Although much of the fundraising talk is around this year’s big election season, new numbers released on Monday show that there are plenty of people already giving money in the race for mayor in 2025.

According to political strategists, it’s not early and anyone who is looking to replace Mayor Eric Adams needs a lot of time and money to mount a serious challenge.

Although the challengers haven’t officially announced their bids for mayor — money talks.

“I’ve been watching from afar how this administration has not kept the promises it made,” said Scott Stringer, who has opened an exploratory campaign committee for mayor.

He’s one of three men eyeing Adams’ job, alongside Zellnor Myrie, a third-term state senator from Brooklyn, and Brad Lander, the city’s current city comptroller.

Stringer is also Lander’s predecessor.

According to public campaign finance records, Stringer raised just over $420,000 and Lander raked upwards of $187,000 since January. Myrie’s campaign said he raised $326,480 over the same period.

“The mayor’s campaign has continued to draw strong support from New Yorkers, raising more than $1 million over the last six months,” Adams campaign counsel Vito Pitta wrote in a statement provided to NY1.

Political consultant Austin Shafran cautions that it’s an uphill battle for everyone but Adams.

“At this moment, particularly in New York and particularly heading into a presidential election cycle, what you’re seeing is candidates competing for face time, for air time and for the public and the press’ attention span,” he said during a Zoom interview.

“The mayor isn’t competing against the field at this moment. The mayor is the incumbent. He is the champ, if you will,” Shafran added. “If anyone thinks winning an election in June of 2025 starts that same year, then they’re already behind the ball.”

“In order to be competitive with the mayor, they’re gonna have to come up with double the numbers minimally the next time the filing shows up,” Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime political consultant, added.

Adams narrowly won the 2021 Democratic primary. It was also the first citywide election using ranked choice voting. Stringer also ran, but his campaign was stalled due to sexual harassment allegations.

“This campaign is going to be different than the last time because I think people now know what we need, a stronger manager. We need somebody who has a real record of working within [the] city government,” Stringer told NY1 on Monday.

The fundraising progress gives candidates an idea of where they are ahead of securing public campaign dollars.

The next filing deadline is Oct. 11 and once the City Campaign Finance Board reviews the filings, the first batch of money officially goes out after Dec. 16.

Also due Monday, but not available in time for this report: how much Adams has raised for his legal defense fund.

“It’s a lot easier to focus on governing the city and raising campaign dollars when you don’t have to raise money for a legal defense fund, but that’s the challenge Eric Adams faces,” Stringer said.

Although he’s not been accused of wrongdoing, Adams is fundraising amid several federal probes.