xmrig VS meta-miner

Compare xmrig vs meta-miner and see what are their differences.

xmrig

Monero (rx/0, rx/wow, rx/loki, defyx, rx/arq, rx/sfx, rx/keva, cn/0, cn/1, cn/2, cn/r, cn/fast, cn/half, cn/xao, cn/rto, cn/rwz, cn/zls, cn/double, cn/gpu, cn-lite/0, cn-lite/1, cn-heavy/0, cn-heavy/tube, cn-heavy/xhv, cn-pico, cn-pico/tlo, argon2/chukwa, argon2/wrkz, astrobwt) CPU/GPU miner (by MoneroOcean)

meta-miner

Allows to add algo switching support to *any* stratum miner. Zero fees. (by MoneroOcean)
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xmrig meta-miner
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8.1 0.0
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xmrig

Posts with mentions or reviews of xmrig. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-08.

meta-miner

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  • Moneroocean mining setup help ?
    1 project | /r/MoneroMining | 22 Jun 2022
    I don't think xmrig is made for GPU mining outside of randomx which is not efficient. At least I haven't had success with it. Check out metaminer, it runs as a layer on top of a GPU miner. Use any combination of GPU miners you like to get the algos you want, i.e. gminer for ethash and kawpow, trex for autolykos. Run metaminer pointing to these programs for xmr centric algo switching and payouts.
  • Need help with XMR mining.
    4 projects | /r/MoneroMining | 16 May 2022
    MoneroOcean. Two copies of MO-xmrig fork in separate folders. Set one for CPU only. Set other for CUDA which also needs (MO-xmrig-cuda plugin fork)[https://github.com/MoneroOcean/xmrig-cuda/]) added to that folder. Then once all that works add (meta-miner)[https://github.com/MoneroOcean/meta-miner/] to the GPU folder and configure T-Rex for the algos xmrig doesn't do (autolykos2, kawpow, ethash).
  • MoneroOcean: XMRig - Shares?
    2 projects | /r/MoneroMining | 11 May 2022
    This meta-miner? https://github.com/MoneroOcean/meta-miner
  • MoneroOcean algo switching - both CPU and GPU simultaneously?
    1 project | /r/MoneroMining | 26 Apr 2022
    Or, wrap your alt miners (for whatever xmrig doesn't support) with meta-miner and it will follow profit at all times.
  • MoneroOcean ETH mining issue
    1 project | /r/MoneroMining | 20 Apr 2022
    You should probably configure with meta-miner so that it can change algos to not only the most profitable, but also the most profitable that actually is working. Then your junk will run autolykos2 or kawpow or something whenever ethash sucks.
  • Best GPU Algo Switching Miner for MO
    1 project | /r/MoneroMining | 25 Mar 2022
    I just use meta-miner
  • Not a serious miner. But Should I in theory be mining as much as I can on moneroocean cause it’s about to become irrelevant?
    1 project | /r/MoneroMining | 18 Mar 2022
    For all-algos support on GPU you must use meta-miner and configure a couple more miner apps other than xmrig (for the algos it doesn't have). I have better results with T-Rex or lolMiner for kawpow rather than xmrig's support.
  • Noob here
    5 projects | /r/MoneroMining | 9 Feb 2022
    The third method is to use MO's meta-miner wrapper which does the algo-perf outside of xmrig and enables launching other miners besides just xmrig (this is how you get the c29 family or ethash). But you can use it instead of the mo-xmrig, and when there is no launch-definition in its mm.json config file for kawpow it won't try it (can't launch anything that doesn't have a launch command). This is clunkier than the built-in autoswitching (meta-miner existed first) since it kills xmrig and relaunches xmrig rather than leaving it all initialized and simply switching algo inside itself. So the switch takes longer which technically is lost work (for whatever time it takes to stop and start an entire xmrig process).
  • So I figured out what you guys were talking about with moneroocean, and got the pool set up but I got a question
    3 projects | /r/MoneroMining | 29 Jan 2022
    For the GPU side you would use meta-miner and set up for all the algorithms xmrig supports, plus the ones it doesn't via T-Rex (nvidia-only) or lolMiner (AMD or nvidia) for ethash/kawpow/autolykos2, or MoneroVMiner for c29v.
  • i have a quesiton about cuda on moneroocean. i cant seem to find the answer anywhere
    1 project | /r/MoneroMining | 25 Dec 2021
    You simply use meta-miner which adds hopping to whatever miner(s) you want. c29b/s/v, autolykos2, kawpow (that isn't the xmrig implementation), ethash.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing xmrig and meta-miner you can also consider the following projects:

xmrig-proxy - Monero (XMR) Stratum protocol proxy

xmrig-cuda - NVIDIA CUDA plugin for XMRig miner

xmrig - RandomX, KawPow, CryptoNight and GhostRider unified CPU/GPU miner and RandomX benchmark

termux-packages - A package build system for Termux.

GMinerRelease - Ethash, ProgPoW, Equihash, CuckooCycle GPU Miner

p2pool - Decentralized pool for Monero mining

hiveos - Custom miner packages for HiveOS

xmrig-cuda - NVIDIA CUDA plugin for XMRig miner

mxmrig