GoMiner Alternatives for GPU, CPU and ASIC Mining

The old Startup Stash page described GoMiner as a crypto mining company running since 2017, with tools for mining farms: GPU overclock and undervolt settings, autotune and RxBoost. That company is GoMining, and it no longer sells software you run on your own rigs. Its app now sells "digital miners", which its homepage calls "your share of verified Bitcoin mining power" in data centers it operates. You pay maintenance fees, the GOMINING token cuts them by up to 20%, and the same page says "Rewards may be lower than applicable fees."

A second product shares the name. decred/gominer is an open source (GPL-3.0) GPU miner for Decred's BLAKE3 proof of work, with OpenCL for AMD and NVIDIA cards and CUDA for NVIDIA. Its README says "Binaries are not currently available", so you build it from source. The seven picks below are tools you install on hardware you own, for GPUs, CPUs and ASICs.

Two warnings before you buy anything. Ethereum switched to proof of stake on September 15, 2022, and ethereum.org says mining "is no longer the means of producing valid blocks", so old ETH guides and ETH pools are dead. And many cloud-mining contracts are scams: in February 2025 the HashFlare founders pleaded guilty after selling more than $577 million in contracts while lacking "the requisite computing capacity to perform the vast majority of the mining". Cloud mining contract sellers are left out. Mining income is never fixed, and your electricity price usually decides if a rig covers its own power bill. Fees below are as of November 6, 2026.

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Quick comparison

Hive OS

If you liked what GoMiner promised for farms, Hive OS is the closest match that still ships. You flash it onto a rig's drive, then manage every worker from one web dashboard: overclocks, miner versions, flight sheets that set coin, wallet and pool, and remote reboots. It runs most popular GPU miners, including lolMiner, and covers ASICs too.

Billing counts workers, not farms. The pricing page keeps two workers free with no cap on cards per rig, which suits a hobbyist with one or two machines. Bigger farms get volume discounts that start at 10% for 50 workers and reach 50% at 1,000.

Best for: Owners of one to a few hundred GPU rigs who want remote tuning and monitoring from a browser.

Pricing:

• Start: $0 for 2 workers, 3 days of stats, limited features
• GPU rig: $0.50 per card per month, from $0.50 (1 card) to $3.00 (6 or more cards)
• CPU-only rig: $0.50 per month; ASIC: $2 per month, free with Hiveon ASIC firmware
• Volume discounts from 10% (50+ workers) to 50% (1,000+); Enterprise from 1,000 devices is contact sales

Watch out for:

• Payment is crypto only, processed by CoinPayments, per the pricing page.
• Add a third worker and the free tier ends for all of them: the page says that from 3 workers you pay for all 3.

Official site: Hive OS.

NiceHash

NiceHash takes the coin choice off your hands. You sell your hashpower on its marketplace, buyers decide which algorithm it runs, and your balance builds up in bitcoin. A GoMining user who mainly wanted BTC payouts gets the same end result, but on hardware they own and with power they pay for.

The fee is a flat percentage of what you sell. NiceHash's public fee API lists the seller fee at 0.02, or 2%. Earnings land in a NiceHash wallet first, and you withdraw to your own wallet from there.

Best for: Gamers and hobbyists who want bitcoin payouts without picking coins or pools.

Pricing:

• Hashpower seller fee: 2%
• BTC withdrawal to an external wallet: 0.00003 BTC, for amounts from 0.001 BTC
• BTC deposits of 0.00005 BTC or more: free

Watch out for:

• Your coins sit in a custodial NiceHash wallet until you withdraw them, so you carry exchange-style risk on any balance you leave there.
• Small rigs feel the fees most: 2% comes off every sale, then a withdrawal fee comes off the payout.

Official site: NiceHash. Our listing: NiceHash.

Kryptex

Kryptex is the easiest start for a Windows gaming PC. Its homepage describes three steps, download, launch and earn, and the app detects your hardware and switches coins on its own. Behind it sits Kryptex Pool, with PPS+, PROP and SOLO modes and more than 30 coins for ASIC, GPU and FPGA hardware.

Payout options are wider than at most pools. You can withdraw in BTC, USDT, ETH, USDC, LTC, BNB or TRX, or take Volet or Amazon gift cards, and the minimum payout is 0.00025 BTC. There is also an Android miner and a phone app for watching your hardware.

Best for: A single Windows PC owner who wants one app that picks the coin and pays out in bitcoin.

Pricing:

• Desktop app: free to download
• Pool fee: the homepage says Kryptex takes "a small pool fee" and links to a fees section; no figure appears on the homepage
• Minimum payout: 0.00025 BTC

Watch out for:

• The desktop app is listed for Windows only; the homepage does not mention macOS or Linux.
• The homepage earnings examples, such as a monthly figure for an RTX 5090, are vendor estimates that do not subtract your electricity bill.

