Crypto Profit Calculator

Multiply the number of coins by the current price to get their value, then subtract what you paid, including fees. If you bought 0.5 coins at $2,000 each and paid a $10 fee, your cost is $1,010. At $2,600 each, they're worth $1,300, so your profit is $290 and your ROI is about 28.7%. Our calculator does this from a dollar amount and a date range.

You make a profit when you sell a coin for more than you paid, after costs. Until you sell, or swap into something else, any gain is unrealized and can vanish. Some coins can also pay rewards through staking or lending, but those carry their own risks and tax rules. Unlike a stock, most coins don't pay dividends or represent a share of a business.

It lists the largest coins by market cap with their return over the period you choose, plus what your amount would be worth now. Sort any column to rank them. Use the filter to find a coin by name, or choose Use to load it into the calculator. Prices come from CoinGecko and are refreshed once a day, not in real time, so they won't match a live exchange exactly.

Each one uses its own price source and time of day. Crypto trades around the clock with no official closing price, so two sites can use slightly different numbers for the same date. Our recent daily prices come from CoinGecko, and older ones from Coinbase, Binance and, for Bitcoin's early years, Blockchain.com. Your actual result also depends on the price you got on your exchange, including the spread and any fees, so your own records are what count for taxes.

No. Crypto prices move sharply, and a coin's history says little about what happens next. A coin that rose tenfold last year can lose most of its value this year. Looking at past returns is useful for understanding how volatile a coin has been and how large its drawdowns were, but you shouldn't assume those patterns will repeat.

The IRS treats crypto as property, so selling, swapping or spending it can trigger capital gains tax. Coins held for a year or less are generally taxed at your ordinary income rate, while coins held longer get the lower long-term rates. Rewards from mining or staking are generally taxed as income when you receive them. See the IRS digital assets page, and ask a tax professional about your situation.

In the US, generally yes. The IRS treats a swap as selling the first coin and buying the second, so you may owe tax on any gain even though you never converted to dollars. Keep records of the date, value and cost of each trade. Crypto tax software can help, and many exchanges now report sales to the IRS.

Unrealized profit is a gain on paper: the coin's price rose but you still hold it. Realized profit is locked in when you sell or swap. Prices can erase an unrealized gain overnight, and in general you don't owe tax on a gain until you realize it. Our calculator shows hypothetical values, which are the unrealized gain or loss for the dates you choose.

Exchanges charge trading fees and a spread, the gap between buying and selling prices, and blockchains charge network fees for transfers. On a $100 purchase, a $3 fee means your coin must rise about 6.2% just to break even if you pay another $3 to sell. Add your fees to the amount invested above, or subtract them from your final value, for a more realistic ROI.

It depends on the coin. Bitcoin goes back to August 2010, Ethereum to 2016, and most large coins to the year they were first listed on Coinbase or Binance. Coins we couldn't match to an older source start a year back, from CoinGecko. Each coin page says where its prices start. For stocks and funds that hold crypto, try our stock calculator.