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This article provides players with a list of ways to make money in RuneScape, along with the requirements, estimated profit per hour, and a guide explaining each method in detail. The list is separated into hourly methods, which can be done more or less continuously, and recurring methods, which can be done once every set amount of time.
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Note: All prices are calculated using current Grand Exchange market prices, meaning the actual profit per hour may vary greatly from what is stated here. If you notice a discrepancy between profits listed here and profits listed on guide pages, it is likely a caching issue. You can force this page to update by clicking here (note that it will take a few seconds to load).
Hourly profit
| Method | Profit | Skill | Category | Members |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying dragon bitter | 342,000 | None | Collecting |  |
| Casting Bones To Bananas | 187,000 | 15
| Magic |  |
| Casting Superglass Make | 704,000 | 77
| Magic | |
| Casting egg spawn | 1,127,000 | 10 
| Summoning | |
| Casting fruitfall | 2,521,000 | 69
| Summoning | |
| Casting ophidian incubation | 2,393,000 | 63
| Summoning | |
| Charging air orbs | 676,000 | 66
| Magic | |
| Charging earth orbs | 1,116,000 | 60
| Magic | |
| Charging fire orbs | 753,000 | 63 70 or 80 | Magic | |
| Charging water orbs | 785,000 | 56 70 or 80 | Magic | |
| Cleaning grimy avantoe | 1,340,000 | 48 
| Herblore | |
| Cleaning grimy dwarf weed | 1,560,000 | 70
| Herblore | |
| Cleaning grimy irit | 895,000 | 40
| Herblore | |
| Cleaning grimy kwuarm | 725,000 | 54
| Herblore | |
| Cleaning grimy lantadyme | 1,565,000 | 67
| Herblore | |
| Cleaning grimy ranarr | 475,000 | 25
| Herblore | |
| Cleaning grimy snapdragon | 640,000 | 59
| Herblore | |
| Cleaning grimy toadflax | 1,110,000 | 30
| Herblore | |
| Cleaning grimy torstol | 1,683,000 | 75
| Herblore | |
| Collecting ashes | 174,000 | 30 
| Collecting | |
| Collecting blue dragon scales | 830,000 | 70+  recommended60  recommended67 recommended
| Collecting | |
| Collecting honeycomb | 688,000 | High for Beast of Burden
| Collecting | |
| Collecting jangerberries | 204,000 | 10
| Collecting | |
| Collecting limpwurt roots | 244,000 | 20 required 89 | Collecting | |
| Collecting mort myre fungi | 1,244,000 | None | Collecting | |
| Collecting snape grass | 24,000 | 52 recommended 72 | Collecting | |
| Collecting swamp tar from the Lady Zay | 286,000 | None | Collecting | |
| Collecting swamp toads | 443,000 | None | Collecting | |
| Collecting white berries | 1,179,000 | High High for Beast of Burden
| Collecting | |
| Collecting wine of zamorak | 994,000 | 33 (higher recommended) 37  (recommended)
| Magic | |
| Completing the Fight Kiln | 3,750,000 | 80 | Combat/High | |
| Crafting air runes (high level) | 1,268,000 | 99  Recommended93 | Runecrafting | |
| Crafting armadyl runes | 2,700,000 | 72 (99 recommended)
| Runecrafting | |
| Crafting astral runes | 1,836,000 | 40 , 82 recommended 75 | Runecrafting | |
| Crafting blood runes through the Abyss | 2,412,000 | 77 required 93 recommended
| Runecrafting | |
| Crafting cosmic runes | 1,623,000 | 59 or 75 recommended 66 strongly recommended
| Runecrafting | |
