dataset of about 2 GB in memory per mining instance. That favours general-purpose CPUs with large caches and many cores; AMD Ryzen and EPYC chips are popular. RandomX machines appeared in 2025, but CPUs are still a big part of the network. Tari (XTM) can be merge-mined alongside Monero. We track 2 RandomX machines; judge them by J/MH (efficiency) against your power price, then by price per MH, cooling type and the warranty and repair options where you will run them.

One megawatt of power runs about 404 Bitmain Antminer X9 (1M) units. At 5¢/kWh that is roughly $501,870 a month in profit before pool fees, cooling overhead and staff, for about $2.20M of machines. That fleet would add about 7% to the network's hashrate, so once difficulty catches up every machine earns roughly that much less. Site profit is very sensitive to the power price: every 1¢/kWh costs about $7,296 a month at one megawatt. CryptoSites.io lists powered land, container farms and hosting with the power price on every listing.

Pick a machine for your power price (see the table above), then sort out power and cooling: most ASICs need 200-277 V at 10-30 A each, hydro models usually 380-415 V three-phase and a cooling loop, and air-cooled units are too loud for a home. Set up a Monero wallet, point the machine at a pool, and watch temperatures in the first days. If you don't have cheap power and space, hosting is the usual route: a host runs the machine for an all-in price per kWh. CryptoSites.io lists both powered sites and hosting.