# CGMiner Reviews **Vendor:** CGMiner **Category:** [Crypto Mining Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cryptocurrency-mining) **Average Rating:** 3.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 20 ## About CGMiner This is a multi-threaded multi-pool FPGA and ASIC miner for bitcoin. ## CGMiner Reviews ### 1. Good for cross platform mining **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan S. | Owner / Photographer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2020 **What do you like best about CGMiner?** Available for multiple devices and platforms. I'm able to get it setup on most of my devices. Works well and has a lot of information available online to help you get started. **What do you dislike about CGMiner?** Command line only. May be difficult for beginners to setup. Doesnt offer as many features as some other miners out there. **What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping me utilize unused hardware to mine crypto. ### 2. S.A.R **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2021 **What do you like best about CGMiner?** Career opportunity knocks as the need for project talent continues to grow. **What do you dislike about CGMiner?** Research indicates that employers will need to fill nearly 2.2 million new project-oriented roles each year through 2027. **What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?** This means skilled project managers will be in high demand. ### 3. Simple Mining Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rafael H. | Consultant Marketing, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2020 **What do you like best about CGMiner?** it is very simple and you can start mining in a matter of minutes **What do you dislike about CGMiner?** Not easy to install and use in Windows for the average user **Recommendations to others considering CGMiner:** If you are going to use it in Windows you must disable the antivirus **What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mining with ASIC devices ### 4. Free Lightweight Miner for Bitcoin **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Evan C. | SAP Technical Consultant Associate, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2019 **What do you like best about CGMiner?** Very simple and lightweight miner in mining world, and can combine the technology of ASIC,FPGA, even with GPU and CPU. It can be used in many os from linux, mac, and windows. **What do you dislike about CGMiner?** CGMiner need to be configured properly and sometimes it is kinda complicated. Having said that ,it is usually only for the first time. **Recommendations to others considering CGMiner:** CGMiner could add a simple wizard setup feature that perhaps provides configured popular mining pools and simply have a simple GUI to make the setup easier. **What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mining a new block especially these days in bitcoin world, it is very hard to mine a single block and it gets harder everytime as can be seen from blockchain web, current devices will become useless somedays. However CGMiner can utilize and combine your rigs either from CPU, GPU, FPGA, or ASIC to optimize the mining and extend the use of those devices. CGMiner also provides data those rigs to analyse them the speed of mining and the temperatures that affects the mining and lifetime of the devices. ### 5. Awesome option for cross-platform cryptocurrency mining **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2019 **What do you like best about CGMiner?** CGMiner is a ASIC, GPU, and FPGA miner that is maintained as an open-source product and works on platforms including Windows, Linux, and macOS. CGMiner is extremely flexible platform-wise, and can work with a variety of hardware miners, and GPUs, including the CUDA and NVIDIA platforms. There is, however, a lot to improve. It is also very easy to debug algorithms and miners at the very beginning through CGMiners very helpful logging and debugging tools. **What do you dislike about CGMiner?** CGMiner is a purely command-line tool. When there are a lot of features and settings to control, the purely command-line interface can make it very hard to control the behavior of CGMiner. There are a variety of GUI tools (also maintained as open-source), that help with this, but many of them do not interface well with the actual binaries of CGMiner. **Recommendations to others considering CGMiner:** For those looking to implement cryptocurrency mining on a variety of hardware or any platform, CGMiner is a great free go-to tool, but the lack of a graphical interface may make the process of installation a little more difficult than necessary. In that case, it is probably necessary to look at other similar tools that have graphical interfaces as well. **What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?** CGMiner allows us to generate a second form of income during times when the market for cryptocurrency is good, for the local graphics cards and rendering servers we have that are usually idle or not in use. CGMiner takes very little configuration and is very quick to set up for these purposes. ### 6. Gcminers seems to be the optimal solution right now **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2019 **What do you like best about CGMiner?** Highly customizable, supports multiple mining pools **What do you dislike about CGMiner?** Pretty satisfied with the product, my engineers say so **Recommendations to others considering CGMiner:** Please hire great engineers, who know which software/hardware to install to achieve great results **What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Supports multiple mingling pools ### 7. CGMiner review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jim M. | ERJ 175 Captain, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about CGMiner?** Very simple to use miner. I liked that it can be used in multiple operating systems such as mac and windows. **What do you dislike about CGMiner?** Can be complicated to use at first and has a variety of functions that you will need to get used to. **Recommendations to others considering CGMiner:** Great free tool to use for those looking to implement cryptocurrency mining. **What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it to provide data regarding the efficiency and speed of rigs used for mining. ### 8. Solid open source mining softeware **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark N. | Chief Digital Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2018 **What do you like best about CGMiner?** This open source miner is actively maintained when compiled from the nightly release repository. There are multiple forks available that provide various support for your miner. I find that this is provides stable performance with decent hash rates. There are miners that have higher hash output but that is largely closed source and offset by developer fees. **What do you dislike about CGMiner?** They could provide more regular releases, as is it has an official release about twice a year. **What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this to run all our mining rigs. ### 9. You need to have a Deathstar to mine some **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about CGMiner?** Easy to compile , configuration information is easy to be found on the web **What do you dislike about CGMiner?** I let it run for 2 weeks and I did not make a dime on bitcoin mining. Sometimes it also just crashes by itself. restart of the computer is then the only way. **Recommendations to others considering CGMiner:** buy yourself a rocketship computer before you step into mining **What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?