--- title: CGMiner Reviews meta\_title: 'CGMiner Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 20 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how CGMiner works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.9 review\_count: 20 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Cryptocurrency url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cryptocurrency --- # CGMiner Reviews & Product Details This is a multi-threaded multi-pool FPGA and ASIC miner for bitcoin. * * * Seller [CGMiner](https://www.g2.com/sellers/cgminer) Discussions [CGMiner Community](https://www.g2.com/products/cgminer/discuss) Overview by Sihle Malinga (Designer/Developer) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/cgminer/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![NiceHash](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "NiceHash") NiceHash 4.1/5(30) ](https://www.g2.com/products/nicehash/reviews) [ ![MinerGate](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "MinerGate") MinerGate 4.1/5(23) ](https://www.g2.com/products/minergate/reviews) [ ![Awesome Miner](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Awesome Miner") Awesome Miner 4.3/5(13) ](https://www.g2.com/products/awesome-miner/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/cgminer/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 20 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Dan S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dan S.") DS Dan S. Owner / Photographer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/23/2020 "Good for cross platform mining" 3.5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you? Helping me utilize unused hardware to mine crypto. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Oil & Energy](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Oil & Energy") UO Verified User in Oil & Energy Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/12/2021 "S.A.R" 4/5 What do you like best about CGMiner? Career opportunity knocks as the need for project talent continues to grow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you? This means skilled project managers will be in high demand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Rafael H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rafael H.") RH Rafael H. Consultant Marketing Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/12/2020 "Simple Mining Software" 5/5 What do you like best about CGMiner? it is very simple and you can start mining in a matter of minutes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CGMiner? Not easy to install and use in Windows for the average user Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CGMiner: If you are going to use it in Windows you must disable the antivirus Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you? Mining with ASIC devices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Evan C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Evan C.") EC Evan C. SAP Technical Consultant Associate Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/16/2019 "Free Lightweight Miner for Bitcoin" 4/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Utilities](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Utilities") UU Verified User in Utilities Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/19/2019 "Awesome option for cross-platform cryptocurrency mining" 3.5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") EI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/29/2019 "Gcminers seems to be the optimal solution right now" 4.5/5 What do you like best about CGMiner? Highly customizable, supports multiple mining pools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CGMiner? Pretty satisfied with the product, my engineers say so Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CGMiner: Please hire great engineers, who know which software/hardware to install to achieve great results Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you? Supports multiple mingling pools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jim M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jim M.") JM Jim M. ERJ 175 Captain Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/22/2019 "CGMiner review" 4.5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CGMiner: Great free tool to use for those looking to implement cryptocurrency mining. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mark N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mark N.") MN Mark N. Chief Digital Officer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/17/2018 "Solid open source mining softeware" 3.5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CGMiner? They could provide more regular releases, as is it has an official release about twice a year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you? We use this to run all our mining rigs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/10/2019 "You need to have a Deathstar to mine some" 0/5 What do you like best about CGMiner? Easy to compile , configuration information is easy to be found on the web Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CGMiner: buy yourself a rocketship computer before you step into mining Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CGMiner solving and how is that benefiting you? no business problems. only bitcoin mining. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Internet](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Internet") UI Verified User in Internet Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/16/2019 "Great interface and nice variety in the mining system" 4/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CGMiner? The only downside is the experience required to use this system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CGMiner: Not for beginners Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about CGMiner? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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