Bitcoin pool comparison for August 2026: what 100 TH/s earns per day
The gap between a pool charging 1% and a pool charging 4% comes to 9 cents a day at 100 TH/s. The gap between paying $0.05 and $0.12 per kWh on the same hardware comes to $2.02 a day, twenty-two times larger. Below is the arithmetic behind that, and the reason the fee percentage barely moves your result while the payout threshold and your power bill decide it.
This is the August 2026 edition. We recalculate the table every month against a fresh network snapshot, because difficulty, price and pool fees all move, and a six-month-old calculation describes a different market. The next edition lands in September. For how the payout schemes themselves work and what makes up a pool fee, see the base pool payout comparison.
Inputs
Network snapshot taken 2026-08-14, data from mempool.space:
- network hashrate 933.99 EH/s
- difficulty 127,479,855,693,691
- block subsidy 3.125 BTC
- BTC price 64,558 USD
- transaction fees as a share of the subsidy over the last 4320 blocks (roughly 30 days): 0.70%
Power draw is modelled on the Antminer S21 XP Hyd: 473 TH/s, 5676 W, 12 J/TH (Bitmain official User Guide V4.0.2). That is a hydro unit and one of the most efficient machines on the market. Air-cooled miners run worse, so most readers will spend more on electricity than the numbers here, not less.
Fees and thresholds were checked on 2026-08-18 against the pools' own pages and help centers.
Published fees and thresholds
| Pool | Fee | Scheme | Min payout |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustpool | 1% | PPS+ | 0.001 BTC |
| NiceHash | 2% | RTPPS | 0.00001 BTC |
| Luxor | 2.5% | FPPS | 0.001 BTC |
| Promminer | 3% | FPPS | 0.0001 BTC |
| Kryptex Pool | 3% | PPS+ | 0.001 BTC |
| AntPool | 4% | FPPS / PPS / PPLNS | 0.005 BTC |
| ViaBTC | 4% | PPS+ / PPLNS | 0.001 BTC |
| F2Pool | 4% | FPPS / PPLNS | 0.005 BTC |
| Binance Pool | 4% | FPPS | not published |
| EMCD | 4% | FPPS | 0.0001 BTC |
| Neopool | not disclosed | FPPS | 0.001 BTC |
| Foundry USA | not disclosed (tiered) | FPPS | 0.01 BTC |
FPPS and PPS+ schemes pass transaction fees through to the miner, so those rows get the extra 0.70% in the calculation.
One caveat on NiceHash: it is a hashpower marketplace rather than a classic pool. You sell your hashrate to a buyer, and the market pays you instead of the blockchain paying you directly. Its RTPPS rate tracks demand for hashpower and can run above or below the mining expectation. We compute its row with the same formula so it stays comparable, but over time its actual payout drifts from this table more than an FPPS pool would.
Pools ranked by net daily income
Income after pool fee first, electricity not yet subtracted.
100 TH/s per day
| Pool | BTC | USD |
|---|---|---|
| Trustpool | 0.00004803 | $3.10 |
| NiceHash | 0.00004755 | $3.07 |
| Luxor | 0.00004730 | $3.05 |
| Promminer | 0.00004706 | $3.04 |
| Kryptex Pool | 0.00004706 | $3.04 |
| AntPool / ViaBTC / F2Pool / Binance Pool / EMCD | 0.00004658 | $3.01 |
| Neopool / Foundry USA | cannot be calculated | cannot be calculated |
1 PH/s per day
| Pool | BTC | USD |
|---|---|---|
| Trustpool | 0.00048032 | $31.01 |
| NiceHash | 0.00047547 | $30.70 |
| Luxor | 0.00047305 | $30.54 |
| Promminer | 0.00047062 | $30.38 |
| Kryptex Pool | 0.00047062 | $30.38 |
| AntPool / ViaBTC / F2Pool / Binance Pool / EMCD | 0.00046577 | $30.07 |
Electricity at 12 J/TH costs $1.44 a day for 100 TH/s at $0.05, $2.30 at $0.08 and $3.46 at $0.12. For 1 PH/s the same tariffs give $14.40, $23.04 and $34.56.
Income minus electricity, 100 TH/s
| Pool | $0.05 | $0.08 | $0.12 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustpool | +$1.66 | +$0.80 | -$0.36 |
| NiceHash | +$1.63 | +$0.77 | -$0.39 |
| Luxor | +$1.61 | +$0.75 | -$0.41 |
| Promminer / Kryptex | +$1.60 | +$0.74 | -$0.42 |
| The 4% pools | +$1.57 | +$0.71 | -$0.45 |
Income minus electricity, 1 PH/s
| Pool | $0.05 | $0.08 | $0.12 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustpool | +$16.61 | +$7.97 | -$3.55 |
| NiceHash | +$16.30 | +$7.66 | -$3.86 |
| Luxor | +$16.14 | +$7.50 | -$4.02 |
| Promminer / Kryptex | +$15.98 | +$7.34 | -$4.18 |
| The 4% pools | +$15.67 | +$7.03 | -$4.49 |
At $0.12 per kWh a home-scale 100 TH/s loses money in every pool on this list: $3.01 earned against $3.46 spent. Changing pools does not close that hole, because the whole spread down the column is 9 cents against a 45 cent shortfall.