| Crafting cosmic runes through the Abyss | 1,676,000 | 75 recommended
| Runecrafting | |
| Crafting death runes through the Abyss | 866,000 | 65 , 75 recommended 93 | Runecrafting | |
| Crafting fire runes through the Abyss | 868,000 | 14 , 75 recommended 93 | Runecrafting | |
| Crafting law runes through the Abyss | 690,000 | 54 , 75 recommended
| Runecrafting | |
| Crafting mud runes | 3,179,000 | 13 (75 recommended) 82 40 93 recommended
| Runecrafting | |
| Crafting nature runes through the Abyss | 3,158,000 | 91 recommended 93 recommended
| Runecrafting | |
| Crafting nature runes with spirit graahk | 2,856,000 | 91 57
| Runecrafting | |
| Creating teleport to Varrock tabs | 552,000 | 25
| Magic | |
| Creating teleport to house tabs | 659,000 | 40 67 | Magic | |
| Cutting diamond bolt tips | 521,000 | 65 
| Fletching | |
| Cutting elder logs | 720,000 | 90  (higher recommended)33 recommended
| Woodcutting | |
| Cutting granite | 646,000 | None | Processing | |
| Cutting logs | 52,000 | 31+ recommended
| Woodcutting | |
| Cutting mahogany logs | 342,000 | 50 (higher recommended)
| Woodcutting | |
| Cutting oak logs | 85,000 | 15 (higher recommended)
| Woodcutting | |
| Cutting ruby bolt tips | -1,408,000 | 63
| Fletching | |
| Drinking wine | 261,000 | None | Processing | |
| Enchanting diamond bolts | -674,000 | 57
| Magic | |
| Enchanting diamond necklaces | 1,154,000 | 57
| Magic | |
| Enchanting onyx bolts | 512,000 | 87
| Magic | |
| Enchanting ruby bolts | -23,000 | 49
| Magic | |
| Enchanting sapphire rings | 632,000 | 7
| Magic | |
| Exchanging impling jars | 139,000 | High recommended
| Processing | |
| Fletching arrow shafts | 175,000 | 45
| Fletching | |
| Fletching diamond bolts | -756,000 | 65
| Fletching | |
| Fletching headless arrows | 630,000 | None | Fletching | |
| Gnome Restaurant | 2,210,000 | 42  strongly recommended66 recommended
| Cooking | |
| Grinding chocolate bars | 165,000 | None | Processing | |
| Harvesting incandescent energy | 3,096,000 | 95  (99 recommended)
| Divination | |
| Harvesting luminous energy | 1,742,000 | 90 (93+ recommended)
| Divination | |
| Harvesting radiant energy | 1,447,000 | 85 (90+ recommended)
| Divination | |
| Harvesting vibrant energy | 897,000 | 60 (75+ recommended)
| Divination | |
| High level Barrows | 3,100,000 | 120  recommended92 | Combat/High | |
| Humidifying clay | 1,374,000 | 68
| Magic | |
| Humidifying vials | 677,000 | 68
| Magic | |
| Hunting azure skillchompas | 309,000 | 68 
| Hunter | |
| Hunting cobalt skillchompas | 158,000 | 27
| Hunter | |
| Hunting crimson skillchompas | 558,000 | 89
| Hunter | |
| Hunting graahks | 336,000 | 41 (60+ recommended)
| Hunter | |
| Hunting grenwalls | 127,000 | 77 (80+ recommended for 5 box traps) 69 (optional for fruit bat familiar)
| Hunter | |
| Hunting implings | 732,000 | 83 / 91 20 / 50 / 79
| Hunter | |
| Hunting kyatt | 761,000 | 55 (70+ recommended)
| Hunter | |
| Hunting larupia | 390,000 | 31 (50+ recommended)
| Hunter | |
| Hunting polar kebbits | 411,000 | None | Hunter | |
| Hunting ruby harvests | 333,000 | 15 (30 recommended)
| Hunter | |
| Hunting swamp lizards | 688,000 | 29 (higher recommended)
| Hunter | |
| Hunting viridian skillchompas | 193,000 | 46
| Hunter | |
| Killing Araxxi | 9,554,000 | 138 | Combat/High | |
| Killing Automaton Guardians | 1,400,000 | 67 | Combat/High | |
