Steel bar price in OSRS — live Grand Exchange data

About Steel bar

In game it is examined as “It's a bar of steel.” Steel bar is available to free-to-play accounts. The base game value is 100 gp, which is what shops price from rather than what players pay.

Steel bar buy limit

The Grand Exchange lets one account buy 10,000 every 4 hours. That is a generous limit, so the market rather than the limit is usually what caps a position here. Filling it once costs about 5,270,000 gp at the 527 gp price recorded on 11 October 2026. The limit is per account and resets on a rolling 4-hour timer.

GE tax on Steel bar

Selling at 527 gp costs 10 gp in tax — 2%, rounded down, taken from the seller. A flip has to clear that before it makes anything, and it is the number most margin calculators leave out.

High alching Steel bar

High alchemy turns one Steel bar into 60 gp. That is less than the 142 gp nature rune the cast costs, so alching Steel bar always loses money.

How much Steel bar trades

Steel bar sees about 1.25M trades a day, which makes it one of the busiest items on the Grand Exchange — orders at a fair price fill in minutes. That is roughly 125 times the 10,000 buy limit.

Steel bar FAQ

How much is Steel bar in OSRS? Steel bar is 527 gp on the Grand Exchange as of 11 October 2026, with an insta-sell of 521 gp. The chart above is live.

What is the buy limit for Steel bar? 10,000 every 4 hours.

Can you high alch Steel bar for profit? No — the alch value is 60 gp and the nature rune alone costs 142 gp.

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