Money making guides
Most money-making advice quotes a best-case hourly rate and stops there. These guides deal with the parts that decide your real rate: what the method requires, how much attention it needs, and what it pays once supplies and deaths are counted. Where a range is given, it is a range because the honest answer is a range.
How to Make 10M GP in OSRS
Realistic routes from your first million to ten million in Old School RuneScape, what changes at that bank size, and the mistakes that stall people.
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Flipping or PvM: Which Makes More GP in OSRS?
An honest comparison of Grand Exchange flipping against PvM in Old School RuneScape — what each requires, what each really pays, and which suits you.
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OSRS Money Making Without Combat
Every worthwhile way to earn GP in Old School RuneScape without fighting anything — trading, gathering, processing and passive methods, with what each needs.
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Methods
Money making methods
Estimated GP per hour, what each requires, and how much attention it needs.
Grand Exchange flipping
Buy items below their going rate and sell them above it, taking the spread minus the 2% sale tax.
- Est. GP/hr
- 100k–3m
- Starting GP
- 100k
- Attention
- Low attention
- Requirements
- None
Overnight Grand Exchange offers
Leave buy and sell offers running while you are logged out, capturing wider margins on slower-moving items.
- Est. GP/hr
- 50,000–1m
- Starting GP
- 500k
- Attention
- Very AFK
- Requirements
- None
Bulk item investing
Hold items over days or weeks expecting a price rise, rather than trading the immediate spread.
- Est. GP/hr
- 0–2m
- Starting GP
- 20m
- Attention
- Very AFK
- Requirements
- None
High Level Alchemy
Cast High Level Alchemy on items worth less than their alch value, converting them into GP while training Magic.
- Est. GP/hr
- 100k–400k
- Starting GP
- 200k
- Attention
- Low attention
- Requirements
- 55 Magic
Herb runs
Plant herb seeds across every patch you have unlocked, then return around 80 minutes later to harvest.
- Est. GP/hr
- 1m–4m
- Starting GP
- 500k
- Attention
- Very AFK
- Requirements
- 32 Farming
Ardougne knight pickpocketing
Pickpocket knights in East Ardougne for a steady coin income while training Thieving.
- Est. GP/hr
- 300k–800k
- Starting GP
- None
- Attention
- Moderate attention
- Requirements
- 55 Thieving
Black chinchompa hunting
Trap black chinchompas in the Wilderness. Excellent GP and Hunter experience, with genuine risk of being killed by other players.
- Est. GP/hr
- 800k–1.8m
- Starting GP
- 50,000
- Attention
- Hands-on
- Requirements
- 73 Hunter
Amethyst mining
Mine amethyst in the Mining Guild for consistent, near-AFK income.
- Est. GP/hr
- 250k–400k
- Starting GP
- None
- Attention
- Very AFK
- Requirements
- 92 Mining
Blast Furnace gold bars
Smelt gold ore into bars at the Blast Furnace for the fastest Smithing experience in the game, at close to break-even cost.
- Est. GP/hr
- 0–300k
- Starting GP
- 2m
- Attention
- Hands-on
- Requirements
- 60 Smithing
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