Stardew Crop Calculator and Profit Calculator

How the Crop Profit Calculator Works (And How to Use It Well)

This page is designed for fast, practical crop planning. You pick a season (or greenhouse), choose how many days you have left, and the calculator ranks crops by the metric that matters most for decision making: gold per day. Instead of scanning wiki tables and doing the regrow math by hand, you get a clean comparison you can tweak in seconds.

What it does

The calculator estimates two things for each crop: total profit over the time window you select, and the average profit per day over that same window. That second number is why the ranking feels useful: it helps you compare a long-grow crop with huge payouts against a fast crop you can harvest multiple times. It also handles common Stardew edge cases like regrowing crops and quality multipliers, so your shortlist matches what you actually experience in game.

How the math works (gold/day)

At a high level, gold/day is computed as: (total sell value − total seed cost) ÷ days. The “total sell value” part is where the game logic lives. For single-harvest crops, you get one harvest if the growth time fits inside your selected window. For regrowing crops, you get an initial harvest after the first growth period, then additional harvests every regrow interval as long as there are days remaining. This means a regrow crop with a slightly lower sell price can beat a slow crop when the season is short.

Quality and professions are applied as multipliers on the sale price. If you toggle Tiller, the base crop sale value increases accordingly. (Artisan is included as an option on this page for convenience, but keep in mind that Artisan is most meaningful when you are processing crops into artisan goods.)

Inputs explained

Season filters the crop list to what you can plant right now. Days remaining controls how many harvest cycles fit. Set it to the number of days left in the season if you are planning outdoors, or use a longer window for greenhouse planning. Quality estimates the average sale value per harvest at that quality tier. Tiller boosts raw crop sales, while Artisanmatters when you process.

Common pitfalls

The most common mistake is optimizing the spreadsheet instead of the farm. Gold/day assumes you can water and harvest on time. If you miss harvest days, regrow crops look better on paper than they feel in play. Another pitfall is ignoring startup time: crops with a long initial growth can look amazing for a full season, but become terrible when only 9–12 days remain.

Also, remember that this calculator focuses on raw crop selling. If your real plan is to turn everything into wine, juice, jelly, or pickles, your ranking can change. When processing is the goal, use the calculator to pick candidates, then sanity-check the decision with a processing guide.

When to use keg/jar assumptions

If you have more crops than machines, the limiting factor is not the crop; it is your keg or preserves jar capacity. In that case, a “best crop” list based on raw gold/day is only a starting point. Your best choice becomes the crop that produces the most value per machine-day given your processing pipeline. Thekeg vs jar profit guidebreaks that tradeoff down clearly, including when wine beats juice and when jars are the better early-game bet.

For greenhouse planning, “days remaining” is less meaningful than repeatable weekly throughput. A good approach is to test a longer window (like 28 or 56 days), then compare your top picks against thebest greenhouse crops guideto confirm the assumptions match your sprinkler layout, harvesting cadence, and processing plan.