** no business problems. only bitcoin mining. ### 10. Great interface and nice variety in the mining system **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2019 **What do you like best about CGMiner?** Compare to other mining system, this one being an open source make it more easy to configure with our own preference. **What do you dislike about CGMiner?** The only downside is the experience required to use this system. **Recommendations to others considering CGMiner:** Not for beginners **What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are no real business problems to solve with CGminer, the only benefits comes from mining with some more powerful / recent graphics card, but at this time the price/return is too low compared to an ASIC mining system. ### 11. Awesome software! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Wireless | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2019 **What do you like best about CGMiner?** Open Source!!! Great documentation! Command line based! And more! **What do you dislike about CGMiner?** Lack of USB native driver support for Windows. Flaky implementation on Windows. **Recommendations to others considering CGMiner:** TRY IT!!! **What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?** I realized open source alternatives for crypto mining are often better that closed source variations due to the free and transparent nature of open source software in the CS community. ### 12. A miner with lots of options for windows and linux **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Izan G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2018 **What do you like best about CGMiner?** Its very efficient and it has lots of options to play with. Its better on linux due to system resources usage is less than in windows and you can mine more than one cryptocurrency. **What do you dislike about CGMiner?** Its difficult sometimes to use it but if you are an advanced miner it should be easy for you **Recommendations to others considering CGMiner:** If you are starting in mining cryptocoins you should start with GUI miners first, as MinerGate or nicehash miner but if not is a good solution to use **What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have some mining machines and we use CGMiner to mine with them because it has very good stability and its scalable ### 13. I enjoyed all the features and the available customer support. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2019 **What do you like best about CGMiner?** I enjoyed the versatility of CG Miner. The program had many options that provided complete user control. **What do you dislike about CGMiner?** When starting to use the software it can be overwhelming because of all the options. **What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?** The CGMiner helped to accomplish our mining goals. ### 14. CGMiner still going strong after all these years **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2019 **What do you like best about CGMiner?** It was the first mining software i used. **What do you dislike about CGMiner?** I didn't like having to read forums to get latest info **What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?** ran a mining farm with it. i realized better yields because of being able to do special throttling with cgminer flags. ### 15. Best software for mining **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** iker f. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2018 **What do you like best about CGMiner?** It is very simple It is scalable and has very good performance It works great on CUDA devices It has a wide variety of algorithms Compatible with both Windows and Linux **What do you dislike about CGMiner?** I love everything about this software. It is great software. **Recommendations to others considering CGMiner:** It is great software if you are thinking of setting up a GPU mining rig for Gaming that supports CUDA. **What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a mining rig set up in our office and we are currently using CGMiner for that type of activity. ### 16. Very good GPU miner **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2018 **What do you like best about CGMiner?** Its simple to setup Lots of options and algorithms Works great with CUDA devices Its scalable and very efficient Works for Linux and Windows **What do you dislike about CGMiner?** Sometimes it gets stuck while mining but can be configured to restart at certain time **Recommendations to others considering CGMiner:** Its a great miner dedicated for CUDA devices. Like Gaming GPU **What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a mining rig for testing purposes and we havent go live yet. But its very efficient and mines very well as we have tested it ### 17. CGMiner | Bitcoin Miner **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2019 **What do you like best about CGMiner?** a very nice bitcoin miner easy with everything needed to start mining bitcoin! **What do you dislike about CGMiner?** nothing really, very nice and easy to use BTC Miner **Recommendations to others considering CGMiner:** very easy and simple miner, would totally recommend **What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting bitcoin as it was very simple for us to start using it and understanding the bitcoin world ### 18. Great! **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2019 **What do you like best about CGMiner?** Love using this product to mine, very elfficicient when it comes to saving power **What do you dislike about CGMiner?** Overall noicy and overheata a decwnt bit **What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mining crypto ### 19. Easy to use and great mining product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018 **What do you like best about CGMiner?** Simple dos based commands with a simple, script-enabled config file **What do you dislike about CGMiner?** not enough options for multi-mining currencies **Recommendations to others considering CGMiner:** ensure you have all your options set up prior **What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?** backup should we get held for ransomeware ### 20. Simple, industry-standard mining software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2018 **What do you like best about CGMiner?** Easy setup, scriptable, the best miner out there for CUDA devices **What do you dislike about CGMiner?** Building from source always seems to have issues, but precompiled binaries are available. Sometimes crashes, requires manual restart **Recommendations to others considering CGMiner:** Write your own scripts to ensure the miner is running properly **What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bitcoin mining with a simple CLI interface, error handling. low overhead ## CGMiner Discussions - [No question](https://www.g2.com/discussions/34372-no-question) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [How do I create an account](https://www.g2.com/discussions/26185-how-do-i-create-an-account) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View CGMiner pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/cgminer/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+09%3A33%3A23+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=61a6f1bb-352d-47f1-a02b-e5210b3de972&secure%5Btoken%5D=96fcf1909bc339fca361796e4a1b5980ea9e04c4e1d7088d8099d5489f0e322e&format=llm_user) ## Top CGMiner Alternatives - [NiceHash](https://www.g2.com/products/nicehash/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (29 reviews) - [MinerGate](https://www.g2.com/products/minergate/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (23 reviews) - [Awesome Miner](https://www.g2.com/products/awesome-miner/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (12 reviews)