Tinderbox price in OSRS — live Grand Exchange data

About Tinderbox

In game it is examined as “Useful for lighting a fire.” Tinderbox 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.

Tinderbox 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 4,000 gp at the 100 gp price recorded on 25 October 2026. The limit is per account and resets on a rolling 4-hour timer.

GE tax on Tinderbox

Selling at 100 gp costs 2 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 Tinderbox

High alchemy turns one Tinderbox into 1 gp. That is less than the 140 gp nature rune the cast costs, so alching Tinderbox always loses money.

How much Tinderbox trades

Tinderbox sees about 3.4K 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 86 times the 40 buy limit.

Tinderbox FAQ

How much is Tinderbox in OSRS? Tinderbox is 100 gp on the Grand Exchange as of 25 October 2026, with an insta-sell of 95 gp. The chart above is live.

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

Can you high alch Tinderbox for profit? No — the alch value is 1 gp and the nature rune alone costs 140 gp.

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