# OSRS Grand Exchange vs GE Tracker

> osrsgrandexchange.com vs GE Tracker, feature by feature: price, refresh rate, flip margins, history, alerts, trade logging and apps, from GE Tracker’s own pricing page and what our site does today.

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Last updated: 2026-10-29

Both sites read the OSRS Wiki’s real-time prices API. GE Tracker turns them into flip finders, alerts and a profit tracker, much of it on Premium (£2.00 a month). We turn them into free margins, our own price history and market signals, with no paid plan. GE Tracker facts are from its own pricing page, checked 2026-10-29.

By the OSRS Grand Exchange team.

## Feature by feature

|  | OSRS Grand Exchange (us) | GE Tracker |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price | Free, no ads | Free; Premium £2.00 a month, £10.80 for 6 months or £17.00 for 12 months |
| What a paid plan adds | There is no paid plan: everything is free | Flip finders, price alerts, more money-making tools, active transactions |
| How fresh prices are | New prices every 5 minutes | "5-minute pricing intervals" on the free plan |
| Instant-buy and instant-sell prices | Yes, plus 1-hour and 24-hour averages | Yes ("Live Market Prices") |
| Flip margin after the 2% tax | Yes, with ROI and profit per buy limit | Highest-margin, high-volume and GE-limit flip finders are Premium |
| Price history | Our own stored history: 7 days hourly, up to a year daily | Graphs at 5-minute intervals; day timeline graphs are Premium |
| High alch profit | Yes, every item at live prices | Yes (free) |
| Item set margins | Yes, assembling or splitting, after tax | Premium |
| Skilling cost and profit tools | Prayer, Construction and Herblore cost per XP | 15 money-making tools; 6 are free (e.g. Blast Furnace, plank making), the rest Premium |
| Movers and market signals | Risers and fallers over 1, 7 and 30 days, items near 90-day lows, momentum, merch flags, game update impact | Market Watch index (free) |
| Price alerts | Free email alerts with a free account | Premium: app (unlimited), email (100 a month), SMS (30 a month) |
| Your own trade and profit log | No | Yes, with import from RuneLite |
| Mobile app | No | Yes (GE Tracker Mobile) |
| Public API | No | "Public API temporarily disabled" |

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

## Pick us if

- You want flip margins after tax, sorted by profit per buy limit, without paying: [flipping](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/flipping).
- You want item set margins and Herblore costs, which GE Tracker keeps on Premium: [item sets](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/item-sets), [Herblore](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/herblore-training).
- You trade on history: [items near their 90-day lows](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/invest), [momentum](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/momentum), merch flags and [game update impact](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/updates).
- You don’t want ads or an account.

## Pick GE Tracker if

- You want every flip you make logged, imported from RuneLite, with your most profitable items.
- You want price alerts by app, email or SMS.
- You want a mobile app.
- You use its decanting, store profit, enchanting or Barrows repair calculators.

[Open the flip margins](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/flipping): Free, after the 2% tax.

## Questions

### Do the two sites show the same prices?

They start from the same source, the OSRS Wiki real-time prices API, so prices agree closely. Timing differs: we sweep every 5 minutes; GE Tracker lists 5-minute pricing intervals on its free plan.

### Which is cheaper?

We are free with no paid plan. GE Tracker is free for its basic tools, with Premium at £2.00 a month, £10.80 for 6 months or £17.00 for 12 months.

## Sources

- [GE Tracker pricing](https://www.ge-tracker.com/pricing) (checked 2026-10-29)
- [GE Tracker home page](https://www.ge-tracker.com/) (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 alternatives](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/alternatives/ge-tracker)
- [GE Tracker vs OSRS Exchange](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/vs/ge-tracker-vs-osrs-exchange)
- [Best OSRS flipping tools](https://osrsgrandexchange.com/best/flipping-tools)