Best Pearl (PRL) Miner in 2026: Fees & Hashrate Compared

Five serious miners now support Pearl (PRL), with dev fees running anywhere from 0% to 5%. The fee table alone will mislead you: the number that decides what lands in your wallet is effective hashrate — raw speed × (1 − fee).

We build the HydraX miner, so full disclosure up front: as of v3.0.1, HydraX mines Pearl on its cleanroom pearlhash kernel at a flat 1% dev fee on NVIDIA cards — on an RTX 5070 Ti it runs at a pool-verified ~145 TH/s, ahead of SRBMiner-MULTI's ~137.79 TH/s effective. It's now a live option alongside the third-party miners below. This page is the comparison we'd want as users: what each one costs, who's actually fastest, and the one piece of arithmetic that picks the real winner.

Pearl miners at a glance

Two rows need an asterisk: BzMiner's Pearl support is a CPU beta, so it isn't a GPU option yet, and IpMiner's 0% only works with LuckyPool — a real cost we'll come back to.

What a dev fee actually costs you

A dev fee is how mining software gets funded: for a small slice of runtime, the miner hashes to the developer's wallet instead of yours — roughly one minute in every hundred at 1%, one in twenty at 5%. There's no invoice; it comes out of your coins before you see them, on top of your pool's fee. That's why fee differences feel invisible day to day but compound into real money over a year of uptime. Our guide to calculating mining profit shows where fees sit in the full revenue math.

Effective hashrate: the only number that matters

Here's the calculation that settles every "low fee vs. fast miner" argument:

Effective hashrate = raw hashrate × (1 − dev fee)

That's the portion of your speed actually mining to your wallet. Now apply it to the best public datapoint we have for Pearl — a community side-by-side on an RTX 3080:

• SRBMiner-MULTI: ~100 TH/s raw × 0.97 = 97.0 TH/s effective
• AlphaMiner: ~94 TH/s raw × 0.99 = 93.1 TH/s effective

Counterintuitive but true: the 3% miner still nets you more PRL than the 1% miner on that card, because its raw-speed lead is bigger than the extra fee. The lesson cuts both ways — never pick a miner off the fee column alone, and never off a raw-hashrate screenshot alone. Run your own card on each candidate for a few hours, read the pool-side reported hashrate, apply the fee, and then put that effective number into the profit calculator with your electricity rate to see the difference in dollars per day rather than terahash.

The contenders, miner by miner

IpMiner — 0% fee, one pool

The headline is unbeatable: a true 0% dev fee. The catch: IpMiner is locked to LuckyPool, so you inherit that pool's fee, payout policy, and servers whether they suit you or not — and if the pool has an outage, you can't fail over; you stop earning. A legitimate pick for a small rig that wants to keep every coin, but less free than it looks if you value choosing your own pool.

AlphaMiner — 1% fee, close on speed

AlphaMiner pairs a low 1% fee with solid NVIDIA performance — about 94 TH/s on the RTX 3080 test. It narrowly loses to SRBMiner on effective hashrate there, but the gap is small enough that your card and settings could flip it. The natural pick for a low fee without IpMiner's pool lock-in.

BzMiner — 2% fee, CPU beta only

BzMiner's Pearl support is currently a CPU beta, which makes it the odd one out in a GPU comparison. Worth watching if GPU support lands later, but today it isn't how you'd point a graphics card at PRL.

SRBMiner-MULTI — 3% fee, fastest established NVIDIA option

The speed king: SRBMiner-MULTI is the fastest established NVIDIA Pearl miner, and the ~100 TH/s RTX 3080 result gives it the best effective hashrate in the test despite the highest mainstream fee here. If you want the most PRL per day on NVIDIA today, this is the benchmark the others are measured against.

Rgminer — 5% fee

At 5%, Rgminer charges the steepest cut of the group. Run the effective-hashrate math before choosing it: to beat a 3% miner it has to be meaningfully faster in raw terms, and to beat a 1% miner it needs a bigger lead still. Unless your own side-by-side shows it clearly out-hashing the others on your hardware, the fee is hard to justify.

HydraX — mines Pearl now, flat 1%

Our own entry, now live: as of v3.0.1, HydraX mines Pearl on its cleanroom pearlhash kernel at a flat 1% dev fee, on NVIDIA RTX 30, 40 and 50 series cards (fastest on the 50-series; 30/40 are supported via a WMMA fallback). On an RTX 5070 Ti it runs at a pool-verified ~145 TH/s — ahead of SRBMiner-MULTI's ~137.79 TH/s effective: the speed tier of the 3% miner at the price of the 1% miner, with no pool lock-in. Beyond Pearl, the free HydraX miner also mines Ethereum Classic on Etchash and Ravencoin, Neoxa, Neurai and Frencoin on KawPow on NVIDIA GPUs, plus Monero on RandomX and Xelis on xelishashv3 on the CPU — see our roundup of the best free mining software in 2026 and the GPU + CPU dual-mining guide for how that works.

How to choose: four deciding factors

• Effective hashrate, not fee or raw speed. Bench each candidate on your card, multiply by (1 − fee), and let the bigger number win.
• Pool lock-in. A 0% fee that removes your pool choice is a trade, not a gift. Pools differ on fees, payout minimums, and reliability — freedom to switch has real value.
• Trust and transparency. You're running closed-source software next to your wallets. Favor miners with a track record, verify the reported hashrate against what your pool says, and confirm the fee behaves as advertised.
• Your hardware and your power rate. Rankings shift by card — check our best mining GPUs for 2026 and the gear picks if you're building out, and remember that whether PRL beats other coins at all depends on your $/kWh. The calculators settle that in thirty seconds.

Frequently asked

Which Pearl miner is the fastest in 2026? SRBMiner-MULTI is the fastest established NVIDIA option — about 100 TH/s vs. AlphaMiner's ~94 TH/s in a community RTX 3080 side-by-side. After fees that's 97.0 vs. 93.1 TH/s effective, so it leads even at 3%.

Is a 0% dev fee miner automatically the best deal? No. IpMiner's 0% locks you to LuckyPool, so you trade the fee for your pool choice — and a slower low-fee miner can still net fewer coins than a faster one with a higher fee. Compare effective hashrate, then check the dollars in the calculator.

How do I calculate effective hashrate? Raw hashrate × (1 − dev fee). Example: 100 TH/s at a 3% fee = 97.0 TH/s effective; 94 TH/s at 1% = 93.1 TH/s effective. Use your own pool-side numbers, not the miner's console.

Can HydraX mine Pearl today? Yes — as of v3.0.1, HydraX mines Pearl on its cleanroom pearlhash kernel at a flat 1% fee on NVIDIA RTX 30/40/50 series cards, at a pool-verified ~145 TH/s on an RTX 5070 Ti (ahead of SRBMiner-MULTI's ~137.79 TH/s effective). It also mines ETC, the Ravencoin family and Monero, plus Xelis on the CPU; grab it from the HydraX miner page.

Estimates only. Mining returns depend on volatile prices, rising difficulty, and your real costs. Cited hashrates come from a single community test; your results will vary. Not financial advice.