How much can I earn mining Monero per day?

You can earn a small amount of Monero each day, but there is no fixed daily rate: your earnings depend on your computer’s speed, mining costs, and how you mine. For a typical home computer, treat it as a small experiment rather than reliable income—especially in a web browser, where earnings may not cover electricity.

What determines your daily earnings?

Your computer earns a share of the mining rewards based on how much useful work it contributes. That speed is called your hashrate, measured in hashes per second, or H/s.

Your daily total depends mainly on:

• Your actual mining speed. Measure it while mining, rather than relying on your processor’s advertised specifications.
• How long you mine. Running for six hours generally produces about one-quarter of the work of running for 24 hours at the same speed.
• Competition from other miners. More competing computing power means a smaller reward share for you.
• Fees and rejected work. Mining services may charge fees, and work that arrives too late may not count.
• Monero’s price. This changes what your earned XMR is worth in your local currency.

Monero uses RandomX, a mining method designed to favor CPUs—the main processors in computers. Browser mining can face substantial performance and memory limits, so a desktop mining benchmark is not a reliable estimate of your browser earnings.

How to estimate your XMR per day

Monero creates a block, or batch of confirmed transactions, roughly every two minutes. Its ongoing base reward is 0.6 XMR per block, which works out to about 432 XMR per day across the entire network, plus transaction fees. That is not the amount available to each miner.

For direct Monero mining, a rough estimate is:

Daily XMR ≈ your hashrate ÷ total network hashrate × 432

For example, if your computer supplied one-millionth of the network’s mining power continuously, your expected share of the base rewards would be 0.000432 XMR per day, before fees. This is an illustration, not an estimate for your device.

Use a live mining calculator with your measured hashrate. Network conditions change, and Monero adjusts mining difficulty—the amount of work needed to find a block—every block.

For browser mining, first check what the service actually does. A service that pays you in XMR may mine something else and convert the proceeds. In that case, its payout rules matter more than the direct-Monero formula.

Subtract costs before calling it profit

Your daily mining revenue is not your daily profit.

Daily profit = value of XMR earned − electricity cost − service fees

Calculate electricity this way:

Daily electricity cost = extra watts used ÷ 1,000 × hours mined × price per kilowatt-hour

If mining adds 100 watts for 24 hours, that uses 2.4 kilowatt-hours. At an illustrative electricity rate of $0.20 per kilowatt-hour, it costs $0.48 per day. Your earnings must exceed that just to cover electricity.

Daily earnings are not daily withdrawals

A mining pool, where miners combine their work and share rewards, can make earnings more regular. But a minimum withdrawal amount may mean you wait weeks or longer to receive a small balance.

Check fees and withdrawal conditions before running your computer continuously. Be wary of guaranteed daily returns or demands for extra deposits to unlock earnings.

The bottom line

Measure your real mining speed, check a live calculator or the service’s payout terms, and subtract electricity and fees. That gives you a useful daily estimate—not a promise of profit.