# Profit at August 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Node Operators\ **Created:** [August 21, 2023, 7:09am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/profit-at-august-2023/23563 "2023-08-21T07:09:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![totoro25](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/totoro25/32/1125_2.png) [@totoro25](https://forum.storj.io/u/totoro25)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 7:09am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/profit-at-august-2023/23563/1 "2023-08-21T07:09:45Z")
should join the network at August 2023 ? Is it profitable for us? ---
**Author:** ![Ruskiem](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/ruskiem/32/64_2.png) [@Ruskiem](https://forum.storj.io/u/Ruskiem)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 7:14am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/profit-at-august-2023/23563/2 "2023-08-21T07:14:03Z")
My full 7TB node for 07.2023 did 61.02GB Egress 146.57GB Repair and audit 207,59GB total (resulting in $1 payout for all month’s traffic) so not the best… With current rates of $6/TB traffic, a minimum 2TB traffic per month would be enough for me for a 7TB node, to get paid $12, and that’s x10 more than current traffic… (and that STILL would be only ~65% of a 10Mbps upstream capabilities! so low connection can handle it with ease!) ---
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 7:15am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/profit-at-august-2023/23563/3 "2023-08-21T07:15:19Z")
Hello @totoro25, Welcome to the forum! You may check this Community Earnings Estimator to get an idea how long it may take to fill your free space and how much you may earn: [Realistic earnings estimator](https://forum.storj.io/t/realistic-earnings-estimator/6693) ---
**Author:** ![totoro25](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/totoro25/32/1125_2.png) [@totoro25](https://forum.storj.io/u/totoro25)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/profit-at-august-2023/23563/4 "2023-08-21T07:35:21Z")
thank for your reply! I will reconsider my investment ---
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 7:40am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/profit-at-august-2023/23563/5 "2023-08-21T07:40:13Z")
We do not recommend to invest to anything with purpose only for Storj, use what you have now and what will be online anyway with Storj or without, in this case any income would be a pure profit. ---
**Author:** ![arrogantrabbit](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/arrogantrabbit/32/11200_2.png) [@arrogantrabbit](https://forum.storj.io/u/arrogantrabbit)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 7:49am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/profit-at-august-2023/23563/6 "2023-08-21T07:49:23Z")
Don’t expect storj earnings to pay for hardware, electricity, and maintenance and plus profit on top. If that was profitable they could have run their own datacenters. The purpose of the project to get a modest payment for sharing underutilized resources, that would have otherwise gone to waste. So, without storj you get nothing, you just have idle capacity (servers are running anyway, hard drives already purchased, and everyone buys more than immediate needs). But if you share that with storj – you get something. 0 / something → ∞. You get infinite return on investment, regardless of how much storj is paying. There is fixed cost of time setting storage node up, but this is a one time cost and with enough time approaches zero. ---
**Author:** ![agente](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/agente/32/1137_2.png) [@agente](https://forum.storj.io/u/agente)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/profit-at-august-2023/23563/7 "2023-08-21T15:02:56Z")
I suggest to review earnings estimator. Way too optimistic data with updated rules and traffic. Many new operators may be attracted from that numbers that are not real now ---
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 3:30am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/profit-at-august-2023/23563/8 "2023-08-22T03:30:46Z")
This Estimator is made by the Community, so you may suggest your more effective model in the thread above. As far as I know, it’s made based on Stat, provided by other Node Operators. ---
**Author:** ![donald.m.motsinger](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/donald.m.motsinger/32/71_2.png) [@donald.m.motsinger](https://forum.storj.io/u/donald.m.motsinger)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/profit-at-august-2023/23563/9 "2023-08-23T16:09:43Z")
This is the second post from you where you tell people that you get only $1 for a full 7TB node. This is misleading. You also got earnings of ~ $10 for 7TB storage. ---
**Author:** ![Ruskiem](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/ruskiem/32/64_2.png) [@Ruskiem](https://forum.storj.io/u/Ruskiem)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/profit-at-august-2023/23563/10 "2023-08-23T18:31:22Z")
nothing missleading mister, i clearly said FROM THE TRAFFIC, means egress. ---
**Author:** ![donald.m.motsinger](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/donald.m.motsinger/32/71_2.png) [@donald.m.motsinger](https://forum.storj.io/u/donald.m.motsinger)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/profit-at-august-2023/23563/11 "2023-08-23T19:33:43Z")
An obvious beginner asked, how much he can expect to earn with a node and you tell him that you earn $1 for the traffic with a 7 TB node making it sound like that’s all you get. How is it important how much you earn with traffic? The important info is the total earning including storage.