| Killing Automaton Tracers | 900,000 | 67 | Combat/High | |
| Killing Fungal magi | 798,000 | 77 | Combat/Medium | |
| Killing General Graardor | 2,731,000 | 138 | Combat/High | |
| Killing K'ril Tsutsaroth | 2,691,000 | 138 | Combat/High | |
| Killing aviansie | 808,000 | 70  (80 recommended)70  recommended92 useful
| Combat/Mid | |
| Killing black dragons | 980,000 | 80 | Combat/High | |
| Killing black unicorns | 440,000 | 70 recommended 25 recommended
| Combat/Low | |
| Killing blue dragons | 1,061,000 | 110+ | Combat/Mid | |
| Killing brutal green dragons | 573,000 | 80 | Combat/High | |
| Killing cave horrors | 1,223,000 | 70 | Combat/Mid | |
| Killing cave slime | 419,000 | 17  50+ recommended
| Combat/Low | |
| Killing chaos dwarves and hand cannoneers | 1,912,000 | 70 | Combat/Mid | |
| Killing chickens | 99,000 | None | Combat/Low | |
| Killing cows and tanning cowhide | 134,000 | 10+ recommended
| Combat/Low | |
| Killing desert goats | 122,000 | 30 recommended
| Combat/Low | |
| Killing exiled kalphite paragons | 1,550,000 | 80 | Combat/High | |
| Killing fiyr shades | 613,000 | 67/96 recommended 100 recommended63
| Combat/Mid | |
| Killing frost dragons | 3,364,000 | 85 | Combat/High | |
| Killing ganodermic beasts | 2,695,000 | 95 | Combat/High | |
| Killing glacors | 2,530,000 | 95 | Combat/High | |
| Killing gladii | 2,100,000 | 81 | Combat/High | |
| Killing green dragons | 907,000 | 80+ | Combat/Mid | |
| Killing grifolapines | 1,111,000 | 88 | Combat/Mid | |
| Killing guards | 345,000 | 60 recommended
| Combat/Low | |
| Killing mature grotworms | 632,000 | 80 | Combat/Mid | |
| Killing mithril dragons | 842,000 | 80 | Combat/High | |
| Killing muspahs | 3,700,000 | 80 | Combat/High | |
| Killing nechryael | 831,000 | 80 67 110+ recommended
| Combat/Mid | |
| Killing red dragons | 983,000 | 85 | Combat/mid | |
| Killing rorarii | 1,400,000 | 81 | Combat/High | |
| Killing skogres and zogres | 709,000 | 70+ recommended
| Combat/Mid | |
| Killing snails | 199,000 | 90 recommended
| Combat/High | |
| Killing snakes | 1,036,000 | 50 recommended
| Combat/Low | |
| Killing spiritual mages | 2,164,000 | 83 | Combat/High | |
| Killing steel dragons | 1,051,000 | 85 | Combat/High | |
| Killing the Queen Black Dragon | 4,600,000 | 138 | Combat/High | |
| Killing tormented demons | 5,280,000 | 80 | Combat/High | |
| Killing unicows | 732,000 | 67 (for war tortoise familiar) 90 (recommended)
| Combat/Mid | |
| Killing warped bats | 498,000 | 30 (recommended)
| Combat/Low | |
| Killing warped tortoises | 776,000 | 70 / recommended 70 recommended
| Combat/Mid | |
| Killing wolves | 272,000 | 70 recommended
| Combat/Low | |
| Looting ogre coffins | 1,251,000 | None | Processing | |
| Making anchovy pizzas | -517,000 | 55
| Cooking | |
| Making avantoe potions with scroll of cleansing | 1,226,000 | 49 49
| Herblore | |
| Making dwarf weed potions with scroll of cleansing | 2,736,000 | 70 49
| Herblore | |
| Making egg spawn scrolls | 1,206,000 | 10 (57 recommended)
| Summoning | |
| Making fellstalk potions with scroll of cleansing | 2,103,000 | 92 49
| Herblore | |
| Making guam potions | 230,000 | 1
| Herblore | |
| Making healing aura scrolls | 841,000 | 88
| Summoning | |
| Making kwuarm potions with scroll of cleansing | 2,037,000 | 54 49
| Herblore | |
