GE Tracker vs OSRS Exchange
Both are free to start with a paid Premium on top. GE Tracker’s Premium costs £2.00 a month and is about tools: flip finders, alerts, more calculators. OSRS Exchange’s costs $4.99 a month and is about speed: 6-second refreshes instead of 30, and no ads. Both checked on their own pricing pages, 2026-10-29.
By the OSRS Grand Exchange team · Updated
Side by side
| GE Tracker | OSRS Exchange | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | 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) |
| What a paid plan adds | Flip finders, price alerts, more money-making tools, active transactions | Faster refresh, ad-free, members recipes, table presets, price trend analysis |
| How fresh prices are | "5-minute pricing intervals" on the free plan | Every 30 seconds free, every 6 seconds on Premium |
| Flip margin after the 2% tax | 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 | Graphs at 5-minute intervals; day timeline graphs are Premium | Price charts; trend analysis is Premium |
| Skilling cost and profit tools | 15 money-making tools; 6 are free (e.g. Blast Furnace, plank making), the rest Premium | Recipe Profit (members recipes need Premium) |
| Movers and market signals | Market Watch index (free) | Buy/sell pressure bar (on its Premium page) |
| Price alerts | Premium: app (unlimited), email (100 a month), SMS (30 a month) | Discord DM or email, up to 25 items |
| Your own trade and profit log | Yes, with import from RuneLite | Saves your buy price per item (on its Premium page) |
| Mobile app | Yes (GE Tracker Mobile) | Not listed |
Rival facts from each site’s own pages, checked 2026-10-29 (sources below). “Not listed” means the pages we checked don’t mention it.
The short version
- For logging your flips: GE Tracker. Its profit tracker imports from RuneLite and it’s on the free plan.
- For speed: OSRS Exchange. 30-second updates free, 6 seconds on Premium.
- For alerts: GE Tracker sends them by app, email and SMS on Premium; OSRS Exchange by Discord DM or email.
- For money-making calculators: GE Tracker lists 15, six of them free.
Or neither
If you want margins and history without paying or seeing ads, our site does flips after tax, high alch, item sets, skilling costs and movers for free. It’s slower (prices every 5 minutes) and has no trade log yet, but free email price alerts come with an account.
No ads, no sign-up.
Related
Sources
- GE Tracker pricing (checked 2026-10-29)
- GE Tracker home page (checked 2026-10-29)
- OSRS Exchange home page (checked 2026-10-29)
- OSRS Exchange Premium (checked 2026-10-29)
- Our own prices: the OSRS Wiki real-time prices API, stored every 5 minutes (about our data).