Needle price in OSRS — live Grand Exchange data

About Needle

In game it is examined as “Used with a thread to make clothes.” Needle is available to free-to-play accounts. The base game value is 1 gp, which is what shops price from rather than what players pay.

Needle buy limit

The Grand Exchange lets one account buy 40 every 4 hours. That is a very tight limit, so a position is built over days rather than hours. Filling it once costs about 6,400 gp at the 160 gp price recorded on 11 October 2026. The limit is per account and resets on a rolling 4-hour timer.

GE tax on Needle

Needle is one of the few items the Grand Exchange does not tax at all, so a sale returns the full price and the whole spread is yours.

High alching Needle

High alchemy turns one Needle into 1 gp. That is less than the 142 gp nature rune the cast costs, so alching Needle always loses money.

How much Needle trades

Needle sees about 2.3K trades a day, which makes it moderately traded — an order may take a while to fill, so price it toward the middle. That is roughly 58 times the 40 buy limit.

Needle FAQ

How much is Needle in OSRS? Needle is 160 gp on the Grand Exchange as of 11 October 2026, with an insta-sell of 100 gp. The chart above is live.

What is the buy limit for Needle? 40 every 4 hours.

Can you high alch Needle for profit? No — the alch value is 1 gp and the nature rune alone costs 142 gp.

Do you need members for Needle? No, free-to-play accounts can buy and sell it.