Break-even Calculator shows the minimum conditions for profitable mining: coin price, electricity rate, network difficulty and optional hardware payback time.
On PEPS Crypto the tool is built into the dashboard with automatically refreshed data — use filters, rankings and linked tools to validate every signal before acting.
What is this tool?
Break-even Calculator shows the minimum conditions for profitable mining: coin price, electricity rate, network difficulty and optional hardware payback time.
Select coin and hardware (or enter custom hashrate/power) — the same catalog used by the Mining Calculator.
Break-even price is the minimum coin price where revenue covers electricity and pool fees at current network difficulty.
How to read the results
Break-even price is the minimum coin price where revenue covers electricity and pool fees at current network difficulty.
Break-even electricity is the maximum $/kWh you can pay and still break even — compare it to your actual utility rate.
Max viable difficulty and min hashrate show how much harder the network can get (or how little hash you need) before mining turns unprofitable.
Enter hardware cost to estimate payback days when daily profit is positive; the sensitivity table shows profit across electricity rates.
Key signals and metrics
Break-even electricity is the maximum $/kWh you can pay and still break even — compare it to your actual utility rate.
Max viable difficulty and min hashrate show how much harder the network can get (or how little hash you need) before mining turns unprofitable.
Enter hardware cost to estimate payback days when daily profit is positive; the sensitivity table shows profit across electricity rates.
Advanced usage and combinations
Break-even assumes constant network difficulty and block reward — difficulty rises over time, shrinking real margins.
Coin price break-even ignores hardware depreciation, maintenance and pool luck.
A “tight margin” status flags setups within ~15% of break-even on price or electricity.
Using this tool on PEPS Crypto
Select coin and hardware (or enter custom hashrate/power) — the same catalog used by the Mining Calculator.
Break-even price is the minimum coin price where revenue covers electricity and pool fees at current network difficulty.
Break-even assumes constant network difficulty and block reward — difficulty rises over time, shrinking real margins.
Open the full guide from the link next to the tool for FAQs and best practices.
How it works
- Select coin and hardware (or enter custom hashrate/power) — the same catalog used by the Mining Calculator.
- Break-even price is the minimum coin price where revenue covers electricity and pool fees at current network difficulty.
- Break-even electricity is the maximum $/kWh you can pay and still break even — compare it to your actual utility rate.
- Max viable difficulty and min hashrate show how much harder the network can get (or how little hash you need) before mining turns unprofitable.
- Enter hardware cost to estimate payback days when daily profit is positive; the sensitivity table shows profit across electricity rates.
What to consider
- Break-even assumes constant network difficulty and block reward — difficulty rises over time, shrinking real margins.
- Coin price break-even ignores hardware depreciation, maintenance and pool luck.
- A “tight margin” status flags setups within ~15% of break-even on price or electricity.
- Use alongside Mining Calculator for full revenue/profit projections at your actual rates.
- Not financial advice — model outputs for planning only.
Frequently asked questions
- How reliable are the signals from this tool?
- Treat every reading as a hypothesis. Strong setups usually agree across multiple rows, timeframes or linked PEPS engines — not from a single highlighted value alone.
- Is this tool suitable for beginners?
- Yes. Start with one symbol or one ranked row, read the labels and confirmation panels, then open linked tools before sizing a live position.
- How often is the data updated?
- Refresh cadence depends on the engine — many trading scanners update every few minutes; on-chain and mining feeds may run on hourly timers. Check the Updated timestamp on the tool page.
Conclusion
Break-even assumes constant network difficulty and block reward — difficulty rises over time, shrinking real margins.
Coin price break-even ignores hardware depreciation, maintenance and pool luck.