| Making lantadyme potions with scroll of cleansing | 2,145,000 | 67 49
| Herblore | |
| Making magic pyre logs | 1,975,000 | 80
| Firemaking | |
| Making mahogany planks | -408,000 | 50
| Processing | |
| Making oak planks | -88,000 | 40
| Processing | |
| Making pastry dough | 308,000 | 10
| Cooking | |
| Making ranarr potions with scroll of cleansing | 1,568,000 | 49 49
| Herblore | |
| Making raw summer pies | 1,818,000 | 95
| Cooking | |
| Making raw wild pies | 1,086,000 | 85
| Cooking | |
| Making snapdragon potions with scroll of cleansing | 2,155,000 | 59 49
| Herblore | |
| Making soft clay | 150,000 | None | Crafting | |
| Making steel of legends scrolls | 1,386,000 | 99
| Summoning | |
| Making tarromin potions | 180,000 | 5
| Herblore | |
| Making teak planks | -349,000 | 40
| Processing | |
| Making toadflax potions with scroll of cleansing | 2,400,000 | 49 49
| Herblore | |
| Making tuna potatoes | 1,482,000 | 68
| Cooking | |
| Making uncooked pizzas | 135,000 | 35
| Cooking | |
| Making weapon poison++ | 1,114,000 | 82
| Herblore | |
| Mining adamantite ore | 122,000 | 70+  45 (recommended)
| Mining | |
| Mining clay | 230,000 | 1 (41 for rune pickaxe)
| Mining | |
| Mining concentrated coal rocks | 169,000 | 77
| Mining | |
| Mining concentrated gold rocks | 590,000 | 80 83 recommended
| Mining | |
| Mining granite | 212,000 | 45 68 recommended
| Mining | |
| Mining iron ore | 311,000 | 15 | Mining | |
| Mining rune essence | 38,000 | None (41 strongly recommended for rune pickaxe)
| Mining | |
| Mining runite ore | 1,169,000 | 85+ 83 strongly recommended
| Mining | |
| Mining soft clay | 566,000 | 75  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  and for access to Prifddinas.
| Mining | |
| Opening muddy chests | 797,000 | 83 Reasonably high 25 recommended
| Processing | |
| Opening muddy chests with the canoe | 483,000 | 57 Reasonably high 25 recommended
| Processing | |
| Opening sinister chests | 540,000 | 49 58 recommended67 recommended
| Processing | |
| Picking bananas | 556,000 | None | Collecting | |
| Picking potatoes | 128,000 | None | Collecting | |
| Pickpocketing H.A.M. members | 93,000 | 41 | Thieving | |
| Smithing cannonballs | 858,000 | 35 
| Smithing | |
| Spinning flax | 434,000 | None | Crafting | |
| Superheating mithril ore | -3,000 | 50 43
| Magic | |
| Superheating runite ore | 3,160,000 | 85 43
| Magic | |
| Tanning black dragonhide | 6,004,000 | None | Processing | |
| Tanning black dragonhide with Make Leather | 699,000 | 83
| Magic | |
| Tanning blue dragonhide | 5,025,000 | None | Processing | |
| Tanning blue dragonhide with Make Leather | 529,000 | 83
| Magic | |
| Tanning cowhide | 196,000 | 52 recommended 45 | Processing | |
| Tanning green dragonhide | 3,355,000 | None | Processing | |
| Tanning green dragonhide with Make Leather | 239,000 | 83
| Magic | |
| Tanning red dragonhide | 5,515,000 | None | Processing | |
| Tanning red dragonhide with Make Leather | 614,000 | 83
| Magic | |
| Tanning royal dragonhide | 5,630,000 | None | Processing | |
| Tanning royal dragonhide with Make Leather | 507,000 | 83
| Magic | |
Recurring methods
Effective hourly profit is the amount of money you would make in an hour if you could continuously use this method. It is best not to use activities that have an effective profit less than what you can normally make otherwise.
