Stardew Valley Crop Profit Calculator

What is a Stardew Valley crop profit calculator?

How to calculate Stardew Valley crop profit (with the manual steps)

Gold per day — the full formula

• $g_{\text{day}}$ = Gold per day (g/day); the table sorts on this descending by default.
• $h$ = Number of harvests this season.
• $y$ = Expected yield per harvest (Blueberry 3, Cranberries 2, Potato 1.25, most crops 1).
• $v$ = Price per unit sold. Raw = base price × quality multiplier × (Tiller 1.1); processed goods use the multipliers below, then × (Artisan 1.4).
• $c_{\text{seed}}$ = Total seed cost. Regrowing crops buy 1 seed for the season; non-regrowing crops buy 1 per harvest.
• $c_{\text{fert}}$ = Fertilizer cost (one-time per tile; off by default, since most players craft their own fertilizer).
• $d_{\text{used}}$ = Days the tile is occupied. Regrowing crops = the whole days-left window; non-regrowing crops = harvests × growth days.

Worked examples with the full math

Crop-profit tips every Stardew Valley farmer should know

• Look at gold per day, not the sticker price. A Sweet Gem Berry sells for 3,000g, but it grows for 24 days, never regrows, and the seed is expensive, so it works out to roughly 122 g/day at Farming 10; a Blueberry sells for just 50g, yet regrows every 4 days yielding 3 each time for steady season-long income. Ranking by gold/day is the only fair comparison.
• Processed goods ignore star quality. A Gold-star Ancient Fruit sells raw for 825, but its wine is always 550 × 3 = 1,650 — the star rating is wasted in a Keg. So if a crop is destined for wine, do not spend Deluxe fertilizer trying to push its quality; save the Deluxe fertilizer for high-value crops you will sell raw.
• Wine usually beats jam on unit value. Wine is base × 3 and Juice is base × 2.25; Jam and Pickles are "base × 2 + 50". So jam only out-values wine when the base price is below 50g (e.g. Parsnip, where 35×2+50 = 120 > 35×3 = 105). At exactly 50g, like Blueberry, wine and jam tie at 150 and the tool's "Best per crop" resolves the tie to wine; above 50g, pricey fruit (Strawberry, Starfruit, Ancient Fruit) is always better as wine. The tool compares unit value, not processing speed, so pick "Best per crop" and let it judge each crop for you.
• Plant regrowing crops as early as possible. Blueberry, Hops, Strawberry, Cranberries, Grape, Tomato and Ancient Fruit buy seed only once per season, so the earlier you plant, the more regrowth harvests you get. The same Blueberry gives 4 harvests planted on day 1 but only 1–2 if planted on day 10 — a big gold/day gap. The tool's "current day" input is exactly for working this out.
• Ancient Fruit is the low-maintenance Greenhouse king, but Hops Pale Ale earns more on paper. Under the assumption that you have enough Kegs to process every harvest, the tool ranks Hops Pale Ale first in Summer and the Greenhouse. If you do not have a wall of Kegs and do not want to harvest daily, Ancient Fruit is the best balance of income and effort — matching the community consensus.
• Some crops cannot be grown in Year 1. Red Cabbage, Garlic and Artichoke need Year-2 seeds; Starfruit, Rhubarb and Beet require unlocking the Desert Oasis; Ancient Fruit needs a Rare/Ancient Seed. The tool flags these with "Y2+", "Oasis" and "rare" badges, so Year-1 players can simply pick the unbadged rows.
• Fertilizer cost is off by default. Most players make Basic fertilizer from tree sap and compost their own Quality fertilizer for almost nothing, so "Subtract fertilizer cost" is off by default. If you actually buy fertilizer, turn the toggle on and the tool deducts the one-time per-tile price from profit.
• A result looks off? Tap the row for the breakdown. Harvest count, quality multiplier, price per unit and seed cost are all listed, so you can see which step differs from your expectation. The tool assumes you have enough Kegs and Jars to process every harvest and that all seeds are bought; it does not model giant crops, the Seed Maker, or a Keg-count limit — those turn the closed-form formula into a day-by-day simulation, which is outside its scope.

Stardew Valley crop calculator — frequently asked questions

Stardew Valley crop-profit glossary

1. Stardew Valley Wiki — Farming: the canonical crop-quality formula (gold chance = 0.2·(L/10) + 0.2·F·((L+2)/12) + 0.01), silver/iridium chances, the Silver 1.25× / Gold 1.5× / Iridium 2× sell multipliers, and the Tiller (+10% raw), Artisan (+40% artisan goods) and Agriculturist (−10% growth) professions.
2. Stardew Valley Wiki — Crops: per-crop base sell price (normal quality), growth and regrowth days, expected yield and seasonal availability for the full 1.6.x crop list used in this calculator's dataset.
3. Stardew Valley Wiki — Keg: confirms Wine = 3× the fruit's base price, Juice = 2.25× the vegetable's base price, and Pale Ale = a flat 300g from Hops, plus each product's fermentation time.
4. Stardew Valley Wiki — Preserves Jar: confirms the Jam/Jelly and Pickles value formula (2 × base price + 50), used for the Jar processing route.
5. thorinair, “Stardew Profits” (open-source, MIT): the reference gold/day data model this calculator mirrors — season, days remaining, regrowth, quality, fertilizer, professions and keg/jar processing without machine-throughput limiting.
6. StardewPriceDB — Most Profitable Crops (1.6.15): an independent gold-per-day chart and keg-vs-jar comparison used to cross-check this calculator's rankings against a third-party source.