# OSRS Exchange alternatives

> Alternatives to OSRS Exchange (osrs.exchange) for Grand Exchange prices, flips and alerts: GE Tracker, the OSRS Wiki’s real-time prices and our free, ad-free site, compared from each one’s own pages.

Canonical: https://osrsgrandexchange.com/alternatives/osrs-exchange
Last updated: 2026-10-29

OSRS Exchange is free with ads. Premium is $4.99 a month with a 7-day free trial and takes the ads away, refreshes prices every 6 seconds instead of 30, and unlocks members recipes, table presets and trend analysis (its Premium page, checked 2026-10-29). If you’d rather not pay or see ads, these are the alternatives.

By the OSRS Grand Exchange team.

## The alternatives

- **[OSRS Grand Exchange (this site)](https://osrsgrandexchange.com)**: best for free, ad-free margins and our own price history. Flips after tax, high alch, item sets, skilling costs, movers; prices every 5 minutes; free email price alerts with an account.
- **[OSRS Wiki real-time prices](https://prices.runescape.wiki/osrs/)**: best for fresh free prices. Refreshes every 60 seconds, margins after tax, charts from 6 hours to a year.
- **[GE Tracker](https://www.ge-tracker.com/)**: best for trade logging and phone alerts. Free plan; Premium £2.00 a month.

## OSRS Exchange and the alternatives

|  | OSRS Exchange | OSRS Grand Exchange (us) | OSRS Wiki prices | GE Tracker |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Price | Free; Premium $4.99 a month (an annual plan is offered) | Free, no ads | Free | Free; Premium £2.00 a month, £10.80 for 6 months or £17.00 for 12 months |
| What a paid plan adds | Faster refresh, ad-free, members recipes, table presets, price trend analysis | There is no paid plan: everything is free | No paid plan | Flip finders, price alerts, more money-making tools, active transactions |
| How fresh prices are | Every 30 seconds free, every 6 seconds on Premium | New prices every 5 minutes | The page refreshes every 60 seconds while it’s open | "5-minute pricing intervals" on the free plan |
| Flip margin after the 2% tax | Margin lines on the chart show profit after tax (on its Premium page) | Yes, with ROI and profit per buy limit | Yes, with ROI and profit per buy limit | Highest-margin, high-volume and GE-limit flip finders are Premium |
| Price history | Price charts; trend analysis is Premium | Our own stored history: 7 days hourly, up to a year daily | Charts from 6 hours to 1 year | Graphs at 5-minute intervals; day timeline graphs are Premium |
| Skilling cost and profit tools | Recipe Profit (members recipes need Premium) | Prayer, Construction and Herblore cost per XP | Not listed | 15 money-making tools; 6 are free (e.g. Blast Furnace, plank making), the rest Premium |
| Movers and market signals | Buy/sell pressure bar (on its Premium page) | Risers and fallers over 1, 7 and 30 days, items near 90-day lows, momentum, merch flags, game update impact | Highest daily volume and most expensive tables | Market Watch index (free) |
| Price alerts | Discord DM or email, up to 25 items | Free email alerts with a free account | Not listed | Premium: app (unlimited), email (100 a month), SMS (30 a month) |
| Your own trade and profit log | Saves your buy price per item (on its Premium page) | No | No (favourites only) | Yes, with import from RuneLite |

Rival facts from each site’s own pages, checked 2026-10-29. “Not listed” means the pages we checked don’t mention it.

## What OSRS Exchange does well

Its Premium page leads with speed: free users wait 30 seconds between updates, Premium gets one every 6 seconds. It also sends price alerts by Discord DM or email (up to 25 items), draws margin lines on the chart with your profit after tax, and shows a buy/sell pressure bar. It runs a Recipe Profit tool and a Death’s Coffer page too.

## What you get here instead

- Prices for every tradeable item every 5 minutes from the [OSRS Wiki real-time prices API](https://prices.runescape.wiki/), stored in our own database so we can chart our own history: 7 days hourly and up to a year daily on every [item page](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/items).
- [Flipping margins](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/flipping) after the 2% tax, with ROI and profit per buy limit; [high alch profit](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/high-alch); [item set margins](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/item-sets); and [Prayer](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/prayer-training), [Construction](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/construction-training) and [Herblore](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/herblore-training) cost per XP.
- [Movers](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/movers) over 1, 7 and 30 days, [items near their 90-day lows](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/invest), [momentum](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/momentum), merch flags on item pages, and [what each game update did to prices](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/updates).
- Free, with no ads and nothing behind a paywall. No account needed.

## Where OSRS Exchange beats us

- **Speed:** 30-second updates free and 6-second on Premium, against our 5 minutes.
- **Alerts** by Discord DM or email; ours aren’t live yet.
- **Margin lines on the chart** that remember what you paid.

## Who should stick with OSRS Exchange

- You flip high-volume items where a few seconds matter, and $4.99 a month pays for itself.
- You want price alerts in Discord.
- You also play RS3: its Premium page says one membership covers both of its sites.

[See today’s best flips, free](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/flipping): No ads, no sign-up.

## Sources

- [OSRS Exchange home page](https://osrs.exchange/) (checked 2026-10-29)
- [OSRS Exchange Premium](https://osrs.exchange/premium) (checked 2026-10-29)
- [OSRS Wiki real-time prices](https://prices.runescape.wiki/osrs/) (checked 2026-10-29)
- [OSRS Wiki real-time prices, Abyssal whip page](https://prices.runescape.wiki/osrs/item/4151) (checked 2026-10-29)
- [GE Tracker pricing](https://www.ge-tracker.com/pricing) (checked 2026-10-29)
- Our own prices: [OSRS Wiki real-time prices API](https://prices.runescape.wiki/), stored every 5 minutes.

## Related

- [Live OSRS Grand Exchange prices](https://osrsgrandexchange.com)
- [OSRS flipping margins after tax](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/flipping)
- [GE Tracker vs OSRS Exchange](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/vs/ge-tracker-vs-osrs-exchange)
- [GE Tracker alternatives](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/alternatives/ge-tracker)
- [Best OSRS flipping tools](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/best/flipping-tools)