Note that you can only do one type of herb farming at once, one type of brewing at once, and one of either picking papayas or coconuts. Also note you may only create one divine location per day and that there is a limit on how many resources may be gathered per day.
| Method | Profit | Time | Effective Profit | Recurrence time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brewing greenman's ale | 494,000 | 00:05:00 | 5,930,000 | 48:00:00 |
| Buying Ball of wool | 79,000 | 00:02:00 | 2,373,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Buying bagged plants | 486,000 | 00:25:00 | 1,166,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Buying battlestaves from Baba Yaga | -2,000 | 00:01:00 | -96,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Buying battlestaves from Haf | -2,000 | 00:01:00 | -96,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Buying battlestaves from Lunet | -1,000 | 00:01:00 | -77,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Buying battlestaves from Naff | -6,000 | 00:01:00 | -384,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Buying broad arrowheads | 114,000 | 00:02:00 | 3,420,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Buying feathers | 96,000 | 00:03:00 | 1,920,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Buying from the Culinaromancer's Chest | 115,000 | 00:03:00 | 2,293,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Buying harpoons from Gerrant | 193,000 | 00:25:00 | 463,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Buying seaweed and pineapples from Arhein | 4,000 | 00:01:00 | 242,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Buying supplies from Razmire | 359,000 | 00:50:00 | 431,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Buying supplies from the Hunter shop | 56,000 | 00:07:00 | 478,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Buying supplies from the Stonemason | 118,000 | 00:02:00 | 3,539,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Buying vials of water | 64,000 | 00:01:00 | 3,840,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Buying yak-hide | 383,000 | 00:10:00 | 2,298,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Claiming fruit from Dell Monti | 15,000 | 00:00:15 | 3,619,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Claiming potato cacti from the Weird Old Man | 78,000 | 00:01:00 | 4,706,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Claiming pure essence from Wizard Cromperty | 4,000 | 00:01:00 | 261,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Crafting astral runes with a wicked hood | 118,000 | 00:01:30 | 4,734,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Crafting cosmic runes with a wicked hood | 142,000 | 00:01:30 | 5,660,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Crafting nature runes with a wicked hood | 163,000 | 00:01:30 | 6,514,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Farming avantoe | 165,000 | 00:05:00 | 1,984,000 | 01:20:00 |
| Farming cadantine | 210,000 | 00:05:00 | 2,523,000 | 01:20:00 |
| Farming dwarf weed | 177,000 | 00:05:00 | 2,127,000 | 01:20:00 |
| Farming fellstalk | 136,000 | 00:05:00 | 1,632,000 | 01:20:00 |
| Farming grapevines | 120,000 | 00:05:00 | 1,435,000 | 01:20:00 |
| Farming irit | 99,000 | 00:05:00 | 1,185,000 | 01:20:00 |
| Farming kwuarm | 221,000 | 00:05:00 | 2,651,000 | 01:20:00 |
| Farming lantadyme | 175,000 | 00:05:00 | 2,102,000 | 01:20:00 |
| Farming morchella mushrooms | 144,000 | 00:02:00 | 4,326,000 | 04:00:00 |
| Farming ranarr | 120,000 | 00:05:00 | 1,439,000 | 01:20:00 |
| Farming snapdragon | 178,000 | 00:05:00 | 2,131,000 | 01:20:00 |
| Farming spirit weed | 150,000 | 00:05:00 | 1,804,000 | 01:20:00 |
| Farming toadflax | 223,000 | 00:05:00 | 2,680,000 | 01:20:00 |
| Farming torstol | 218,000 | 00:05:00 | 2,622,000 | 01:20:00 |
| Farming wergali | 48,000 | 00:05:00 | 577,000 | 01:20:00 |
| Fishing a divine rocktail bubble | 158,000 | 00:00:40 | 14,199,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Making potion flasks | 350,000 | 00:07:00 | 3,002,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Mining a divine runite rock | 106,000 | 00:00:40 | 9,562,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Picking a divine herb patch III | 46,000 | 00:00:40 | 4,157,000 | 24:00:00 |
| Picking cactus spines | 49,000 | 00:01:00 | 2,939,000 | 01:15:00 |
| Picking coconuts | 236,000 | 00:03:00 | 4,710,000 | 04:30:00 |
| Picking papayas | 220,000 | 00:04:00 | 3,305,000 | 04:30:00 |
| Recharging rings of wealth | 129,000 | 00:05:00 | 1,543,000 | 04:00:00 |
| Searching a divine box trap | -0 | 00:00:40 | -19,000 | 24:00:00 |
See also
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