Crypto profit calculator
A free, no-signup crypto profit and ROI calculator with live prices. Pick a coin and pull the current price, or enter your own. Set how much you invested, your buy and sell price, and the exchange fee, and see your profit or loss, ROI, return multiple, units bought and total fees, in AUD or USD. Includes a sell-price sensitivity table and a one-click CSV export.
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Sell-price sensitivity
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Live prices are indicative spot rates fetched in your browser and may differ slightly from your exchange. Everything runs locally, no signup, no data leaves your device.
How crypto profit is calculated
Crypto profit is simply what you get back when you sell, minus what you put in. The calculator builds it up in four steps:
- Work out the units bought. Take your investment, subtract the buy fee, and divide by the buy price. That is how much of the coin you actually own.
- Work out the gross return. Multiply those units by the sell price.
- Subtract the sell fee. Exchanges charge on the way out as well as the way in, so the sell fee comes off the gross return to give your net return.
- Subtract your original investment. What is left is your profit or loss. Expressed as a percentage of the investment, that is your return on investment (ROI), and as a multiple it is your "x" (2x means you doubled your money).
The ROI figure is worth watching closely, because percentage moves are not symmetric. A 50 percent loss needs a 100 percent gain just to get back to even, which is why protecting capital matters more than chasing a big number. The sensitivity table makes this concrete: it shows your result if you exit a little above or below your target price.
Worked example
Say you invest AUD 1,000 in a coin at a buy price of AUD 100,000, with a 0.1 percent fee, and later sell at AUD 150,000.
- The 0.1 percent buy fee is AUD 1, so AUD 999 buys 0.00999 units.
- At the AUD 150,000 sell price, those units are worth about AUD 1,498.50 gross.
- The 0.1 percent sell fee is about AUD 1.50, leaving a net return of roughly AUD 1,497.
- Subtract the AUD 1,000 you invested and the profit is about AUD 497, an ROI of roughly +49.7 percent, or about 1.50x.
Change any input and the result animates instantly. Pick Bitcoin or Ethereum and hit "Use live" to drop in the current price, switch between AUD and USD, or flip to "By quantity" if you know how many coins you hold rather than the dollar amount.
Why fees matter
The fee field is not a rounding detail. On a round trip you pay the fee twice, once buying and once selling, and on instant-buy services that fee can be 1 percent or more each way. The same price move nets you noticeably less on a high-fee venue than on a low-cost one, and the gap compounds the more often you trade. If you trade actively, the exchange you choose is one of the biggest controllable inputs to your real return.
Popular Australian crypto exchanges
All three are AUSTRAC-registered Australian exchanges. Crypto is volatile; only invest what you can afford to lose.
Profit is a taxable event
In Australia, selling or swapping crypto at a profit is generally a capital gains tax event. The profit this calculator shows is your pre-tax trading result; the ATO will want its share of any net capital gain. If you held for more than 12 months you may qualify for the 50 percent CGT discount. To estimate the tax owing, use the crypto CGT calculator, and keep records of every buy and sell, because the crypto tax rules require it.
Frequently asked questions
Profit is what you get back when you sell, minus what you put in. Work out how many units your investment bought at the buy price (after the buy fee), multiply those units by the sell price to get the gross return, subtract the sell fee, then subtract your original investment. The result is your profit or loss. Divide that by your investment and multiply by 100 to get your return as a percentage. This calculator does all of that for you in AUD or USD.
When you pick a coin, the calculator fetches its current price directly in your browser from a public market-data source and shows it as a chip you can apply to the buy or sell field with one click. Nothing is sent to our servers and there is no signup. If the live price cannot be reached, the calculator still works fully with prices you type in yourself. Live prices are indicative spot rates and can differ slightly from the exact price on your exchange.
Yes. Use the AUD / USD toggle at the top. The toggle switches the live price and all results between Australian and US dollars. If you enter prices manually, just make sure the buy price and sell price are in the same currency as the toggle, and the profit, final value and fees all come out in that currency.
Yes. Exchange fees are taken on both the buy and the sell, and on a round trip they quietly reduce your profit. This calculator applies your fee percentage to both sides, so the result reflects what you actually keep, not the gross price move. Typical Australian exchange fees range from about 0.1 percent on the lowest-cost venues to 1 percent or more on instant-buy services, so the fee field makes a real difference to the bottom line.
The sensitivity table shows what your profit and ROI would be if the sell price came in 20 percent and 10 percent below your figure, exactly at it, and 10 percent and 20 percent above. It is a quick way to see how sensitive the outcome is to where you actually exit, which matters because crypto moves fast and the price you plan to sell at is rarely the price you get. You can also download every figure as a CSV for your own records.
Generally yes. The ATO treats selling, swapping or spending crypto as a capital gains tax event, so a profit is usually a capital gain that needs to be reported. If you held the asset for more than 12 months you may qualify for the 50 percent CGT discount. This calculator works out your pre-tax trading profit; to estimate the tax owing, use the crypto CGT calculator, and see the crypto tax guide for the full rules.
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