# OSRS Wiki real-time prices alternatives

> Alternatives to the OSRS Wiki’s real-time price site (prices.runescape.wiki): our own stored history and signals, GE Tracker, OSRS Exchange and Jagex’s official GE, compared from each site’s own pages.

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

The OSRS Wiki’s real-time prices site is free, refreshes every 60 seconds while it’s open, shows margins after tax, and publishes the free API most OSRS price sites run on, us included. Since 30 September 2026 its data comes from Jagex for every game client; before that it came from RuneLite players (checked 2026-10-29). The alternatives add things on top of that data.

By the OSRS Grand Exchange team.

## The alternatives

- **[OSRS Grand Exchange (this site)](https://osrsgrandexchange.com)**: best for history-based signals on top of the wiki’s data. Movers over 1, 7 and 30 days, items near 90-day lows, momentum, merch flags, item set margins, skilling costs, game update impact.
- **[GE Tracker](https://www.ge-tracker.com/)**: best for a log of your own flips and alerts on your phone. Free plan; Premium from £2.00 a month for flip finders and alerts.
- **[OSRS Exchange](https://osrs.exchange/)**: best for faster refreshes and Discord alerts. Free with ads; Premium $4.99 a month.
- **[Official Grand Exchange (Jagex)](https://secure.runescape.com/m=itemdb_oldschool/)**: best for the guide price. Updated every 3 hours; no instant prices.

## The wiki’s price site and the alternatives

|  | OSRS Wiki prices | OSRS Grand Exchange (us) | GE Tracker | OSRS Exchange |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Price | Free | Free, no ads | Free; Premium £2.00 a month, £10.80 for 6 months or £17.00 for 12 months | Free; Premium $4.99 a month (an annual plan is offered) |
| How fresh prices are | The page refreshes every 60 seconds while it’s open | New prices every 5 minutes | "5-minute pricing intervals" on the free plan | Every 30 seconds free, every 6 seconds on Premium |
| Instant-buy and instant-sell prices | Yes, with how long ago each traded | Yes, plus 1-hour and 24-hour averages | Yes ("Live Market Prices") | Yes |
| Flip margin after the 2% tax | 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 | Margin lines on the chart show profit after tax (on its Premium page) |
| Price history | Charts from 6 hours to 1 year | Our own stored history: 7 days hourly, up to a year daily | Graphs at 5-minute intervals; day timeline graphs are Premium | Price charts; trend analysis is Premium |
| High alch profit | Yes (Alchemy table) | Yes, every item at live prices | Yes (free) | Not listed |
| Item set margins | Not listed | Yes, assembling or splitting, after tax | Premium | Not listed |
| Movers and market signals | Highest daily volume and most expensive tables | Risers and fallers over 1, 7 and 30 days, items near 90-day lows, momentum, merch flags, game update impact | Market Watch index (free) | Buy/sell pressure bar (on its Premium page) |
| Price alerts | Not listed | Free email alerts with a free account | Premium: app (unlimited), email (100 a month), SMS (30 a month) | Discord DM or email, up to 25 items |
| Public API | Yes, free: the API we and GE Tracker read | No | "Public API temporarily disabled" | Not listed |

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

## Same data, different questions

We read the same API, every 5 minutes, and keep every sweep. The wiki answers "what is it worth right now?" best. We try to answer what comes next: what moved most this week, what is near its 90-day low, which items look like a merch, what a game update did to prices, and which bone, plank or potion is the cheapest XP.

- 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 the wiki’s site beats us

- **Fresher:** it refreshes every 60 seconds while open; our prices are up to 5 minutes old.
- **A 6-hour chart and fast all-item tables** with columns and filters you pick.
- **The API itself,** free for anyone building a tool, with a descriptive User-Agent.

## Who should stick with the wiki’s price site

- You flip fast and want prices less than a minute old.
- You want one sortable table of every item with your own columns and filters.
- You’re building your own tool: use the [API](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/RuneScape:Real-time_Prices) directly.

[See what moved this week](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/movers/7d): Risers and fallers from our own history.

## Sources

- [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)
- [OSRS Wiki: RuneScape:Real-time Prices (the API)](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/RuneScape:Real-time_Prices) (checked 2026-10-29)
- [GE Tracker pricing](https://www.ge-tracker.com/pricing) (checked 2026-10-29)
- [OSRS Exchange Premium](https://osrs.exchange/premium) (checked 2026-10-29)
- [Official Grand Exchange, Abyssal whip page](https://secure.runescape.com/m=itemdb_oldschool/Abyssal+whip/viewitem?obj=4151) (checked 2026-10-29)
- [OSRS Wiki: Grand Exchange (guide prices, tax, buy limits, changes)](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Grand_Exchange) (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)
- [Every OSRS item’s GE price](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/items)
- [GE guide price vs real-time prices](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/vs/guide-price-vs-real-time-price)
- [GE Tracker alternatives](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/alternatives/ge-tracker)
- [OSRS price tools for merchants and investors](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/for/merchants)