Bitcoin Profit Loss Calculator
Calculates the profit or loss on a Bitcoin buy and sell in dollars and percent, with an optional tax rate and the break-even sell price.
Total you spent, fees included.
Latest close: $75,696
Your loss after fees: −$279.71, −28.0%. Break-even sell price $105,091.
Your result will appear here.
- Your profit or loss after fees and tax
- The price Bitcoin needs to reach for you to break even
- A chart of where your money went
- You put in
- $1,000.00
- Buy fee
- −$10.00
- Bitcoin bought
- 0.00961165 BTC
- Value at sell price
- $727.56
- Sell fee
- −$7.28
- Estimated tax
- $0.00
- You keep
- $720.29
- Break-even sell price
- $105,091
P/L Breakdown
- You keep 72.0%
- Fees 1.7%
- Tax 0.0%
- Price drop 26.2%
Live BTC price from CoinGecko; fallback and default buy price from CryptoCompare daily closes (bundled).
Estimates only. Not tax or investment advice.
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Methodology
We verify every formula against primary sources, run it on live data, and document each model's assumptions and limits.
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Built and reviewed by Fabio Arcieri
Fabio Arcieri
Founder, Orange Abacus
Bitcoin researcher with a background in economics and a decade in digital marketing. He builds and reviews every calculator on this site against primary sources.
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How to use this calculator
- Amount invested: the total you spent on the buy, fee included.
- Buy price: the price per BTC when you bought.
- Sell price: the price per BTC when you sold, or the price you want to test.
- Buy fee: the percentage the exchange took from your amount invested.
- Sell fee: the percentage the exchange takes from the sale value.
- Tax rate: the percentage taken from your profit, never from a loss.
How to read the output
The large figure at the top is your profit or loss in dollars and percent, after fees and tax. The lines below it follow the trade in order:
- You put in: the amount invested.
- Buy fee: the fee taken from the amount invested.
- Bitcoin bought: the BTC the remaining amount buys at the buy price.
- Value at sell price: that BTC valued at the sell price, before the sell fee.
- Sell fee: the fee taken from the sale value.
- Estimated tax: the tax on your profit, $0.00 when the trade makes none.
- You keep: the money in your hands after fees and tax.
- Break-even sell price: the sell price at which your profit after fees is zero.
The P/L (profit and loss) Breakdown chart splits the trade into You keep, Fees, Tax, and Price drop, the value lost to a sell price below your buy price.
How the profit is calculated
BTC bought equals the amount invested, minus the buy fee, divided by the buy price. Profit is the value of that BTC at the sell price, minus the sell fee, minus the amount invested, minus tax on any gain.
Invest $1,000 at a $100,000 buy price with 1% fees each way and no tax, then sell at $110,000. The buy fee takes $10, leaving 0.0099 BTC worth $1,089 at the sell price. The sell fee takes $10.89, so you keep $1,078.11, a profit of $78.11 (+7.8%).
The calculator models fees as percentages and tax as one flat rate on the gain. Flat fees, exchange spreads, and holding-period tax rates aren’t modeled.
Frequently asked questions
How do I calculate Bitcoin profit or loss?
To calculate Bitcoin profit or loss, subtract the amount invested from the money you get back after fees, then subtract tax on any gain. Money back is the BTC bought (the amount invested minus the buy fee, divided by the buy price) times the sell price, less the sell fee. Divide the result by the amount invested for the percentage.What is the break-even price?
The break-even price is the sell price at which your profit after fees is zero. It sits above your buy price because fees come off at both the buy and the sell. With 1% fees each way, a $100,000 buy breaks even at about $102,030. Tax doesn't change it, because there is no profit to tax.Is tax applied to a loss?
Tax is not applied to a loss: the calculator taxes profit only, so Estimated tax shows $0.00 on a losing trade. Tax rules vary by country. The calculator doesn't model offsetting a loss against other gains.