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Abstract As resource of living for the farmers, farming activities must being the sustainable livelihoods. Practicing organic farming is the way that can be chosen to realize the sustainable livelihood. However, the practicing of organic farming in Indonesia was only 0.6 % (208,042 hectares) in 2017. The orientation of conventional farmers to achieve more profit from their farming activities is the issue to increase the conversion from practicing conventional to organic farming. The objective of this study is to analyze the profit earned in conventional and organic paddy farming where the analysis is based on the cost of paddy production (variable, fixed, and total cost), the total of paddy production, and the selling result of paddy. Two village in Lawang district, namely Sumber Ngepoh and Mulyoarjo, are chosen as study field. There are 32 organic paddy farmers from farmer group of Sumber Makmur 1 and 34 conventional paddy farmers from farmer group of Mulyo 2, who are as respondents and interviewed. The independent t-test is used to analysis the different of profit earned by respondents between both villages. The statistical test of the means shows that the mean for variable cost and total cost of farmer group of Mulyo 2 is 18 and 15 percent respectively less than farmer group of Sumber Makmur 1. And, the mean of the fixed cost, the production, the selling price, the selling result and the profit of farmer group of Sumber Makmur 1 are 104, 185, 8, 211, and 843 percent respectively more than farmer group of Mulyo 2. It is concluded that practicing organic paddy in Sumber Ngepoh village is more profit compared to practicing conventional paddy in Mulyoarjo. This conclusion can be basic for farmers in Mulyoarjo village to convert from practicing conventional paddy to practicing organic paddy by objective to get similar benefits as gotten by farmers in Sumber Ngepoh village.