Antminer S9: specs, earnings and solo odds
The Antminer S9 is Bitmain's air-cooled Bitcoin miner from 2016, one of the most widely sold miners ever made. It is rated at 13.5 TH/s for 1350 W (100 joules per terahash).
Mining solo at today's difficulty, one Antminer S9 would expect to find a Bitcoin block about once every 1,400 years: a 1 in 520,000 chance on any given day.
- Hashrate
- 13.5 TH/s
- Power
- 1350 W
- Efficiency
- 100 J/TH
- Released
- Orders opened May 2016, first shipments Jun 2016
What it earns a day
At today's difficulty of 140.58T and a block reward of 3.14721501 BTC, one Antminer S9 is expected to earn 608 sats a day on average (about $0.49 at a Bitcoin price of $80,408), read 27 Oct 2026 18:07 UTC. Running it uses 32 kWh a day.
| Power price | Electricity | Net a day |
|---|---|---|
| $0.05 per kWh | $1.62 | −$1.13 |
| $0.10 per kWh | $3.24 | −$2.75 |
| $0.15 per kWh | $4.86 | −$4.37 |
An average, not a wage. Solo mining pays this average out as a whole block or nothing: the figure is what the machine earns per day over a very long run, not what arrives each day. The machine's own price is not shown here. Open the calculator to use your own power price.
Checked specs
- Maker
- Bitmain
- Family
- Antminer S9
- Variant
- nine hashrate grades, 10 to 14 TH/s
- Chip
- 189 chips on 3 hash boards
- Power input
- 11.6–13 V DC (10 PCIe power connectors)
- Cooling
- Air
- Noise
- 76 dB
- Released
- Orders opened May 2016, first shipments Jun 2016
- At the maker
- Maker availability not checked
- Figures
- Figures from the maker's or designer's own pages
| Mode | Hashrate | Power | J/TH |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13.5 TH/s grade | 13.5 TH/s (Bitmain lists grades from 10 to 14 TH/s) | 1350 W (+12%)maker's rating | 100 (calc.) |
Sources (checked 2026-10-11): Bitmain spec · Release date: Bitmain official announcement. Image: D-Central, from its product page. Background evened to white, trimmed, centred and resized by SoloLuck; the machine itself is not edited.
About the Antminer S9
The S9 is the machine much of today's mining hobby grew up on. Orders opened in May 2016 and it stayed in production for years, which is why S9s still turn up everywhere second-hand. Bitmain sold it in nine hashrate grades from 10 to 14 terahashes a second; this page uses the 13.5 TH/s grade.
By today's standards it is very inefficient: about 100 joules per terahash, nearly six times the electricity an Antminer S21 spends for the same work. At almost any household power price it costs more to run than it is expected to earn, as the table above shows, so the people who keep one running do it for other reasons: the heat in winter, the lottery ticket, or a machine with years of history that still works.
It is also unusually demanding to wire. It runs on 11.6 to 13 volts DC through ten PCIe power connectors, so it needs a separate power supply unit of the right size, and Bitmain rates it at 76 dB, louder than most people want in a room they sit in.
As a solo ticket, one S9 is about eleven Bitaxe Gammas of hashrate for roughly seventy times the power. Its odds are at the top of this page. On SoloLuck it mines to your own Bitcoin address with no fee on the Lite port, the same way a Bitaxe does, and a block it finds pays the whole reward straight to that address.
Mine solo with it on SoloLuck
Point the Antminer S9 at SoloLuck with these three settings in its own web panel or app:
- Pool URL
stratum+tcp://stratum.sololuck.io:3333- Username
- your own Bitcoin address, optionally followed by a dot and a worker name (
bc1q….rig1) - Password
x(anything works)
Port 3333 is the Lite tier, for Bitaxe, NerdQAxe, Avalon Nano, and home ASICs up to S19-class (min 1,024 · start 4,000).
There is no fee and no account. If it solves a block, the network pays the whole reward straight to your address: SoloLuck never holds it. The setup wizard walks through it step by step, and our setup guide covers this machine.
Where to buy
Shops that list this exact model, with the stock each showed when last checked:
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Compare it
Also in the Antminer S9 family: Antminer S9k, Antminer S9j, Antminer S9 SE. All hardware, with every model's figures and odds side by side.
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Quick answers
Can one Antminer S9 find a Bitcoin block on its own?
Yes: every hash is a fresh draw, so any miner can. At today's difficulty one Antminer S9 would expect a block about once every 1,400 years, a 1 in 520,000 chance on any given day, and most never find one.
How much does the Antminer S9 earn a day?
On average, about $0.49 a day at today's difficulty and Bitcoin price, before electricity. At $0.10 per kWh its power costs $3.24 a day, so it nets −$2.75. Solo mining pays that average as a whole block or nothing.
How do I solo mine with a Antminer S9?
Set the pool URL to stratum+tcp://stratum.sololuck.io:3333, the username to your own Bitcoin address (a dot and a worker name are optional) and the password to anything. SoloLuck charges no fee, and a block it finds pays the whole reward straight to your address.
How much power does the Antminer S9 use?
1350 W (+12%), by the figures linked on this page.