Official site: Kryptex. Our listing: Kryptex.

lolMiner

After the Merge, plenty of GPU owners moved to lolMiner. The current build on its releases page is 1.98a, and recent versions add Tari's Cuckaroo-29 and Sha3x, Conflux's Octopus, Grin's Cuckatoo-32 and Ergo's Autolykos V2. Etchash is still there for Ethereum Classic, along with FishHash, KarlsenhashV2, Flux's ZelHash and NexaPoW.

Hardware support is current. The notes cover NVIDIA from the GTX 1000 series to the RTX 5000 cards and AMD from the RX 400 series to the RX 9000. Sha3x can run in dual mode next to Octopus, Autolykos V2 or FishHash, so one card works on two coins at once.

Best for: Owners of modern AMD or NVIDIA cards who want one miner for many algorithms.

Pricing:

• Free download for Win64 and Lin64
• Dev fee taken from mining time: 2% on Cuckaroo-29 and Octopus, 1% on Tari Sha3x

Watch out for:

• It is a command-line program with no dashboard of its own, so most users pair it with Hive OS or a batch file.
• The GitHub repository holds binaries and release notes, not source code, so you cannot audit or build it yourself the way you can with XMRig.

Official site: lolMiner.

XMRig

For Monero on a processor, XMRig is the standard tool. It is open source under GPL-3.0, and version 6.26.0 shipped on March 28, 2026. CPU support runs from x86 and x64 to ARMv7, ARMv8 and RISC-V, so it also runs on ARM boards.

GPUs are optional. AMD cards mine through OpenCL, and NVIDIA cards need a separate CUDA plugin, per the README. Official binaries cover Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD, which makes it the only pick here with a native Mac build.

Best for: People with spare CPU time, including Mac and ARM users, who want an auditable open source miner.

Pricing:

• Free and open source (GPL-3.0)
• Default donation: 1%, one minute in every 100; the README says you can raise it with donate-level or remove it in the source

Watch out for:

• Setup means editing a JSON config or command-line flags; there is no point-and-click wizard.
• NVIDIA support is not in the main download and needs the separate CUDA plugin.

Official site: XMRig.

Awesome Miner

Awesome Miner manages fleets rather than mining itself. The homepage says it scales to 200,000 ASIC miners and 25,000 GPU or CPU miners, with a Remote Agent for Windows and Linux GPU rigs and a built-in web interface you can open from a phone. Farms that mix ASICs and GPU rigs can watch both in one place.

Licensing counts machines, not cards. A support article says "one computer (mining rig) requires only a single miner license" even if it holds 1 or 12 GPUs. Certain Antminer firmware editions include Awesome Miner at no extra cost for unlimited miners.

Best for: Farm operators running a mix of ASICs and GPU rigs from a Windows control machine.

Pricing:

• No public price on the homepage or the upgrade page, which shows prices only after you enter license details
• Licensed per computer (rig), not per GPU
• Included at no extra cost with certain Antminer firmware editions

Watch out for:

• You cannot compare its cost with Hive OS before you sign up, because the upgrade page hides prices behind a license login.
• Cloud Services are a separate subscription, and the homepage gives no price for them.

Official site: Awesome Miner.

Braiins Pool

Slush Pool still exists under the Braiins name. The pool page calls it the longest-running mining pool, with more than 1.3 million BTC mined since 2010, and still links to slushpool.com. It is the pick for someone who owns or hosts a Bitcoin ASIC and wants steady payouts.

Rewards follow FPPS. The academy page says each UTC day is paid as if the network found the average 144 blocks, so luck does not swing your income. Lightning withdrawals run from 1 satoshi to 0.005 BTC with no fee.

Best for: Bitcoin ASIC owners who want small, frequent payouts over Lightning.

Pricing:

• Pool fee: 2.5% under FPPS
• The pool page advertises 0% pool fees for miners running Braiins OS firmware
• On-chain: minimum 0.0002 BTC; 0.0001 BTC fee below 0.005 BTC, free above
• Lightning: no fee, up to 0.005 BTC per payout

Watch out for:

• The pool page covers Bitcoin only, and SHA-256 mining needs an ASIC. A gaming GPU will not earn anything useful here.
• On-chain withdrawals under 0.005 BTC lose 0.0001 BTC each, so small miners should use Lightning.

Official site: Braiins Pool. Our listing: Braiins Pool.

How to choose

When to stay with GoMiner

Keep your GoMining digital miners only if you already hold them and you compare each day's reward with the maintenance fee shown in the app. GoMining's own homepage says rewards may be lower than the fees, so check that number before you buy more or pay for upgrades. If you came for the Decred gominer, it still exists on GitHub, but you have to compile it.

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