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Steel bar

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Steel bar
F2P F Buy limit: 10,000 per 4 hours
Live flip margin +7 GP
1.4% ROI per flip · up to 70.0K GP per buy-limit cycle
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If you bought your full buy limit on Steel bar right now, you'd clear roughly 70.0K GP after the 2% GE tax. That's the ceiling. The actual margin shifts every few minutes, especially after Wednesday updates and weekend supply spikes.

It's a bar of steel. Tradeable on F2P accounts too. Buy limit 10,000 per 4 hours. A 2% Grand Exchange tax applies to sales, capped at 5,000,000 GP per item.

How Steel bar trades on the Grand Exchange

Smelted bars sit downstream of ores and upstream of finished gear. Steel through rune have the highest turnover. A very high buy limit means one full cycle can move a lot of capital, so the margin per unit does not need to be large for the flip to be worth doing. It is F2P tradeable, so both F2P and members accounts can see and trade it. Its margin has been volatile in the last hour, so treat this snapshot with extra caution and check the live numbers first.

Live flip margin

Buy at
515
Sell at
532
Margin (after tax)
+7
ROI
+1.4%
Daily volume
5.24M
Profit per limit
70.0K
High alch
60
Flip grade
F
Margin stability
Volatile

Don't miss the next move on Steel bar

The margin can swing 30% within an hour after an OSRS update or a weekend supply shift. Set a price alert in GE IQ and you'll get pinged the second it crosses your target, no manual checking needed.

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Prices snapshot from the official RuneScape Wiki API. Refreshed at build time: Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:07:59 GMT. Open the tool for live prices that refresh every two minutes.

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