You can rerun all of this on your own tariff and hashrate in the mining profitability calculator, and the formulas are documented in the calculation methodology.
Why the spread between pools is so small
A pool fee is not taken from some special pool-specific yield. It is taken from the same expected share of the network. Your 100 TH/s against 933.99 EH/s carries identical expectation wherever you point it, and the pool simply keeps its cut of that.
So the spread between 1% and 4% is exactly 3% of income. Three percent of $3.10 is 9 cents. No amount of marketing copy turns that into a different number as long as the payout scheme stays in the FPPS or PPS+ family.
The spread matters once the base is large. At 1 PH/s the difference between Trustpool and the 4% group is $0.94 a day, roughly $343 a year. At 10 PH/s it is around $3,400 a year, and switching starts to justify the firmware edits, worker renaming and new payout addresses. At home-scale 100 TH/s the same three percent works out to about $33 a year, less than the value of one evening spent reconfiguring.
When the payout threshold beats the fee
The threshold does not change what you earn. It changes when you can see it on your own address.
Take a Bitaxe class device at 1 TH/s. In a 4% pool it earns roughly 0.00000047 BTC per day. Reaching the 0.005 BTC threshold at AntPool or F2Pool takes about 10,700 days, close to 29 years. The 0.0001 BTC threshold at EMCD or Promminer fills in about 215 days on the same 1 TH/s, roughly seven months, which is at least a real timeline. NiceHash at 0.00001 BTC pays out about every three weeks.
At 100 TH/s the picture shifts. A 0.005 BTC threshold fills in about 107 days, 0.001 BTC in about 21 days, and Foundry USA's 0.01 BTC in about 215 days. On a solo device the threshold decides everything. On a decent home rig it becomes a question of payout frequency rather than access.
Withdrawal costs deserve a mention too. If the pool bills on-chain fees to you, frequent small payouts eat a visible share of the payout itself. A low threshold is valuable as an option to exit, not as an instruction to withdraw daily.
The two pools that cannot go in the table
Neopool and Foundry USA do not publish a fee percentage. Foundry uses tiers tied to volume, and a home miner will only ever learn those terms through direct correspondence. We cannot put them in the ranked column, because any number there would be a guess.
For a large site this is ordinary practice: a negotiated rate at megawatt scale may well beat any public tariff. For a small miner an undisclosed fee means there is nothing to verify against. You can only compare credited amounts with expectation after the fact, over a long stretch of days. Foundry USA's 0.01 BTC threshold rules out home scale on its own anyway.
What this calculation ignores
- PPLNS variance: share-based schemes swing further around expectation on any single day than FPPS does
- pool uptime and rejected shares: a couple of percent rejects, or an hour of downtime, costs more than the entire fee spread
- latency to the stratum server, especially over multi-country routes
- on-chain fees when withdrawing
- taxes in your jurisdiction
- difficulty and price movement: the 2026-08-14 snapshot is correct for its date and nothing more
- real hardware variance: a nameplate 100 TH/s and a measured 100 TH/s are different numbers
The practical read
At home scale, pick a pool on the things you touch daily: payout threshold, stratum stability, readable statistics, support in a language you speak. The fee belongs last on that list. If you already mine in a 4% pool and it has not let you down, moving for 9 cents a day makes no economic sense.
The fee conversation gets substantive somewhere around a petahash. Below that, the electricity bill decides the outcome by itself.
A side-by-side table of terms and payout schemes sits in our breakdown of twelve Bitcoin pools. POOL BTC runs these comparisons as an outside observer: we do not mine and we do not accept hashrate, we check what pools publish and convert it into daily numbers you can act on.
FAQ
How do I compare Bitcoin mining pools by net daily income including electricity?
Hold hashrate and network parameters constant, subtract the pool fee, add the transaction fee share for FPPS and PPS+, then subtract power at your own tariff. On the 2026-08-14 snapshot at $0.08 per kWh, 100 TH/s nets between $0.71 and $0.80 a day.
Which pool gives the best net BTC returns for a home-scale operation?
Net income across pools at 100 TH/s varies by 9 cents a day, so the threshold and reliability decide it instead. The lowest thresholds on this list belong to NiceHash, EMCD and Promminer.
Is home mining profitable at 12 cents per kWh?
Not at 100 TH/s and 12 J/TH: $3.01 earned against $3.46 spent on the 2026-08-14 snapshot. A less efficient air-cooled machine widens that gap.
How much does a 1% versus 4% pool fee actually matter?
Exactly 3% of income. About $33 a year at 100 TH/s, about $343 a year at 1 PH/s. Switching pays off closer to petahash scale.
Why do some pools not publish a fee?
Neopool and Foundry USA keep their rates private, and Foundry's is tiered and negotiated case by case. Without a public number there is no way to compute net income, so they stay out of the ranking.
These figures are indicative and built on a network snapshot from 2026-08-14. Difficulty, price and pool terms move, so verify your own numbers on the day you decide. Not financial advice.