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Ores & bars buy limits
Grand Exchange buy limits for 26 tradeable ores & bars, with live prices and 24-hour volume. 24 have a limit recorded on the OSRS Wiki and 2 have none published, listed last. The most traded today, Runite bar, has a limit of 10,000 every 4 hours. A full limit of Runite bar ties up the most cash: 121m gp for 10,000. Profit per limit is the limit times the profit per item after tax.
Data as of 21:40 UTC on 11 Oct: prices from the latest GE trades, volume from the last 24 hours.
Showing 1 to 26 of 26. Items a full limit can profit from come first. Sorting by a column header or an Order link sorts every page. “Low volume” means a full limit is more than 10% of what trades in 4 hours, so we don't estimate its profit; “—” means there is no figure: no recent price on one side, no published limit, or no profit.
| Item | Buy limitWhat is buy limit? | Buy priceWhat is buy price? | Profit / itemWhat is profit / item? | Profit per limitWhat is profit per limit? | Traded 24hWhat is traded 24h? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Gold ore | 30,0000.2% of a day's trade | 1454.35m per limit | +3 | 90,000 | 19,802,212 |
 Adamantite ore | 4,500<0.1% of a day's trade | 5152.32m per limit | +11 | 49,500 | 5,737,895 |
 Chromium ingotM | 81.1% of a day's trade | 40,604325k per limit | +5,946 | 47,568 | 729 |
 Coal | 13,000<0.1% of a day's trade | 1351.75m per limit | +1 | 13,000 | 39,422,300 |
 Iron ore | 13,0000.2% of a day's trade | 73949k per limit | +2 | 26,000 | 7,176,516 |
 Lead barM | 10,00012% of a day's trade | 1,11011.1m per limit | +181 | Low volume | 85,649 |
 Cupronickel barM | 10,00042% of a day's trade | 1,67416.7m per limit | +286 | Low volume | 23,911 |
 Copper ore | 13,0000.5% of a day's trade | 20260k per limit | +1 | 13,000 | 2,503,690 |
 Silver bar | 10,0003.0% of a day's trade | 1431.43m per limit | +14 | Low volume | 335,753 |
 Bronze bar | 10,0001.3% of a day's trade | 58580k per limit | +2 | 20,000 | 754,455 |
 Tin ore | 13,0003.9% of a day's trade | 22286k per limit | +1 | Low volume | 335,301 |
 Runite bar | 10,0000.4% of a day's trade | 12,140121m per limit | -233 | — | 2,473,750 |
 Runite ore | 4,5000.2% of a day's trade | 10,02845.1m per limit | -132 | — | 1,960,887 |
 Adamantite bar | 10,0000.2% of a day's trade | 1,86618.7m per limit | -26 | — | 4,851,704 |
 Steel bar | 10,0000.1% of a day's trade | 5305.3m per limit | 0 | — | 8,461,342 |
 Mithril bar | 10,0000.3% of a day's trade | 9549.54m per limit | -3 | — | 3,440,558 |
 Gold bar | 10,000<0.1% of a day's trade | 65650k per limit | 0 | — | 14,451,382 |
 Mithril ore | 13,0000.2% of a day's trade | 1521.98m per limit | 0 | — | 5,999,427 |
 Silver ore | 13,0000.3% of a day's trade | 67871k per limit | 0 | — | 4,050,459 |
 Iron bar | 10,0001.0% of a day's trade | 1951.95m per limit | -1 | — | 955,980 |
.png){kind=small} Sandstone (10kg)M | 10062% of a day's trade | 151,500 per limit | — | — | 162 |
.png){kind=small} Sandstone (5kg)M | 10068% of a day's trade | 252,500 per limit | — | — | 147 |
.png){kind=small} Sandstone (2kg)M | 100345% of a day's trade | 1100 per limit | — | — | 29 |
.png){kind=small} Sandstone (1kg)M | 100244% of a day's trade | 4400 per limit | — | — | 41 |
 Nickel oreM | Not published | 1,500 | +19 | — | 42,721 |
 Lead oreM | Not published | 252 | +140 | — | 116,588 |
How the 4-hour buy limit works
A buy limit caps how many of one item you can buy on the Grand Exchange in 4 hours. The clock starts at your first purchase of that item, not on a fixed schedule, and every unit you buy inside those 4 hours counts. When the window ends the full limit is available again. Selling is never limited, and selling does not give any of the limit back. Limits are per account.
The line under the buy price is the cost of one limit: the buy limit times the price, the gp a full limit ties up. Profit per limit is the buy limit times the profit per item after tax, an estimated ceiling for one 4-hour window. It is only shown when a full limit is no more than 10% of what trades in a typical 4 hours, the same share the flips board assumes you can capture; otherwise it reads “Low volume”. A profit needs both sides to have traded in the last 2 hours. The line under the buy limit is the limit as a share of the units traded in the last day: above 100% means a full limit is more than the whole market traded.
Buy limit questions
What is a buy limit in OSRS?
A buy limit is the most of one item you can buy on the Grand Exchange in 4 hours. For example, Runite bar has a limit of 10,000, so you can buy at most 10,000 in any 4-hour window. Selling is never limited.
When does the GE buy limit reset?
4 hours after your first purchase of that item, not on a rolling clock. Every unit bought inside that window counts toward the limit, and selling does not give any of it back.
Where do these buy limits come from?
Jagex does not publish buy limits in game. The numbers here come from the OSRS Wiki, which records them from players. 2 items have no recorded limit yet, so this page shows "Not published" for them instead of guessing.